Flats or Drums?

[Just Jack]

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-chicken-wing-parts-drums-flats

[Buffalo716]

Like both but prefer flats

[JoeF]

Healthy mix...the crispier and the hotter the better.  I am bald and like to have to wipe the sweat off my brow when eating wings.   Personal preference ?

[/dev/null]

yanny

[WhoTom]

I prefer drums, but I'll eat either. I never knew the other part was called a "flat."

 

On the side, celery with blue cheese. (The blue cheese is for the celery, not the wings.)

 

[Augie]

1 hour ago, JoeF said:

Healthy mix...the crispier and the hotter the better.  I am bald and like to have to wipe the sweat off my brow when eating wings.   Personal preference ?

 

Crispy is the key, much like COLD is the key to beer. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

39 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

I prefer drums, but I'll eat either. I never knew the other part was called a "flat."

 

On the side, celery with blue cheese. (The blue cheese is for the celery, not the wings.)

 

The blue cheese is for the pizza.

[BuffaloBill]

Drums definitely 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Both

 

prefer drums - less work to eat them. 

[Fadingpain]

Not much of a wing eater anymore, but when I was, it was always the drumsticks.

 

I hate the other "2 bone" wings....too much work for not enough meat.

 

 

[K-9]

Flats? Nobody calls them paddles anymore?

[Gugny]

Love them both.  Drums are easier to get the meat, but flats - if you're thorough - have plenty of meat, too.  Love the challenge of the flats.  You need to eat what you can from them, then pull them apart and suck the rest of the meat off the bone.  I love a mixture.

[NoSaint]

I feel like maybe some folks in this thread aren’t eating the flats right if it’s too much work.... gug- why aren’t you just splitting the bones from the start?

[Happy]

Drums with lots of ranch.  Not enough meat on flats.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

9 hours ago, /dev/null said:

yanny

 

Yes, but what’s your favorite Beatles album?

[CowgirlsFan]

Drums.

 

Are they called trotters too?

 

 

[Buffalo716]

Not gonna lie I had to go to Duffs after reading the thread

 

Charbique wings were great

[KD in CA]

Flats - tastier meat if cooked right.

[Captain_Quint]

I like the full wing, so both. I enjoy ripping the trotter from the paddle. As long as they're cooked right, it should pull right apart. 

[Foxx]

15 hours ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

Both

 

prefer drums - less work to eat them. 

not true. if they are cooked right all you need to do is to take the end of the flat that was attached to the drum, grip it tightly with your thumb and first two fingers, slide them downward till you release the attachments to the bone.  if the wing is not too meaty, you can now take the entire thing in one swoop.

Edited June 25, 2018 by Foxx