Spicy Food Reviews (and Recipes)

Where Fire Meets Flavor: Covering Foods That Bring the Heat!

Review: Hot Honey Double Pepperoni Pizza and Hot Honey Wings from Pizza Hut

Bottom Line: The Hot Honey Double Pepperoni Pizza from Pizza Hut could use more honey, but the wings are quite tasty and bring a nice kick. Just a few years ago, hot honey was nothing more than a novelty. You might see it in a few gourmet shops or some sites online, but it was unlikely you would find it at your local market. But since then, it has become quite the trendy item with Mike’s Hot Honey leading the charge. It is basically just honey...

Winging It: Buffalo Whatawings from Whataburger

Bottom Line: The Buffalo Whatawings from Whataburger are heavy on the tang, but they are rather tasty and deliver some good heat. Wings are gold these days, with nearly every restaurant chain having some version of the poultry flapper on the menu. And while Texas burger icon Whataburger has had chicken strips and sandwiches on its menu for years, it is only just now taking a flyer on adding wings to its selection of fast food offerings. They did...

Winging It: Blazin’ Knockout Wings from Buffalo Wild Wings

Bottom Line: The Blazin’ Knockout Sauce from BWW packs a lot of heat but may be taking things a bit too far as the flavor gets lost in the mix. Buffalo Wild Wings has long been one of my favorite wing destinations, and they have what I consider to be the best of the superhot sauces among the chains which is their Blazin’ option. The original version of that delivers plenty of heat along with good taste, and is definitely something that fans...

Winging It: Ghost Pepper Wings from Popeyes

Bottom Line: The Ghost Pepper Wings from Popeyes are tasty little bites of chicken that bring a nice kick of heat. Popeyes is known for its fried chicken with a kick, and its spicy chicken sandwich is one of the best available in the drive thru these days. But apparently they know that consumers are really going for the spicy stuff lately, and they are kicking things up by bringing back their Ghost Pepper Wings. Those were last available in the...

Winging It: Ghost Rush and Pecker Wrecker Boneless Bites from Wing Daddy’s Sauce House

Bottom Line: The Ghost Rush and Pecker Wrecker boneless bites from Wing Daddy’s Sauce House have very different flavor profiles, but both are quite tasty and they bring the heat! There are plenty of places out there proffering Buffalo wings on a regular basis, from bars to pizza joints to fast food establishments. But there are not quite enough chains that specialize in the spicy poultry bites. Sure, you have Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop, and...

Winging It: Extreme Wings from Anchor Bar

Bottom Line: Anchor Bar’s Extreme Wings may not be the hottest out there, but they are quite tasty and still deliver some good heat. There are plenty of places you can get wings these days, ranging from the top-notch (Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop) to rather sketchy (your local convenience store hot box). But if you happen to have the opportunity, why not go to the source? Buffalo wings are called that not because they have anything to do with...

Winging It: Wingstop Atomic Wings

Bottom Line: The Atomic Wings from Wingstop may not be the hottest wings out there, but they do pack a punch and they are quite tasty. And the All-In Bundle is a heck of a deal. Chicken wings are on pretty much every casual dining menu these days, and they are part of several fast food lineups as well. And really, it’s not too hard to mess them up, especially the boneless ones. Take some fried pieces of chicken, dump some Buffalo sauce on them...

Winging It: Buffalo Wild Wings Carolina Reaper Blazin’ Wings

Bottom Line: Buffalo Wild Wings Carolina Reaper Blazin’ Wings are some of the hottest wings out there, but they still deliver good taste. For some reason, I have mostly neglected chicken wings on this site so far, probably because I have been focused on sampling the many spicy chicken sandwiches out there (watch for a ranking of those soon). But I will be turning my attention to the world of wings in the coming weeks, and when it comes to the...