Air Fryer Chicken Wings are the best and crispiest wings ever! Done in less than 20 minutes, you'll never make wings another way again!
The air fryer is an appliance that basically takes cooking to another level...an easier and faster method for everything. These Air Fryer Chicken Wings not only take a fraction of the time of baking, but get so crispy you'll think they are fried.
Using the air fryer allows them to get super crispy without actually frying them. Once you try this method, you will never cook wings another way. Serve these with Air Fryer French Fries or Instant Pot Corn on the Cob for the perfect meal! Want to spice it up? Try these Air Fryer BUFFALO wings or Air Fryer Asian Chicken Wings!
Making wings in the Air Fryer couldn't be easier! Let me explain it...
How to make Air Fryer Chicken Wings:
**scroll down for full ingredients list and printable directions**
- First prep the chicken wings.
- If you have full wings, separate them into drums and flat.
- Make sure they are defrosted.
- Pat them dry completely dry (this will help them get crispy).
- Place the wings into a bowl and add oil, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper. Toss to completely coat the wings.
- Feel free to use your own favorite seasonings, however this is a basic traditional chicken wing seasoning blend (and delicious).
- Preheat the Air Fryer at 400 F degrees for 2 minutes.
- Add the wings in a single layer to the air fryer (they should NOT be touching), and cook for 10 minutes at 400 F degrees.
- After the timer goes off, open and carefully flip over the chicken wings.
- Close the air fryer and cook at 400 degrees F for 8 minutes.
- Remove the chicken wings and serve with your favorite side dishes or dips!
What to serve with Air Fryer Chicken Wings:
- Serve with your favorite dips such as Cilantro Lime Dip, Jalapeno Ranch, The Best Chunky Blue Cheese, or Homemade Buffalo Sauce.
- Serve with a side of corn on the cob - Instant Pot Corn on the Cob or Air Fryer Corn on the Cob is always a hit!
- Use the air fryer to make Frozen French Fries or Tater Tots to serve alongside the wings!
- A hearty scoop of Creamy Mac and Cheese also gos VERY WELL alongside Chicken Wings!
- Or make a Simple Wedge Salad to go with the wings!
- Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries have become one of my favorite side dishes! So much healthier than the fried alternative!
- Serve with just celery and carrots and a side of Blue Cheese Dressing - YUM!
Can I bake Chicken Wings?
Yes, however it takes much longer to get them crispy. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and place the wings on a single layer on a baking sheet (place on an oven rack on top of the baking sheet to get crispier). Bake for 30 minutes, then flip and cook another 15-30 minutes depending on desired crispiness.
What type of Air Fryer should I use for this recipe?
There are many Air Fryers to choose from, but I love my PowerXL Vortex Air fryer! Here are some other great options:
- OMORC Air Fryer 6QT -1600W Powerful Electric Hot Oven 10 Preset Menus Dual Control System 6-in-1 Function
- COSORI Air Fryer 5.8QT - Large Hot Electric Oven Oilless Cooker with 8 Quick Setting Recommendation
- GoWISE USA 7 QT Air Fryer -with Dehydrator & 3 Stackable Racks, Led Digital Touchscreen
If you like using the air fryer as much as I do, checkout these other Air Fryer ideas:
- Air Fryer Crispy Parmesan Brussels Sprouts are going to be your new go-to side dish. Only a handful of ingredients and only 132 calories per serving!
- Air Fryer Garlic Parmesan Chicken Thighs are KETO and majorly delicious!
- Air Fryer Asian Chicken Wings are the crispiest glazed wings ever! Done in less than 20 minutes, you'll never make wings another way again!
- Air Fryer Kale Chips are the easiest and most delicious Kale Chips! Made in just minutes and super healthy (63 calories per serving), these will be your go-to snack!
- Air Fryer Baked Potatoes are so easy – crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside!
- Air Fryer Avocado Fries are creamy and crunchy without any oily mess! With only a handful of ingredients, these are the perfect healthy snack or appetizer!
- Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos are perfectly crispy without any of the added oil from frying! They’re delicious, easy, and make the perfect quick meal or snack!
- Air Fryer Hot Dogs are perfectly ‘grilled’ in no time and with hardly any effort!
- Air Fryer Hamburgers are juicy every time, and done in less than 15 minutes with none of the mess!
- Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower Bites are the perfect appetizer! With no oil and only a handful of ingredients, they’re easy and guilt-free.
Air Fryer Chicken Wings are the best and crispiest wings ever! Done in less than 20 minutes, you'll never make wings another way again!
- 2 lbs chicken wings (drums and flats) (defrosted if frozen)
- 1 TBS olive oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
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Prep the chicken wings. If full wings, separate them into drums and flats. Make sure they are defrosted. Pat them dry completely dry (this will help them get crispy).
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Place the wings into a bowl and drizzle olive oil oven them. Toss to coat. Add garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper. Toss to completely coat the wings.
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Preheat the Air Fryer at 400 F degrees for 2 minutes. Add wings in a single layer to the air fryer (they should NOT be touching), and cook for 10 minutes at 400 F degrees.
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After the timer goes off, open and carefully flip over the chicken wings. Cook for 8 more minutes. Remove the chicken wings and serve.
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Nutritional information per serving based off 4 servings: 213 calories, 15g fat, 3g carbohydrates, 1g sugar, 18g protein.
Brittany W
Excellent! Turned out crisp and delicious. So easy too!
Janice
Can this be done in a air fryer that is in the oven
jodh singh
These are wonderful! Thank you!
Jen
These are THE BEST homemade wings you will ever make! They are so crispy which is a must for me with wings. They are also healthy with very simple ingredients!
Ingrid
My turned out delicious. I did find I had to cook them for shorter time. One batch burned a bit and tasted overcooked. I found 8 mins and 4 mins cooked them perfectly.
Maybe I had smallish wings.
Carmen
I agree with your comment. Used the same times as you did. Recipe was super easy and very tasty. Once cooked, I coated them with bottled bbq sauce.
Gary B.
We just bought an air fryer and this was our first recipe to try it with. Excellent! We'll make them again
Rudy
Tried them today and that was really delish. Temp was perfect and they were absolutely crispy. Thank you for sharing.
Simone Foley
These are the BEST wings I have ever made, this recipe is perfect. The air fryer does a fantastic job with little clean up. This recipe will be my go to for now on!
Allyson
So happy to hear that! We love them too!
Linda
My family loves these. They said they will never order out wings again.
Ray
Historically, we have purchased frozen pre-cooked wings. That is...until we bought our air fryer a few months ago. Now, we buy the fresh wings from Costco at less cost than frozen, add the spice rub above and, in 20 mins, we have the best damn wings ever....EVER!! And I know every single ingredient that went into them...no preservatives etc here!
Allyson
Ray!!! I am SO happy to hear that you love them! Isn't the air fryer amazing!!!?!??! Make sure you checkout all of my popular air fryer recipes!
MissyG
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.
Allyson
Missy - thank you SO MUCH for your review! This will be very helpful for anyone else using a convection toaster oven to make this recipe. If you want to make them crispier, I would try putting a little rack inside whatever pan you are cooking them in, then the oil/juice will drip down like it does in the air fryer, instead of sitting around the chicken 🙂 Happy cooking!
Laura l Rose
Hello,
I tried this and unfortunately I did not read the dry part. So they were not crispy, I also left the wings whole. I did however have to add 5 minutes time to be fully cooked. I must also add that my air fryer is an oven air fryer, as in the oven has a built in air fryer. It actually has to be preheated. If there are any suggestions for me please lmk. I just wanted to let others know to Dry off the wings lol.
Thanks
Allyson
Yes! The wings should NOT be wet so patting them dry is an important step in the directions. I would try again with drying them 😉
Rachel T.
Absolute perfection 🥰 I have gotten into the habit of adding a tsp of baking powder to meat when I use my air fryer to get crispy skin. Other than that I followed your recipe and they were eaten up so fast! 😂 Ty
Terri
I have a built in over as well. I did dry the wings and were not crispy. Had to add another 19 minutes as they didn't look done. glad I added time. t
Allyson
Hi terri- I don't understand your comment of having a built in over?
Victoria Van Eman
You need to add a “jump to recipe” option and option to print the recipe without all of the photos and ads.
Allyson
You can print the recipe by clicking print at the top of the recipe card! No ads or photos will print with it!
Sandy
This was my first air fryer recipe. My husband told me to be sure to keep this recipe. Best wings ever.
Brenda
Best wings ever at home! These are so good and so easy to make. I will never bake or grill wings again. So quick and little clean up. Only change I made is I put all my spices and oil in a ziplock bag then throw in the dried off wings and shake them up. One less bowl to wash. Thank you for this great recipe. Such a time saver and wings are crispy outside and tender and juicy inside.
Allyson
That is always what I do with the bag too, it is easier cleanup 🙂 I am SO happy you loved them!
Terri
Not sure. First time doing an airfry in my new Samsung oven.. why do the wings come out wet? I did dry them. Don't look too crispy. Oven has grease splatters. I did have a drip pan one level below. should I have put the drip pan directly until the basket?
Allyson
Terri- I have both an oven with air fryer built in, and a basket air fryer. I am sad to say that I do not use my oven with the air fry function because it does not work well at all. It takes a lot longer to heat the large space, and with the heating unit not as close to the food, it doesn't seem to make it crispy. I would advise using a standard basket or smaller toaster oven style air fryer to utilize the air fryer function.
Michele Gillissie
Great wings! My husband and I loved them! I followed the recipe to a “T” other than I added two minutes to the cook time, maybe because my wings were a little large. Thank you!!
Sharon
WOW! WOW! WOW!
The best recipe ever! Thank-you!
Allyson Gallagher
This was my first recipe using my new Air Fryer that I got for my 74th Birthday. Recipe was really easy to prepare. We were impressed!
Noticed your name is the same as mine. Growing up there were no Allyson’s except me until Peyton Place appeared on TV. Still very few Allyson’s spelled with a Y. I was named after my Grandfather, Charles Allyson Gates, born in Florida.
Allyson
Hey Allyson! Yes, we have the same name and same spelling, how awesome! My mom never said if she named me after someone so I am not sure, but I am about to turn 38 so maybe the spelling is a little more common now. I hope you love your air fryer! It is the best appliance and I have so many recipes you can checkout here!