Name: Vinnie's Spicy Buffalo Wings
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 5 pounds of wings
Ingredients: 5 pounds chicken wings, separated at joints, tips discarded; 4 cups vinegar-based hot pepper sauce; 1/4 cup butter; 6 tablespoons blue cheese salad dressing; 3 pickled cherry peppers, thinly sliced; 1/2 onion, finely chopped; 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes; hickory wood chips

Why it works: Pepper and cherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,336 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Vinnie's Spicy Buffalo Wings

5 pounds of wings

Prep10 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

5 pounds chicken wings, separated at joints, tips discarded
4 cups vinegar-based hot pepper sauce
1/4 cup butter
6 tablespoons blue cheese salad dressing
3 pickled cherry peppers, thinly sliced
1/2 onion, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
hickory wood chips

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

512Calories

40 gProtein

24 gFat

36 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Blue Cheese	1 oz (28g)	100
Cherry Pepper	1 cup (138g)	87
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Sauce	not in our table	0
Salad Dressing	not in our table	0
Wood	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Pepper + cherrytop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,336 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Butter + blue cheesetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together232 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Vinegar + cherrytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together767 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, vinegar, pepper, sauce, butter, blue cheese, onion):

Avocadofits better
Grapefits better
Plumfits about as well
Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, vinegar, pepper, sauce, butter, blue cheese, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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