Chicken wings are versatile. They can be cooked many ways and served as entrée or main, depending on the occasion. If I’m feeding a gathering, I’ll often bake chicken wings and serve them as a finger food entrée about an hour before the main course.
The method of preparation is simple. Get two kilograms of wings. Put them in a six litre pot, cover with water and boil for five minutes. Turn the heat off then let them sit in the water for 15 minutes.
While they’re on the stove, prepare the marinade. Use any sauce you have in the fridge or cupboard, sweet chilli, honey barbeque, soy, tomato, it doesn’t matter. Add a glass of wine or beer.
Scoop the wings from the broth and put into an oven tray. Add the marinade, making sure you have enough to coat each wing. Put them into the oven and bake for 25 minutes on 180.
I boil the wings first to draw out the fat and to cook them through. They’re baked in the oven to absorb the marinade. If you don’t want to boil them first, they’ll need 45 minutes in the oven, but you run the risk of having a fatty marinade.
The broth also makes excellent stock for chicken soup. I put the broth in the fridge overnight and scoop the fat off the next day. The broth can be frozen for months.
Baked chicken wings can be a main meal if served with a healthy portion of rice.
They’re cheap too, often available at $3.99 a kilogram, sometimes as low as $2.99 a kilogram. No one ever complains about baked chicken wings. When they’re ripped apart, the bones and tendons dislocate and tear. The sound is a soft crunch.
The only problem with baked chicken wings is the mess. You can’t eat them tidily. The marinade will coat your fingers and the sides of your mouth. Napkins are essential. There’s a lot of bones too, the ones you’ve torn apart. Some people don’t like eating the tip.
Two kilograms of chicken wings produce a plate of rubbish.
I’ve served baked chicken wings many times, no matter the occasion. As mentioned previously, they’re versatile. They’re good on formal occasions or when you’re sitting on the couch watching the football.
On Friday night, I didn’t prepare my chicken wings the normal way. Someone else did it for me, and the outcome was less than impressive.
Chris Judd’s momentary lapse of composure forced Leigh Adams from the field with a subluxed right shoulder. He came back on about fifteen minutes later and played out the match.
Adams is expected to miss two weeks. Judd has been reported. It’s expected he’ll miss several weeks, too.
Subluxation is a partial dislocation from the joint with the shoulder slipping back into the socket. It generally happens when the arm is outstretched and hit with force and is common in contact sports.
A subluxation does not cause as much damage as a full dislocation, but the injury will be painful. When Adams was in the rooms following the incident, his arm would’ve felt numb and loose, as though he couldn’t control it. Pins and needles might’ve floated through his arm
Adams’ shoulder will ache for days. He won’t require surgery, which would rule him out for the season, but there will be ongoing risks. Once a shoulder subluxes, recurrence is a real possibility.
Eighty percent of people aged under 25 years of age will experience another subluxation, which is a bad percentage for footballers.
The shoulder will remain vulnerable for months, and the next injury could be a full dislocation. For the next three weeks, North Melbourne’s medical staff will do everything possible to reduce the risk of another subluxation.
If the injury is as significant as reported, Adams will immobilise his arm in a sling for two weeks and undergo intensive physio. He won’t be involved in anything physical, and may not be able to run at full pace.
Despite immobilisation and physio, the recurrence rate remains high. Sport doctors believe that once a shoulder subluxes, nothing can be done to prevent it happening again. That could lead to full dislocation and major surgery.
Adams may need surgery at season’s end. The injury could affect him for the rest of his career.
Most in the football industry can’t recall an incident similar to the Judd chicken wing. It’s been explained by some as an act designed to prevent Adams getting a handball away. Unfortunately for Judd, Adams was face down with a Carlton player on his back. He had zero chance of getting out a handball, or moving the ball at all.
It wasn’t a cowardly act by Judd, it was just silly, and it’s left everyone asking what the hell? With commonsense as a guide, no footballer should ever grab a prone opponent’s arm and twist it backwards.
It is akin to doing the same to an opponent’s ankle or his wrist. The only outcome such an act can produce is injury, which it did, and the only question that can be asked is why?
Judd should forget about defence and plead stupidity. He probably doesn’t know why he did it, and it certainly can’t be explained as a handball preventative measure.
If the tribunal members have any commonsense, they’ll rub him out for three or four weeks. Two weeks isn’t enough for something so dangerous, something that may cause Adams ongoing issues.
Shoulders sublux in football and they dislocate. If the injury occurs by collision in a contest, that’s unlucky and unfortunate. If the injury occurs by virtue of the Judd chicken wing, it is almost unforgivable.
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