I am personally a fan of:











Looking for new kinds to try...These are just my favorites!

2/17/2012 8:34:27 PM

there will be so many fucking snobs in this thread

i want to get my shout out for Sriracha and green tabasco

2/17/2012 9:01:25 PM

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

2/17/2012 9:04:08 PM

I'm a Frank's and Rooster (Sriracha) girl myself.

2/17/2012 9:27:25 PM

[Edited on February 17, 2012 at 9:28 PM. Reason : .]

2/17/2012 9:27:57 PM

2/17/2012 9:40:05 PM

texas pete buffalo style & tabasco brand chipotle

oh yeah

2/17/2012 9:57:16 PM

Franks is golden for wings and such, and Texas Pete is the best for BBQ.


I have a bottle of Srirachi, but I only use it for Kung Pao chicken. Can anyone recommend any other uses for it?

2/17/2012 9:57:58 PM

^pizza

2/17/2012 10:00:54 PM

Cholula on my eggs every morning

Sriracha all over my hibachi chicken

2/17/2012 10:10:30 PM

Sriracha isn't really hot sauce technically... but fuck, it's too good to not include.

I keep sriracha, Frank's, Texas Pete, Tabasco, and Cholula... got my bases covered.

2/18/2012 2:17:43 AM

I put sriracha on everything....

breakfast items, rice, ramen soup, sushi...

its pretty amazing...my gf got me HOOKED!


Do you put your hot sauce in the fridge or leave it out?

[Edited on February 18, 2012 at 2:50 AM. Reason : ya]

2/18/2012 2:49:57 AM

i only like mild ones, so these are the only ones i use, and they are all great, especially the LAS IGUANAS one, and the garlic tabasco one

2/18/2012 3:18:08 AM

Crystal Reigns Supreme.

2/18/2012 3:27:22 AM

I haven't found one I didn't like. I'm not too big on the green pepper's, but they are better than nothing, and my go to stuff is Texas Pete- I like that I can find it almost anywhere, and that it is an NC product

2/18/2012 7:55:46 AM

Sriracha. When I was in Milwaukee for Xmas '10, we drove to 5 different stores looking for it because my boyfriend and his brother in law inhale that stuff with everything.

[Edited on February 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM. Reason : your mom]

2/18/2012 11:25:23 AM

http://www.samsonsauce.com/



http://thomasgourmetfoods.com/proddetail.php?prod=094922613639

Made in NC and so far I've only seen it at Teeter.

[Edited on February 18, 2012 at 12:27 PM. Reason : link and where to buy]

2/18/2012 12:24:14 PM

Quote :

"Do you put your hot sauce in the fridge or leave it out?"

I keep my Srirachi and Tabasco in the pantry, but put everything else in the fridge.

Strange how that works.

2/18/2012 12:51:16 PM

if you like it hot, this one is good to put in chili and soup:



I also got this one but haven't started using it regularly yet. it is HOTT

2/18/2012 6:22:50 PM

+1 to Cholula

2/18/2012 7:18:53 PM

I like garlic hot sauces

2/18/2012 9:41:41 PM

I cant do the ghost pepper sauce. I prefer avoiding the shitting needles feeling

2/18/2012 9:55:05 PM

Texas Pete Original
Green Tabasco Sauce
Hot sauce at Indochine in Wilmington.

It doesn't get much better than that.

2/18/2012 10:15:44 PM

2/18/2012 10:48:02 PM

Ok, so I gotta ask since I ate at a firehouse subs last week...are the sauces just kinda random, or do they tend to be somewhat similar among locations? Furthermore, has anyone actually tried any of the sauces that are actually hot? Too much choice, not enough organization or explanation of what's what, and the only sauces I've ever tried are weak shit.

2/18/2012 11:06:01 PM

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"I also got this one but haven't started using it regularly yet. it is HOTT "

Holy shit. I've never seen this. I usually get the regular black label to put in salsas and dab on sandwiches. I can't wait to try this one. I love it HOT.

2/19/2012 12:17:55 AM

ghost pepper is so hot. The only sauce I've had with it was from Tijuana Flats and it was a little uncomfortable.

2/19/2012 3:30:19 AM

Texas pete on most things
Garlic Texas pete on pizza
Sriracha in Ramen

2/19/2012 9:38:03 AM

^^^^ i was talkin to the mgr at one by my house about the sauces and apparently they get them from some company that packages all these random sauces into a bundle. They do seem to have the same ones across locations.

2/19/2012 10:44:22 AM

2/19/2012 1:51:31 PM

Quote :

"Ok, so I gotta ask since I ate at a firehouse subs last week...are the sauces just kinda random, or do they tend to be somewhat similar among locations? Furthermore, has anyone actually tried any of the sauces that are actually hot? Too much choice, not enough organization or explanation of what's what, and the only sauces I've ever tried are weak shit."

The house made datil pepper sauce is tehwins

2/19/2012 4:32:00 PM

None of you know how to cook

2/19/2012 9:10:25 PM

Quote :

"The house made datil pepper sauce is tehwins"

Agreed. However it's not actually very hot. At the ones I've been to they have labels on many of the bottles with numbers on them. Higher number = hotter sauce.

2/20/2012 12:36:19 AM

This is good:

2/20/2012 10:26:18 AM

I'm partial toward tapatío. It's not going to set anyone's palate on fire or anything but I like it because it doesn't have any vinegar. Occasionally a vinegar based hot sauce is fine, like for BBQ, but most of the time it is not. If I wanted vinegar on my food I would have used vinegar.

Cholula is also nice for that same reason.

I had some of this the other day and it was pretty good:





[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 11:10 AM. Reason : -]

2/20/2012 11:07:06 AM

Quote :

"None of you know how to cook "

no way

hot sauce can make bad food good, and good food great!

2/20/2012 3:29:38 PM

Quote :

"has anyone actually tried any of the sauces that are actually hot? Too much choice, not enough organization or explanation of what's what, and the only sauces I've ever tried are weak shit."

i used to go to the one near brier creek.. they had little stickers on the bottom of the bottles from 1-10 (or 11) that indicated hotness, but no real descriptions.

2/20/2012 7:57:34 PM

2/21/2012 4:41:05 PM

I'm not sure what it's called, but the hot sauce they have at Noodles & Company is really good (and very spicy).

2/21/2012 4:56:04 PM

Quote :

"hot sauce can make bad food good, and good food great!"

sure, in some cases hot sauce can make food better, but usually it just overpowers whatever flavors are present in a dish.

i bet the majority of people in this thread that put hot sauce on everything are the same people who do the same thing with ranch, honey mustard, ketchup, etc. and that's because they can't cook for shit.

2/22/2012 2:06:36 PM

i don't think anyone is talking about putting hot sauce on a filet, and i'm pretty sure hot sauce is not going to overpower the flavor of my scrambled eggs. also it depends on what kind you use, texas pete and that green tabasco have hardly any heat and a strong flavor, so they are good to use on bland foods. some hot sauces add mostly heat instead of flavor. just depends on what you're looking for.

most of the ones i like have been posted, and this one isn't really a "sauce" but i am addicted! i went through a whole jar in just a few weeks

2/22/2012 4:51:03 PM

^Yeah that shit is money. Cheap as hell too. Most Chinese places charge .25-.50 for a small thing of it. THat entire bottle is like $2

2/22/2012 4:53:19 PM

Hertel's Super Hot Sauce

2/22/2012 9:47:25 PM

^^^agreed. i add hot sauce more for just a little heat than the flavor. though the flavor's not bad in my favorites, just not overpowering, imo. the chipotle tabasco is good for something blah, especially leftover chicken/rice or something similar.



[Edited on February 22, 2012 at 9:55 PM. Reason : ]

2/22/2012 9:54:19 PM

have to +1 for the green tobasco.

Also some kids at NCSU used to make a sauce called "Sir Raleigh's Ghost" It was a super duper hot sauce with ghost peppers.

2/23/2012 2:12:35 AM

This stuff is delicious. I start to crave it, and if I have nothing to use it on I'll just pour it on some crackers or something and just go to town. Love it!

2/23/2012 11:50:44 AM

My hot sauce collection is about to get huge from this thread!!

2/25/2012 7:09:39 PM

My favorite hot sauce:



I have some Dave's Insanity Sauce as well, but I don't like the taste as muhc as After Death.

[Edited on February 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM. Reason : ]

2/25/2012 8:07:39 PM

I prefer Texas Pete.

2/25/2012 11:53:04 PM