Good ol' Sriracha because of its versatility. It goes well with so many foods.
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Hmm it’s the sweetness that makes it not versatile for me. I love it in pho though!
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Tapatío
Delicious sauce, but I personally wouldn’t consider that hot at all.
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I love pretty much anything by Melinda's
I recently got a bottle of Melinda's Garlic & Habanero sauce. It might be my favorite hot sauce that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
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Tapatio, Valentina's, or Cholula.
Cholula Chipotle!
Secret Aardvark habanero sauce is so, so good. I'll put it on just about anything. It's by no means the hottest sauce out there, but I'll put its flavor up against any other sauce. I buy this stuff by the case at this point.
I knew I would find this comment here. It's so damn good, got some in my fridge right now.
Agreed, that and yellow bird habanero are the two sauces that I need to have a supply of at all times.
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Frank's RedHot
Do you….
put that shit on everything?
You bet your ass I do
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Just want to soapbox here about the hot sauces that are sold to: 1) be as hot as possible; 2) have no flavor aside from pepper.
No one is enjoying XXX: Blow our ur Sphincter 3000 and as far as I am concerned these things are novelty items like pranks from joke shops. If the "schoville" number is factoring into your hot sauce buying decisions then I have personal beef with you and hope you step in a deep puddle next time it's raining.
I have an interesting biological quirk where my mouth doesn't register capsacin, the chemical that makes thing spicy/hot. It's been a thing my entire life. I can and have just chomped down on habanero and ghost peppers with no immediate problems (I don't tend to notice how spicy food is until it's on the way out).
Those super hot sauces you describe don't even taste like pepper most of the time. More often than not, they just taste like vinegar. Sometimes you'll get lucky and there's a hint of liquid smoke, but most of the time it's just vinegar and capsacin.
You get a pass.
Might have been slightly exaggerating my disdain for comic effect!
I'm agreeing with you. Those super hot sauces which only exist to prove hot they can make them are absolute ass. They taste gross.
Ah my bad misread it as you having some genetic predisposition towards them or something lol
Nah. Since my mouth doesn't register the spicy, I don't get the flavor of the sauce drowned out by the overwhelming spiciness. So I feel like I get a better sense for the flavor of the sauce than most people do. And I can assure you, if they advertise themselves as being absurdly spicy, they taste like straight vinegar. And not good vinegar, just a bland white vinegar.
Gotcha
the “schoville” number is factoring into your hot sauce buying decisions then I have personal beef
Not everyone is looking for the highest number. Some of us take it as another piece of useful info about the sauce. For example if I’m going to have company, I need to compare to Tabasco, because that’s what normies know. I also like different levels of heat with different foods, and the Scoville level gives me that
Frank's Red Hot
Cholula
And a great that's hard to get: Yellow Dragon Lantern Pepper Mash (黄灯笼) from Hainan. Amazing fruity flavour and hotter than hell.
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I'm partial to the Dave's Carolina Reaper sauce.
If I'm in a different mood the El Yucateco habanero sauce has great flavor.
Gochujang for cooking. Usually the T. UP imported stuff from Korea.
Gochujang chicken with rice and veggies in a bowl has become a default "lazy workday dish" at our place.
Yellowbird Habenero
Valentina Extra Hot
Great choice, and cheap compared to others!
The standard valentines is close to cholula sauce for a fraction of the price.
Frank's (extra hot buffalo, too) and Sriracha are always on hand in my house, too.
My wife got me a bottle of Da Bomb as a joke for Valentine's and I've been working through that for over a year.
I was just gifted a whole season of hot ones sauces. Came with da bomb evolution and havent tried it yet
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Crystal and Sambal, depending on the dish. Tabasco if it’s gumbo or soup or whatever but Tabasco is more concentrated and I like it best as an ingredient than as a sauce.
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Pretty fond of Nandos Garlic sauce, but theres also
- Djablo Power Jab (filipino - earthy and HOT)
- Burns & Mccoy - Mezcaline (warm and fantastic on a taco, not crazy hot, very flavorful)
It really depends on the dish and what you want out of the hot sauce.
My general, everyday preference is Cholula or Crystal. Both those have a distinctly hispanic/tex-mex flavor profile. For east and southeast Asian cuisine, I prefer Sriracha. If I really want the hot sauce to be the focus of the dish, I tend to prefer Marie Sharp's, especially the carrot or grapefruit varieties.
There's not much to choose from in Spain, I've been buying one called Valentina lately.
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While I have a few in the medium, and very hot categories, what I really use a lot of is a relatively mild green sauce. I like to be able to add a lot flavor without making something crazy hot. I used to use Tabasco green, later upgraded to Cholula green, but my favorite these days is Callahan's Poblano green chili sauce. The Bronx Greenmarket is really good too.
Sirracha because it's easy to get everywhere. I also make my own Vietnamese chilli oil.
Melinda's Ghost Pepper sauce. Hot and delicious, available at the supermarket near me
Classic black Truff sauce. The black truffle elevates just about everything I put it on, and the heat has depth instead of just being heat.
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I like High River Rogue. Not super hot (relatively speaking), somewhat sweet, fruity. I like it because it’s flavorful and an unexpected twist on what’s usually just a vinegar-plus-angry-pepper shelf.
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