Search & Destroy: Hot Sauce

Also, try that Toad-Sweat (sweet habanero syrup/sauce) stuff on ice cream. It's WEIRD.

I've made hot sauces since, just not that way. Pureed pickled peppers or chipotles, vinegar as needed, roasted garlic, and so on. Comes out thicker, but it's tasty enough (and usually very strong).

(There's no hot sauce in the minestrone ... oh! But one of the Cheap Cooking Things I used to do with the ex was roasted a bulb of garlic and just cover it in Tabasco. Bam, you got dip, or sauce, or whatever.)

http://www.peppersofkeywest.com/images/product_images/psychosoy2.jpg

habanero soy sauce

this is seriously the greatest product of all time

wow really?

soy psycho

they never sell shit like this in london :(

Man, Tep had terrible taste in hot sauce (except for Sriracha).

I like that Rhino Peri-Peri shit, too.

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no

hahaha

the other day i dipped a banana in some sriracha it was a shocking treat

you've become like me with sriracha -- a strict "why not" policy

http://foodjunta.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/sriracha.jpg

yes, that's a photo of it

good work

srireach & destroy

http://jessicam.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/sriracha.jpg

rox/hoos mindmeld snarking on dude posting sriracha.jpg is some k.i.neg shit

we're having a bad week

k.i.neg boy pato

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the other day i dipped a banana in some sriracha it was a shocking treat

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

lol that's showing good initiative. First time I had sriracha and peanut butter was awesome, so I am imagining a peanut butter, banana, sriracha sandwich.

Sriracha is kind of scary because eventually you won't find food appetizing without it.

totally true, even though it loses its initial ZING

<img src="http://www.melindas.com/bottles/xxxxhot.jpg";> A Belizean style hot sauce, habaneros for heat, carrots and mangos for sweetness, key lime juice for acidity. Available by the gallon, which I've bought for friends.

Pretty comparable to the original, Marie Sharpe's:
<img src="http://www.drchilepepper.com/acatalog/hot.jpg";>

which is consistently rated among the top hot sauces on the planet by critics who collect hundreds of the things.

Now with BBcode:

http://www.melindas.com/bottles/xxxxhot.jpg A Belizean style hot sauce, habaneros for heat, carrots and mangos for sweetness, key lime juice for acidity. Available by the gallon, which I've bought for friends.

Pretty comparable to the original, Marie Sharpe's:
http://www.drchilepepper.com/acatalog/hot.jpg

which is consistently rated among the top hot sauces on the planet by critics who collect hundreds of the things.

Oh, on the Sriracha front:

Enjoying this a lot lately:

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chumps don't like valentina

can't handle hot sauce, even before reflux issues. masochists!

i don't really consider pickapeppa hot sauce, but it is good shit. the kind of sauce where i'll crave a steak as a delivery mechanism for pickapeppa.

I'm a fan of many of the aforementioned sauces, particularly Melinda's, Yucatan, Iguana, etc.

But for my $$, there's a local sauce in Portland called Secret Aardvark that is a mind (and mouth) blower:

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myspace.com/secretaardvark

I don't know if you can order it. I buy bottles at local restaurants. Yum!

just got hip to Sriracha, it's gone on almost every hot dish i've eaten in the last month. never liked pickapeppa. love red rooster (probably like it for the saltiness more than the spiciness)

I recently saw a bottle of "mild" Sriracha that has a Unicorn on it instead of a Cock? Can't find an image but it was nice and tangy.

Maybe I should start a thread, Search & Destroy: Mild Sauce Not Manly Enough for Hot Sauce Thread.

frank's red hot is great stuff. good on so many things.

I like a bit of tabasco or frank's on pizza, really brings the flavour out.

niche hot sauces are the only american food im jealous of, i pretty much have to survive on the thimble sized bottles of nandos peri peri you get here. anyone know a place in london with a good selection of this sort of sauce? incidentally my new favourite spicy sauce is the jack daniels chilli bbq which i dismissed as gimmicky idiot food but is actually fantastic.

you can get frank's in sainsburys.

I used to love the Cattlemens BBQ sauce but you never see it anymore, wonder did UK stores stop importing it.

I love Encona hot sauces, esp the papaya one which is unfortunately a bit harder to find than the standard one.

straightola you just need to look in differnet ethnic grocers, they usually have good selections e.g sriracha, encona &c

encona is no problem to get, i used to get it when i lived in derry. its the more niche ones im after like melinda's or marie sharps but without coughing up a fiver a bottle online. helps if youve a big carribean population handy, tescos tends to stock the full encona range. i cant usually stomach the rotting fish smell of the actually carribean shops round our way

i went to a chili festival a couple of years back and dipped a small bit of bread into this sauce called something like "journey to the heart of the sun" which the guy selling it told me contained a chili-derived chemical that polar explorers spray their vehicles with to ward off polar bear attacks. i have never had anything like it in my mouth in my life. i vaguely recall scaring a young family by running around with sweat dribbling out my ears.

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.

i put frank's on everything. sometimes the simplest is the best

I have some encona west indian hot pepper sauce at the back of my fridge I'd forgotten about. Yes I keep them in my fridge as well! But doesn't that mean they retain their potency and flavour for longer? I don't know the science behind that theory, but it seems to make sense! Also nothing wrong with putting cold hot sauce on food that is piping hot or getting grilled anyway, surely?

xxp yes in a cupboard, on a dedicated shelf with soy sauces and vinegars and harissa etc.

In my experience this has no bearing on potency/flavor retention..,these things are so locked in by acids and salt. Hot sauce does seem to me thinner and more absoptive/"penetrative" to food at room temp than when cold.

I guess for cooking the temp doesn't matter but as a table condiment at the table I just don't like putting cold liquid on hot food.

hot sauces we eat the most are chopped jalapenos in white vinegar, prik nam pla, and trader joe's jalapeno sauce. Keep them all in the fridge. I wonder how much heat is required for a vinaigrette to be considered a hot sauce.

the chunkier the hot sauce the more likely I want it to be in the fridge. I put harissa and chili garlic in the fridge. But I also can't be bothered looking at the contents of all the small batch new hot sauces to figure it out.

I don't mind putting cold hot sauce on hot food. it's usually with guac or a cold veg or a raw fish thing. Or for my eggs I have to usually wait for the eggs to cool off a bit anyway.

My brother brought me back a couple of bottles of Lombok Kuning from Makassar, Indonesia. It works pretty well in places where I would use Yucateco - a similar heat level.

I forgot about Melinda’s Naga Jolokia. This is the go-to for when I want to actually sweat

bought some kimchi-based hot sauce and it's salty but I really like it. Also bought some gochujang, it's really good

just had a lazy improvised fryup with onions, garlic, green bell peppers and chestnut mushrooms, cabbage and some Encona hot pepper sauce. i'm not joking it was the fucking biz!

going to do the same tomorrow with some egg fried rice on the side for dinner.

made my own

seems pretty good !

was pretty easy too - takes a bit of time fermenting the peppers but after that was a piece of piss

the encona extra hot is very good, not taken with regular encona though.

The Rancho Gordo Rio Fuego is really good. Not insanely hot, but a ton of depth.

Ordered some stuff from Heatonist (store that is connected with Hot Ones youtube show) and holy shit that garlic reaper sauce is so hot. I don't know why I keep wanting to eat it again! It's tasty for the few moments you can taste.

I got a bottle of this for xmas as a stocking stuffer, just broke it open recently and GOT DAMN it is the saltiest hot sauce I've ever had. Good garlic flavor but the salt almost kills it.

https://garlicworld.com/product/the-pepper-plant-chunky-garlic-hot-sauce/