Search & Destroy: Hot Sauce

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

*fistbump w VG* Crystal is the best value product in America

anybody try joe perry's "boneyard brew" or whatever

I like all the varieties of Yucateco that I’ve tried: red, green and Xxtra Hot. That’s probably my favorite widely distributed sauce. For Asian food I usually go with Sambal Oelek but it would be better if it was a bit spicier.

Crystal tastes good and is not very hot, it's pretty much a Tabasco style hot sauce. Some people also like it as it has no preservatives in it's recipe. Never seen the 'extra hot' version, but it and other products in that line are supposed to exist somewhere. Crystal is pretty ubiquitous, you can get it at discount groceries all the time.

I've got a bottle of Crystal, Yucateco Red and Rooster sauce myself. Yucoteco Red adds up the heat, it can have a bit of kick, depending on what you eat it with.

Crystal is far better than Tabasco imo

yeah crystal has more vinegar and pleasant heat -tabasco is v harsh imo

I dislike ketchup but love ketchup mixed with sriracha.

I once forgot the dressing for my salad and only had a bottle of tabasco in my desk. i tried it but would not recommend.

tabasco and a little oil maybe

Another vote for green El Yucateco here. I don't use a lot of hot sauce at home, but that's the main one I always have around.

Also, extremely hipster voice: secret aardvark

and tbh the hot ones house sauce, Los calientes, is also good

I live in NO,LA, the home of Crystal, and I don't like it. If I want a pepper flavored vinegar, I could concoct one pretty easily.

Tabasco is overpriced.

"Louisiana" brand hot sauce is all the aged-pepper flavor of Tabasco, without so much vinegar as in Crystal. It's cheap. It's my go to.

The best hot sauce distributed from Louisiana remains Melinda's, a Belizean/Caribbean style hot sauce where the peppers are sweetened with carrots and tartened up with lime juice. Made in Costa Rica, distributed from a warehouse near the New Orleans airport. It's not the right sauce for Monday red beans and rice. But its the right hot sauce maybe 30% of the time.

I keep Huy Fong Sambal Oelek, Huy Fong Sriracha, La Costena chipotles in adobo, Melinda's XXX, and Louisiana brand hot sauces in the house at all times. They're all good. The sambal oelek is the most useful in general cooking and Mediterranean dishes like hummus bi tahini, the chipotles in adobe in Latin dishes, the Louisiana brand in Creole dishes, the sriracha in dishes that want heat/sweet/garlic, and Melinda's at the table.

I have become a hot sauce locavore. I like to use a lot of Uncle Brutha’s (https://www.unclebrutha.com) in my cooking, and the annual editions of the Number One Sons’ Chili Bears (http://number-1-sons-kimchi-pickles-kraut.mybigcommerce.com/2018-full-chili-bear-lineup/) are important things because that is my source for travel hot sauce, a key item in my operational man bag.

The only non-DC area hot sauce I use is that Spicy Chili Crisp stuff that online people never shut about, because it’s really good with ramen and basically anything else, I just resent not knowing exactly what the hell is actually in it, just like every other American who finds themselves relying heavily on a product from China.

I've bought six hot sauces from Heatonist (the latest Hot Ones season's mellower 3 pack, 3 others earlier) and pleased with all of them. The Heartbeat and Hippy Dippy Green sauces are standouts on eggs. The mild to medium sauces add a nice flavor without tilting to too much heat, for me. Plus, it's fun to watch the Hot Ones interviews and know the tastes of some sauces.

Second Secret Aardvark, too. Will try the Serrabanero and Spicy Mayo versions, when I see them at my usual stores.

I love sambal oelek

I just learned what sambal oelek and spicy chili crisp is. I always just called them red chili garlic paste. Love those on poke.

oh, i like Melinda's too. currently have their naga jolokia version in rotation
xpost to Sanpaku

Melinda’s Naga Jolokia is in the fridge next to Uncle Brutha’s No. 9 but I rarely break it out because the Chili Bears are more fun

I live in NO,LA, the home of Crystal, and I don't like it. If I want a pepper flavored vinegar, I could concoct one pretty easily.

like good for you but honest to god between work parenting trying to move all this shit i'm not gonna spend time making my own inferior version of something i can buy a big bottle of for $1.50

louisiana is a good hot sauce will investigate melinda's

Now mix that Louisiana with some lemony tartare sauce. Lovely tangy sauce for fish and chips.

I haven't been able to find Louisiana Gold around here. Is it worth ordering online to try it?

I kind of would want to start making my own hot sauce just to know what is going in it. And to manage the hot and sodium level.

I have a nephew who regularly grows cultivars of absurdly hot peppers (bhut jolokia, red savina habanero, scotch bonnet). When he drops off a bag I'll make my version of a Belizean hot sauce, and give my nephew a couple jars of the product. Honestly, less hot supermarket habaneros work better.

If you have ripe (red) jalepenos, a Hoy Fong-style sriracha (just 5 ingredients) would be pretty simple, too.

Creole style hot sauces require aging the peppers, sometimes in staved barrels, so are less of a lazy afternoon project.

This is my fav. Hot, but not crazy hot like Dave's, and loaded with flavor. Hell hath no fury ...
https://i2.wp.com/majormike.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-09-05-17.39.32.jpg

el yucateco green imo

― gbx, Sunday, February 17, 2019 11:34 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic. tried the black label (smoked version) once but don't recall if i felt a preference.

original is much better. black label obscures the charm of yucateco.

lol my mother in law (who is not a hot sauce fan) had a bottle of Scorned Woman in her fridge for what seemed like years, until I used it up and replaced it with Tapatio (which has now been there for quite a while itself)

also cosign this:

Seriously, the original unadulterated Tabasco has a taste you'll simply never find in any other brand because of the three years of aging.

el yucateco xxxtra hot

otm about tabasco. I use it for very specific things, and nothing else is similar.

I was also very listless at work once and started eating my almonds with one drop of tabasco on each. It was pretty satisfying.

and tbh the hot ones house sauce, Los calientes, is also good

― gbx, Sunday, February 17, 2019 5:45 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haven't had that one but did have their Fiery Chipotle and it was very good. Also tried Queen Majesty Scotch Bonnet & Ginger which was featured on Hot Ones. Terrific flavor tho atypical for a """hot sauce""". Ginger gives it an Indian feel.

tabasco on jambalaya is excellent imo

cholula is great but the bottle design makes it dribble down the side of the bottle and that makes a mess.

I adore this stuff but the local deli which carried it has run out! WHY
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59849fd086e6c0f72196ccfc/598a8c1d7131a5274bd727cf/5c6454df104c7b924b9a6d60/1550079764293/h1.jpg

I picked up a few of these at the airport in Mexico city. I haven't seen it States-side yet, but the one I've tried so far is good:

http://pikabanero.com.mx/

everybody who loves hot sauce should visit Hot Sauce and Panko when they are in San Francisco

I was going to visit the Heatonist store when I was in NYC but got sidetracked :/

been pondering the history of hot sauce speciality stores, their appeal, and whether the clientele has changed. back in the 90s there was such a place in the Mall of America and it was 50% hot sauce and 50% t-shirts, cooking aprons, etc declaring how badass the wearer was

pretty sure the stores of yesteryear were for edgy dads, but... maybe that hasn't changed

i've been to that store, didn't buy anything because the vibe was still very much 'PETA PEOOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS LOL' and the aforementioned 'badass' shirts

valentina is my go to nowadays. good every day hot sauce. then i like cholula chipotle if I'm looking for that smokiness

i actively dislike sriracha now i think. too sweet