One sauce for the rest of your life: What would you choose?

[Cryptic C62]

For me, peanut sauce. It works on pasta, stir fry, chicken, bananas, and ice cream. A winner is me if I has peanut sauce.

[zoid]

Marinara, hands down

[silenus]

Crystal

[kaylasdad99]

White sauce. I can reduce it, thin it, add any number of different flavorings/herbs/spices to it.

It would never get old.

[Mikemike2]

Frank's Red Hot Sauce, you can put that sh** on anything!

[Telemark]

Hot fudge.

What?! It's a sauce.

[Ethilrist]

Hunger is the best sauce.

[Lobohan]

Rooster sauce.

[Typo Negative]

Watermelon salsa, extra cilantro.

[not what you'd expect]

I'd have to go with Marinara too.

[Prelude to Fascination]

Horseradish.

[Nunzio Tavulari]

I'm with Telemark. Hot fudge.

[digs]

I strolled into class with eggs covered in brown goo, so I told my students that the phrase "Everything's better with BBQ Sauce" could be on the final.

[Feyrat]

Triple ginger sauce. Mmmm, good!

[standingwave]

Originally Posted by Lobohan

Rooster sauce.

Another vote for Sriracha. I even sneak it into restaurants.

[pulykamell]

Oyster sauce is the one I go through most in this house, so that'll be my vote.

[SeaDragonTattoo]

Sweet Chili Sauce. While I like sriracha a lot, and that popped into my head first, I'm not always in the mood for the level of spice it brings in amounts that would be dipped, such as with fries and chicken finger type foods. With sweet chili sauce, I've also made a pasta sauce and salad dressing, so for me, it's a little more versatile.

[blindboyard]

Brown.

[wheresmymind]

Sriracha! I eat it with everything except cereal and ice cream. I tried it with both, and they are the only two foods I've found that don't taste better with Sriracha.

[BrainGlutton]

Soy.

[magnusblitz]

When you say sauce, do you mean only as something to dip or place on top of food? I don't think I would survive without mayo, but not that I really use it as a sauce (besides spreading it on hamburgers), but because of the stuff I eat it in.

[ZipperJJ]

Italian dressing

[Jophiel]

Another vote for horseradish.

[Drunky Smurf]

I'd have to say BBQ sauce but that might be cheating since there's a billion different kinds but that's what I love about it.

Right now my current obsession is this:

http://www.famousbbqstore.com/newfadapirah.html

pineapple hot sauce. It's so sweet and spicy it's perfect. They don't sell it locally, that I could find, so I bought about 8 bottles a couple of months ago to stock up.

[kayaker]

I'm torn between ketchup and catsup.

[Rigamarole]

Vodka.

Oh, you mean actual sauce.

[VOW]

Another vote for Sweet Chili sauce.

And breath mints afterwards, because that stuff is loaded with garlic! LONG after the sweetness and the heat is gone, the garlic lives forever!


~VOW

(second place is mole--LOVE that stuff!)

[Sitnam]

BBQ, there are so many different kinds and so many utilities.

[VOW]

Originally Posted by Sitnam

BBQ, there are so many different kinds and so many utilities.

*scoff*

Mole is what BBQ wants to be when it grows up.


~VOW

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

Pesto, if its a sauce, otherwise Sriracha.

[pulykamell]

Originally Posted by VOW

*scoff*

Mole is what BBQ wants to be when it grows up.


~VOW

What kind of mole? There's about a gazillion different kinds, and I assume we only get to pick one... (Same with BBQ sauce. I don't think it'd be fair to pick it out as a general category, because under BBQ you have sauces based on tomatoes, mustard, cider vinegar, and even mayonnaise.)

[purplehorseshoe]

Originally Posted by wheresmymind

Sriracha! I eat it with everything except cereal and ice cream. I tried it with both, and they are the only two foods I've found that don't taste better with Sriracha.

I, for one, salute your devotion to the scientific method. Thank you for reporting back with your results.

[sisu]

Originally Posted by kayaker

I'm torn between ketchup and catsup.

I prefer tomato sauce, but for me it would be Tabasco.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Pesto.

[Kimstu]

Originally Posted by BrainGlutton

Soy.

I came in here to say this, and I'm a little startled that more people haven't. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the OP and they're asking specifically about a "sauce" as in "sauce you add to a prepared dish for extra flavoring" and not "something called a sauce that you use in dressing or preparing a dish"?

Because if I have to go through life trying to cook without bechamel sauce, tomato sauce, mayonnaise, beurre blanc, pesto and all their relatives, I'll be damned if I'll sacrifice soy sauce as well for something as inessential as ketchup or triple ginger sauce.

(And that's assuming I can still sneak in what some Anglophone culinary traditions call "salad sauces" by insisting that their name is "salad dressings".)

[Dr. Girlfriend]

Originally Posted by Telemark

Hot fudge.

What?! It's a sauce.

Yep. Or caramel... it's a sauce too, right?

[oliversarmy]

Béchamel. One of the mother sauces. In the South, we call it gravy. Oh sure, bicker and point how wrong I am.

It's milk, flour and fat. It is the foundation of a cuisine that makes us fat and happy.

[Beware of Doug]

Hollandaise is pretty awesome.

[MrDibble]

Definitely soy. I'll miss fish sauce and tomato sauce, but must have soy.

[Lust4Life]

Hot Chilli.

[Leaffan]

Originally Posted by Mikemike2

Frank's Red Hot Sauce, you can put that sh** on anything!

Yep. I prefer hotter sauces, but Frank's really does go on everything.

[notquitekarpov]

HP Sauce

Beating Wocester Sauce by a short head, although I would miss Heinz Tomato Ketchup too a length and a half back in third...

[Telemark]

Originally Posted by Dr. Girlfriend

Yep. Or caramel... it's a sauce too, right?

I debated whether to choose caramel or fudge, but fudge is just so much more versatile.

[MegaBee]

Gotta go with sriracha.

[Sir T-Cups]

Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ

[Vinyl Turnip]

Weak.

[Enola Straight]

Dipping sauce for Chinese steamed dumplings.

http://d2kr7m1e04yntb.cloudfront.net...ce-450x300.jpg

[palacheck]

Salsa Verde aka Green Sauce.

The Tex Mex kind.

There are a thousand different ways to make it, but they all start with a base of tomatillos.

Now I want a 9 pound burrito with some salsa verde from the local Mexican market/grill...