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Buffalo sauce
Tangy and buttery with a building cayenne heat.
Lens analyzedBuffalo sauce is a tangy, buttery hot sauce made from cayenne pepper sauce blended with melted butter, giving it a richer body than a straight hot sauce. It's most associated with tossed chicken wings but also works on other fried foods, dips, and sandwiches. The butter mellows the heat compared to using hot sauce alone.
Where it comes from
Buffalo sauce takes its name from Buffalo, New York, where it's credited to the Anchor Bar's chicken wings, first tossed in a butter-and-hot-sauce blend in the 1960s. It has since spread far beyond wings into dips, pizzas, and countless other North American dishes.
Buying it
Check the heat level on the label, since brands range from mild to quite spicy despite similar orange color. Look at the ingredient list if you want a butter-based sauce rather than a thinner, vinegar-forward hot sauce style.
Storing it
Refrigerate buffalo sauce after opening, where it keeps for about a year; an unopened bottle can typically sit in the pantry until opened.
Keeps about 1 year in the fridge.
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