British kebab shops: What brand of White Garlic sauce and Red Chili sauce do they use

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One of the things I miss the most about Britain is a late night doner kebab. I can replicate just about all the ingredients save the above two sauces. There are recipes all over the internet for making them, but they just don’t taste the same as the sauces you find in EVERY kebab shop in England. There must be some kind of Sysco-like brand that supplies them.

Does anyone know the name?

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I don’t. But I’m curious how you replicate the vertical rotisserie meat.

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Likely to be Crucials brand - they do loads of different sauces in those squeezy bottles that you see on the countertops

https://www.thecrucialsaucecompany.co.uk/our-range/sauce-range/garlic-mayo/

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Thanks, I’ll pick some up.

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Gyro meat isn’t that different. Frozen supermarket stuff is terrible, but local restaurants sell gyros so skip the tzatziki and and cool crisp thinly sliced cabbage and some red onion. The sauce is the clincher.

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Aah, I thought you meant cooked at home…

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I don’t know about anyone else but the pleasure of a kebab for me is more about everything else but the specifc type of meat.
the grilled peppers and onions, pitta bread, sauces, salad etc. I mostly go for chargrilled, seasoned, chicken thigh rather than doner meat anyway.

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That’s what it’s all about for me, the meat. Properly marinated and seasoned, grilled just-so, sliced paper-thin…

In fact, I very rarely have anything but pita+meat+a tiny dab of tahini.

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I’m a big fan of kebab, I don’t eat the garlic mayonaise, too strong, so I can’t comment but I often have chilli sauce on it, but I’ve never found any sort of consistent versions of that sauce. No one brand is sold across all the places, and the type varies within a certain hot style. What is true is it isn’t the sweet chilli sauce typically found in chinese/thai shops. That doesn’t work.

It tends to come from Indian and Caribbean shops in the UK though. This is a brand here, might not exist in the US: Hot chilli sauce

This might suit your “white garlic sauce” (it’s supposed to be mayo, but it doesn’t really seem to be), but brand does chilli too: Garlic mayo

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Yeah, I understand the appeal and I certainly want the smaller amount I have to be good, but as far as meat goes, less is more for me.

Now as it happens there are other members of my family who will quite happily give up some of their grilled peppers and onions for some of my meat. Everyone’s a winner!