Search & Destroy: Hot Sauce

D'Elidas is my favorite. It's a Panamanian habanero with mustard.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3301255655_e6211a42a2.jpg

el yucateco on a tuna melt mmmm

just got this shark brand sriracha (medium) and it is fantastic. miles better than the ubiquitous rooster sauce

http://importfood.com/sash0709.html

put some on tortilla chips mmmm

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^ feelin' this. papaya & pickled scotch bonnets

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bQd53m0ihVs/Tn1IC5kXUjI/AAAAAAAABEA/hECU6kwwNa0/s320/Tapatio%2BMan.gif

I noticed a few months ago what a handsome guy the Tapatío guy is. Seriously, take a close look.

Been into El Yucateco, too – I like how impossibly green it is.

http://www.elyucateco.com/imagenes/productos/salsas/verde.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ECKGk.jpg

the place near me is always sold out of green!

lol abbbottt

green el yucateco is especially excellent with goat!

Oh man, that sounds fabulous.

I recently bought this kind of gochujang because I liked the wrecked crying guy on it. SO HOT!

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I tried it today and it's good and pretty hot though I did not die like the man on the label. It made me miss my old gochujang, which tasted like bbq sauce.

http://cjfusa.com/thumb_img/05.jpg

plastic tub gochujang is where it's at. thin it with some sherry vinegar and you got yourself a dip

or a thin sauce, whatever

i love this stuff now -- don't know where to get it really, but a friend brought some back from panama

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3301255655_e6211a42a2.jpg

d'elidas is the best! i think it can be ordered online but i've only had it in panama or as a gift from someone returning to panama.

and now i see that i posted that same picture upthread. if you're in the u.s.: http://www.delidasusa.com/shop

i top my burgers with a mix of d'elidas and dijon mustard (or english mustard when we're out of dijon) and it is the best.

Yeah, I had missed this thread but d'Elidas is great as is el Yucateco. But my favourite sauce I've had in the past at least 7 years was bought from a woman who had set up a pasting table to sell from in Birmingham. She had a few things that were good but her hottest sauce (which she wasn't advising most people to try) is astonishingly good. Will post the details tomorrow.

oh man clancy's fancy.

I noticed a few months ago what a handsome guy the Tapatío guy is. Seriously, take a close look.

― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:48 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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loooooooooooovin this shit

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sunshine for your mouth

Cholula won one of those readers vote gizmodo things recently and I realized I had never tried it before. I am not a loyalist to any type of hot sauce and as long as it's not sweet I usually like it well enough. I do prefer certain hot sauce on certain foods though:
tabasco on bagels
franks or petes in pasta, pizza, chicken or eggs
valentinas, sriracha or trader joes green dragon sriracha on eggs
sriracha with soy sauce or ketchup mixtures
garlic red chili pepper with rice or raw fish things

Trader Joes has a new fresh ghost pepper salsa and it's probably one of the hottest products that they have carried.

yerac, did you ever go here and do the tasting?

https://heatonist.com/pages/nyc-hot-sauce-stores

Search:
Jock's Smoked Habanero & Garlic Hot Sauce
East Coast Chilli Company - Caroline Reaper & Honey Chilli Sauce "Midnight 21"

These two are the gold standard of hot sauce for me. I don't add these sauces to meals, I make meals for these sauces.

xpost, no I haven't, have you been? I have time this week to go to wburg so maybe I should check it out. Although spending over $10 on any hot sauce is not my thing. When I worked at s0undf!x on bedford awhile ago they bought the coffee shop next door and tried to overhaul the space into a bar/venue. We were making savory waffles and we got this really really good blyn based hot sauce for them. I was buying it at cost for my own personal use. I thought it was called Petro or something but can't seem to find it online.

oh, derp. it was called Petro.

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from a roadside greengrocer / eatery near Dixon, CA, where we got some awesome tamales

I want something with just heat and nothing else which I can add to meals which are otherwise fine but not spicy enough, everything I buy has other flavour or is too strong, any ideas?

I put red pepper flakes or a little bit of red curry powder on things a lot. You can also infuse olive oil with red pepper flakes or fresh peppers.

red c

ugh. indian red chile powder i mean.

Yeah, thinking about using chili powder, for some reason I imagine it won't mix evenly, but won't know until I give it a go

we've been experimenting using it in things like making poke (when we don't have jalapeno or the red pepper flakes aren't doing it). It might depend on the type of chili powder you have but so far it's been surprisingly fine.

If you do the olive oil thing, it's super easy. It's the base of a spaghetti recipe we make but you just heat up olive oil and dump in a bunch of red pepper flakes (plus garlic and fresh basil for the actual recipe) and then strain. It's really delicious. I should try to use some fresh peppers in the same manner.

Valentina black label is my favorite Mexican hot sauce and probably the one I would pick if I could only pick one.

Cholula chipotle is the best overall hot sauce imo, followed by Valentina & Culichi.

Crystal is my go-to

I want something with just heat and nothing else which I can add to meals which are otherwise fine but not spicy enough, everything I buy has other flavour or is too strong, any ideas?

no idea if this is along the lines of what you desire but i sure as hell am getting some! xxposts

https://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Puree-Net-Wt-FL/dp/B0097YI480

Sounds to me like you want to be using capsaicin extract of some kind like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P9P65WI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_MmAACb91A4CQY

el yucateco green imo

classic. tried the black label (smoked version) once but don't recall if i felt a preference. marie sharp's is some finefine hot sauce, too

tapatio or die

local schwarma place makes delicious schug that i make sure to grab enough of whenever i eat there to last a month at home. the local acme carries on brand of schug that is not hot at all and kinda crap tasting :( - if u can find it good tho i prefer it almost 100% of the time over any hot sauce

i am not super into hot sauce as a rule but two things i know:

i do not like cholula
i fucking love crystal truly madly deeply

People talk about crystal a lot but I just looked up the bottle and I don't think I have ever seen it.

Although, when I lived in the south any type of hot sauce made my mouth swell up and then one day in my early-mid 20s it stopped happening.

trying to try more peri peri sauces now
tried so far: nando’s, African Rhino brand

gbx otm about el yucateco

best chili paste is the homemade one at my local vietnamese restaurant