The *OFFICIAL* hot sauce appreciation thread

[XemaSab]

I just had stir-fry with Tapatio, and every gland on my head is going haywire. :o

[GOPisEvil]

1. I'm a Sriracha guy.

Goes great with eggs. :9

Cholula isn't bad either; not too hot, but has a good flavor. Texas Pete is good for making Buffalo wings.

[jobycom]

20. Second for Srirachi. Goes with everything from fries to veggie burgers.

[DS1]

23. I used to be a Sriracha guy

but after a while it tasted too garlicy for me, so I switched to the blend listed below. It was the point where I'd draw a line of Sriracha on each bite of a burrito that I realized it wasn't enough.

[Goblinmonger]

48. Love it

I call it cock sauce, though. So much so that when I was at a restaurant with my sister-in-law, I just said "want to hand me some cock sauce, please" and got a very interesting look from her.

[Inchworm]

2. The Caribbean type hot sauce is my favorite

The bite that lasts.

:9

[Dr Fate]

4. Like a Scotch bonnet sauce?

?

[Inchworm]

8. yup

The scotch bonnet based sauces. Often the sauce is thicker too.

:9

[Systematic Chaos]

3. There is a green salsa at El Pollo Loco that is just awesome.

Their $1 CBR (cheese, bean & rice) burritos are like mana from heaven when topped with that green salsa. I think it's called avocado salsa, but I'm not totally sure. I just know it's almost good enough to drink out of the little cups straight! :P

Then, there's an authentic chain of Mexican fast food places around Vegas called Roberto's Taco Shop which has three varieties of extremely hot salsa available to put on their food. Red, green and orange. All three are loaded with chili pepper seeds and go great with their food, but if you overdo it even a little bit your mouth will be on FIRE!

As for store-bought hot sauces, it's very hard to find a brand which doesn't taste like salt and vinegar with a touch of heat added as an afterthought.

Anyone know of a good brand I should watch out for?

[sasquatch]

30. The crazy chicken

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. **Appreciate**

SLOWLY going through that bottle of Dave's Ultimate Insanity Hot Suace.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Oh Hell yeah, that shit is lethal!

Even I gotta go easy with that shit, and I have a seriously high tolerance for heat when it comes to food. First time I tried Dave's I put what I thought was a modest amount on a steak. Not quite modest enough.... I literally couldn't breathe for about 30 seconds. And I swear it gets hotter just sitting in the refrigerator. About the last 1/3 of that bottle had concentrated itself to the point where it was impossible to pour on food directly. I had to pour it into a big kettle of chili in order to use it up.

For my every day hot sauce though, I go with the good old Red Rooster bottle........

[alfredo]

18. Try Endorphin Rush It's good and hot.

Read the third review

http://firegirlpower.com/reviews/hs1121/

Good advice even though he was probably BS ing

Your Review:: NEVER let your girlfriend eat this on her eggs... then give you a BJ 2 hours later... - Name not provided
Taste Opinion: HEAVENLY!; Heat Opinion: TOO HOT!

There's some funny stories in the comments

[siligut]

6. How about El Yucateco, Chile Habanero?

This is a hot sauce from Mexico and it is pretty darn good. It does have a vinegar taste, something we like. But it is thick and full of flavor as well as heat. Great on eggs and bean burritos.

http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.elyucateco.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Delyucateco.com%26hl%3Den&usg=ALkJrhhQpPAeVjlGgSSnmKhgcen2PJJOdA It is the third one from the left after chosing language.

[alfredo]

11. Yes, that's my everyday sauce. I used to get it for a dollar a bottle. See my

post below

[petronius]

9. Tapatio is some good stuff. I never really appreciated it until I used on

some BBQ chicken after a couple of cold dives - it warms you right up, from head to toe...

:9

[alfredo]

10. Yucateca Habanero sauce. Berbere for Ethiopian foods

Favorite hot recipe. http://www.internationalrecipes.net/find/Doro%20Wat%20with%20Berbere%20Sauce They go wussy on the hot peppers. The Berbere recipe I use makes 1 1/2 cups of the spice mixture, 1 1/4 was cayenne. You have to roast this mixture. DO IT OUTSIDE!! Trust me on this. It's like being maced.

Used to use the below in soups. One drop was enough to make it just right for my sweet bride. It's habanero extract. It's dangerous in the wrong hands, or on any hand.





Melinda's XXXXtra Reserve is very tasty. Good smoky flavor

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. I also like El Yucateco.

[alfredo]

15. Yeah, a good mixture of heat and flavor.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

37. Melinda's is delish, but I wish it were hotter

For real insanity, go to a good Asian market and find an Indonesian product called sambal oelek (name of the sauce, not a brand name). Pure crushed Thai bird chilies with a little vinegar and salt. That stuff is rocket fuel.

[alfredo]

59. You can also put a drop of Endorphin Rush in with the Melindas.

I used to grow Thai chilies. I've been growing Black Pearl Peppers lately. 30,000 + SU's

[alfredo]

62. I'll look around in the Asian markets for it. Thanks

[alfredo]

12. North African food is hot! so is good Thai. Love Thai Peppers. Ethiopian

food, like zigni can bring a tear to your eyes.

Not served in the traditional manner but this image will give you an idea of the foods that got me into hot sauces. This is Eritrean food, similar to Ethiopian food. The bread is usually laid out flat and the stews and other consumables are ladled on top. You eat with your hands, using the spongy bread to hold the food.

[XemaSab]

19. I've been saying for YEARS that Redding needs a good Ethiopian/Eritrean place

:9

[alfredo]

25. We had one here. It was very good. She used natural ingredients.

She closed down and moved on.

I lived in Eritrea for three years. The best years of my life.

[MilesColtrane]

14. All I need is...

Jalapenos
Tomatoes
Onion
Garlic
Cilantro
Cumin
Lemon juice

...and a food processor to make my sauce.

It doesn't last long.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Cholula's my favorite commercial sauce

but I like most of the ones named by other posters too.

[redqueen]

35. Same here.

And this thread has convinced me that I should have Mexican food tonight. :9

[alfredo]

17. This a real tasty everyday hot sauce

http://www.mexgrocer.com/3121.html

[siligut]

21. Thank you for the link! nt

[alfredo]

26. I love food and cooking.

[DS1]

22. When I want some heat

I use Blair's "After Death" hot sauce. A nice mix of red and orange Habaneros, cayenne, smashed garlic, chipolte, pepper extract, lime juice, cilantro, and other herbs and spices.

The bottle comes with a skull.

[appal_jack]

24. you gotta try Fire From the Mountain

Fire From the Mountain is great stuff. They make a bunch of hot- and barbecue sauces, but for me, the Smoked Habanero sauce is THE ONE.

But whatever your heat preference, the sauce is made with lots of care and love by old hippies (who are wonderful neighbors of mine), and I recommend it whole heartedly:

http://www.firefromthemountain.com/

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[Tom Kitten]

27. I can't recall the name of it

But it's this red sauce that comes in a bottle, and you squirt a little bit of it on your food, and it makes it taste really hot. It's really good! Know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah, there's a rooster on the side of the bottle...I first got turned onto it at a Vietnamese donut shop that served noodle lunches...

[XemaSab]

28. Sriracha aka "Cock Sauce"

:9

[Tom Kitten]

45. I just went out and bought a bottle

tonight I'm going to have a stir fry! With Sriracha!

[siligut]

61. Use mustard greens in your stir fry?

The Sriracha goes real nice with their peppery flavor.

[Goblinmonger]

49. See my post above

re: cock sauce

[Critters2]

29. Sorry, but I have a German stomach. Anything spicier than bratwurst

gets automatically rejected by my digestive tract, one way or the other.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

31. Enough with the food threads!

Very odd that I feel compelled to reply to them, rather than just getting off my arse and getting the real deal. . .

http://www.tijuanaflats.com/index.php">Best restaurant ever for people with hot sauce fetishes. I first ate at the original T. Flats where my son went to college, but they're starting to spread around the country. Personally, I love to drench my rice bowl with a middle-of-the-road jalepeño sauce like their Smack My Ass and Call me Sally, punctuated by whatever looks interesting on the hot bar.

[alfredo]

42. It's either food or sex. Your choice

[buzzycrumbhunger]

52. Well, then--sex!

But be forewarned. . . I've entered born-again virginity territory, which could be very dangerous. You all might consider throwing batteries my way to diffuse the situation. :eyes:

[alfredo]

53. Ha! I'll take the food. The other: been there done that. It was fun, but

nothing can beat a dish of Baba Ganouj and some good delicate pita. A open face roast beef sandwich, mashed potatoes/gravy, and a side of green beans would be nice. A seafood chowder is not something I'd turn down. Some roasted veggies on a nice country bread, goat cheese and some nice green olive from a mild brine might be the ticket.
Steamed broccoli with lemon juice, oh be still my heart.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

57. So. . . you've opted to sublimate

(Ask me how I recognize that.) At least sex won't have you weighing 300 pounds when all is said and done.

Damn you. Now I have to go make pitas.

[alfredo]

58. I know when to say no at the dinner table. Portion size is the key for us

who were raised to be the president of the "clean plate club."

[hobbit709]

32. Make my own

Red Savina Habanero, apricot, onion and garlic.

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[CatholicEdHead]

36. Advocating Death Sauce or After Death Sause?

Which is good.

Tabasco is like ketchup to me.

[Jamastiene]

65. Hey, Grovelbot.

:hug:

Tehehe, all your circuits are belong to us. :P

[Patiod]

34. What's nice is that most restaurants have it now

Well, the kind where you would be likely to use it - breakfast places (for your eggs) and anyone who offers gumbo or jumbalaya

[Blue_Tires]

38. i've got texas pete running in my bloodstream

[KamaAina]

39. Why do you people hate Louisiana so much?

It's practically part of America, after all!

And they've got other brands of the stuff besides just Tabasco, you know, notably Crystal, which used to be made about a mile up the street from my NOLA home (since the Federal Flood, it has come from a town called Reserve a few miles upriver).

[Gormy Cuss]

41. I like Crystal better than Tabasco.

Does that help? There's another LA brand that's pretty good too but the name escapes me.

[TX Screwball]

50. I Love Crystal on ...

Devil eggs.
I'm a heat freak, but just a bit on devil eggs....

[GOPisEvil]

56. I like the stuff called "Louisiana Hot Sauce".

Tasty and costs 59 cents a bottle. Or it used to... Lots of restaurants use it. Good on hush puppies.

[TX Screwball]

40. Been hooked on this for years.

Yeah, it's a salsa, but I still love it.

[AwakeAtLast]

43. Love it all!

My favorite is Frank's Red Hot on a fried egg sandwich. With hot pepper cheese! :9

[bbernardini]

44. If its name doesn't make a reference to painful...umm...elimination, I can't be bothered.

Which is very odd, as I'm otherwise quite a picky eater.

[Zomby Woof]

46. Hellfire & Damnation

My favorite habanero sauce:

[Rhythm]

47. "Mean Devil Woman" habañero sauce

will clear out your sinuses most effectively.



Plus, what a great name for ANYTHING...

[LittleClarkie]

51. There's a guy named Murph who goes to the same pub I do

He grows habineros, dries them, grinds them up and gives the mixture to the pub to use on their hot wings. Lethal I tell you.

I'm not that brave. I go for the Frank's Red Hot, myself.

[Robeson]

54. I'm so pissed at myself right now. Went grocery shopping tonight, and I knew there...

...was one thing I was forgetting, but couldn't remember what it was. HOT SAUCE!!! :banghead:

[Awsi Dooger]

55. I thought you were talking about the real Hot Sauce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z7GMz9BJb8&feature=related

[jpak]

60. They have a condiment down in Chile called Aji Chileno that is wicked good

very tasty and mildly hot.

Served on Lomits (sp?) - marinated roast pork and sliced avacodo sandwiches - yum

Wish I could get it here...:(

http://www.jbsauce.com/

[Jamastiene]

63. Red Hot

I put it in chicken and rice. It's good that way. It helps especially if you have a cold or some kind of congestion. I looove hot sauce and peppers.

[trackfan]

64. Tapatio is the real Southern California everyday hot sauce.