I know there are a whole lot of “hot, hotter, hottest” sauces out there, but I am curious about variations on the “hot” that have a specific flavor or “niche.”
I likes me some “Scorned Woman”. Nice heat with actual flavor, whereas some other megahot sauces I’ve tried, like Dave’s (Total) Insanity, is basically just pain in a bottle.
I’ve tried 100s of different hot sauces,always have bottles around of some sort ,but am never without El Yucateco Habenero Red,and (believe it or not) Ortega Taco Sauce,Hot.
I like Tabasco for cajun type stuff, Cholula for eggs, Frank’s Red Hot for hot wings, and Crystal for most anything else.
Oh, and pizza gets either Tabasco’s garlic or habanero sauce. The garlic tastes better (sooooo good) but doesn’t have much kick at all so I switch depending on which I’d rather have.
I have hundreds in the collection, but the ones that get used 99% of the time are Crystal, Frank’s Red Hot and Sriracha. Tabasco for eggs. Tiger Sauce for depth. Blair’s Mega-Death for punishment.
Yeah, if you’re looking for heat AND you want to be able to tasted the rest of your dinner, I recommend Valentina’s. Hot sauce is a condiment, not a test of ones masculinity.
The Mexican folk who are the primary customers of this area’s Chinese buffets recommend it, too.
Its not really hot, but I have trouble finding it.
Tobasco’s garlic hot sauce. Most people think its just regular Tobasco with garlic in it, but it isnt. It has a distinctly different flavor in addition to the garlic. I am pretty sure they use different peppers in it.
My wife and I go through a bottle of Tapatio every other week. We put it on everything. I used to love Tabasco, but now we have a bottle of that that has been rotting in our fridge for years.