A couple questions about hot sauce

[Dug]

I don't use hot sauce much with the food I cook at home but I always have a bottle of Valentina in the fridge. More flavorful than hot

[the game]

I'll never understand h ow people can eat this stuff on all of their food. Then again though I can't stand spicy foods.

[Zecora]

Sriracha, sweet chili sauce, and a tabasco-alike variant, all homemade (still working on the last one, it needs a bit more kick).

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Cholula for sure. Just so tasty. Original is my favorite but the others are good on certain things. I usually get the pack of all of them but have to replace the original 3 or so times before even thinking of the others.

[breadisfunny]

i don't really have a go to hot sauce. as long as its not siracha.
i usually refrigerate it.
i only put it on stuff that i think tastes good with hot sauce.

[-aiko-]

I really like sriracha, it's my go-to for most things. If I'm looking for something a little more vinegary I'll go regular cholula or tapatio.

[Selastan]

I can't think of anything better than Buffalo

[PhantasmagoriaX]

Cholula all the way!!

Sriracha is 2nd best

My boyfriend loves Tabasco but i cant stand the vinegar.

[Miyagie]

Red Cock !

[Phookah]

Franks. I put that shit on everything!

I second this. I don't normally like hot sauce, but Frank's is vinegary and tangy, with just a little bit of backloaded heat. So tasty

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My friends dad bought some of their Insanity Sauce one year at a hot sauce specialty store in Nevada... It was an insane level of heat all right. He made a 8(!) quart stockpot filled with chili and I shit you not, only put in 4 drops of that sauce into that whole huge pot... The chili was still hot enough that you needed a piece of bread and some milk to eat it and not feel like death.

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First We Feast: Hot Ones
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...1dOZWSZzUSadfZ

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Tabasco? Sriracha? How cute! Up your scovilles, amateurs!

[videotape]

Cholula is the correct answer for general-purpose hot sauce. Some other points:

- Frank's Red Hot is fine for making Buffalo wing sauce, seasoning french fries, or generally adding a salty, weak heat to things. It is otherwise worthless.
- Sriracha is OK but standard chili-garlic sauce is strictly better in all situations, albeit typically more expensive by volume
- None of these things are really above a 3/10 on any respectable heat scale, so if you want real heat, look elsewhere (e.g. ghost pepper)
- Refrigerating hot sauce is a pointless waste of energy
- Putting hot sauce on everything is as good an idea as putting ketchup on everything, which is to say it's a great idea if you have bad taste.

[Alvito]

If it says to you do, if not don't. Now if the label is in a language you don't speak better to be safe then sorry and toss it in the fridge. If nothing else pay attention when you eat out if they leave it out so can you. It is extremely rare that these sorts of things can spoil or turn based on the vinegar and/or salt content they normally have in them.

That is my favorite. Finding it in a bigger bottle can be a bit tricky though.

[Lex Icon]

First We Feast: Hot Ones
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...1dOZWSZzUSadfZ

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Tabasco? Sriracha? How cute! Up your scovilles, amateurs!

yeah i was into that "it's got to be so hot it burns through your stomach" stuff when i was younger.. now i prefer it to actually have some taste and not just heat.

[Aeriel]

Sriracha is my go to for cooking due to flavor, sometimes gochujang or la ya/japanese chili oil depending.
Cholula is the hot sauce that add on top typically

I love hot foods, but I am severely allergic to ghost and scorpion peppers. I had a dish with one pepper per 25L and started going anaphylactic.

[Phookah]

First We Feast: Hot Ones
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...1dOZWSZzUSadfZ

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Tabasco? Sriracha? How cute! Up your scovilles, amateurs!

lol, I never understood people who think it "cool" or something to eat the hottest sauce they can find. It's like the equivalent of stabbing yourself in the hand for fun, while simultaneously thinking you're awesome for doing it. I like stuff with flavor, not "I genetically engineered a pepper to be made of liquid fire, and then I ate it!"
No taste, just heat. Bleh.

At that point, why not just buy some of this and be done with it.

[unfilteredJW]

Valentina Salsa Picante.

It's thick, vinegary, and mixes with other condiments/sauces super well.

And when I say vinegary, shit will make you pucker up.

Comes in different heat levels.

[grandpab]

I've been wanting to try the Hot Ones sauce http://heatonist.com/hot-ones-sauce-updates/

[Rustedsaint]

Chipotle or the stuff we call Texas ranch here.
I generally go light on the hot sauce

[dacoolist]

I don't buy hotsauce, I use them tacoHELL packets doe