What's your favorite hot sauce?

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renz20003

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Link to the Company please. And That is a rather bold claim to put on a bottle of hot sauce.

It’s not nearly as hot as some stuff on the market these days. I’m the late 90s it was hard to find something hotter locally. It has a Smokey chipotle flavor.
 

EliteRetard

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Why not just make a few cuts in some chili peppers and put them in oil instead? I'm sure the resulting spicy oil will be far tastier then using capsaicin powder.

Pure capsaicin is basically tasteless, and you only need a tiny amount to drastically increase spiciness.
It's great for increasing the heat level (without altering flavor) of something that already has awesome flavor (like smokey chipotle).

Obviously various peppers in hot chili oils have their uses too...but they have their own distinct flavors.
 
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whm1974

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Pure capsaicin is basically tasteless, and you only need a tiny amount to drastically increase spiciness.
It's great for increasing the heat level (without altering flavor) of something that already has awesome flavor (like smokey chipotle).

Obviously various peppers in hot chili oils have their uses too...but they have their own distinct flavors.
Chili peppers in cooking or dipping oils.
 

kage69

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Shit, we all forgot to mention Secret Aardvark.

Their classic sauce (habanero) is my go to for breakfast dishes. White wine base I think, really good. Hot but not aggressively hot. The Drunken Garlic one is great too.
 

JEDIYoda

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Shit, we all forgot to mention Secret Aardvark.

Their classic sauce (habanero) is my go to for breakfast dishes. White wine base I think, really good. Hot but not aggressively hot. The Drunken Garlic one is great too.
Good sauce!!
The habanero pepper on the Scoville Heat scale is 100,000 – 350,000 Scoville heat units (SHU), but Secret Aardvark comes nowhere close to this level of spiciness. Think more 5,000 to 7,000 SHU, which makes it about the same heat as a hotter-than-average jalapeño pepper. This sauce will not leave you crying, only wanting more and more.
 

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whm1974

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I used to have a sauce called Blair's Possible Side Effects. It was around 300,000.
I has some Habanero sauce that was rather sweet that I brought at a small grocery store in Pontoon Beach IL where I used to live. Aside from being too sweet for me, it did have great flavor.
 

JEDIYoda

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I used to have a sauce called Blair's Possible Side Effects. It was around 300,000.
That is near mouth blistering hot!!
There is a shop in a little city near where I live and they have well over several hundred hot sauces......

here is some info about the Blair brand of hot sauces --
Blair's Death Sauce[edit]
Blair's produces a variety of hot sauces under the brand name Death Sauce. The sauces range from the more modest heat of Sweet Death to the extreme heat of Ultra Death Sauce. The hotter sauces have pepper extract added for additional heat.


NameDetailsScoville Units
Ultra Death SauceReplacement for Jersey Death Sauce (Red Habanero Pods, Cayenne Chilies, White Vinegar, Natural Pepper Flavor (Contains Soybean Oil), Tomato Puree, Pirri-pirri Chilies, Lime Juice, Salt, & Spices) with added Naga Jolokia peppers.800,000 [1]
Mega Death SauceA habanero sauce with cayenne, white vinegar, ancho chilies, chipotles, natural pepper flavor, molasses, guava nectar, ginger, salt, and spices.550,000 [1]
Sudden Death SauceA habanero sauce with cayenne, white vinegar, honey, lime juice, ginseng, and spices.105,000 [1]
Beyond Death SauceA habanero sauce with Red and Orange Habaneros, Vinegar, Pepper Extract, Fresh Cayenne, Smashed Garlic, Chipotle, Lime Juice, Cilantro, Fresh Herbs, and Spices.[2]99,760 [1]
After Death SauceOriginal Death Sauce with added pepper extract for extra heat. First sauce in the series to be labeled with a "warning". Notably hotter than previous sauces.50,000 [1]
Pure Death SauceA sauce with naga jolokia and habanero peppers, vinegar, and Hawaiian red salt.48,000 [1]
Salsa de la MuerteLatin America variant of Original Death Sauce with more chipotle taste. Contains the same ingredients but with a higher concentration of habaneros.45,000 [1]
Original Death SauceBlair's flagship product. A habanero sauce with vinegar, cayenne, garlic, chipotle, lime juice, cilantro, herbs and spices.35,000 [1]
Golden Death SauceReleased in 2010, at around the same heat level as Original Death Sauce,[3] containing Scotch Bonnet Chilis, Fresh Onion Puree, Turmeric, Ground Mustard Seeds, Chipotle, and Habanero Powder34,000 [4]
Jalapeño Death SauceA jalapeño hot sauce with tomatillos, garlic, onion, and tequila20,000
Sweet Death SauceA mild habanero sauce with a vinegar base. Contains sweet tropical ingredients such as honey, mango, passion fruit, and sugarcane5,000
 

Iron Woode

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I has some Habanero sauce that was rather sweet that I brought at a small grocery store in Pontoon Beach IL where I used to live. Aside from being too sweet for me, it did have great flavor.
since you are interested in growing hot peppers, I thought Bird's Eye peppers would something you could try.

Once you have a container big enough and good soil all you'll need is water, gentle fertilizer and a decent grow light.

Birds Eye peppers are much hotter than jalapenos.
 
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whm1974

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since you are interested in growing hot peppers, I thought Bird's Eye peppers would something you could try.

Once you have a container big enough and good soil all you'll need is water, gentle fertilizer and a decent grow light.

Birds Eye peppers are much hotter than jalapenos.
Do you mean Africa Bird's Eye Pepper? I've read they are quite hot.
 

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since you are interested in growing hot peppers, I thought Bird's Eye peppers would something you could try.

Once you have a container big enough and good soil all you'll need is water, gentle fertilizer and a decent grow light.

Birds Eye peppers are much hotter than jalapenos.

We grew some thai birds eye peppers in our garden this year for the first time. They were insanely easy to grow and had a really nice yield. I used it as an excuse to learn about cooking more thai food and it was a lot of fun. Still have pepper/fish sauce mixture in my fridge that is an awesome condiment for asian food to add some heat and umami.
 
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zinfamous

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The World's Spiciest Foods

Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium, produced by Ashley Foods, is 1,125 times spicier than the hottest jalapeño pepper. It’s made from 60% pure capsicum extract, and that’s it. The heat level is so extreme that the packaging comes with big bold lettering on the side warning customers to use as a food additive only. It should not be consumed straight under any circumstances, and don’t go sloshing this stuff on your tacos. If you do, you’ll regret it.

This product is one of the purest, hottest, most concentrated pepper extracts on Earth. It’s named after plutonium after all — a radioactive and highly explosive element crucial to atomic bombs. According to reviews on Amazon, the violent burn can last 45 minutes on the dose of a single drop.

“This tastes like pure hatred,” one Amazon reviewer said. “The first 15 minutes are almost panic inducing, but then the endorphins kick in and it’s a progressively pleasant burn. This is exactly as advertised and worth every penny.”

“I have survived, my mouth has returned from the test of hell and one day I hope my sense of taste will return with it,” another wrote. “I refused to follow the light, I am alive. Now I fear the worst, as there will come a time that I will need to use the restroom. For this I fear the most, I must choose a God as I may soon may be forced to speak with them. I must prepare.”

If you’re brave enough to try it, head to Ashley Foods' website or Amazon, where it’s currently on sale for $109.99 (normally $129.99). It’s just 1 fluid ounce, which sounds tiny, but it’ll last because you don’t need more than a drop at a time. Seriously. Don’t use more than that or you could hurt yourself. Looking for something insanely spicy, but not quite that spicy? Take your pick from the world’s hottest hot sauces.

This newish thing where a product like an extract is being lumped in with sauces annoy me.

An extract is not a sauce. It's a component of a sauce, or maybe a tiny dab that might appear in a very large dish, diluted in the end because it isn't a sauce--it only exists for the one feature: heat. They aren't designed to be used as a sauce, because they have no complex flavor profile.
 

zinfamous

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you must have sissy taste buds......I`m just saying this is a thread about HOT sauce.....
I consider Tabasco a flavorful sauce at best!
Just for a reference point -- the jalapeno has a Scoville unit rating of 2,500 to 8,000.
he flagship red variety of Tabasco pepper sauce measures 2,500–5,000 SHU on the Scoville scale.
As opposed to my favorite HOT sauce -- Melinda’s Original Naga Jolokia Pepper Sauce is pure heat. Our hottest offering by far, the Naga Jolokia is confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records to be the hottest chili in the world (1,041,427 Scoville Units), unseating the Red Savina for the title.

I believe the Carolina Reaper is the current hottest. Though it's a derivative of the Naga and, I think Ghost Pepper...all of which have been hybridized among themselves for many generations, like a scientifically-controlled West Virginia holler.
 
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JEDIYoda

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I believe the Carolina Reaper is the current hottest. Though it's a derivative of the Naga and, I think Ghost Pepper...all of which have been hybridized among themselves for many generations, like a scientifically-controlled West Virginia holler.
Yes!! There are a lot of really hot sauces on the market!!
 

kage69

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Zin is absolutely correct about sauce vs extract. I don't own a single extract. Losing taste buds or gaining bragging rights never interested me. I just want a moderate amount of zing in foods where it's appropriate.

After watching a thing about Ed Currie recently, I can tell you guys that the Carolina Reaper (his creation, a cross between ghost and plain ol habanero if you can believe it) is no longer the hottest pepper out there. Ed seems pretty confidant that his latest badboy cultivar, what he calls Pepper X, is the hottest thing on the planet. I believe him. According to him, the first one ready to eat made him drop to his knees and almost pass out.

Hey it's got a wiki Looks like he basically doubled the heat.

3,180,000 (unofficial) SHU, sheeeyit

Just, no. No no no.
 
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whm1974

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Zin is absolutely correct about sauce vs extract. I don't own a single extract. Losing taste buds or gaining bragging rights never interested me. I just want a moderate amount of zing in foods where it's appropriate.

After watching a thing about Ed Currie recently, I can tell you guys that the Carolina Reaper (his creation, a cross between ghost and plain ol habanero if you can believe it) is no longer the hottest pepper out there. Ed seems pretty confidant that his latest badboy cultivar, what he calls Pepper X, is the hottest thing on the planet. I believe him. According to him, the first one ready to eat made him drop to his knees and almost pass out.

Hey it's got a wiki Looks like he basically doubled the heat.

3,180,000 (unofficial) SHU, sheeeyit

Just, no. No no no.
I agree. While some heat is nice, flavor is Grand.
 
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whm1974

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Speaking of Flavor is Grand, which brands have the nicest best flavor? While a nice heat is OK the chili pepper and its sauce should really have a strong great flavor that people will go out of their way to obtain once they consume both of them for the very first time.
 

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Habanero has the best flavor, and reasonable heat imo. Melindas is probably my favorite, but Tropical Pepper co is good also. Their 4x reserve is very tasty. I avoid "boutique" brands. They're hard to get, expensive, and it's a crap shoot if they're even good.
 
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zinfamous

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Habanero has the best flavor, and reasonable heat imo. Melindas is probably my favorite, but Tropical Pepper co is good also. Their 4x reserve is very tasty. I avoid "boutique" brands. They're hard to get, expensive, and it's a crap shoot if they're even good.

yup. I think Habanero is the best-flavored chili for its uniquiness. ....Ancho is great, as well. tastes like chocolate and fruit! but I guess we are talking about chilis for their heat.

I'm not yet familiar enough with the dozens of common chili varieties used in traditional szechuan cuisine, but they are complex. They are also very mild in general, because they are used in very high quantities to tease out the flavors. If they were even at jalapeno levels of heat, those dishes would probably be unpalatable considering how they are used.

For sauces, I like Marie Sharps overall for habenero flavor, because they make many great recipes.
 

Aves

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Zin is absolutely correct about sauce vs extract. I don't own a single extract. Losing taste buds or gaining bragging rights never interested me. I just want a moderate amount of zing in foods where it's appropriate.

After watching a thing about Ed Currie recently, I can tell you guys that the Carolina Reaper (his creation, a cross between ghost and plain ol habanero if you can believe it) is no longer the hottest pepper out there. Ed seems pretty confidant that his latest badboy cultivar, what he calls Pepper X, is the hottest thing on the planet. I believe him. According to him, the first one ready to eat made him drop to his knees and almost pass out.

Hey it's got a wiki Looks like he basically doubled the heat.

3,180,000 (unofficial) SHU, sheeeyit

Just, no. No no no.

They use Pepper X in a few of the sauces from Hot Ones that I’ve tried. It’s damn hot.
 
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