Favorite hot sauce?

[TeeJay1952]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Try-Me-The...fl-oz/13442798

Love me some Tiger!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Hate's a strong word. It's not really hate. It's more like oblivious to the existance of spice (aka Indian food) and heat (chilis). So many "white" families come from boring households where "salt" was the only seasoning you needed. And if you needed flavor you added ketchup. That was my family. Both my parents had the same household growing up. Nearly every white person I grew up with in the midwest was the same. It's not that we hated heat...we just never got a chance to freaking try it and develop a taste for it.

Once I got out of my house I actually started trying different dishes and realized that there was life outside of salt and pepper shakers.

I'm working with my kids to develop a bit of an appreciation to "spice" and "heat". We regularly do Indian dishes that are very flavor rich and other meals that are spicy in nature.

i think that's true for lots of foods, not just heat. i find the common denominator to be some irish in the family. some of my friends are truly amazed by my (imo just ok) cooking. 1 of them avoids vegetables like a vampire avoids garlic, yet he'll eat the entire bowl of greek salad:

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

This stuff:

especially 2nd from right, The Especial, or whatever they call it. That stuff is magic.

The second from the left is my go-to. Best Habanero on the market for me. Marie Sharps is also a good standard.

For cayenne, I like Texas Pete.

Yup that red habanero sauce is the good stuff. I kinda like the green better, more heat, but they both are damn good. I can't use 'tabasco' anymore, it tastes like crap compared to this stuff.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i like Franks the most, but I think we also have tabasco, tabasco chipotle, yucatero chipotle, sriracha and cholula on hand too. oh and a jardines habanero

 

[Agent11]

yeah, the nerve of some thinking they're entitled to not being gassed.

i don't know if you're a troll or just stupid, but i want to gas you with a mountain of chilis next to where you live.

I've lived near a pulp mill, I would take a sriracha factory any day of the week. I'm tired of people being whiny bitches. It's a fucking hot sauce factory, not a chemical weapons plant.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Crystals.

 

[Broheim]

It's mainly a cultural thing. White people generally hate hot stuff. My mom is Korean so I grew up eating hot foods. My wife is white as it gets and wouldn't touch hot food when we first met. Now I've got her to the point she eats some but some stuff is still way too hot.

I'm Scandinavian so I'm about as white as it gets. I don't dislike hot and spicy food, I don't eat it much though as I mostly make traditional danish dishes. Tomorrow I'm making boiled ham, creamed kale (different recipe than this one), medister sausage (which is actually spicy by danish standards), and fried potatoes (boiled, cut into pieces and browned on a pan), that's about as danish as it gets and the only thing that is spiced is the sausage (a bit of allspice is used). Good quality produce prepared correctly doesn't need much spice (besides salt and pepper).

or maybe we just have pasty white pallets here in viking country.

 

[ElFenix]

Wally-world house brand.

bottle is pretty much the same as crystal so i have to wonder if its actually crystal

 

[zinfamous]

:hmm:

I don't refrigerate vinegar, why would I refrigerate a hot sauce that's basically just vinegar and spices?

can't say I've ever noticed it losing its heat or turning brown. I keep mine in a kitchen cupboard at room temperature, out of the sun.

hot sauces spoil, vinegar or not. It takes longer, but you will definitely notice discoloration.

 

[zinfamous]

I've lived near a pulp mill, I would take a sriracha factory any day of the week. I'm tired of people being whiny bitches. It's a fucking hot sauce factory, not a chemical weapons plant.

food plants like these are basically chemical plants--processing them at the required scale is pretty nasty. If you have lived or drive through a place like Gilroy out here, with their food processing plant, you might get it.

The sulfur of a pulp plant is certainly smelly, but it isn't noxious like what you get with a food processing plant.

Added to that--processing chilis on a massive scale. That's got to be rough.

THis is an image of (I think) the owner preparing the "world's hottest curry" at this restaurant in NYC:

The respirator isn't just for show. It's required in the kitchen when this stuff is being made.

heh, it's also funny that you say "it isn't a chemical weapons plant."

In fact, capsaicin is used to develop chemical weapons.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htchem/20100328.aspx

the pepper used in that weapon, the bhut jolokia, is one of the many jolokia used to make that curry, in the photo above.

 

[BladeVenom]

Tabasco and Tabasco Chipotle

 

[notposting]

Crystals.

Website, Wiki link.

Don't usually have it though, usually get the Kroger generic version. Go through several bottles a week.

Don't like the taste of Tabasco. Of the other name brand Louisiana style sauces, I find Frank's and Louisiana to be a bit...bitter? I would take Red Devil over both, a smoother flavor and taste.

Tried Endorphin Rush and Dave's Insanity Sauce back in the day. That was enough for a lifetime

 

[noobsrevenge]

Ketchup + tabasco mixture, stir it with fries. Then eat with fries, delicious.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Ketchup + tabasco mixture, stir it with fries. Then eat with fries, delicious.

I do that with sriracha.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

sriracha on my pastas/pizza/eggrolls. xxx is good in southwestern types of chili (veg chili in my case) and other types of thicker soups.

i eat a lot of eggplant type dishes and ill use either depending on my mood.

 

[Excelsior]

I see no mention of Valentina. A traditional Mexican hot sauce, cheap and delicious. Should be available at your local Wal-Mart. For all of you Cholula, Tapatio lovers out there: give this one a shot.

http://www.salsavalentina.com/products

 

[iCyborg]

Ketchup + tabasco mixture, stir it with fries. Then eat with fries, delicious.

You mean this?

It's awesome with fries, I use it at home instead of regular ketchup basically.

 

[iCyborg]

I get that they like it, but to me it just feels like ruining a good dish.

for instance, I made crispy duck breast, dauphinoise potatoes, and red cabbage tonigt. At no point when I was feasting on that fowl most succulent, did I think to myself "some hot sauce would make this better".

Why did you have red cabbage? Is it because you failed to make duck breast a well tasting dish so you had to eat it with cabbage?

I'm also a white European who needs SPF 60 to go out in July during the day, and I don't use hot sauces with everything, but I like spiciness, and adding it to dishes doesn't always mean covering for a poor taste. Just like adding black pepper doesn't mean steak was done with a lousy cut of meat. Or how you mix garlic with potatoes and then with cabbage and eat that with duck. People like combining flavours...

 

[Matthiasa]

Hmm.. for siracha I prefer a different brand than most are use to.
Now for normal use I due prefer either fresh or dried chilies though.

 

[ThinClient]

 

[WelshBloke]

for instance, I made crispy duck breast, dauphinoise potatoes, and red cabbage tonigt. At no point when I was feasting on that fowl most succulent, did I think to myself "some hot sauce would make this better".

A good hot sauce actually goes nicely with dauphinoise potatoes.

 

[vi edit]

i find the common denominator to be some irish in the family. some of my friends are truly amazed by my (imo just ok) cooking.

Add +1 to your equation. We were 3rd generation Irish household.

 

[poofyhairguy]

 

[Thegonagle]

Top three are Chipotle Tabasco, "cock sauce" brand sriracha, and good ol' classic Tabasco, in that order.

I also like Valentino extra hot. A little salty, and not really all that hot, but I like the flavor

I don't like anything that's too salty; Crystal, Louisiana, and especially Frank's are really salty for my taste.

I haven't tried El Yucateco, but they're on my list now.

 

[zinfamous]

I see a disturbing amount of ketchup inhabiting this thread. This frightens me.