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A community member
Jul 9, 2017
Great idea to consider hot sauces. When I travel I try to sample local hot sauces. I have so many that I periodically have to clean half-used bottles from my fridge.
There are so many. In the US the two most popular are probably Tabasco and Franks Red Hot.
I'm not a big fan of the regular Tabasco as I find it kind of bland. Tabasco does make a green jalapeño sauce that's a bit sweeter. I like it on my breakfast scramble. This isn't actually sweet but compared to plain Tabasco. They also make a Chipotle sauce that's pretty good. Chipotles are smoked, ripe hot peppers. The smokey flavor is prominent.
Franks Red Hot is made from cayenne peppers. It's much brighter than Tabasco and a bit sweeter. It's what the original buffalo wings were dipped it. I travel with a small bottle.
There are a couple of more traditional Mexican hot sauces that have more subtle flavors: Cholula and Tapatio. One or the other is usually found in a Mexican restaurant in my area.
Siracha, a Chinese hot sauce is very popular right now. It's thicker and quite garlicky. It will spark up most take outs.
If you like sweet hot sauces with a hint of fruit you might look for something from Jamaica or any of the Caribbean Islands. I don't have any on hand for brands, but really enjoyed them when on holiday in Jamaica.
Since I live near Seattle, I use a couple of local hot sauces. I don't know if they ship internationally. De Mars's Rooster Sauce is an oil based sauce instead of vinegar based as most of the above sauces are. There's a company in Portland, Oregon, Secret Aardvark, that makes my current favorite the Drunken Black Bean.
If you want scorching hot, there's an Atlanta, Georgia habanero sauce called Yellow Bird that will curl you toes.
These are all available through Amazon in the US. Don't know about the UK.
RadikulRAM
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Jul 10, 2017
Been meaning to try Yellowbird hotsauces. I ordered 4, 3 Bravado sauces and the heatonist hot ones sauce. They're all good apart from the jalapeno + apple imo.
Unfortunately these sauces are not available in the UK, so after importing those 4 sauces I ended up paying like 30 bucks a sauce, when they retail for 10 bucks. And the bad part is I really like them. If I could get them easily I'd easily use up the heatonist + bravado pineapple in 2 weeks. The ghost chili and blueberry makes my mouth numb so I use small amounts of it.
A community member
Jul 10, 2017
RadikulRAMThat's hard to love a sauce at that price.
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