Thick wing sauce like this

[GrueLurks]

This looks like the perfect texture and thickness of a hot sauce I want to make. Any suggestions on a good base to get it thick and pasty without resorting to ketchup? Trying to make one from scratch and need a nice thick base to work with.

[Texas-Hunter]

Your best bet is to use tomato paste and then simmer down for a thicker homemade hot sauce...

[SmokinLee]

And just simmer, stirring alot for a good long time. Take your favorite and just cook er down more.

[Beer-B-Q]

BUFFALO WING SAUCES

The following ingredients will make you all the Buffalo Wing Sauces you'll ever need!

Frank's Red Hot Sauce
Frank's Xtra hot Sauce
white vinegar
butter
garlic powder
Dave's Insanity sauce

Here are a variety of Buffalo and Hot Wing Recipes to suit your needs. Vinegar can be added to any of these recipes if you are a vinegar lover, but it is not needed if you don't care for it. All recipes call for butter and of course it must be melted. All recipes involve mixing all ingredients together to a smooth consistency.

MILD/MEDIUM WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Red Hot Sauce
1/3 cup butter/butter
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

HOT WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Xtra Hot Sauce
1/4 cup butter/butter (optional)
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

REALLY HOT WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Xtra Hot Sauce
1/4 cup butter/butter
1/2 to 1 tsp. Dave's Insanity Sauce
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

For Garlic Wings, add 1 teaspoon of garlic powder to any of the above recipes.

To make the wings, deep fry them until golden brown and slightly crispy. Put the sauce into a Tupperware container or freezer bag. Add the wings, and shake them in the sauce. Remove them and eat! You can use any typical blue cheese or Ranch dressing to dip the wings in.

AVOID using sauces such as Tabasco. These are not Buffalo Wings with Tabasco, but Tabasco really makes the wings unpleasant to eat. Use Frank's, it's the original wing sauce and the best for flavor out there for Buffalo Wings. In a pinch, you can substitute Louisiana Hot Sauce or Texas Pete's or any other brand tomato-pepper based hot sauce, but once again, AVOID Tabasco!

[smokemania]

BUFFALO WING SAUCES

The following ingredients will make you all the Buffalo Wing Sauces you'll ever need!

Frank's Red Hot Sauce
Frank's Xtra hot Sauce
white vinegar
butter
garlic powder
Dave's Insanity sauce

Here are a variety of Buffalo and Hot Wing Recipes to suit your needs. Vinegar can be added to any of these recipes if you are a vinegar lover, but it is not needed if you don't care for it. All recipes call for butter and of course it must be melted. All recipes involve mixing all ingredients together to a smooth consistency.

MILD/MEDIUM WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Red Hot Sauce
1/3 cup butter/butter
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

HOT WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Xtra Hot Sauce
1/4 cup butter/butter (optional)
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

REALLY HOT WINGS:

1/3 cup Frank's Xtra Hot Sauce
1/4 cup butter/butter
1/2 to 1 tsp. Dave's Insanity Sauce
1-2 tbsp. vinegar (optional)

For Garlic Wings, add 1 teaspoon of garlic powder to any of the above recipes.

To make the wings, deep fry them until golden brown and slightly crispy. Put the sauce into a Tupperware container or freezer bag. Add the wings, and shake them in the sauce. Remove them and eat! You can use any typical blue cheese or Ranch dressing to dip the wings in.

AVOID using sauces such as Tabasco. These are not Buffalo Wings with Tabasco, but Tabasco really makes the wings unpleasant to eat. Use Frank's, it's the original wing sauce and the best for flavor out there for Buffalo Wings. In a pinch, you can substitute Louisiana Hot Sauce or Texas Pete's or any other brand tomato-pepper based hot sauce, but once again, AVOID Tabasco!

Man that looks like a great wing sauce thanks for posting

[Hannibal]

Man that looks like a great wing sauce thanks for posting

What he said.

[Richtee]

You could experiment with a light roux as well. Equal parts butter and flour, light brown in pan, add your liquid/spices.

[SmokinLee]

Thats a good idea rich and it didn't hit me till now, but thats how my enchilada sauce starts out.

You could experiment with a light roux as well. Equal parts butter and flour, light brown in pan, add your liquid/spices.

[curious aardvark]

just make your sauce and add cornflour mixed with a little water to the boiling/simmering sauce to the thickness you require.

I've got a bottle of the original buffalo wing sauce in the fridge (bought over by a chap from buffalo).
It's okay, but I could make better.
Down to personal taste I guess

(10 minutes later) Actually, you could just use xantham gum like frank does. Mind you looking at the ingredients list -there's so much crap in there ANYONE could make a better sauce lol




I've actually got a tub of xantham gum I bought recently, just to mess around with as so many things you buy have it in thought I'd see what it does.
Haven't used it yet.



It was on the shelf of food that has no gluten. Apparently it's used as a texture improver for gluten free bread and flour.

And - obviously - thickening buffalo wing sauce

[SMOKE FREAK]

The roux and the simmer sound like the answer...although that could darken the sauce a bit...

To me that sauce looks like any hot sauce/butter mix but maybe chilled a bit till the butter is starting to thicken a bit...ya know just for the picture...doesnt sound too appetizing though...

Dont know about the xanthan gum though...Maybe CA will try it out and let us know...

[Kyote]

Your best bet is to use tomato paste and then simmer down for a thicker homemade hot sauce...

sounds good. then I would guess any sauce you want and add corn starch to thicken. and add the bourbon when finished.
good luck..

[GrueLurks]

My first experiment was with a large bottle of Franks, and a small can of tomato paste. I added some Blair 2 A.M. Reserve and a splash of Blair's Q Heat Jalapeno Tequila to give it some more texture. The paste really helped to thicken it up without imparting a huge tomato flavor to the Franks. I didn't get a picture, but will do so next weekend with my next batch.

[Linetrash]

hot sauce

i use franks and TABASCO. in fact i use tabasco on everything,i have a bottle i carry in my lunch bucket for places that only have that louisiana tomato juice and if i want the skin to peel off of my tounge i use daves insanity sauce but you can't taste anything when you use that stuff

[Pandemonium]

When you figure it out please post the recipe, i Tried from scratch using tomato sauce for the base and it just doesn't work, the base has to be an aged pepper sauce, not tomato sauce imo, the one i posted is good to me for now.

[nomorecoop]

Gotta love Franks Hot Sauce. Check out their Wing Sauce, it's perfect!

I've been wanting to branch out into making my own sauces, but I've found Franks Wing Sauce with a little (ok maybe a lot of cayenne & habenero) = perfect sauce!