Favorite Hot Sauce.... GO!

[StevieMac]

LOVE this stuff!

 

[Gorn]

LOVE this stuff!

Great stuff. I put it on skirt steak that I get at a Peruvian restaurant.

 

[10cc]

I think I've tried that. It wasn't the same. I'll ask at the pho place. I think they might make it there.

That's what it is Sambel Oelek. Some places just make their own. With my wife being Vietnamese we blow through this stuff at the house.

 

[RyFi]

I can't remember a fraction of the hot sauces that I've loved, but figured I'd call attention to these ones that don't seem to get much love but which I find really tasty for a fairly common brand:

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[Gorn]

That's what it is Sambel Oelek. Some places just make their own. With my wife being Vietnamese we blow through this stuff at the house.
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I'm looking at ingredients and there's apparently a good amount of sugar in it. I had no idea. That probably adds a lot to the overall flavor.

 

[RyFi]

So I finally paid a visit to a local butcher shop that carries a bunch of exotic hot sauces to kick off my plan of regularly trying new ones. Settled on this one that's made a few hundred km's away - Droolin' Devil Gourmet Hot Sauce:

Total score! Insanely hot and really tasty. It's hard to resist adding more and more just for the taste even as the burn and tears start getting out of control - whew! This bottle won't last long, so it won't be long before I go back to try something else.

 

[David Jayne]

None at all. Skip right past hot peppers (any peppers, other than peppercorns, actually) in recipes. I do not remotely see the appeal. Ginger, I can go for.

That's terrific! Thanks!
I do hope to dive into boutique sauce making a la Passinwind but for now my fave is the Tabasco with habanero blend.... Very nice for an OTC sauce. There's a mom and pop store near me called Angry Pepper that I've been meaning to stop into....

 

[Boom762]

 

[DWBass]

Louisiana Hot Sauce and Cholula Hot Sauce.

 

[Phalex]

I've been using this stuff the last few months. The smokiness is really really good!

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[fjadams]

Right now I have in the fridge:
Tùòng Òt Sriracha
Sky Valley Enchilada Sauce
Cholula Original
Sambal Oelek
Thai Kitchens Sriracha
And of course Hot Mustard Sauce

Plus a bunch of spice blends that I get from Farmers Markets and a couple natural food stores.

 

[Gaolee]

It depends. Sometimes one is perfect, sometimes another one is perfect. That's why every proper kitchen should have a large selection of hot sauces, dried peppers, fresh peppers, and pickled peppers.

 

[wintremute]

I love really hot sauce, but my favorite of all time is the simple "Lousiana" (one drop does it). Just the all around flavor, and the way it seems to make every thing better (without overpowering it). Tabasco is a close second. Then I go to the really hot stuff.

I'm not big on real HOT, hot sauce. My favorite is this one. Tasty with a zing, but not overpowering:

 

[wintremute]

I don't know what it's called, but it's a hot sauce/chili paste that's always on the table at Pho restaurants along with sriracha and hoisin. It's amazing.

I mix that stuff into my soup.

 

[wintremute]

Hands down for me it's this stuff:

Bonache Sauce Company

Their hatch chili sauce is pure deliciousness. I don't go for extreme heat, but rather flavor with some heat.

As a fan of Hatch chilies, I have to track this down.

 

[Dash Lashes]

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[Captain Chaos]

I like sriracha, but I don't think it's as versatile as Crystal Hot Sauce (or Texas Pete) In the South, those two are a food group unto themselves. They go with everything.

I love crystals infact I can drink it but it's just not strong enough. Is there anything like it but hotter?

 

[Gorn]

My new favorite:

 

[rickster4003]

Any of these are good!

 

[FangusKlot]

I actually won a chicken wing cookoff against all the local resuraunts. It was your standard franks red hot based but with tabasco as the "secret" ingredient. Plus mustard, sweet BBQ sauce, honey, and black pepper. Sounds horrible tastes amazing, it shouldnt work but it does and has won a competion against resturaunts with really good wings.

I should enter again this year just to humiliate the resturaunt I made them for, the arsehats fired me because they cut my hours to save money since a was the highest paid cook (I came up with alot of recipes for them) and I protested. Since I left their business has went down and they are struggling to pay bills! They cant reproduce my stuff hahahaha. I purposely wrote the recipe slightly off just in case hahaha. They'll never cook as well as fangus klot!