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Favorite Hot Sauce.... GO!

I honestly have no idea how it's made, but the chilis are ground up much finer than sambal.
We're accustomed to spicy stuff, but this stuff blows all our other chili sauces away.

The label isn't what's in the jar, BTW. It's something the local restaurant manager makes.
Put a tablespoon in some buffalo wing sauce the other day & that made them spicier than the ghost pepper chili wings at the local sports bar.

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When I make wings, I like getting drumsticks - more meat and less skin.
 
Zombie O Zombie! (points if you know the band)

Lan Ma Gao Spicy Chili Crisp. Very interesting. Not super hot. Has a lot of prickly ash aka szechuan pepper. More condiment than sauce. I use it on a Thai style Chicken and Basil stir fry a lot. My stir fry brings some heat with crushed red chili flake. The crisp is flavor and texture.

Also on the condiment side as mentioned above Sambal Oleck. We are frequent flyers with that stuff. Sriracha when it's new. Loses it's flavor over time.

in the actual hot sauce aspect. Pepper Pot is nice, Chahula red is my daily driver. Tapatio is OK. It's sort of the gateway drug to Chahula or El Yucatán.

We do a lot of mexican inspired pork, Thai inspired Chicken and Beef. Eggs and Papatas Bravas. Hot sauce or condiments ... good on all of it.
 
I picked up 'The Hot Ones Trio - Original' the other day from my favorite hot sauce shop, Heatonist in Brooklyn.
My favorite sauce so far from the trio is Los Calientes. It's hot enough that you know it's there and packed with flavor. It's legit layers of flavor, not just a bunch of vinegar and peppers. From now on, I plan to keep a bottle of this on hand at all times.
If y'all haven't seen the show, check out The Hot Ones. I love it.
Here's a clip from an episode......


-Mike
 
I picked up 'The Hot Ones Trio - Original' the other day from my favorite hot sauce shop, Heatonist in Brooklyn.
My favorite sauce so far from the trio is Los Calientes. It's hot enough that you know it's there and packed with flavor. It's legit layers of flavor, not just a bunch of vinegar and peppers. From now on, I plan to keep a bottle of this in hand at all times.
If y'all haven't seen the show, check out The Hot Ones. I love it.
Here's a clip from an episode......


-Mike

I hate Jimmy Fallon and I very much enjoyed him being miserable here.
 
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I’ve been working on this one for a while. It’s pretty piquant!
 
I have no less than 30 bottles in fridge/pantry; none even half full at this time. Usually buy one or two monthly( whatever xxxtra hot available at grocery- Liquor barn usually has better selections)

Twice yearly, will visit or order from Pepper Palace, and from the "Hot Ones" folks.

Do not care for artificially boosted resin heat- the flavor approaches pure pepper spray.

Love creative use of Habanero, Ghost, Scorpion, Reaper and PepperX. Bring em on!
 
I picked up 'The Hot Ones Trio - Original' the other day from my favorite hot sauce shop, Heatonist in Brooklyn.
My favorite sauce so far from the trio is Los Calientes. It's hot enough that you know it's there and packed with flavor. It's legit layers of flavor, not just a bunch of vinegar and peppers. From now on, I plan to keep a bottle of this in hand at all times.
If y'all haven't seen the show, check out The Hot Ones. I love it.
Here's a clip from an episode......


-Mike

Los Calientes is LOADED with flavor! Would like to buy it in a tub and use for salsa- maybe with a little tomatillo(?):thumbsup:
Prob my favorite( but not for heat) of the nine different bottles purchased from Heatonist last year.

Was somewhat disappointed in Last Dab Redux- from a heat perspective.( Still a great sauce) Have tried many that claim far lower Scoville ratings that were significantly hotter.
 
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@MJ5150 can you get Blue Bus Fermented products ? They are a product made in our neighborhood, about 3 blocks from @Passinwind they do a cultured Chili Paste that is great. It has heat but what it really brings is an amazing 'fresh' but fermented chili taste. I know that doesn't make sense. I don't know how else to describe it. Bright, heat, citrusy... interesting. I use it to punch up quinoa done as a stir fry as a bright note against spicy kimchi. or as an egg mixin. or to liven up something I cranked out for dinner that just missed the mark ...

I am addicted to Blue Bus Kraut-Chi. Exactly what it sounds like... Gourmet dog, toasted bun, kraut-Chi. done...
 
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@MJ5150 can you get Blue Bus Fermented products ? They are a product made in our neighborhood, about 3 blocks from @Passinwind they do a cultured Chili Paste that is great.I am addicted to their Kraut-Chi. Gourmet dog, toasted bun, kraut-Chi. done...

I had a shopping cart filled up, then when I went to check out, my only option was to pick it up in Bingen. I wanted to try the chili paste, but we won't be making that drive anytime soon.
We have a joint here in town like Blue Bus. It's called OlyKraut.
We love it. I'm especially fond of the cumin jalapeno kraut and smoke and kale kraut.
They also sell sipping brine. I was a bit skeptical at first, but wow it's good.

-Mike
 
I had a shopping cart filled up, then when I went to check out, my only option was to pick it up in Bingen. I wanted to try the chili paste, but we won't be making that drive anytime soon.
We have a joint here in town like Blue Bus. It's called OlyKraut.
We love it. I'm especially fond of the cumin jalapeno kraut and smoke and kale kraut.
They also sell sipping brine. I was a bit skeptical at first, but wow it's good.

-Mike
I forgot you were in Olympia. We were up there a couple of times last fall for dog scent work exercises. Our 6 year old golden is a good scent hound. We're working on level 3... last time up we found a really good vegetarian oriented hole in the wall restaurant downtown. and the name is catchy ... I forgot ! really a great breakfast. Hope they are there when we get back.

And we'll have to look for OlyKraut!
 
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I forgot you were in Olympia. We were up there a couple of times last fall for dog scent work exercises. Our 6 year old golden is a good scent hound. We're working on level 3... last time up we found a really good vegetarian oriented hole in the wall restaurant downtown. and the name is catchy ... I forgot ! really a great breakfast. Hope they are there when we get back.

And we'll have to look for OlyKraut!

Right on with the dog. We have a bloodhound. We looked into scent training with her as a puppy, but at the time neither the wife nor I had the time to commit to the program.
Was the restaurant New Moon Cafe or Darby's? Darby's is closed permanently.
The Bread Peddler?
Cascadia Grill?

-Mike
 
New Moon I think. Funky old furniture. Close to hippie vibe and a damn good kitchen.

Yeah scent work is a committment for sure. My wife is very into it. He's a really good dog and the scent work has made him bond with us closer. I can walk him off lead in places I would never have dared to with other dogs. We loved 'em all of course. This guy is something on the communications front though. Scent work was a part of that.
 
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We have a local hole in the wall hot dog place that makes its own hot sauce that kinda looks like hot dog chili sauce.
The place is Pulliams Hot Dogs in Winston Salem, NC and the stuff is Big Eds Hot sauce. Awesome stuff!
My favorite generic grocery store stuff is Texas Pete .... it's made here in Winston Salem.
 
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