Fav hot sauce's?

donuts

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i will learn something from this thread! :jamon:

interesting to read labels and see what the
ingredients are...

i was in a latin market up by my friend’s place
last week and was checking out a LARGE bottle of some stuff made in mex that looked good - like higher viscosity than like watery tabsco... but i got sidetracked and didn’t buy it. a brand i never heard of, but no sodium benzoate, salpeter, prestone, etc. listed on the label...

maybe report next week - i don’t know sh!t tho...
 

Clayster

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My secretary gave me a six pack of small hot sauce bottles for Christmas last year. One of them, called "Incan Heat" was epic. I cannot find it again, in larger quantities. After that, the Mexican hot sauces El Yucateco-both the green and red habanero are really good- and another from Mexico-Valentina is really good.
 

enframed

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These cover most of my needs...

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Not pictured is an outrageously good but not overwhelmingly hot Fermented Serrano Hot Sauce that my local gourmet shop makes. I just finished my second bottle of the pandemic. Need to re-up.
 
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JDJ

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Tia Lupitas tastes like a non-toxic version of Taco Bell "fire sauce."
 

HarryLopez2

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Homemade chili peppah watah :shaka:
Homemade salsa verde

Heat not my thing, just like the flavor.
 
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Seconding Marie Sharp's. The Carrot Habañero is fantastic.

Also, hot sauce is pretty fun to make- if a little time-consuming, but really easy.

Get a bunch of peppers of your preferred heat level. I dig Habañero, but Serrano is great for less heat.

Mash them up and put them in one of those gasket, spring top mason jars with a little bit of water. There should be enough ambient yeast on the peppers to ferment, but if you don't see bubbles after a day or so, leave the top open until you do. Keep it out of the sun, but room temp. If you put it in the fridge it will take a long time. Close it up once it's bubbling, and burp it every morning. Once the bubbles subside, add some pureed garlic, and mango or carrot, plus a pinch or two of salt and a reasonable amount of good white vinegar to taste. Let it mellow for a few days, and you have A+ hot sauce. If you don't like chunks and seeds, run it through a mesh sieve and bottle it. Keeps pretty much indefinitely in the fridge. Makes a good Christmas gift too.
 
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