There are just some sauces you try once and now you can’t live without. I put the Melinda’s Ghost Pepper on absolutely everything now. What’s yours?
Their green on eggs is absolute fire
Had it this morning in the same manner.
Ha! I did too. In some breakfast tacos. It’s my favorite hot sauce by far.
The Caribbean all the way. Same spice level as xxx just a little more flavor!
The Caribbean habanero is my go to
This and the black label. The smoky flavor is spot on.
I literally just had it yesterday at a taco spot and took a photo of it. I’ve never had it before but it was sooo good, both the red and green.
Red and green habanero are both good, but the XXXTra Hot Habanero that the top comment mentioned is where it’s at.
Get that if you can, it’s quite a bit spicier than the red and green.
Ahh gotcha, didn’t even realize xxx was an option, so I need to find it! Thanks!
The extra hot is better than both, but both of those offerings are really good and earthy. It goes great on anything pretty much. Sandwiches, instant ramen, breakfast... You name it. Also if a taco spot has that at the table, you know you gotta come back, because in my experience the food is always amazing.
I like them all but i think my favorite is the black habanero one
Kutbil-Ik gang, rise up!
I literally had a meltdown when my partner called me from the grocery store down the street saying they wre out...this fucking store redid the interior adn somehow has less products and they are all the worst ones. I am going to stock up through the company. I am angrily using a product people in here love but i dont' want to start a fight...but yeah, all the el ycateco are my love. i think now many others just taste like salt flat ...
That's the super amazing mayen one ? It's brown in color and has great heat and perfectly balanced with amazing flavor? That one?
Just cant go without it lol
Valentina! The Mexican in me demands it.
The black label specifically is insanely good.
It is so good!
That’s my go-to as well.
The number 1
I have to be careful with Valentina. It goes great on everything and turns my full receptors off.
What’s their name?
It's the perfect sauce for all occasions!
Haven't heard of that kind before. Is it vinegary?
If you’ve ever had cholula the taste is similar to that but amplified a lot.
Valentina to me tastes like if Mexicans made a Louisiana style hot sauce. It’s incredible.
So, my wife and I love Valentina, but it was surprisingly difficult to find here in Vancouver. One day, I went into a mom and pop immigrant owned corner store, and they had a 3.5L jug for $13.
3 and a half fucking litres.
It took us about 5 years to finish it. It was spice heaven, but it was too much. On the 5th year, for my birthday, my buddy bought me the 600ml black label Valentina. We're still working on it 3 years later.
BTW, the store owners were turkish, specializing in Mediterranean foods and hookah products. I have no idea why they had it, but I didn't ask questions.
It’s so good!!!
Valentina and lime on some flamin’ hot Cheetos? Other worldly.
Marie Sharp’s. I could get rid of everything else if I could just keep their stuff. Something about it, just tastes so much better than everything else to me.
Marie Sharp Smoked Habanero. Got hooked on it in Belize and discovered that Amazon sells it!
This is my favorite. I get the three pack and they're gone in a week or two.
Our friends went there on their honeymoon a couple years ago and brought back a bunch of small bottles of this. Immediately found the 3 pack on Amazon and will never go back. I honestly just have this and Cholula on deck 24/7.
is this the one they have in Belize? been researching ahead of a trip there and there seems to be a ton of references to Marie Sharp's
This on fish and rice holy
I'm going through a Crystal phase. I love vinegar
Same here. Just put franks down and picked up crystal.
Halfway drink that sauce. Just dang good all around.
Crystal on oysters is an otherworldly experience
As an oyster guy, that sounds heavenly. It would be like a spicy mignonette.
The platonic ideal of hot sauce.
I drink it straight from the bottle.
Me too, I got a bottle of Crystal in the hot sauce holster everywhere I go.
Crystals is my favorite but I can’t find it in the north
There's a sauce here in New Zealand called Long Dog Original. It's fermented, rather than vinegar-based.
Basically, imagine if someone made kimchi out of chillies instead of cabbage. It's got that effervescence on the tongue, and the lack of vinegar just completely changes the flavour profile to make the taste of fresh chilli more forward and clear.
This is how I make mine. The fermentation station
That sounds absolutely delicious!
Someone on TikTok made Mexican kimchi the other day and this comment reminded me of that lol sounds so good 😭
Original Cholula. It just hits the spot for me everytime
Garlic Cholula always runs out in our house before anyothers.
Agreed. The chipotle one is up there with me as well.
One of the best for breakfast foods
same
The flavor is just perfect!
El Yucateco, no particular one, just need at least one of them on hand at all times. If pressed, I’d say Caribbean atm.
I don't see the Caribbean mentioned enough. It's my favorite from Yucateco
Tabasco habanero. Love it.
Same here. I have 5 bottles currently
It is delicious. I just wish they'd widen the bottle nozzle a bit as I find it always gets blocked.
Same 20 years using the Tabasco Habanero
This is my go-to hot sauce as well. I go to through those bottles to fast.
This should be at the top
It's quickly become one of my favorites
My wife has a coworker from Nepal who grows peppers and once a year gives us a jar of chili paste that will melt all your problems away… I start to freak out when it gets low.
Is the person willing to share the recipe?
If I’m out, Tapatio goes on the grocery list. Everything else I get is spur of the moment.
Gotta get that gallon size off Amazon
Team tapatio here. It’s a staple in my fridge too.
Franks. I use plenty others, but this is the go-to.
Extra hot is the best.
I can’t imagine wings with anything other than franks, ironically, I can’t imagine franks on anything else, save chicken fingers.
Sorry, haters, Tabasco
There's a reason it's been around for 156 years. It's simple and tasty.
Absolutely. Great flavor in a simple package
This should be higher. Tabasco is delicious, versatile and transportable. It comes with me on every camping trip and road trip. So much packed into such a small bottle
THANK YOU. It’s absolutely the most versatile for me. While I LOVE hot sauce, and I will use any, really, I have appreciated Tabasco’s take on hot sauce enhancing the flavor of the food, rather than overpower it. Across their entire line, from Original to Scorpion and EVERYTHING in between, Tabasco is really top-tier
I like vinegar bases. I put it on vegetables if they are too boring.
Lol Thanks, friend. I should also mention, I have over 10+ hot sauces in my pantry in the kitchen, and 5 in my in my home office. I answered that Tabasco is my sauce I can’t live without because, for ME, it’s the most versatile
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In my opinion as a European, Tabasco sauce is the best thing the USA produces. The process is also incredible. The chillis spend literally years in oak barrels like an expensive whisky or wine. It's an artistic product that few others even try to meet.
If you ever make it over here and go to Louisiana be sure to go take the tour at Avery Island. Sounds like you would have a blast.
Shouldn’t you mean it’s hilarious that there are Tabasco haters?
Any form of Tabasco makes food better, I love spice but my go to is the Chipotle Tabasco
Oh that Chipotle is very special to me. Chipotle is my personal favorite chile, and, while I really love hot sauce and and absolutely love spicy food, Chipotle is just a fantastic flavor
My people ❤️
❤️ I don’t even mind the haters. The haters always come for the 🐐
The haters always come for the 🐐
Love this!
I did a big project on McIlhenny back in college days and have such an appreciation for the company as a whole since then. I buy the biggest bottle and use it on everything.
That’s awesome! I knew nothing about them, just always been my favorite ever since my brother I used to douse or microwave popcorn in it when we were little kids.
Went to New Orleans with some friends a few years ago and stumbled by The Tabasco store. I was like, “Wait. What’s this now? Guys, I gotta go in here.” and I was in the temple of my people
The company owns Avery Island) where Tabasco is manufactured and it is also an at-risk and endangered wildlife preserve which you can visit.
I very strongly believe that Tabasco is a misunderstood sauce. You gotta align the sauce to the food. The whiter the food, the better Tabasco fits the bill. Something like a stew or clam chowder with tobasco is where it’s at.
Melinda's Ghost is one of my top "always" sauces. Also included in that category are Tabasco, Tabasco Scorpion, Crystal and Crystal Extra Hot, todos Los Yucatecos, Yellowbird Ghost, Valentina Extra Hot and Tapatío.
The Melinda's Jalapeno is one of my all time favorites. It doesn't have much heat but the flavour is INCREDIBLE.
TABASCO THE KING
Yeah the OG will always reign
I’m in love with the chipotle variety. It’s the perfect flavor for stew. I can use almost half a bottle in one sitting. The habernero one is also quite good. Props to the OG’s for putting out the extra flavors. And I can easily find them in Spain, many other sauces not so much.
Thats what Im saying. There are many good ones.
KING IS ONE
I got Yucateo XXX in Alcampo. And Valentina muy picante.
This is the right answer
Tapatio as well
Sriracha garlic, it's no way super Strong but eat that stuff like ketchup.
Absolutely, I always have a couple spare in the cupboard so won’t accidentally run out.
Mac & Cheese with sriracha 👌🏻
Melinda's Roasted Garlic Habanero. It's so good.
Just crushed some of it now. Can’t get enough of it. I love most of Melinda’s sauces.
It is 5/5... but Melinda's ghost is my go to for "just heat, don't fuck up the flavor please"
Melinda’s doesn’t get nearly as much love as it deserves. I’m currently milking a bottle of that rn. So friggin good
If it comes down to a single hot sauce: Tabasco Chipotle.
Versatile. Tasty. Reliable.
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Secret aardvark habanero has been my #1 for quite some time. Insanely good!
I keep coming back to Iguana XXX. It's not the hottest sauce, but so tasty.
Iguana En Fuego bites pretty hard
Oh man, I forgot about Iguana sauces! Used to love the Gold, I should find some soon.
Holy shit! I totally forgot about Iguana! I wish I could go upvote this more than once. I picked up their Radioactive years ago on a whim when I found it on sale at Marshals. I absolutely destroyed it in like two weeks. Hands down one of the best tasting hot sauces I've ever had. It was their only bottle and I haven't seen it since and totally forgot about it until now. Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to have to order a bottle again soon
Valentina. It's just such a versatile sauce and I find myself using it for many different kinds of dishes, not just Mexican.
I just got Melinda’s recently and it’s quite good! I don’t know if it’s gonna be my main stay but we’ll see.
El Yucateco Habanero Red Hot Sauce is my jam :)
Marie Sharps
Yellowbird’s Habanero has been a must have in my fridge for years.
Franks extra hot. I will always have this.
Tabasco Scorpion
Tapatío. Universal sauce.
I love me tapatio. On eggs its magical. And 8 million other things.
Tapatio, eggs, cheese, crispy hashbrowns rolled into a steamed tortilla is the ultimate breakfast burrito
Magical on popcorn lemme tell ya
Tapatío goes right next to my salt and pepper grinders. It's literally one of my core ingredients, I can't imagine not using it
El Yucateco XXX is number 1. Marie Sharp's Red Hornet (or Belizean Heat or Beware, or practically any of them) is number 2.
Both are requirements in this house.
Marie Sharp Belize Heat
Or want Marie Sharp's. Best hot sauce out there IMHO but some of the Heatonist ones I've tried are quite good.
Franks. I use others as well but they’re my main one, especially with mac and cheese.
Torchbearer Garlic Reaper, it’s a blessing and a curse at $14.99 a bottle
That’s why you gotta wait for the web sale!! About a month ago they were sending out emails that they were doing 15% off everything clearance sale AND orders over $50 came with the BIG plastic bottle of garlic reaper!
Bravado Aka-Miso.
Tapatio, shit's been my bread and butter ever since I first tried it 14 years ago
Anything Melinda's. But that yellow label yellow bird was interesting
Texas Pete hotter
Was looking for this! It’s my daily driver. I like others, but this is the one I’d choose if I couldn’t have another.
Crystal.
I try very hard to never run out of:
- OG Tabasco
- El Yucateco Xxxtra Hot
- Crystal
- OG Marie Sharp's
I feel like a lot of hot sauces are somewhat interchangeable. I drizzle them on food for extra punch/flavor. But Franks is completely irreplaceable. Its far from my favorite but I can't make Buffalo chicken dip with Tabasco or cholula or whatever. Same with any other Buffalo dish. So Franks
Malinda's ghost pepper wing sauce is my go to at the moment. Great flavor, not overpowering heat. Goes great on everything
In the UK, Encona hot sauce. I've had 2 other favourites that have been discontinued - Blair's Zack Wylde Berserker hot sauce and Manda African hot sauce.
I love in fear encona may go out of business, couldn't live without it!
Original and Scotch Bonnet Encona are amazing but they both shred my insides more than any other sauces.
I find it is OK, but a similar brand Walkerswood I'd have to plan the next morning to never stray from a toilet. No idea how that works.
El yucateco. Almost any of them. The Caribbean habanero is my favorite. The smokey one is awesome too. Perfect heat level
Sambal oleke
I’m gonna be super vanilla and say sriracha, the huy fong brand of course. Can’t get enough of the hot cock sauce 🥰
Melinda's XXXXtra Reserve
I'm don't enjoy the flavor of the superhots and this has a delicious, fruity taste with just the right amount of zing. Putting this on a cold roast beef sandwich is a life-changing experience.
Chipotle Tabasco has to be one of the most versatile sauces of all time
This one:
https://scovilled.com/products/haffs-mari-lwyd?_pos=3&_sid=70436768c&_ss=r
Best sauce I have ever had. Period. It brings out the flavor of any food it’s on. Tastes different on chicken than on beef than on chili etc.
My wife and I fight over it (playfully) and hide it from each other. lol
Yellowbird habanero
Yellow bird anything.
Specifically Eaton’s Scotch Bonnet Pepper Sauce. I could just be nostalgic for the Jamaican food I used to eat when I worked at a Jamaican restaurant. Scotch bonnet sauces in general though are my favorite flavored hot sauces.
Tapaito's :) always been a favorite
Torchbearer's rapture
jk
My everyday sauce i couldnt go without would be el yucateco's green or xxx
For me it changes usually. Some I buy several of. Right now I got a bottle of some Korean hot sauce called Gotchu that slowly gets hotter while you eat. It's amazing. Think I will have to buy a few more bottles.
The amazing sauce made in Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Every restaurant or store has their own version of it, but it's pretty much the same. Haven't found anything like it anywhere else. I think the pepper is ají chombo but I could be wrong
Burns and McCoy Exhoressco. I keep it in my work bag and check for it the same as checking for my wallet and keys when I leave for the day
Pepper Palace Ghostly Garlic or Felix Höllenfeuer, but that second one I’ve only ever found in Austria so I stock up and bring as much back home as I possibly can. It’s absolutely hands down my favorite.
Ghost in the darkness from pepper palace is one of my favorite sauces of all time
I’m gonna say it. Nando’s XX Hot is some good shit. Has great flavor and great spice. I use that shit on everything.
Gator Hammock or Marie Sharps (literally any of them)
I've been trying to find Gator Hammock for a while. If anyone in replies here knows who will ship to Canada hit me up
Tabasco and Los Calientes Verde
Xtinction sauce by Golden Toad!! Perfect combo of heat + good flavor 🔥
Jalapeño Tabasco. I use it for everything.
The green Tabasco!
Tabasco and Franks. Just classic base hot sauces that can go on just about everything and have the perfect level of medium spicy.
Tapatio
I love so many hot sauces, different ones for different dishes, but the one I really can't live without is Cholula.
Frank’s Red Hot Chilli Sauce. Common, I know but it goes well with so much.
Sriracha. I always have at least 2 bottles of backup, and I had a lot more during the shortage. I didn’t want to be a dick and buy most of the bottles not leaving any for anyone else… but I didn’t want to run out either. So I went to like 7 different stores in my city to stock up.
The Buccees scorpion pepper hot sauce is my go to
original secret aardvark
Valentina. Just bc it goes on ALLLLL my fav spicy snacks -sincerely a hot cheeto girl
OG Secret Aardvark. Always have some on hand. Absolutely killer on tacos.
Frank's goes on just about everything, unless it's a Mexican dish, thats when Cholula comes out!
Franks, Tabasco, Marie Sharpes
Franks xtra hot. I know it’s sad but I love it. It’s cheap and plentiful and the perfect amount of hot for me. I feel I’m alone in loving this sauce tho. I’m a bit ashamed but I do love it.
louisiana hot sauce, that yellow label one. I put it on everything. Eggs, sausages, bacon, chicken, hotdog, chips... delicious.
It’s a shame I had to scroll this far to find Louisiana hot sauce. It’s the perfect everything everyday sauce. I keep a bottle in my kitchen always.
I love really spicy stuff but I've got to say Tabasco, Franks, and El Yucateco xxx.
Tabasco because I just love the flavor.
Franks because I love chicken wings and it's the perfect base for my wing sauce experiments.
El Yucateco because you know.
Marie Sharpe's Smokin' Marie
My favorite is El Yucateco when I really need some heat. But, I can’t live without Tabasco and Texas Pete. I especially like the way Texas Pete pares with Eastern North Carolina style barbecue.
Classic tobasco. Will always be my favorite
Also Melinda’s Ghost Pepper sauce.
If I had one hot sauce that would be the one bit just goes great on everything.
Valentina. I can't have eggs without it.
I’m convinced I don’t even like eggs that much without hot sauce haha. It’s just an essential component by now
Torchbearer Garlic Reaper (my absolute), Tears of the Sun, Aka Miso, Cosmic Dumpling - counters the heat when mixed nicely with Aka Miso - so delicious with oriental foods.
Torchbearer Mushroom Madness goes great with stroganoff. Los Calientes Rojo and Verde - Tacos all day. Bravado Ghost Pepper and Blueberry - my favorite pairing was a PB&J or drizzled over homemade ice cream.
Tapatio. Hands down
Tapatío
I love any hot sauce… but hear me out.. Taco Bell’s Diablo sauce just does something for me.
Melinda's Creamy Ghost Pepper and Melinda's Bhut Jolokia are the only US hot sauces which are easily available and cheap here in Germany (5 Euro for a big bottle)
Spicy food is a trend and there are many small-scale local producers now, but prices are absurd. Can be 10 Euro for 142ml
El Yucateco is available at the Mexican store in Vienna, love it, too!
El Yucateco (red or green) and Louisiana Hot Sauce.
Mine is also the Melinda's Ghost Pepper!!
But what I carry with me everywhere is a shaker full of Kosmos Q Ghost Pepper Wing Dust.
Franks red hot
El Yucateco xxx. It's been a standby and solid choice for the last 15 years of my life or so. I even got my swedish friend addicted, but he pays double for import lol