Food Favorite Hot Sauce?

I like plain old Tabasco. I love the way it smells. If I'm looking for something with a little less kick, I'll use Texas Pete. I enjoy trying house sauces at different restaurants we go to, but I'm not really interested in anything hotter than Tabasco. I still want to taste my food and anything hotter seems to drown out flavors.

 

franks and tabasco are always acceptable. my favorite though would be 'gator hammock'.

 

Seconding Cholula. Best hot sauce ever!

 

I love Chipotle Tabasco. Seriously, if I eat at your house with any frequency, there will be a bottle there.

 

Sriracha is definitely my number one.
Frank's Red Hot is second. I like it better than Tabasco although it's hard for me to put my finger on exactly why that is.

 

I find that Texas Pete is my favorite in that it is the most "universal" of hot sauces. You can put it on or in anything, and it just works.

The Cholula is good in certain applications, but adding that chipotle-style smokiness to anything can create some weird flavor combinations, and not in a good way.

On burritos and Mexican food in general, I am a big advocate of the Tobasco green pepper sauce.

As an ingredient in things (tomato sauces, etc), I prefer regular Tobasco as you can pick up the flavor and some heat without overpowering everything else.

I'm not a fan of Frank's on just about anything, wing sauce included. Not sure why, just has this sort of "musty" taste to it that I can't get past in comparison to others.

I really enjoy trying some of the local varieties, but too often I found them having a very "signature" taste to them that would overpower the food, which would ultimately end up never using a bottle of hot sauce that I paid $8 for.

 

any and all.........

we have Sammy J Pepper's up here snowy.....that have some shit called Tha Bomb......put it this way,stick a toothpick in it to add to a huge pot of soup .......waaaaay too hot still,this stuff slays baby.

i use it for my ceasers cuz no one else in the house will go near it..............i love hot stuff

 

Me too. I used to really like it, but I find the vinegariness just overpowers anything you add it to. I'm looking forward to the day when I can eat hot food again - the children just aren't that keen

 

Cholula on tacos and burritos.
Sriracha on anything remotely Asia (except Sushi, gotta have Wasabi)
Louisiana hot sauce on everything else.

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texas pete is my favorite. it has good flavor

 

I usually get cholula

 

Wow, this thread made my mouth water !!!

I would have to go with Sriracha as my favorite hot sauce. Cholula is decent too. However like others have said Tobasco's vinegar flavor puts it pretty low on my list.

 

My go-to is Sriracha. However, my grocery store had some Bhut Jolokias the last time I was shopping so I picked one up and made some hot sauce out of it. The saucing process attenuated the spiciness a bit, but it's still pretty good.

 

I'm a little late on this one, but I thought I'd make sure there wasn't already a hot sauce thread before starting one. And here we are. I'm a simple man. I like the sweet tangy sexiness of green Tabasco; it goes with anything. I lovelovelove Cholula. Sometimes I think if I had access to piquin peppers, I'd eat them straight up. Frank's Red Hot goes all over my pizza, and roughly equal parts Frank's and agave nectar with a splash of tamari makes for a tasty sweet/hot faux bbq sauce; I likes it on grilled or baked chicken. Back in November, I made my own from late-harvest jalapenos and banana peppers.