Hot Sauce

[BillyMays]

What is your favorite hot sauce? I know some of you guys have to be spice hounds.

My absolute favorite is Jamaica Hellfire "Doc's Special". It's getting harder to find though.

I also love Melinda's Habanero Wing Sauce, I put it on almost everything.

[frankmcr]

https://san-j.com/products/szechuan-sauce

[Fogducker]

I've got a bottle of, "Dave's Insanity Sauce" with the sealing still on it! I'm afraid to open it and try it. A friend of mine gave it to me years ago and warned me about it. The label on the bottle says start with ONE drop. I like hot stuff and I buy my "TOBASCO" in the 12 oz bottles but somehow I'm hesitant about Dave's stuff. Has anybody here tried it?

Fog

[rmp]

scorned woman

[Silly Moustache]

Harissa

Red for Chicken or lamb and green for fish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harissa

A spice should be strong enough to activate the taste buds to better appreciate the flavour of the meat and vegetables but not too hot *** to replace them.

In my teens and twenties I went for the hot Indian curries Bangalore Phall etc., but you soon learn that they were actually designed to conceal the taste of rotten meat, not enhance it.

[difalkner]

Originally Posted by Fogducker

I've got a bottle of, "Dave's Insanity Sauce" with the sealing still on it! I'm afraid to open it and try it. A friend of mine gave it to me years ago and warned me about it. The label on the bottle says start with ONE drop. I like hot stuff and I buy my "TOBASCO" in the 12 oz bottles but somehow I'm hesitant about Dave's stuff. Has anybody here tried it?

Fog

I heard about Dave's when it came out around 1993 and found some locally. So I bought two bottles - one for me and one for my best friend. As our families would get together for occasional meals, maybe 3 or 4 times each year, we would challenge each other on using Dave's.

We found the best way to use it was to stick a clean toothpick into the bottle and wipe that around in your chili, red beans and rice, or whatever you were willing to try it on. We worked our way up to 3 dips with the toothpick, clean one each time, of course. Neither of us could take more than two bites without drinking milk so it was entertaining to say the least!

Years later he bought both of us some Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce and the seal is yet to be broken. Dave's is 180,000 Scoville Units and Insanity is 250,000. There are plenty of sauces hotter but my experience with Dave's told me I don't want anything hotter.

Go ahead and break the seal - the stuff won't go bad; I don't know anything that could survive in it anyway!

David

[oldwasichu]

Melinda’s XXXtra Hot original habanero pepper sauce is my favorite. El Yucateco chile habanero would be my #2.

[David Eastwood]

Nothing too exotic for me - I love good old Cholula Original.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by BillyMays

What is your favorite hot sauce? I know some of you guys have to be spice hounds.

My absolute favorite is Jamaica Hellfire "Doc's Special". It's getting harder to find though.

I also love Melinda's Habanero Wing Sauce, I put it on almost everything.

We are very fortunate in that my daughter grows multiple different peppers (sometimes upwards of 20) and makes her own separates and blends. Last year it was her Trinidad Scorpion that I favored most. This year she has a 3 pepper blend that is outstanding .

[Mr. Jelly]

We've been getting into Ghost peppers lately. Just don't use to much. We buy them dried and cut them up and ad them as a spice while cooking.

[MrDB]

Originally Posted by Fogducker

I've got a bottle of, "Dave's Insanity Sauce" with the sealing still on it! I'm afraid to open it and try it. A friend of mine gave it to me years ago and warned me about it. The label on the bottle says start with ONE drop. I like hot stuff and I buy my "TOBASCO" in the 12 oz bottles but somehow I'm hesitant about Dave's stuff. Has anybody here tried it?

Fog

I still have bottles of Insanity and Ultimate Insanity. I used to like stuff insanely hot, but Cholula is about my limit these days.

Both of the Dave's sauces are off the charts hot. One drop in a bowl of chili and you will have very spicy chili. 2 and you'll have trouble eating it.

[AusTexMurf]

Originally Posted by oldwasichu

Melinda’s XXXtra Hot original habanero pepper sauce is my favorite. El Yucateco chile habanero would be my #2.

Originally Posted by eatswodo

Nothing too exotic for me - I love good old Cholula Original.

Originally Posted by KevWind

We are very fortunate in that my daughter grows multiple different peppers (sometimes upwards of 20) and makes her own separates and blends. Last year it was her Trinidad Scorpion that I favored most. This year she has a 3 pepper blend that is outstanding .

Melinda's XXX
El Yucateco Habanero, both green and red
Cholula
Tabasco reg and hot garlic

Are all store bought favorites in my rotation.
Also, Matouk's Calypso hot sauce is different, tasty, hot.



We grow lots of our own peppers and my wife ferments them into amazing spicy, zingy, flavorful homemade sauces.
Great recipe, here : The Best Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Sauce RECIPE

[Mbroady]

Had a good habanero pepper harvest this year. We now have a couple of mason jars of house made Hot sauce. if you can get your own peppers, hot sauce is really easy to make. This year's version is a roasted garlic and lime hot sauce
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Also, ?not on most folks radar but the Asian chilli garlic sauce has a fantastic flavor, and it's not just for Asian food.

[AusTexMurf]

Louisiana The Perfect Habanero Hot Sauce
Costs like 80 cents or less everywhere around here for 3oz bottle.





Really Great Gourmet Hot Sauces
Yellowbird Sauces
Serrano and Habanero are both great and unusual. Made locally, here.
https://www.yellowbirdfoods.com/

[Fogducker]

I don't do my own canning of peppers but my sister did and we both went to school on the experience. MAKE SURE you wear rubber gloves to handle the peppers as it was about 11 P.M. when she didn't need to keep her hands in cold water any longer!

Fog