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What's your favourite hot sauce?

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What's your favourite hot sauce?

If you had to pick one for all occasions let's say, what brand or type would it be? For me I think it would be an easy choice and I'd pick sambal. It's basically a more garlicky version of sirracha and has pepper seeds and pulp which goes well for a lot of recipes, imo.
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tobasco and sweetened chilli sauce


I actually hate sriracha
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One of the rules of life is that you are not obliged to have a favorite anything. And part of the joy of enjoying hot sauce is being able to be a collector.

A couple of recommendations then.

Grace's hot sauce is cheap and widely available. Simple, approachable. Enhances your food, won't just drop you to the floor writhing in pain. More broadly, a shout out to Grace for fielding such a wide variety of inexpensive and tasty things. Their jerk bbq sauce also highly recommended.

And though it pains me a bit to do so, a recommendation for PC chipotle hot sauce. Smokey, flavourful, and again, just enough heat to enhance, not wound you. Also dirt cheap (an RFD virtue, not necessarily a culinary one). The pain? PC treats most of their stuff as a marketing exercise. Can't count the number of times I've found some PC thing I like only to see it disappear once I've made it a regular part of my pantry. And because they're shotgunning you all the time with new stuff, more often than not, the jazzy, seductive, mouthwatering name is the best part of a thing that either falls totally flat or has a quality of just-not-quite-thereness.

I have a couple of other favs, but these two are staples. Besides, the its great fun to stand in the grocery aisle, ogle all the hot sauces, and pick up a new one to try.
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I make myself my favorite hot sauce by mixing Heinz tomato ketchup with sriracha chili sauce.
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Grace Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce.

I really like the vinegary hot sauce at hakka restaurants. It tastes especially good on hakka chow mein.
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Jalapeno aioli mixed with tabasco - not too hot, put it on everything
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huy fong sambal oelek, chili seeds and pulp, salt, vinegar no garlic
tabasco chipotle
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daisygoodman wrote: I make myself my favorite hot sauce by mixing Heinz tomato ketchup with sriracha chili sauce.
they have Heinz ketchup sriracha flavoured

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but I guess mixing your own gives you more flexibility with taste. When I bought it once it just tasted like spicy ketchup. Not much of a a sriracha taste
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Becks wrote: Frank's Red Hot Xtra Hot
I like the chili lime version of Franks.
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I'm a fan of sambal myself.

Hot sauce selection is one of the reasons I like Firehouse Subs, they've got about 40 different kinds.
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Huy Fong Sambal Oelek

Huy Fong Sriracha

Tobasco

Lao Gan Ma Spicy chili crisp

Grace hot pepper sauce

Delimas crispy prawn chilli
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You guys must be connoisseurs, I can't tell the difference among Tabasco, Grace, Frank Hot and the packets from Popeye's lol
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tranquility922 wrote: You guys must be connoisseurs, I can't tell the difference among Tabasco, Grace, Frank Hot and the packets from Popeye's lol
Far from a connoisseur and while the tastes and heat difference range from subtle to extreme it's very worth while to try them all. I always thought eating jalapenos were spicy but then I tried habenero and man it's like getting kicked in the family jewels but it's a good. I like a little bit in my sandwiches.
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Supercooled wrote: Far from a connoisseur and while the tastes and heat difference range from subtle to extreme it's very worth while to try them all. I always thought eating jalapenos were spicy but then I tried habenero and man it's like getting kicked in the family jewels but it's a good. I like a little bit in my sandwiches.
I like adding half a habanero or Scotch Bonnet to the cooking water for rice. It infuses the rice with a nice little glow and a subtle fruity flavour.
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wiggy wrote: Grace's hot sauce is cheap and widely available. Simple, approachable. Enhances your food, won't just drop you to the floor writhing in pain. More broadly, a shout out to Grace for fielding such a wide variety of inexpensive and tasty things. Their jerk bbq sauce also highly recommended.
Second both of the Grace recommendations, the hot sauce is delicious and not too hot. The Jerk BBQ sauce is a staple in my house, great to dip wings and terrific with french fries. I like it combined with ketchup. Just writing this I'm wondering how it would be with mayonnaise.

As an all purpose table sauce I go through a bottle of PC Louisiana every week, it's mild but tangy.

My newest like is green sriracha. Can only find it at HomeSense right now, Pain is Good or something brand.
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bonterra wrote: I like adding half a habanero or Scotch Bonnet to the cooking water for rice. It infuses the rice with a nice little glow and a subtle fruity flavour.
Damn I never thought about that. I've tried tomato paste for colouring and flavouring and also chicken stock but a heat spice never occurred to me. Can't wait to give it a try. How many cups of rice per half haberno?
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I use different sauces for different foods but if I had to choose one that's versatile it would be my home made sauce of just scotch bonnets, vinegar, salt, salt garlic, sometimes scalded limes or lime juice and sometimes a bit of thai cilantro.
I use store boughts for specifics like fried chicken etc.
I have not tried some of the ones mentioned here though.
I used to like Tabasco and Red Rooster simply for licking on it's own as it was more salty and tangy than hot.
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bonterra wrote: I like adding half a habanero or Scotch Bonnet to the cooking water for rice. It infuses the rice with a nice little glow and a subtle fruity flavour.
I do use raw scotch bonnet, thai chillies etc in various dishes when I'm cooking.
It makes a whole lot of difference to my palate than simply hot sauce on the same dish.

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