Buffalo Sauce
Buffalo Sauce is a hot sauce, whose origin is, surprisingly, from Buffalo . It was 1964, the owner of the Anchor Bar, Teressa Bellissimo, had a gang of hungry children around her and limited ingredients. So she did what the best chefs do: she unleashed her creative side.
She combined hot sauce, garlic, salt, and butter and fried some chicken wings, tossed the wings in her special sauce, and then fried them again. The boys loved the new invention and the next day spicy wings were on the menu at the bar.
The Taste
Buffalo sauce is spicy, sour and sweet at the same time. The addition of melted butter gives it a creamy flavour, a flavour profile not often found in hot sauce. The most traditional type of chili in this type of sauce is the cayenne. Cayenne peppers are popular, especially when dried and used as chili powder or chili flakes to add flavour to recipes or sprinkle over the final dish. The Cayenne provides a decent level of heat, sitting between 30k and 50k on the Scoville scale.
They even have their own day…
Buffalo Sauce’s popularity is really due to coincidence and timing. In 1977, the city of Buffalo declared July 29 to be National Chicken Wing Day. Throughout the 1980s, Buffalo wings became a staple in bars across the United States. There were even bars specialising in beer and wings with big screens where you could watch football and baseball (Hooters stands out here, which became famous for more than its wings). Even chains like McDonalds and Burger King began to include them on their menu. The pinnacle was reached in 1995 when the Buffalo Bills football team played in the Superbowl final and to celebrate this feat both Dominos and McDonalds added Buffalo wings to their menus.Buffalo sauce can be used for glazing, dipping, cooking, and marinating. Obviously the most common use for Buffalo sauce is wings!