I like hot sauce..

[annabanana]

Don't have an asbestos tongue, though. Two drops of Dave's Insanity in a can of Hormel chili is about all I can take for pure heat. I am, however, a fan of the different flavors that can be put in there.

I have found my favorite. It's made and sold by an apiary in Crystal River Fla. (Bee Happy Apiary).. They call it Swamp Sauce, and it's pretty hot, but sweetened just a bit with honey.. . Yummm

Any other aficionados have hot sauce faves?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

1. Love it, too

I do like the heat as well as the flavor.

I have had a subscription to Fuego Box for about a year. I did the every-three-month option. So I get, basically, a bottle a month. Have been very happy with it. There is a nice mix of sauces and they are all small batch sauces. There are things I never would have experienced on my own and I have liked them all for different reasons.

[FSogol]

2. I've tried a lot of hot sauces, but always come back to Tabasco. The only exception is I use

El Yucateco Red Habanero Hot Sauce on breaded steak, Cuban food, and rice.

[SethH]

12. same here on both

but I like the Orange Yucateco

[yallerdawg]

3. I've tried them all.

My favorite remains - for flavor and heat - the one and only:

[jpak]

14. Agreed

yup

[pangaia]

4. here ya go..

Hong you.. regular
http://themalaproject.com/making-hong-you-chili-oil/

Hong You #2: Crispy Shallot Chili Oil
http://themalaproject.com/making-hong-you-2-crispy-shallot-chili-oil/

Temperature of the oil is crucial...I messed up the first time I did it and burned the chili flakes. :&gt )


THEN there is- La Jiao Jiang (Hot Chili Sauce)

http://themalaproject.com/making-la-jiao-jiang-hot-chili-sauce/

[Tikki]

5. Depends on what I am having for a meal.

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I like Frank's on seafood, poultry or meat. I like Tapatio on cheesy foods, soupy meals
or bready type meals.

I adore a quick snack of cottage cheese, chopped green onions and Fritos all topped with Tabasco.

I have never been able to cultivate a taste for Siracha on anything, though.

I have never seen my husband of 50 years chew gum, drink coffee, eat popcorn
or put any kind of hot sauce on anything, including dipping corn chips in mild salsa, at a restaurant.


Tikki

[Warpy]

6. Around here, I like Sadie's. The recipe comes from a reataurant that started off

in a bowling alley and was famous for it's incendiary tomato salsa. Hatch is also good, but their hot stuff is like Sadie's "not so hot," even with a whole jalapeno in the middle of the jar. For pure heat and a touch of garlic, you just can't beat Sriracha.

Ketchup is kid stuff. Grownups need to graduate and move on to salsa.

[OriginalGeek]

7. THere's a restaurant in Venice, FL called Luna

every dinner comes with a loaf of freshly baked bread and every table has a jar of their Luna Lava to spread on it. It's really more of a relish and very similar to giardiniera but more finely chopped. It is hot and delicious and I have to drive down there at least a couple times a year to have some. I sometimes bring a pint back with me.

But as for more traditional hot sauce I have barely progressed past habanero sauces. I love Jalapeños and chipotle and that heat is just right. Habaneros are a little hotter but I've found a few sauces that I really like that use them.

My absolute favorite really hot sauce is impossible to find except at this little walk-up/drive-thru taco stand. They call it red sauce and they make it there. I have no idea what's in it and it is at the absolute end of my tolerance for heat but the taste is so terrific I find I crave it at least once a week. Just came back from lunch there today. Still feel the glow.

I have found Yucatan Sunshine to be a tasty alternative available at my Publix but still not the same as red sauce.

[rurallib]

8. Is there anyplace I can get something like Wendy's hot Chili sauce

that they give out in those little packets? I just love that taste.

But to answer the question - when I can't get the Wendy's sauce I love me some Cholula sauce

[cloudbase]

13. That's the stuff. n/t

[kwassa]

17. I like this one.

[Iggo]

9. I used to. Hot salsa, that is.

But my...um...system...can't handle it anymore.

[bluecollar2]

10. aji amarillo...

https://www.privateselection.com/artisan-products/spreads-condiments-dressings/condiments/peruvian-aji-amarillo-culinary-hot-sauce/

[jpak]

15. JB Aji Chileno - not really hot sauce but wicked good and spicy

yum

[jmowreader]

11. I like Cholula and Tabasco

My unit at Fort Drum was scheduled to go to Somalia. (We didn't go. Very long story.) We got a week to get ready for the trip. I went to an army surplus store, bought an M60 machine gun ammo can, and put thirty bottles of Tabasco in it. It took two years to eat it all.

[politicat]

16. Spouse loves the ghost pepper Dave's. Says it's a lighter burn than Insanity.

With better flavor. (Definitely a 1 drop to start sauce.)

Spouse has some interesting genetics -- he's more or less immune to pepper spray and tear gas, and has a tolerance like he was born in Southern India and raised in habanero country, despite being an Appalachian Viking by genetics and rearing. Also, can't smell skunk.

I, alas, am a lightweight, but I like the ghost pepper's flavor better in green chile. (1 drop to 3 quarts.) It's a light, sweet burn, more forward than sinus or back of throat. (I do not like habanero sauces because they're a late burn, so it hits my esophagus, not my mouth. Ouch.)

[kwassa]

18. I hate Tabasco. I like no-named Thai hot sauces.

at least not in English. I buy them at the international market across the street. The only thing in English is a description, garlic chili sauce with basil. Great in very small quantities in Asian dishes.

A friend also smoked a huge bottle of Sriracha in his smoker, and I am working my way through that.

Heat isn't enough, it has to be an interesting flavor, and Tabasco has a distinct flavor that I don't like. It is the Budweiser of hot sauces.

This is a great one in tacos: