These were pretty good! I had already prepared frozen chicken wings with coarse salt and baking soda and allowed them to sit uncovered in my refrigerator on a rack for a day and a half before attempting this recipe. Originally, I was going to “oven fry” these but it’s just too darn hot where I live and I didn’t want to heat up the house with my oven. So, I dug out the old Oster convection toaster oven from the garage and gave this recipe a go.
For anyone else using a convection toaster oven instead of an air fryer - I learned pretty quickly that I needed to up the temp by at least 25-30°F for this to work properly. When I Google searched this later, I realized others have said the same thing. For part of the time on one of my batches, I even had the temp set at 450°F and it worked out well. I used the oil and seasonings in this recipe and the wings were flavorful. Not quite as crispy as I had imagined but I found out later that I should have put my rack on the lowest setting in a toaster oven. I did not, and had it on the middle rack. I’ll try it the right way next time. As well, even though I only added the 1 tsp oil to the season rub, my wings ended up sitting in a pool of oil as they “fried” so I wondered if that was keeping them from crisping even more(?). All in all, they were just crispy enough and the flavor was delicious. I’ll be making these again.