Review – Imo’s Pizza Hot Wings – St. Louis Wings, Part One

imos-wings-3Great Wings of St. Louis, Part One – Imo’s Hot Wings

I’m beginning a series that features most the best chicken wings for sale in the greater St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. To kick off the reviews, I’ll focus on one of my personal favorites, Imo’s Pizza’s Hot Wings.

Now some of you may know Imo’s as the preeminent dealer of what is known as St. Louis-style pizza. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, this version of pizza is characterized by a wafer-thin crust that’s similar to a cracker (albeit with a little chewiness), and is topped with a sweet tomato sauce and super-rich Provel processed cheese. I’ve never seen a pizza so polarizing – it even trumps the Chicago vs New York style wars, in my estimation. Either you hate it with all your soul or you crave it night and day – there is no middle. I’m firmly entrenched in the camp that loves St. Louis-style pie.

But that’s a topic for another day. What I’ll put my attention on this time is the highly underrated Imo’s Hot Wings…

Recipe: Boneless Buffalo Wings

When I wrote the Love Hot Wings and Buffalo Wings? Here Are 15 Different Recipes You’ve Gotta Try article a few months back, I didn’t even realize at the time that I had left out a mention of boneless buffalo wings. Yikes! Since I’m a diehard devotee of Buffalo Wild Wings and the awesome boneless wings they serve, a recipe on how to make these tasty little guys is long overdue.

Why boneless? Everyone knows there’s nothing like sucking the meat off a succulent, perfectly-cooked, bone-in chicken wing. Going boneless, though, has it’s advantages. For one, you get considerably more meat per bite. Second, although they are smothered in sauce, there’s no mess on your fingers as you eat these babies with a fork.

Love Hot Wings and Buffalo Wings? Here Are 15 Different Recipes You’ve Gotta Try

img class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-2769″ src=”http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/10419972_705618406181675_8269105552268306850_n-300×300.jpg” alt=”buffalo-wing-recipes” width=”300″ height=”300″ />No other food (with the possible exception of chili) can claim to be the staple of any American chilehead’s diet quite like the spicy chicken wing. Here are 15 different links to sites with recipes for hot wings (breaded) and buffalo wings (unbreaded) that will increase your wing-making skills and expand your tastes.

• Buffalo Chicken Wings
Basic, no-frills spicy buffalo wings.

• Perfect Fried Chicken
Okay, so this is not necessarily a wing recipe – it’s a superb overview of all things concerning fried chicken. Study it and you will have a great “launch pad” from which you can take off with your own non-spicy and spicy fried chicken experiments.

• Blair’s Death Wings
Super-fiery fried wings from hot sauce maker Blair Lazar.

• How to Make Hot Wings: A Step by Step Guide
In-depth yet easy-to-follow guide to making hot wings. If you’re a complete novice and have never cooked spicy, breaded wings, start here.