Search & Destroy: Hot Sauce

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

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.

sriracha is amazing, it's not too sweet but it is perfectly hot

also I really love sambal oelek

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

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.

I also bought some cholula for the first time ever.

I don't think the garlic chili sambal oelek is as good as the regular version, but I wouldn't say no to it

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.

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.

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.

they hate spicy here. It's kind of ridiculous.

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.

wow, that sounds amazing.

i’ve tried making things with a hot sauce/paste base and I always underdo it on the sugar or fat

It's a brilliant approach to vinaigrette, can't wait to try it at home.

Tabasco is underrated. There is nothing that approaches tabasco for certain things.

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.

I really like Tabasco

Good old Frank's Red Hot really hits the spot

I currently have three unopened bottles of cholula in my hot sauce estate but still have not tasted it.

I had the new sweet habanero Cholula tonight, not something I thought I would go for but it's great

They do a Frank’s Red Hot ice cream at lake effect in buffalo :P

omg (in a bad way). have you had it? how was it? I mean, I like hot sauce on cream cheese on bagels but...

Tobasco has a bunch of specialty sauces I learned recently though they’re hard to find for some reason.

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

The chipotle here has several “speciality” Tabascos inc the chipotle flavored one and I like them

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-trio

My go-to for cooking with: https://www.unclebrutha.com

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.

So, I have learned that I don't like to use mystery hot sauce bottles.

Tabasco is underrated. There is nothing that approaches tabasco for certain things.

"Good old Frank's Red Hot really hits the spot"

not what I expected to hear on ilx, but I thoroughly agree!

had some habanero + squid ink hot sauce at a seafood restaurant in cdmx yesterday, p dope

xp nothing like a hot sauce party with old frank

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

the idea that frank’s has no tang is... delusional

frank’s chilli and lime rules

there is a near full bottle of tabasco chipotle in the fridge

what is up with these animals refrigerating their hot sauce

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?

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.

was going to post about valentina but see i did so 6 months ago. never buy anything else anymore

I would never under any circumstances put cold hot sauce on anything

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.

are you concerned that it's going to go bad?

you have always otherwise struck me as perfectly sance, non-demonic person

SANE

on the soy sauce bottles it says after opening: refrigerate and use within blah blah.. I always thought that was crap.