The Reason We Always Pair Celery And Blue Cheese With Wings
This appetizer is comprised of fried chicken wings coated in hot sauce, served with cold and creamy blue cheese dressing and crunchy, cool celery sticks. Your mouth is watering already, right? That’s because the best food combinations always have variations in taste, aroma, texture, and temperature, along with visual appeal, per KHNI. And this appetizer delivers on all counts. The sensations of hot, cold, cool, chewy, creamy, crisp, tangy, mild, and crunchy hit all the feels.
Then there’s something called the Scoville Scale, which is a measure of how spicy foods are, according to, well, Scoville Scale. Chili peppers are hot because they contain a compound called capsaicin, explains Pepper Geek, that registers as pain on your tongue. The number of Scoville units in hot sauce ranges from 2500 to 5000, per Pepper Geek. That’s considered “mild hot” on the Scale, which goes up to 1.5 million units! Still, it’s spicy to most people. And while some spiciness is desirable, that sensation can become overwhelming, especially if you’re stuffing hot wings in your face.
That’s where the blue cheese sauce comes in. One of the best ways to mute the spiciness of a chili pepper is with dairy, which coats the tongue and interrupts the connection of capsaicin and taste buds. And the ingredients in that blue cheese sauce include blue cheese (obvs), sour cream, and milk.
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