Wings to eat for later: Keep warm in the oven? Or let them get cold then reheat?

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It’s a stupid quandary, I know.

So Wednesday night is date night at Shakes’ house! (yay me)
My date indicated to me she’s in the mood for wings from Wingstop.

Since we’re both a couple of lushes, I’m going to have to pick up the wings prior to our date. That way there will be no question of us venturing out to Wingstop after we’ve been drinking. (to excess! :))

I’m going to pick up said wings around 5 or 6. We probably wont get around to eating these wings til well after midnight. (1ish or 2ish maybe?)

So my question is… Should I keep the wings in a warm oven until ready to eat? Or should I just go ahead and let them get cold (in the fridge) and reheat when ready?

For some reason I got it stuck in my head that if I let them get cold, they’ll lose something in quality. I’m not sure why I think this, so I’ll leave it up to my fellow Dopers to tell me if I’m crazy or not.

Thanks for your input.

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Put 'em in the fridge, then heat 'em at 350 for 5 or 10 mins to take the chill off, then put 'em under the broiler.

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In addition to chilling and then warming them back up, I’d get some extra wing sauce on the side to rehydrate them a bit after reheating them.

Actually, I’d just get all the sauce on the side and coat them when I was ready to eat them.

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Put them near the sun. Not too near.

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Soooo … what’d you do, and how’d they turn out?

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Frankly if it were me, especially at that time of night and if I was drunk and hungry, I’d eat them right out of the fridge.

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They turned out great. (I let them get cold then reheated in the oven.) I already had some extra sauce on hand so I was able to rehydrate them.

Thanks for the input guys.