i am not super into hot sauce as a rule but two things i know:i do not like cholulai fucking love crystal truly madly deeply
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
People talk about crystal a lot but I just looked up the bottle and I don't think I have ever seen it.
― Yerac, Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
trying to try more peri peri sauces nowtried so far: nando’s, African Rhino brand
― mh, Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
gbx otm about el yucateco
best chili paste is the homemade one at my local vietnamese restaurant
― mh, Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
*fistbump w VG* Crystal is the best value product in America
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 17 February 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
anybody try joe perry's "boneyard brew" or whatever
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
Crystal is far better than Tabasco imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
yeah crystal has more vinegar and pleasant heat -tabasco is v harsh imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 February 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
I dislike ketchup but love ketchup mixed with sriracha.
― Yerac, Monday, 18 February 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Monday, 18 February 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
tabasco and a little oil maybe
― mh, Monday, 18 February 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 18 February 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Also, extremely hipster voice: secret aardvark and tbh the hot ones house sauce, Los calientes, is also good
― gbx, Monday, 18 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― no expense was incurred (Sanpaku), Monday, 18 February 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 18 February 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 18 February 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
I love sambal oelek
― Dan S, Monday, 18 February 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
I just learned what sambal oelek and spicy chili crisp is. I always just called them red chili garlic paste. Love those on poke.
― Yerac, Monday, 18 February 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
oh, i like Melinda's too. currently have their naga jolokia version in rotationxpost to Sanpaku
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Monday, 18 February 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Monday, 18 February 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 February 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
Now mix that Louisiana with some lemony tartare sauce. Lovely tangy sauce for fish and chips.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Monday, 18 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
I haven't been able to find Louisiana Gold around here. Is it worth ordering online to try it?
― naus, Monday, 18 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 05:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― The feminine side of (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
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
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
el yucateco green imo― gbx, Sunday, February 17, 2019 11:34 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkclassic. tried the black label (smoked version) once but don't recall if i felt a preference.
― 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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
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)
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
el yucateco xxxtra hot
― mh, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
otm about tabasco. I use it for very specific things, and nothing else is similar.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
I was also very listless at work once and started eating my almonds with one drop of tabasco on each. It was pretty satisfying.
― Yerac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
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
― 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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
tabasco on jambalaya is excellent imo
― mh, Thursday, 7 March 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
cholula is great but the bottle design makes it dribble down the side of the bottle and that makes a mess.
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
I adore this stuff but the local deli which carried it has run out! WHYhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/59849fd086e6c0f72196ccfc/598a8c1d7131a5274bd727cf/5c6454df104c7b924b9a6d60/1550079764293/h1.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
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/
― o. nate, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
everybody who loves hot sauce should visit Hot Sauce and Panko when they are in San Francisco
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
valentina is my go to nowadays. good every day hot sauce. then i like cholula chipotle if I'm looking for that smokiness
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
i actively dislike sriracha now i think. too sweet
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
and too much garlic?
It's hard to find a sriracha without additives these days. I'm partial to Bajan sauces. Windmill or Aunt May's.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
sriracha is amazing, it's not too sweet but it is perfectly hot
also I really love sambal oelek
― Dan S, Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
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 (four 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 (four years ago) link