Cholula is delicious and I like the feel of the wooden top, but I go through a tiny bottle in three days so I switched to Valentina's.
Generally though I think chili crisp and sambal oelek are my favourite choices for every day hot sauce, kind of not Mexican/American but they work well with everything, I've found.
I don't like regular begular Korean hot sauce or sriracha because I find them too sweet.
Tabasco gets dunked on a lot but I love it, Crystal is it's thicker cousin and I love Crystal as well.
All this is to say that hot sauce doesn't agree with me like it once used to and I've switched to Maggi or Bragg when I need to live a little
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link
The garlic chili (of the same brand) is basically the same as sambal oelek but just +++ garlic, right? I was in the grocery store today and had a moment of deep contemplation.
― Yerac, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
I also bought some cholula for the first time ever.
― Yerac, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
I don't think the garlic chili sambal oelek is as good as the regular version, but I wouldn't say no to it
― Dan S, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
our table arsenal includes:- Cholula Green Pepper- Melinda's Garlic Hot Habanero (white bottle)- El Yucateco Green- Dave's Insanity Black- Valentina- Huy Fong Sriracha- and usually this excellent spicy Jamaican-style hot sauce that our local store was sold out of last time we went to buy, but they assured us they were getting more soon.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
i am not as much a fanatic as my partner, but we use a fair amount of hot sauce
I go through so much hot sauce. The hot sauce situation is dire in Chile, oddly enough.
― Yerac, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
I would make my own, but the hot pepper situation is also dire.
that is strange!!
we also make our own, but most of the time it is a roasted habanero paste that is more for cooking purposes than sprinkling on food purposes.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
they hate spicy here. It's kind of ridiculous.
― Yerac, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Last night I had some crawfish cakes that were almost upstaged by the bed of greens, dressed with tabasco + cane syrup + butter. I gotta get some tabasco.
― I am curious (george) (slight return) (WmC), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
wow, that sounds amazing.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
i’ve tried making things with a hot sauce/paste base and I always underdo it on the sugar or fat
― mh, Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
It's a brilliant approach to vinaigrette, can't wait to try it at home.
― I am curious (george) (slight return) (WmC), Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
Tabasco is underrated. There is nothing that approaches tabasco for certain things.
― Yerac, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
I know I posted upthread but I once brought a salad to work but forgot any kind of dressing so I just put tabasco on it. It was only ok. Interesting about the cane syrup+ butter.
― Yerac, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
I really like Tabasco
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
Good old Frank's Red Hot really hits the spot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
I currently have three unopened bottles of cholula in my hot sauce estate but still have not tasted it.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:22 (four years ago) link
I had the new sweet habanero Cholula tonight, not something I thought I would go for but it's great
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
They do a Frank’s Red Hot ice cream at lake effect in buffalo :P
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
omg (in a bad way). have you had it? how was it? I mean, I like hot sauce on cream cheese on bagels but...
― Yerac, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
Tobasco has a bunch of specialty sauces I learned recently though they’re hard to find for some reason.
― ingredience (map), Friday, 10 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Tabasco's chipotle one is commonplace at.. Chipotle restaurants. I've had a couple of the others but they weren't that memorable.
My current lineup: Cholula on my desk at work, Trader Joe's Habanero hot sauce on my kitchen table; Huy Fong Sriracha, Frank's, and TJ's Green Dragon in the kitchen, and there's a bottle of the xxx Yucateco around the place somewhere
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
The chipotle here has several “speciality” Tabascos inc the chipotle flavored one and I like them
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
Our local hot sauce scene has great options. I think we still have some cholula and trader joes stuff in the fridge but I use local almost exclusively now.Great gift: https://number1sons.com/products/chili-bear-hot-hot-hot-trioMy go-to for cooking with: https://www.unclebrutha.com
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
there is a near full bottle of tabasco chipotle in the fridge of the rental I am in for 2 months, but the color is so off putting, I don't want to touch it. Like, I know that is the color it's supposed to be, but it just looks old.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 January 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
So, I have learned that I don't like to use mystery hot sauce bottles.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 January 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
"Good old Frank's Red Hot really hits the spot"
not what I expected to hear on ilx, but I thoroughly agree!
― calzino, Friday, 10 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
had some habanero + squid ink hot sauce at a seafood restaurant in cdmx yesterday, p dope
― gbx, Friday, 10 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
xp nothing like a hot sauce party with old frank
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
I had Frank's before and didn't like it much, no tang and not spicy enough. just got a bottle of encona extra hot and it's the closest I've found to what I want so far, still not perfect of course
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
the idea that frank’s has no tang is... delusional
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
frank’s chilli and lime rules
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
there is a near full bottle of tabasco chipotle in the fridge
what is up with these animals refrigerating their hot sauce
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
I've had some that say to refrigerate after opening. There's vinegar in them but I assume just not as much as a tobasco type sauce?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 10 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
the Frank's wasn't tangy, what can I say, it was just sort of vaguely sour, like it had a dash of cheap malt vinegar in there somewhere.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
was going to post about valentina but see i did so 6 months ago. never buy anything else anymore
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
I would never under any circumstances put cold hot sauce on anything
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
hmmm. I refrigerate all my hot sauce at home. But I don't refrigerate things like soy sauce (that freaks me out to see it in the fridge). My hot sauce at work I am fine to just keep in the desk.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
are you concerned that it's going to go bad?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
you have always otherwise struck me as perfectly sance, non-demonic person
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 January 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
SANE
on the soy sauce bottles it says after opening: refrigerate and use within blah blah.. I always thought that was crap.
― calzino, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
I didn't say this earlier, but I avoid habanero-based hot sauces. There is something astringent about that pepper, it tastes poisonous instead of delicious.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
The combination of Tabasco and cheddar cheese (on nachos, for example) is pretty divine imo
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
I guess i just automatically put condiments in the fridge at home to keep everything in the same place. All my hot sauces are in the door with all the mustard.
Soy sauce, if you grew up in an asian household it's a huge ass jug of soy sauce that is never in the fridge.
― Yerac, Saturday, 11 January 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
I have never refrigerated soy sauce either, that would seem equally wrong.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 11 January 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
where do you all store your opened bottles of hot sauce? In a cupboard?
I also haven't lived in a place with central ac since maybe around college. So the kitchen will get super hot in the summer. My rental with the suspicious chipotle tabasco has central ac but we turned it off and leave the terrace doors open all day. It's mostly tropical here so I wouldn't leave any food out for multiple days (bugs). The soy sauce is in a cupboard here though.
― Yerac, Saturday, 11 January 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link