Your favourite "hot" sauce ?

[Beast]

I like plain `ol Franks and Tabasco most of the time, but I occasionally go balls-out and seek punishment with stuff like Big Daddy's *** Burn Hot Sauce
and even worse (better), anything from Blair's. I had a pinhead-sized drop of one of their sauces and it was the hottest thing I've ever had. Torture, really, so I did it again and again until I could completely cover a hot wing in the stuff. Sweating, pain, face turning purple, and profanity are side effects.

 

[ratcheer]

My top two is easy, choosing #3 is a little more difficult:

1. Yucatan Sunshine
2. original red Tabasco

Number three could be any of many other hot sauces, say El Yucateco green or Crystal.

Tim

 

[RayH]

I go for the usual
Tabasco Chipolte in my chile con carne
Tabasco Green with corned beef hash and hash browns
The Louisana style hot sauces like Red Devil and Franks are great on a lot of things, plus I like to put Red Devil on cottage cheese. Yummo as Rachel would say
I also go for El Yuc sometimes and Cholula and then there's Tapatio
and then there are the specialty hot sauces made in Az like Goldwater's and my favorite local stuff Kick Yo *** hot sauces, really good stuff.

 

[merryjoulton]

I love Frank's and Cholula. My dad has a bottle of el yucatan habanero something or other that I like to splash onto nachos sometimes when I'm feeling especially masochistic.

 

[Odsman]

A little online research yielded a few varieties and an American sample pack of four or five bottles that costs almost what I paid for one bottle here at the market!! Apparently the Thai and American versions are different and the multiple varieties in the bottom link are of Thai origin. Rooster Sauce, I like that name

http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sample.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flying_goose_sriracha.jpg

Now I gotta track me down some of the other varieties! Thai food stores should be a good bet, but I doubt there's one in all of Montana.

Thanks for the link!!! You guys are such a bad influence.
We started calling it rooster sauce when my little girl was young. Couldn't quite get the name right and it had a rooster on the bottle. It just stuck.

Now, it is our "wake up" with breakfast sauce. So the name still fits.

 

[ratcheer]

Question: Which is supposed to be hotter, El Yucateco green or red? I have tried them both and can't really tell much difference. I have a slight preference for the flavor of the green, though.

Tim

 

[King of Kailua]

Sambal Mangga (For a beach side Indonesian Seafood BBQ) Any indonesian Sambal gets me going!

Sriracha "Rooster" The go to sauce in the 'fridge

Mezzetta's California Habanero Hot Sauce Twist & Shout a good reasonably priced habanero sauce

 

[Bluestaco]

Question: Which is supposed to be hotter, El Yucateco green or red? I have tried them both and can't really tell much difference. I have a slight preference for the flavor of the green, though.

Tim

I think the red is supposed to be hotter (and it seems to me like it is) and the green contains garlic.

 

[modern man]

Its about the taste, not the ability to dissolve a pig in a spoon full.

 

[mace]

No pornografic images in this thread....Pleaseee!

Man ,oh man!! Do I live in the wrooong country

All those bottles, all those labels, all those flavours

A small shipping container, fill it with sauces from heaven, stick it on a container ship. Job done - set for life

The ones I'm REALLY gona hunt for now are these ones, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flying_goose_sriracha.jpg I was blissfully unaware of the variety of flavours available to my palet...
The No:1 table sauce in OUR house The only one I can buy here in Sweden is the green topped "hot chili".
Need aaaalllll varieties
The sad thing about buying from companies in the US is the massive taxes and fees slapped on by customs over here

The hunt for a good (euroland)www supplier is on


Here is my current stash of yummies
The one trying to hide is the Smoked Tabasco. There is usually a bottle of tiger sauce and some Tennessee Sunshine in there as well.
The bottle on the extreme left.... I can't recommend it highly enough!! Not to strong, but ever so tasty.
I agree with most ppl here, sometimes You want a smack in the face, but most of the time i'm looking for the depth and multitude of flavours.

mace

 

[urr-lord]

faves
texas pete
franks
crystal
tabasco green

several versions of pepper vinegar,homemade and store bought.

stuff i've tried
el yucateo green
bufalo chipotle
cholula
and numerous others that fadefrom memory.

i prefer the flavorful over the hot

 

[Dr. Mike]

Crystal, what a classic hot sauce should taste like.

I agree. This is still my favorite of all the hot sauces. Not too hot, and you can actually taste it. For a time I'd go through a bottle of this every other week.

 

[Isaias]

NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
Stop all the profanity.

Bottled sauces are like canned goo. If you want a real sauce, a good sauce you have to do it yourself. Forget the acidic rancid taste of bottled sauces.

So what if you almost choke to death while preparing the peppers and start crying while cutting the onions. In the end it is all worth it...
Pure masochism. "Damn!"

 

[urr-lord]

i forgot--valentina regular.kind of a good upgrade on taco bell sauces.

 

[Gaz]

Tabasco and Sriracha is good enough for me. A former college roommate put Sriracha on everything and got me hooked. I admit to being a wimp on most hot sauces. I like the taste, but tend to pay for it later on...

 

[michaelskar]

for me it's more about flavor than heat (though heat is still important):

Crystal (went to high school 2 blocks from factory) - best flavor but not terribly hot

tabasco - a classic with a nice flavor and heat you can control

Sriracha - or as my son calls it, "angry rooster" - just delicious and just hot enough

runners up: texas petes and melindas, with melindas in the lead

 

[jtoddaz]

1. Cholula
2. Tapatio
3. Srichaha

 

[devnull]

Then what the hell do you think when you're using Dave's Insanity Sauce?! That stuff is lethal!

Bah! That stuff is weak! You all need to come out here to New Mexico. We have Chile that will burn your grand kids socks off!

My list:

1: New Mexico Red Chile when from the proper restaurant.
2: New Mexico Green Chile when from the proper restaurant
3: Habanero in salsa when from the right persons kitchen.

That daves insanity sauce is weak man. I had a friend from oklahoma challenge me to try some of it. I asked him for a glass of water after eating it and he said "What? Too hot for you?" and I replied "NO, it tastes like (insert euphemism for excrement here)!"

 

[Bluestaco]

Bah! That stuff is weak! You all need to come out here to New Mexico. We have Chile that will burn your grand kids socks off!

My list:

1: New Mexico Red Chile when from the proper restaurant.
2: New Mexico Green Chile when from the proper restaurant
3: Habanero in salsa when from the right persons kitchen.

That daves insanity sauce is weak man. I had a friend from oklahoma challenge me to try some of it. I asked him for a glass of water after eating it and he said "What? Too hot for you?" and I replied "NO, it tastes like (insert euphemism for excrement here)!"

My folks lived in Deming for a long time, and during the processing season you had to roll your windows up driving south of town! You're right, too (although I was referring to Dave's ultimate insanity sauce. If that ain't hot to you, quit paying taxes because you're DEAD, man!).

Some of the sauces you get in local restaurants around NM is really delicious...and it'll definitely light your wick.

 

[BigRich]

Most of the time the sauce depends on what I'm using it for but if I had to pick one that goes well on just about everything I'd have to say Chohula. I absolutely love the stuff and always have a bottle around.