Hello and welcome to Mashable's Air Friday. I am culture reporter Tim Morrison.
And on air Friday we air fry anything and everything in the name of deliciousness.
This week we are air frying buffalo chicken tenders.
Now I am a buffalo chicken aficionado. I prefer a buffalo wing.
But today we're doing ten days.
But there is a buffalo wing recipe in the air Friday archives if you want to use it.
So I've got everything kind of pre-portioned out.
And this recipe comes from the Zach Ross shallow on TikTok where it went viral as these things tend to
do.
Now I have four chicken tenders that I just cut from a chicken breast.
That's how they did the tik tok. So that's what we're doing there.
And here I've got all purpose flour, which is mixed with cornstarch and seasoning,
salt, pepper,
garlic powder.
Now you want about five parts, all purpose flour to one part cornstarch.
But you can just eyeball it.
It's not that serious, but that's what you're going for.
Here we have egg and hot sauce. So it was one egg plus a little bit of extra egg.
Whites and franks, red hot.
Your traditional buffalo wing sauce all mixed together.
That's we're going to get the buffalo flavor. And then here we've got panko bread crumbs.
I got the seasoned variety. You can get plain whatever you want.
The world is your oyster.
So we're going to do your kind of typical breading procedure.
We're going to get em in the air fryer and hopefully
have some delicious tenders at the end of it. So I'm going to show you on one.
We've got a pre greased spray down tray here for our air fryer.
So we're going to take a tender and the first step is to get flour on it.
That's going to coat the outside of the chicken.
Now, here's where you got to do a wet hand,
which I'm not so good at.
You can take this coated chicken tenders, put it in the egg wash.
See, there's my wet hand.
You've now got it covered in egg wash and then it's going to breadcrumbs.
Dry hand.
Come on, I can do this.
I believe in myself. There's a first time for everything now.
It's coated once here, but the ticktock says do it twice.
You get that extra crunch.
So going back into the flour, dry hand.
Come on, we can do this for four.
Four.
Back into the egg, wash wet hand and then back onto the panko dry hand.
And I can't believe I did it for the most part. So this is what we're looking for here.
Nice, crispy,
coated, raw chicken tender.
Repeat that for however many tenders you want to make.
I'm going to do for.
All right.
Through the magic of time and video editing, we now have four chicken tenders.
Breaded buffalo chicken. I'm going to give em a quick spray.
And then according to these across shallow on TikTok,
they're going to go in the air fryer for 9 minutes, 360 degrees.
You're going to flip them about halfway through. They should cook in that time.
But the best course of action is usually to keep a meat thermometer on hand.
If you're squeamish about making sure they're done with skill,
a little extra spray.
Again, I sprayed this down before they went on.
We're going to get them in the air fryer.
360 degrees, 9 minutes.
Okay.
So our buffalo chicken tenders have been in the air fryer for a total of 9 minutes at 360 degrees.
I flipped them after about 5 minutes halfway through.
We're going to pull them.
Hopefully they're finished cooking, let them cool and then give them a taste.
So here's what we got. Those look pretty good.
It looked like chicken tenders. So that's a good start.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put them down here on the plate and let them cool for a minute and then
give them a test.
I've learned the hard way through many Air Fridays that if you test it right away,
it usually goes poorly for your tongue.
Someone let them rest and then I'll probably finish the cooking process and then we'll give them a taste
that this bad boy, let's cut it open is going to make sure we look cooked
through. Now that looks nice and cooked.
That looks juicy. We got my juices running clear.
That meat is cooked through. It's good to taste.
I did not wait long enough for it to cool. Still burning my tongue.
I have a great way of doing that every Friday. But that's pretty good.
That's relatively low effort.
The breading process takes a minute, but not too bad and tasty.
I mean, it's a pretty good air fried chicken tender.
It's going to be healthier than your deep fried version.
I'd say if you have kids, this is a great meal for them.
Or if you're a man child like me. It's a great meal for you.
That's a very good air fryer recipe. Really simple.
Pretty tasty. I recommend.