I Tried Every Sauce And Rub at Buffalo Wild Wings

Finally some CONTENT

I'm about to make a big mistake and try every sauce from a BUFFALO WILD WINGS

that's 23 sauces and 5 powders

SWEET BBQ - 5/10

The sweetness is not present, more of a brown sugar/honey but it's not balanced, tastes like the sauce at McDonald's

MILD - 9/10

I think this might be the best buffalo sauce if you're just wanting something to please everybody, there's heat, but not too much heat. A very zesty kick at the end. Almost buttery. A great choice!

HOT - 9/10

This would be my typical limit in heat. I don't want this to be Hot Ones, even though I'm adventurous enough to try it. It's a spicy equivalent of a slap in the face or when you're one of those tough guys drinking whisky. I'm trying to figure out the pepper. Is it habanero? Maybe?

HONEY BBQ - 2/10

this is yuck. I can taste the honey, but it's very “artificial”, like honey as an alternate sweetener? I'm sure somebody will enjoy this. But not at the cost of the bee population.

BLAZIN - 1/10

this is a goof, right? Like there aren't people who really eat this sauce, right? This is the “fire department warning” spicy.

It tastes like pure capsaicin. It reminds me of DA BOMB (something I once had at a Firehouse Subs) and is more famous on hot ones. I think you're meant to eat one as a dare.

Shout Out to Mountain Dew Unique Flavor for helping me out today. I think it's called Maverick or Ballin’ or Badass or something?

Tastes like the blackberry gummys that knock me out. This might be the worst of the lot.

If First We Feast calls, I want to be on Snackin instead.

ASIAN ZING - 7/10

the wing wasn't good, however the sauce itself was good. It tastes like a cross between Korean BBQ and a Orange Chicken glaze? The heat is right up my alley, however, it's very “separated in taste” that it feels like I'm in alternate timelines at the same time. This is a must try.

THAI CURRY - 1/10

this was appalling. It wasn't really as katsu as I was expecting. Very funky in a way that's giving me a tummy ache enough to not try a second bite.

ORIGINAL BUFFALO - 9/10

after he hell I just went though. This is a blessing. Like the mild, it has just enough of a kick. However, there is an absolute buttery, nutty taste that I'm really enjoying. If this was in a plate of them at the sports bar. I would devour them all. This is a very happy sauce.

And if I could I would tap out at this moment. But I need to continue, for the text based content farm!

PARMESAN GARLIC - 4/10

I guess they gave me two of these, it's a very upscale version of the Papa John's Garlic sauce, which I think people enjoy? It's not really one of my go-to sauces however. I think it's not bad. Just not one of my favorites.

LEMON PEPPER - 5/10

it tastes like lemon and black pepper, I spat it out and don't know if I'm just getting sick or the wings aren't good anymore. This is fine. This is a “oh everything is too spicy” mayonnaise boy type sauce.

GOLDEN FIRE - 10/10

HOLY SHIT THIS IS A WINNER! I wish I was kidding it has struck my balance of sweet and heat and I believe this would be perfect with the chicken nugget babies who enjoy Boneless wings. I think if you had a boneless golden fire and maybe something like a salad, you'd be in a real winning combination of yum. The flavors are EXACTLY what I enjoy in sauces. And after a heart breaking amount of sauces. We have a winner!

But there's more.

“LIMITED TIME ONLY” - 10/10

I think this is just more of the golden fire to be honest, but as I don't have my checklist I'm also guessing it could be honey Sriracha? Whatever this mystery sauce was took me on the theme park ride of my life.

I wish I knew. But it's really REALLY good. There's sweet, there's the heat there's a real sour orange taste that's tough to describe.

But it's the kind of reason I wanted to jump into this challenge.

TERIYAKI - 8/10

of all the standard flavors of wing. It's my guilty pleasure choice. When I was in high school, teriyaki wings were becoming a trend and I think that's what started me going through this. It absolutely is just that. But like Vegemite, USE SPARRINGLY

NASHVILLE HOT - 8/10

I will say it - I hate Nashville Hot Chicken. I think that food trend is just disgusting. It's not pleasant, and seems they really want to just do buffalo wings but with spicy powders. HOWEVER…. this might convert me.

It's not, soupy wet sauce? It's standard heat spicy wing. One that I really REALLY enjoyed. It's hot, but not dangerous to me. And that's a fine sling line to cross.

SPICY GARLIC - 4/10

no. Just no. I will not say it's disgusting. But my personal palette didn't like it. Not because it's “gross” it's just that same thing I taste with Frank's Red Hot. So I'll say it, if you want a FRANKS RED HOT WING, get the spicy garlic sauce. It's almost equal to it in taste.

MEDIUM - 9/10

medium is the preferred flavor of Eric Cartman from TVs South Park, so I guess I'll have to “respect his authoritah” and say this is a great flavor. This might be by choice of wing if I want a “buffalo wing ass buffalo wing” it's spicy, it's not kicking my ass. It's pleasant. And dare I say it? Yum.

WILD - 4/10

if this was the first wing I tried tonight. I would be pissed. It's the original “super hot” sauce I assume when BWW opened. And while it's spicy AND there's flavor. It's kind of like a saw trap where my tongue is going through needles trying to find any other flavors, I am feeling lemon garlic? But it's subtle. I equate it to the Diablo Sauce at Taco Bell in heat quotient, but it's a mystery. Didn't hate it, didn't like it either.

JAMMIN JALAPENO - 8/10

this one is also on my “fave” list. It's jalapeno, but there is also this almost marmalade flavor as well (which makes sense with the name) that is a sweet and heat balance that works. I think this should be one of those “try it” sauces even if you are scared of heat. It's mild enough that it zaps subtlety, but it's really a perfect sauce for the sour candy kids that want to go back and forth.

ORANGE CHICKEN - 7/10

again, this feels like one sauce meant for the boneless wings than regular, it's definitely that orange chicken sauce you're familiar with at the food court panda Express. But more “orange zest” I do like it, but I think this needs that pop n chicken to really bring it out. Not a wing that's microwaved.

HONEY GARLIC - 6/10

honestly of all the garlic ones I had tonight, it's the best one. The sweetness counters the garlic in a way that I think might work for those wanting a boring, regular sauce.

While most of the wings tonight felt like I'm entering the UFC Octagon, this one felt like the one you'd have at ringside, the Joe Rogan wing, but without the brain worms.

JAMAICAN JERK - 9/10

I'll be honest, if I had to have ANY kind of chicken dish in the entire world, I'm going Jamaican Jerk. It's not peri-peri, which I know you CHEEKY NANDOS people crave. But that sauce marinated with the rice and pineapple and maybe even a tiki cocktail is one of those death meals for me. This sauce nearly replicated what I want in a jerk. It has the heat, but the Sweetness was unfortunately not there as much, not a sugar or a caramel flavor. Not even a pineapple. I would say it's 90% there in a sauce, which is still better than a good chunk of restaurants that try it.

I would like to probably put this on plain chicken breast and eat it again sometime. I have to double check the menu, but if there was some sort of “healthy” menu where you can get something like a breast and rice with a sauce, this would be my choice.

MANGO HABANERO - 4/10

Mango Habanero has become a go to choice sauce in wings for almost a decade. However, the difficult part is striking the balance of habanero with the mango.

Some just lean towards the habanero to get that spice level up, others want to be delicate, where the mango brings comfort to the habanero kick.

You want it to be like a pillow fight with the softest fluffiest pillows to ease the blows. But this one honestly felt like getting hit with bricks

There is habanero over mango I would say almost an 80/20 on this. But left be very disappointed. I tried two bites with each wing but this was one where after one bite I was done. EVEN THE BLAZING DIDN'T PISS ME OFF THIS MUCH

AND NOW WE GO TO THE RUBS

BUFFALO - 2/10

what the fuck is this? Powdered buffalo sauce but it tastes exactly like a really terrible cheese powder on a Mac and Cheese. Nope!

LEMON GARLIC - 7/10

I take back what I said, this actually rules. The seasoning version is WAY better than the sauce. It tastes like garlic powder AND the lemon it's exactly what I was looking for in one called LEMON GARLIC. still not my preferred, but I think if there is a way to grab some of this rub for fish, I would. This is a winning seasoning!

SALT AND VINEGAR - 5/10

as a wing powder, it's yuck. However I sprinkled some on French Fries and I think it's VERY YUM on that. So I'm at an impasse. I enjoy salt and vinegar chips so it works, but not on a chicken wing. How they made dry vinegar I'll never know.

CHIPOTLE BBQ - 3/10

left me disappointed. There is SOME chipotle taste, but the BBQ is more of the BBQ chips and it's not pleasant on the wing. Needs a brown sugar or sweetness mechanic to make it work.

DESERT HEAT - 6/10

smells great, tastes horrible. It has the BBQ sweetness I was looking for in the chipotle BBQ, however it really is just spicy powders put together. It's not as terrible as the BLAZING or even the WILD however. It isn't pleasant to taste and enjoy. It's literally the desert level in Mario 64, It's existence, but you would rather Dire Dire Docks

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED

Buffalo Wild Wings is a pretty popular chain of wings and the selection of sauces is absolutely a reason why.

I haven't really tried the menu, which I assume is American Sports Bar flair. However, the wings were pretty much okay. I bet they would be better fresh in the restaurant and not sitting in a box for nearly two hours.

It got really hot to the point when I went outside I barely noticed the chilly weather (48 degrees) and just got my mail.

I also didn't notice how eating spicy wings would suddenly give me really bad cold sores, something that makes me equally parts sad and in glee that I'm a lonely person.

I do think it's worth trying. Wingstop does have their own sauces as well, but while Atomic is essentially just as terrible as DA BOMB,or the Blazing here, of their offerings my favorite is Korean Q and the regular sauce as well.

But Wingstop is more like a Pizza Hut and more pick up and go activity, while Buffalo Wild Wings is still clearly trying to be the ultimate place to watch SPORTS, something I wish I knew more about, but I only get it through video games (NBA 2K, Madden, MLB The Show, etc)

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