User Panel
Posted: 5/8/2015 3:53:34 AM EDT
Ok, so the title says all. What is your favorite hot sauce, and most importantly why? Mine is, Hot Lick's XXX. Why? Because it really heats things up. You don't need to use much at all, about 5-7 drops gets it going with strong heat. You can use it in a salsa to get it really hot and still retain flavor. Great to cook with too. I would rate this about 100 X as hot as Tapatio. |
|
|
eatcha eyes out...too hot for me.
I made a decent "gold" sauce the other night.... mustard, honey, cayenne peeper hot sauce and a pinch of pepper. |
|
|
Sriracha is the best I've tried so far, and I've tried just about all the common ones. Perfect amount of heat. Great flavor that works well on anything: pizza, Mexican food (even though it's Asian), eggs, mixed with ketchup for burgers, fries, and hot dogs.
|
|
I really like the various flavors of Cholula. It's not very hot, I could put it in a glass and drink it, but it adds a little spice and flavor without the vinegar of Tabasco.
|
|
Quoted:
<a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg</a> <a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg</a> I make my own. View Quote Now that is pretty frikkin awesome! Do you sell it too? |
|
Quoted:
Now that is pretty frikkin awesome! Do you sell it too? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted:
<a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg</a> <a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg</a> I make my own. Now that is pretty frikkin awesome! Do you sell it too? Thanks.....I give it away as presents and use it...alot. |
|
IMHO, sauces that are all heat and no flavor defeat the purpose; I don't even consider those a sauce for culinary purposes. They are a joke/fun/gag/raw ingredient (for bumping up the heat and nothing else).
That being said, after years of hearing of this "Sriracha stuff" I finally tried it about a year ago. To me, it has the perfect amount of heat, pepper flavor, sweet, & vinegar that it works VERY well. There are a few things that it's a bit too hot or too sour on, but for those things I just use small amounts. |
|
Quoted:
<a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg</a> <a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg</a> I make my own. View Quote Little recipe action there? For the rest of us?? I'll take PM too, should you not want to give this out? |
|
Melinda's Yucatan Sunshine (habanero-based). Nice and hot, but has great flavor too.
|
|
Quoted:
Thanks.....I give it away as presents and use it...alot. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
<a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141221_163403.jpg</a> <a href="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/hardgear/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm77/hardgear/Mobile%20Uploads/20141217_115408.jpg</a> I make my own. Now that is pretty frikkin awesome! Do you sell it too? Thanks.....I give it away as presents and use it...alot. Hey Bomber, That looks impressive! You should market some for the forum. Maybe even create a special ARFCOM edition? The fourth of July is coming up ya know! (hint hint) |
|
Plain old Texas Pete works for me. Trivia time, it's made in NC not Texas
|
|
Quoted: I really like the various flavors of Cholula. It's not very hot, I could put it in a glass and drink it, but it adds a little spice and flavor without the vinegar of Tabasco. View Quote This, except I would argue to point about it being not very hot. One of the green ones is delicious. but way hotter than the others. |
|
|
I make my own. Simmer habaneros in vinegar then puree, add salt, and funnel into sterilized bottles.
|
|
Commerial-wise:
El Yucateco (red, green, or brown) Anything by Matouk's (Trinidad) Marie Sharps Grace Foods (Jamaica) Any Bajan-style sauce (Barbados) Pico Pica Valentina Bufalo Tapatio Frank's Red Hot |
|
|
MP West Indian Hot Flambeau Sauce. Don't know if this Trinidadian sauce is made from Scorpion peppers or not but it's freakin' hot and tastes great.
|
|
Quoted: Been using this a lot lately. Had a nice kick with a Smokey garlicky taste. http://www.hotsauce.com//v/vspfiles/photos/1348-2T.jpg Cock sauce and Red Dot are on heavy rotation also. View Quote All the El Yucateca sauces taste bitter to me. |
|
Quoted:
Good sauce. Crystal Hot Sauce sucks. Crystal Extra-Hot is great. All Cholula sauces suck. I like Iguana Radioactive Atomic Pepper Sauce. All other Iguana sauces suck, but this one is good. http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/1246096/thumb_600.jpg?1327354337 View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted:
Melinda's Yucatan Sunshine (habanero-based). Nice and hot, but has great flavor too. Good sauce. Crystal Hot Sauce sucks. Crystal Extra-Hot is great. All Cholula sauces suck. I like Iguana Radioactive Atomic Pepper Sauce. All other Iguana sauces suck, but this one is good. http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/1246096/thumb_600.jpg?1327354337 Radioactive Iguana sauce is really a great taco sauce. I like your style! You should try Hot Licks Suicide hot sauce. It has a bit more kick to it. |
|
Quoted: Radioactive Iguana sauce is really a great taco sauce. I like your style! You should try Hot Licks Suicide hot sauce. It has a bit more kick to it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Melinda's Yucatan Sunshine (habanero-based). Nice and hot, but has great flavor too. Good sauce. Crystal Hot Sauce sucks. Crystal Extra-Hot is great. All Cholula sauces suck. I like Iguana Radioactive Atomic Pepper Sauce. All other Iguana sauces suck, but this one is good. http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/1246096/thumb_600.jpg?1327354337 Radioactive Iguana sauce is really a great taco sauce. I like your style! You should try Hot Licks Suicide hot sauce. It has a bit more kick to it. I will, thanks! |
|
Blair makes one called Zakk Wylde's Berserker Sonic Brew. Out of the Berserker line, I like it the best. It is a green jalapeno based sauce. Not awful hot but a very good flavor.
|
|
Quoted:
Blair makes one called Zakk Wylde's Berserker Sonic Brew. Out of the Berserker line, I like it the best. It is a green jalapeno based sauce. Not awful hot but a very good flavor. View Quote Thanks for the info! I didn't know Blair's had other sauces like that. I am very familiar with the Blair "death" sauces. Sudden Death is about as hot as I can go without some damage to my taste buds. After that, it's no fun anymore. |
|
Quoted:
Sriracha is the best I've tried so far, and I've tried just about all the common ones. Perfect amount of heat. Great flavor that works well on anything: pizza, Mexican food (even though it's Asian), eggs, mixed with ketchup for burgers, fries, and hot dogs. View Quote What's funny is that even though Sriracha was created and is produced by Asians, it's made out of red jalapeno peppers (native to Mexico) in California!! If you have Netflix, search for Sriracha and watch the documentary on the sauce and it's history. It got me back into eating it after over 20 years of not touching it. |
|
|
Quoted:
That's pretty good stuff too. Although, somewhat inconsistent with it's heat. It's great with spaghetti and meat balls. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Quoted:
Dave's Gourmet Hurtin Habenaro That's pretty good stuff too. Although, somewhat inconsistent with it's heat. It's great with spaghetti and meat balls. Actually, one of my tricks is I have Dave's Insanity Sauce and use it to "buck up" other hot sauces. |
|
Tabasco and just pick what flavor you want.
They go from mild to hotter. Just picked up some of their Sriracha sauce and I like it a lot. A tad bit more of a smokey flavor then the original one from Cali. And I really love the Tabasco soy sauce but that one is hard to find in stores even around here. |
|
|
Tapatio for Mexican food
Sriracha for Asian food Louisiana for everything else |
|
|
Quoted:
I go through these typically in a months time http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/jonk9194/9BC37064-1507-4106-BAE4-67A692E4000E_zps4pxqaynt.jpg View Quote That stuff comes from Rock Hill, South Carolina. Ed Currie developed the Carolina Reaper, currently the world's hottest chile. Speaking of hot sauces, I just whipped up another bottle of "Bottle Apocalypse" (crushed Scotch Bonnet peppers in vinegar). Even wearing gloves, using a half a cup of Dawn dish detergent to clean up, and use a near-sterile technique I still have capsaicin burns on my hands. No fapping tonight! |
|
http://store.slapyamama.com/Slap-Ya-Mama-Cajun-Pepper-Sauce-p/012.htm Not killer hot, but a lot of flavor. |
|
Quoted: Been using this a lot lately. Had a nice kick with a Smokey garlicky taste. http://www.hotsauce.com//v/vspfiles/photos/1348-2T.jpg Cock sauce and Red Dot are on heavy rotation also. View Quote I like cock sauce for ramen, texas pete for wings and Famous Dave's devils spit for BBQ sauce. |
|
|
|
|
|
Thread title is misleading. Are we talking about pepper sauce or hot sauce? Because all of that louisiana/franks/texas pete//crystal shit is pepper sauce, not hot sauce.
|
|
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.