Sauced Wings & More: Instant Death, Sweet Thai Chili and more!

Over the weekend the Queen and I decided to get out of the house and run some exciting errands, and in order to fuel ourselves we decided to make a swing through the Wingdom and try something new.  I had heard a rumor of a newer place on the North side of town getting great reviews, and what resulted was nothing short of greatness.  We ventured into Allen, Tx (because I couldn't read a map to go to Plano) to go to Sauced Wings & More, which is a wing joint that offers BOTH wings AND more.  The place itself was nice and clean(there was actually a group that had reserved the party room for a highschool graduation).  They offer a full service side where you could be waited on in restaurant fashion in the bar area, as well as a self-service area where you order at a counter and help yourself.  We opted for the self-service half.  They had TVs around the place with sports on, but could have used a few more.  That's about the only negative I could find.

We started off with an appetizer of a regular order of fried pickles and jalapenos (mixed in together).  The regular order was more than enough for the two of us, and it was absolutely delicious.  The wings themselves were the stuff of legends.  They were above average in size and fairly meaty.  They are naked wings; fried to perfection so that the skin stays crispy even after sauce is applied.  As you can imagine, a place called "Sauced" offers a wide selection of sauces that can please any palette.  There are 19 sauces on the menu, with more combinations possible if you want to "get it with garlic", which we did not.  They offer many of the standard sauces you would find at most places, along with some unique options. During the week they also have a $.66 wing night (the night escapes me at the moment).  Without further adieu, here are the wings.  As usual, we got 20 wings split across four flavors.

The first flavor up for review is Hot Honey Mustard.  These wing were the second spiciest that we ate during this trip, but also had the sweetness one would expect from a honey mustard sauce.  As best we could tell, this sauce was most likely a honey mustard mixed with something like Frank's Red Hot.  It was a light opaque sauce with a slightly pink hint to it.  It is one of the more unique sauces that I've had in recent memory.  The mixture of sweet honey, the tangy mustard, and the hint of spicy buffalo made this one worth trying.  If I had to choose, these were the least favorite of the bunch, but I imagine this decision is like choosing the least favorite of your children.

Hot Honey Mustard:
Heat: 6
Flavor: 8
Overall: 8

Our second flavor was Lemon Pepper.  I like to get Lemon Pepper most everywhere we go because it is a common enough flavor to compare from one place to another.  These did not disappoint.  My favorite lemon pepper wings up to this point have been Wing Stop, but I would say these narrowly beat out Wing Stop for the top Lemon Pepper wing.  These were extra crispy, and seemed to have a light lemon butter sauce on them, then a nice heavy dusting with lemon pepper.  These were heavier on the pepper element than Wing Stop which I enjoyed.  If you like Lemon Pepper wings, this is a must have.

Lemon Pepper:
Heat: 2
Flavor: 9.5
Overall: 9.5

Our third flavor of the day was Sweet Thai Chili.  I expected this sauce to be hotter than it actually was, knowing that Thai chilis can have quite a kick to them.  What it actually turned out to be was that reddish-orange style of chili sauce served with spring rolls found at various Asian eateries.  It was very sweet, and I think this was the Queen's favorite of the bunch.  She described it as almost a sweet and sour sauce.  These were the most heavily sauced wings of the bunch, and I almost lost one trying to pick it apart when it slipped and when flying.  Don't worry, we saved it.  Overall, very tasty and satisfying, and we will likely be getting these again down the line.

Sweet Thai Chili:
Heat: 4
Flavor: 8.5
Overall: 8

The final flavor we tried was the sauce known as INSTANT DEATH!!!!  This is the top of the scale at Sauced when it comes to heat.  The sauce itself was VERY thick, and may have had a dusting of a pepper mixture to finish it off because the skin was almost more dry than slathered in sauce.  As the Queen put it, "a thick, thick, not very saucy sauce".  I guess this might have been a buffalo style sauce originally, but the overpowering flavor was that of the mysterious Ghost Chili.  The Queen was able to quickly identify the Ghost Chili in it because she actually prepared some Ghost Chili enchiladas for me a couple of weeks ago with fresh dried Ghost Chili.  The smoky flavor and the way the heat builds is unmistakable.  You start off with one wing, and the heat seems manageable.  As you keep eating them, it slowly builds from a nice warm sensation, and keeps on building. This is very different from something like the Blazin' sauce at BWW.  The Blazin' sauce is pretty much the same from start to finish.  You eat the first wing, the heat maxes out pretty quickly (sometimes it is more heat than other times), and when you're done you're done.  If you ate just one wing in the Instant Death sauce, you'd probably say its not as hot as Blazin', but again, its that ability for the Ghost Chili to build up that gets you.  I think if you ate a full order of twelve and compared the heat level of the two sauces, the Instant Death would be hotter hands down.  However, another difference between this sauce and Blazin', is that this is a sauce I would like to get again for the flavor of the sauce.  That slight buffalo flavor with the smoky Ghost chili is also very unique and I very much enjoyed it.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Instant Death:
Heat: 8
Flavor: Flavor: 8

Overall: 9

Sauced Wings & More has become the #1 wing joint in my book.  There were almost no negatives about this place, and everything was great.  We will be returning there soon, and I will be doing my part to spread the word about Sauced.  Anyone who loves Wings must try it out.  It is officially SAUCESOME!!!