OT: Rank your Hot Sauces ….

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

To me you really have three types of hot sauces.

** Cajun/Creole
Crystal
Louisiana
Pepper Palace Horseradish/Oyster sauce
Texas Pete
Tabasco

** Mexican
Valentino
Tapatio
El Yucatán
Cholula
these could be interchangeable- I like em all.

**Wing sauce
Franks Buffalo
Hooters Hot
Franks Red Hot
Texas Pete Hot Wings

I don’t usually make my own wings at home so this one is a little more difficult to rank but, … I’ll use Franks even on poppy seed chicken or scrambled eggs.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Franks Buffalo and Louisiana depending on the need

 

[Podgy]

Cajun Chef: mild, good for soaking fish to be fried

Louisiana: good all purpose even for wings (add butter).

Franks makes a good hot wing sauce

Blair's Death Sauce: a little hotter, not deathly hot, but great flavor

Valentina and Tapatio for Mexican food.

Jalapenos and Serranos to make my own salsas for tacos although you can get that stuff at HEB in Texas

 

[85Bears]

Tabasco is #1. Great on eggs, spaghetti, pizza, lasagna.

 

[Howiefeltersnstch]

Original Louisiana brand or like for chili i like that viet manese Sriracha sauce

 

[DerHntr]

You made a great list. I only have one to add but I can’t get it in a bottle. Slim Chickens’ sriracha garlic is freaking awesome. They recently took it off the menu. Annoying as hell.

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

I think we have had this topic before.

I am surprised Sriracha hasn't been mentioned yet.

I am with others here where there is not one best hot sauce. They are all food dependent for me. I probably have a bottle of most mentioned here and use them with different foods.

A few I use not mentioned is Firelli's, Datil pepper sauce, I did get a Tabasco Scorpion to be able to just add heat.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

That’s a really good list.

Louisiana is my go to. Some of it on crackers with some good delta hot tomales….chefs kiss.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

Anyone tried the Paqi One Chip Challenge?

 

[She Mate Me]

This is going to be sacrilege to some, but I've recently bought some Trappey's Bull sauce and really like it. Very vinegar forward with mild heat. Similar to Frank's without the garlic.

It's made in South America and uses jalapenos and food dye, so the purists will have issues.

I'm with Bruce though. I like and have a lot of different ones and use them differently.

 

[The Peeper]

Crystal, Louisiana, and Cholula are always in the cabinet.
I recently was introduced to Yuzu Sauce, it's made from a fermented Japanese citrus fruit plus chili's, garlic and salt. A friend in Nashville introduced me to it, he gets it at Trader Joe's. Biggest difference is it's less sour than most sauces, fast becoming a new favorite.
I don't like hardly anything from Tabasco but their Sriracha is pretty damn good.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Booey’s. Next question.

 

[Podgy]

Forgot about Siracha. It's good. I use it for a homemade BBQ sauce. I also like Melinda's Ghost Pepper Wing Sauce when I want something really hot. Not as hot as some ghost pepper sauces I've tried, I ain't a chili head, but much hotter than standard sauces and has good flavor. Siete jalapeno sauce is also good on tacos and other Mexican food.

 

[TheBannerM]

To me you really have three types of hot sauces.

** Cajun/Creole
Crystal
Louisiana
Pepper Palace Horseradish/Oyster sauce
Texas Pete
Tabasco

** Mexican
Valentino
Tapatio
El Yucatán
Cholula
these could be interchangeable- I like em all.

**Wing sauce
Franks Buffalo
Hooters Hot
Franks Red Hot
Texas Pete Hot Wings

I don’t usually make my own wings at home so this one is a little more difficult to rank but, … I’ll use Franks even on poppy seed chicken or scrambled eggs.

Cajun:
1. Louisiana
2. Tabasco
3. Crystal
4. Texas Pete’s

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

5. Gringo Banditos

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I kind of abandoned hot sauce when we moved from Texas. When we got here, hottest thing I find available is always Texas Pete, which I found ironic because I never saw it in Texas.

I like yellow bird line of sauces because they were made local to us. Hot sauce festival in Austin the first weekend in August is a great time to make people cry. Always +100 degrees and it's outside.

I've done the one chip challenge and a few other hot challenges, to me, it stops being hot and moves to pain.....going in, and then later that night. Never enjoy that.

When we eat out, if my wife sees my bald head sweating, she knows I found a good item on a menu.

If I make hot wings, im strictly traditional with frank's or crystal. I save the fancy stuff for the bar to offer.

 

[skydawg1]

 

[She Mate Me]

BTW, if you've ever watched the Hot Ones wing videos on YouTube and wondered about the incongruity (big word Sunday) of the supposed rising heat levels, here's the answer. Hint: their sauce Scoville ratings are a crock...

 

[She Mate Me]

I kind of abandoned hot sauce when we moved from Texas. When we got here, hottest thing I find available is always Texas Pete, which I found ironic because I never saw it in Texas.

Just FYI, Texas Pete's is a North Carolina hot sauce and has been around a long time.

 

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

I kind of abandoned hot sauce when we moved from Texas. When we got here, hottest thing I find available is always Texas Pete, which I found ironic because I never saw it in Texas.

I like yellow bird line of sauces because they were made local to us. Hot sauce festival in Austin the first weekend in August is a great time to make people cry. Always +100 degrees and it's outside.

I've done the one chip challenge and a few other hot challenges, to me, it stops being hot and moves to pain.....going in, and then later that night. Never enjoy that.

When we eat out, if my wife sees my bald head sweating, she knows I found a good item on a menu.

If I make hot wings, im strictly traditional with frank's or crystal. I save the fancy stuff for the bar to offer.

Texas Pete is made in NC and they love it on their bbq up there.

 

[3-2 Dawg]

A few I haven’t seen mentioned: Trader Joe’s habanero sauce is a surprisingly good one. Also Marie Sharp hot sauces are pretty great.

 

[skydawg1]

You must have gotten Texas Pete extra hot. TP regular is mild.

 

[tenureplan]

You guys can't just say Sriracha because it has the rooster on the bottle or it's one of the others. The rooster couldn't be found during covid and I tried others and they lacked.

Texas Pete for flavor if I don't want burn. Cholula is up there. Slap yo mama (red bottle) for flavor and burn

 

[Motodawg]

1) Crystal
2) la
3) franks (my ole lady makes wing sauce with it)
4)every thing else

side note: little Saigon in Jackson (I’m not sure it’s still open) had the best two hot sauces in the city

 

[She Mate Me]

You guys can't just say Sriracha because it has the rooster on the bottle or it's one of the others. The rooster couldn't be found during covid and I tried others and they lacked.

Texas Pete for flavor if I don't want burn. Cholula is up there. Slap yo mama (red bottle) for flavor and burn

Tenure!!

Great to have you back BSing about BS.

 

[The Peeper]

A quick BBQ sauce I mix all the time is a whole bottle of whatever decent sauce is on sale that I like and a whole bottle of Texas Pete Wing Sauce. If you like hickory sauce use it, Sweet Brown sugar or Honey sauce bring it. But add a bottle of TX Pete Wing Sauce with it and it will balance the sweet and add some zing. Ya boys will think you have some new secret recipe

 

[She Mate Me]

A quick BBQ sauce I mix all the time is a while bottle of whatever decent sauce is on sale that I like and a whole bottle of Texas Pete Wing Sauce. If you like hickory sauce use it, Sweet Brown sugar or Honey sauce bring it. But add a bottle of TX Pete Wing Sauce with it and it will balance the sweet and add some zing. Ya boys will think you have some new secret recipe

That actually sounds really good.

 

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

Anyone had the Texas Peter Hotter sauce?
May be fairly new - never seen it but a friend of mine in the wholesale food business brought me some today.
Good flavor but a little goes a LONG way! It’s Hot and it lingers.

 

[skydawg1]

Sadly, one of my faves recently got discontinued. Louisiana Gold. It was like a way way milder McIlhenny Tabasco flavor. Supurb on fried chicken.

 

[MStateU]

Louisiana and cholula. And I eat them a lot.

Tabasco is not good to me.

 

[champdawg.sixpack]

Tiger sauce and Texas Pete. In fridge always

 

[HWY51dog]

One of my favorites, great flavor. Pepper Palace carries it.

 

[biodawg]

That’s a really good list.

Louisiana is my go to. Some of it on crackers with some good delta hot tomales….chefs kiss.

I’m sure you probably have, but if you haven’t tried the “garlic lovers” Louisiana, it’s really good. Can’t go wrong with Louisiana or Crystal, IMO. The Louisiana wing sauce is good too, but I’m not sure it’s better than Frank’s.

 

[bulldoghair]

My wife brought home some random hot sauce the other day. It didn’t have any heat to it.

I was mildly disappointed.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I’m sure you probably have, but if you haven’t tried the “garlic lovers” Louisiana, it’s really good. Can’t go wrong with Louisiana or Crystal, IMO. The Louisiana wing sauce is good too, but I’m not sure it’s better than Frank’s.

Yeah it’s pretty good. I like the garlic tabasco too.

 

[She Mate Me]

Louisiana and cholula. And I eat them a lot.

Tabasco is not good to me.

Tabasco peppers are just a very different flavor than the typical Cayennes used in Louisiana style sauces. I like it in gumbo, but not much else.

 

[seshomoru]

Totally food dependent, but the most used are

Crystal - on/in the obvious stuff
El Yucateco (green habanero) for painful s***s after Mexican
Sambal Oelek - on the meat and veges in stir fry
Sriracha - on noodles and also as ketchup
Jersey Mike's pepper relish - not sure it counts but it'll up your sandwich game.

Also, while it's not a hot sauce but since people put stuff on eggs... Spread a thin layer of Thai Kitchen green curry paste on the tortilla when you make a breakfast burrito.

 

[johnson86-1]

You guys can't just say Sriracha because it has the rooster on the bottle or it's one of the others. The rooster couldn't be found during covid and I tried others and they lacked.

Texas Pete for flavor if I don't want burn. Cholula is up there. Slap yo mama (red bottle) for flavor and burn

Huy Fong is my favorite, but I developed a taste for some of the others when it was hard to get. Lee Kum Kee is to me about as similar to Huy Fong as Cholula is to Crystals, so it really isn't a replacement, but I started to like it as a change of pace.

 

[JacksonCPAdawg]

marie sharps makes some great sauces

 

[LandArchDawg]

1. Tabasco
2. Cholula
3. Tapatio
4. Louisiana
5. Crystal