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favorite hot sauce

Iguana XXX Atomic Hot Sauce. It's a habanero based hot sauce, so its spicy, but it won't blow your head off. It's really thick and nearly spreadable. Almost like a fine relish.

It used to be available at Highland Park, but now I can only get it on line.
 
tzznandrew said:
As a general hot sauce, I like Tapatío. Most of the others here are great, too. I keep moving up in spice tolerance, so who knows what my next favorite will be.

Anything, really, except Tabasco, which I think is trash.
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Regular Tabasco sucks but some of their other flavors including Chipotle are really good
 
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JMick said:
Regular Tabasco sucks but some of their other flavors including Chipotle are really good
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Agreed. Regular tabasco just tastes like hot water vinegar and some of the other flavors are good.
 
AreBee1969 said:
Iguana XXX Atomic Hot Sauce. It's a habanero based hot sauce, so its spicy, but it won't blow your head off. It's really thick and nearly spreadable. Almost like a fine relish.

It used to be available at Highland Park, but now I can only get it on line.
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If you like spreads and thicker style hot sauces that you can use like a dipping sauce, Valentina is really good. I use it on french fries, hot dogs, etc
 
I'm a simple man. I like the cayenne stuff: Frank's, Crystal, Texas Pete, Red Devil. They all pretty much taste the same, although fans of one or the other will say I'm crazy.

Cholula's OK. Tapatio's better. I hate Tabasco. I hate that Tabasco is the standard. Why???

Sriracha has its place. I like Gochujang more. (I make this sauce for stir fry that uses gochujang and yuzu kosho -- it's fracking dynamite.)

I wish Chipotle would bottle their hot sauce (the spicy red one).

We probably have 30 different bottles of stuff but I end up using Frank's 90% of the time.
 
Matrim55 said:
The only good things from upstate New York are Genny Cream Ale and Rochester hot sauce.

Rochester Hot Sauce

So good.
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You're a bad human being on the Genny's. When I was at RIT you could smell the byproduct of a night of drinking Genny's. Distinctive sound too.

Called them Genny Screamers.
 
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Sweet Baby Ray's make a hot sauce that is good on wings or for dipping.

Like the Tabasco Chipotle.

Do not like Frank's.

Cholula's is solid. Real good on eggs for breakfast.
 
Cholula or Tabasco Chipotle are standard and delicious.

Sam & Oliver hot sauces are CT made and I especially like their habanero sauce “Cinder”.
 
The "orange sauce" is not hot, but is addictive and spicy.
La Vic's
One of the best burritos in the state, which something.
 
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Chuck said:
I like a lot of different hot sauces. I tend to either love or hate a hot sauce. I prefer something with flavor, not just heat. Underrated, in my opinion, is TraderJoe's hot sauces (habenero (very hot) and jalapeno (tabascoish, but not as thin)). I also like the frequently mentioned Cholula and El Yucateco which they have at my local mediocre Mexican joint.

The key for me is to have different sauces for different cuisine. I love Sriracha on Asian inspired dishes and grilled meat, but not Mexican. Similarly, I love a smokey (chipotle, or I have a chocolate habanero that is like hot mole), but not on Asian foods. I think mustard-based hot sauces have more potential than has been developed.
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The weird thing is many, and I mean 75%+, of the multitude of good Mexican places out here have Sriracha on the table. I don't get it either, but it's what it is. The places I go, I usually get the house mole or other sauce and rarely use anything else.
 
I too have made my own the last couple years. Easy and delicious. Also made my own chipotles this year and made a bunch in adobo sauce.
 
Not a "hot" sauce--more sweet and tangy--but I also love Salsa Lizano from Costa Rica. Fell in love with it when we honeymooned there and it was an ubiquitous condiment. Ordered a few cases over the years and had them shipped, and now realize I need to reorder because I am out and it's been awhile. Great on rice and beans, eggs, chicken and lots of other stuff.
 
I used to always do the "hottest" wing challenges and even entered a few contests.

When I turned like 28/29, I just couldn't do it anymore. Just wrecks my system. I can barely eat generic mild sauces anymore with wishing I didn't the next day.
 
Marie Sharp's... Nothing really comes close in my book
 

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Didn't read all of the posts but I've veered away from Frank's and more toward Texas Pete's as my go-to cayenne sauce.
 
Yup, I’m a big Sriracha fan too. Plenty of good flavor with just the right touch of heat IMO. Love it on pizza.
 
Eggs - Tabasco
Chicken - Texas Pete
Soups - Sriracha
Rice & Beans - Cholula
Wings - Franks base, mixed with a variety of whatever's available and a splash of Dave's Insanity Sauce to keep the family at bay
 
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