Salsa & Hot Sauce!

[CCooper]

I cannot believe that Formosa hot sauce hasn't been mentioned. It is a staple in our house.

 

[NorthIDHunter]

Have tried several different hot sauces, just typically the basics. Red and Green Tabasco, and then Mateos salsa is at Costco, I am a huge fan of right now.

 

[traildust]

100X better than any store-bought! Just a few minutes to make

 

[The_Wild_Rambler]

Melinda's Green Sauce for the win!

 

[sportsmans challenge]

For breakfast Fletcher's and then Tapatio

 

[Glendon Mullins]

We keep anywhere from 10-20 different hot sauces on hand at any given moment. I like to try new ones every so often. Some of our favorites that always find their way back....

Texas Pete https://texaspete.com/

Even though it is named "texas pete" it is from a compan based out of NC, u guys out west may not see it much it's more of an east coast thing i think, but I highly recommend it for a "store bought" sauce, i think it's better than tabasco and right in line with franks

Frank's Hot sauce....pretty much a staple that should be in everyones pantry

Texas Pete Green Pepper Sauce: not your typical red hot sauce, its whole, green Tabasco peppers are soaked in salt and vinegar, i also like to use the tabasco peppers in chili right out of the bottle

Melinda's Scotch Bonnet: Scotch Bonnet is right now probably my favorite pepper for hot sauces and I haven't found a sauce better than Melinda's for scotch bonnet flavor

Mango Habanero Sauces: Melinda's has about the best mango habanaro hot sauce i have found as well. Buffalo Wild Wings has their Mango Habanaro wing sauce also, which we try to keep on hand, it's thicker than a traditional hot sauce, caters more to wings or chicken breast, but it's pretty darn good as well.

Angry Goat Purple Hippo: Prickly Pear and a mixture of peppers, including habanaro and scorpion. This is very good sauce, but gets hot very quick, but u cant stop eating it either lol.

This isnt a hot sauce per say. but at pepper palace they make this Sweet Bourbon Glaze, that is awesome on deer, bear, chicken, or any meat really in my opinion. Grill the meat up and about 30 seconds before taking it off the grill brush this on (its so sweet if u put it on much before it will burn) then u can also add another glazing after taking meat off grill. or dip meat in the glaze as well. Then thank me later https://pepperpalace.com/products/sweet-bourbon-glaze?_pos=2&_sid=e08388fe1&_ss=r

Louisiana Hot Sauce. yeah it boring, not much heat, lotsa vinegar and lotsa salt, but its hard to beat on fish or chicken for a cheaper store bought sauce. I like vinegar and like alot of pickled stuff so its right up my alley

 

[ChrisAU]

Gator Hammock Swamp Gator Sauce. Not very hot, but extremely flavorful.

Amazon.com : Gator Hammock Swamp Gator Hot Sauce 5oz. : Grocery & Gourmet Food

Amazon.com : Gator Hammock Swamp Gator Hot Sauce 5oz. : Grocery & Gourmet Food

www.amazon.com

 

[Loper]

I’ve been loving some Mateos salsa recently.

As far as hot sauces go, I have a bunch of small batch sauces, but all the good ones I ran out of. The ones remaining aren’t great. I had one smoky bourbon hot sauce that was excellent but it came in one of those packaged gift kits someone gave me. When it ran out I looked for the specific sauce online I but couldn’t find it.

Lately I’ve been liking the habanero sauce and jalapeño sauce my wife got me from Trader Joe’s.

 

[sndmn11]

I got this thing a little while ago, it's really good. https://www.amazon.com/Jam-KooKoo-J...x=scotch+bonn,aps,169&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&th=1

 

[c_williams544]

Gringo Bandito was my favorite for a while until the local store stopped carrying it.
Picked up a hot sauce sample pack in Costa Rica from Chili Monoloco, the sauces are way too hot for me but the infused olive oil they have is fantastic!

 

[fngTony]

You gotta learn to like the wet sock taste/odor!

Franks
Cholula
Crystal
Sriracha
My fridge is always stocked with those 4 plus one or two rotating spots. I'm not about the super heat those are in my comfort range.

Salsa I am all over the map but the best are my homemade versions, especially mango for fish tacos, and tomatillo for pork.

Can I come over for dinner?! I don’t do mango or fish and I’m not sure what crystal is but I could go for some carnitas tacos with tomatillo salsa. I’ll bring the corona & limes

 

[Seeknelk]

After trying hundreds of hot sauces here is the platinum level winners when I'm not fermenting my own super hots out of my garden. When cooking I have gotten away from using raw peppers. The super hots (reapers, naga vipers, naga kings and bhut jolokia) has unperdictable heat profiles. Quite frankly some of the peppers arent very stable and the heat can go from pretty hot to you just burned out your grandmothers dentures off the same plant on the same harvest. For that reason I will just serranos to pick up the heat and a sauce to finish the heat off to a perdictable level based on my audience.

cry baby craigs - One of the best all around vinegar based hab hot sauce. I use it on pretty much everything, Sandwiches, popcorn, beans, eggs, breakfast tacos, tacos etc. Direct replacement for tabasco type sauces but hotter without as much vinegar twang. 2 table spoons in 55 oz of beans gets them there where the kids arent crying and the adults arent eating bland beans.

The Sauce — Cry Baby Craig's

www.crybabycraigs.com

Dirty Dicks - A close second to cry baby craigs. The orginal is closer to a bbq sauce flavor profile. I use it quite a bit as well. I dont have any experience with his other flavors but I will on my next order.

World's Greatest Hot Sauce

dirtydickshotsauce.com

The last dab - When you need it hot. For real hot. Not like canadian hot. (sorry guys) Dont F around with this one. A little is good. More will make your dish unedible. By the one and only pucker butt. Has little to no flavor profile. Just adds heat.

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Vietnamese and chinese foor I still default to copious amounts of sriracha.

That Last Dab XXX is no joke! Went thru a few bottles lately! Funny you thought it's only heat, when ,for me, it's one of the only things that gives me "flavor flashbacks" months later. Delicious flavor. Not a horrible extract sauce like Dave's insanity sauce, but nearly that hot! I love it.

 

[Seeknelk]

Always have Tabasco varieties around,
Yellow bird
Secret Aardvark Habenero
Cholula
Crystal extra hot
Melinda's XXX
Melindas Mango Habanero
Cry baby Craig's is ok
El Yucatan Black

Blaine Mountain Reaper salsa is a local treat I pick up sometimes. The label saying" Very Hot! is correct, but so tasty.
Honestly, I've eaten so much Pace salsa in my life it's like a comfort food. I like it as a base for dipping, adding peppers or crazy sauces etc...
Maitios salsa is good, along with my homemade raw salsa.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Not a sauce, but I grow peppers, dehydrate and put in the blender to "crush".
Then it goes in a jar to be used on everthing....pizza, eggs, tacos, sammiches,
Have to wear a face mask and gloves on blender day. My wife leaves the house
when this happens. My son says it's like an episode of Breaking Bad.

 

[Agross]

A friend of mine does the same exact thing. He uses mainly habaneros. He smokes them, it’s excellent. I put it on all kinds of stuff. Especially eggs.

 

[Macintosh]

We eat about 5 out of 7 meals out of tortillas so get a lot of use out of salsa and hot sauce. Generally make our own salsa, usually pretty simple fresh stuff especially when the garden is kicking. The other night we put fresh avocado, tomato, red onion, corn and cilantro, some salt and pepper and lime juice in--real simple. Often will make a tomatillo salsa as well, and roast the veges first. Hard to go wrong with either. Green chili salsa on eggs.

Hot sauce, my wife likes cholula, both original and green. I could get by on melindas original or single-extra hot for the rest of my life. My wife even got me a melindas tshirt, I guess that's the company I want sponsorship from? I dont need it crazy hot, really like the flavor.

We use sriracha a lot too, I like to mix a liberal amount of sriracha with mayo and use that on burgers.

 

[treillw]

I've noticed that I can't eat much spicy stuff lately - gives me heart burn. Guess I'm getting old.

Maybe I should start a thread on the best acid reducers....

 

[Farmingdale's Finest]

I'm a salsa junkie. We used to get this amazing mango habanero salsa, but nobody carries it anymore. Haven't found anything else that hits the spot.

What are some of your favorites? (might as well throw hot sauce in the mix as well)

Blair at https://deathsauce.com/ had a restaurant in my town before he started deathsauce.com where if you were able to eat 3 of his buffalo wings you got your meal for free. The crazy thing is that the sauce he makes that was that recipe is now one of his more mild sauces. He makes great flavors and not just hot stuff. My favorite is the original death sauce.

Another local sauce company has a similar flavor profile https://borntohula.com/ Reaper of sorrow and Ghost of Ancho are both very good.

I see a lot of people mention Cholula as good. To me it may be the worst tasting hot sauce I have ever tried.

 

[Gorp2007]

Chiming back in to add El Gallo jalapeno salsa to the list. Comes in a plastic bag with a pour spout and it's my go to for anything involving eggs.

 

[S-3 ranch]

home brew jalapeño & tomato/ pace picante
texas pete
Louisiana cajun craven
tabasco sauces

once you leave Texas and New Mexico driving north the food just gets worse and worse , and mountain house/ freeze dried stuff is nothing special