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post #1 of 50
7/20/02 at 12:47pm
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I just love a good Hot sauce. Some of my favorites are Daves Insanity and Rasberry Thunder. Daves is definatly the hotter of the 2, but is nothing compared to Da Bomb or Mad Dog.

I even make spicy mayo by adding about a teaspoon or so of Mad Dog to a jar of mayo. Mix a you have the best damn sandwich condiment around.
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post #2 of 50
7/20/02 at 1:32pm
As an african, hot sauce for me is a way of life.

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Holadem
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post #3 of 50
7/20/02 at 2:07pm
i like a good tex-mex hot sauce

i guess some people call it salsa, but its hot sauce in Texas mexican food
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post #4 of 50
7/20/02 at 2:22pm
I love some good hot sauce. Tabasco doesn't quite float my boat though - it hurts more than taste good. I also like chilli sauce with garlic..... mmm.
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post #5 of 50
7/20/02 at 3:58pm
Count me in. We had a "hot sauce thread" a year or so ago, and I couldn't read it without salivating.

Habaneros make the best tasting hot sauce, but a good jalapeno-based sauce is great, too.

I love Tex-Mex, but Thai food has the best hot stuff I know of. Yeah, the endorphins are great, but to me, taste (believe it or not) is just as important.
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post #6 of 50
7/20/02 at 4:03pm
The best and most flavorful hot sauce I have tried so far has to be "Chalula". It's not nose running hot, but it packs a kick, and it doesn't taste like pepper, which is good.
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post #7 of 50
7/20/02 at 4:19pm
I like hot sauce but Dave's Insanity sauce was a bit much for me. When I tried it I seemed to have a mouthful of instant pain an no flavor. Wouldn't go away for quite a while either. About the best tasting sauce I have found yet is the green Tabasco made with jalapenos. I like jalapeno peppers on my mexican food too but that insanity sauce was just too damn hot for me.
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post #8 of 50
7/20/02 at 4:43pm
From Trinidad/Tobago - Matouk's Salsa (papaya, not tomato based). Bought at Krogers. A mature hot sauce, doesn't sacrifice taste for heat (but is still HOT!) Aged pickled Scotch Bonnet Peppers, Papaya & spices. This is a moderately thick sauce that's great over roasted chicken, pork or even salads (pour moderately or dip). It's hot, but the heat comes on slowly.

The papaya makes it a very smooth sauce and helps counteract some of the immediate heat. Make no mistake however, it is hot, it just takes a little while to feel it.
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post #9 of 50
7/20/02 at 5:00pm
I'll second Matouks - nice heat, good, but not overbearing flavor. I still have a bottle of their Calypso I haven't tried yet.

Patak's curry pastes are a way of life around here, great in rice with some diced tomatoes. Vindaloo, Madras, Hot Curry or the heatless Biriyani, Tandoori or Masala versions. Top it off with a nice sweet chili sauce, regular garlic chili sauce (Spiracha), or Frank's Red Hot...

Miranda's makes an awesome mustard habanero sauce. Haven't been able to find it locally though.

I don't find Dave's very appealing.
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post #10 of 50
7/20/02 at 5:13pm
And now a story about Da Bomb hot sauce:

I was at my friend's cousin's apt on a warm fall eve. He was entertaining some guests when the topic of hot sauces was brought up. He brought over the tiny bottle of Da Bomb and warned me to be careful. He dabbed a pin pirck of the volatile potion on my finger. When the shock of pain and heat hit me, I was in a different world for a few minutes. I dashed to the kitchen and inhaled bread like it was water.

Then my buddy Mark volunteered to try some. This time too much was dabbed on his finger. We all warned him to STOP! from sucking down the dangerous toxin. The shock instanly hit him, and he had to resist from throwing up. I fed him ben and jerry's for a few minutes


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post #11 of 50
7/20/02 at 6:36pm
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I had a bottle of Pure Cap, but it was dangerous. Use a little too much and you could almost feel your stomach peeling. A buddy of mine got some on his face at a party and ended up in the shower. It was actually burning his skin. That was when it sent in the garbage. You actually have to sign a waiver to buy it.


Rasberry thunder has a great berry taste followed by nice heat. Daves is very hot but definatly has its own flavor. Endorphin Rush is hot, but has a sweet taste followed by a punch that can make you sweat for awhile.

I love all these sauces in most foods. Add alittle spice to your next meal
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post #12 of 50
7/20/02 at 6:48pm
Thanks, Craig. You just described what I consider to be the perfect hot sauce. I'll be sure to check it out.
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post #13 of 50
7/20/02 at 8:36pm
Another hot sauce fan here. I don't usually buy hot sauce - my mother makes it fresh with home-grown tomatoes and peppers. Hot and yummy!
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post #14 of 50
7/20/02 at 11:42pm
Endorphine Rush

definately the hottest hot sauce out there.

A dab the size of a pinhead has effect...no lie.

get some but be careful.
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post #15 of 50
7/21/02 at 4:34am
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Ben

I disagree about Endorphin rush being the hottest, Try Da Bomb, it can amke you cry with its heat.

Steve,

A buddy of mine worked with this guy and his mom made a hot pepper relish that was great but HOT . It was great on a hot dog.
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post #16 of 50
7/21/02 at 7:58am
my mother makes it fresh with home-grown tomatoes and peppers. Hot and yummy!

Is that the stuff you would bring into work? That was some good eating. I love those beef sandwiches you make.
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post #17 of 50
7/21/02 at 8:44am
My favorites:
Busha Browne's Pukka Hot Sauce(made from Jamaican Scotch Bonnet peppers)
Doc's Special
El Yucateco Habenero

All available at Mohotta.com (not affiliated with them). They also send you a catalog that lists the Scoville units of each sauce which makes arguements over which is hotter moot.
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post #18 of 50
7/21/02 at 9:50am
Another for http://www.mohotta.com . Their catalog of hot sauces is huge and the rating system is useful. Very nice helpful people too. These hot sauce companies get too creative with their product names (inhaling too much of their own stuff?) so it can be hard to tell which is hotter without the rating system.

Normally for spaghetti and omelets, I stick with regular Tabasco sauce because I like the vinegary taste of it. The hottest I have tried is "Ass Kickin' Original Hot Sauce - Kick Yo' Ass Hot" but it rates only 7 out of 10. I am going nowhere near a true 10
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post #19 of 50
7/21/02 at 3:18pm
i have in excess of 20 bottles/jars of different hot sauces in my fridge right now, most are habenaro based. i can't think of the last meal i had that i didn't use hot sauce of some kind.
my current "daily" use is Yucatan Sunshine, good flavor and not terribly hot.
one of my favorite restraunts in the Portland area is a Carribian place in Hillsdale, Salavdor Molly's. last time i ate there i had their ribs, spiced up to heat level 14 (they go to 20, if you order anthing over 10, they make sure you've had it before.) it was so hot i became euphoric from the endorphins.
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post #20 of 50
7/21/02 at 8:22pm
Considering that I just purchased a case of hot sauce over the internet and had it sent to my work, I guess I qualify as a hot sauce lover.

People in my office thought I ordered some wine...you shoulda seen the weird looks I got when I opened up the box and showed them it was hot sauce....

FWIW...I have had many hot sauces but this is my favorite (and all I use now)

F. Mclinktocks Cowboy Hot Sauce from the Central California Coast
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post #21 of 50
7/21/02 at 10:15pm
I second the vote for Cholula. It is commonly available in grocery stores, and has a distinctive wooden bottle topper. It has an excellent taste, and packs a light kick without causing pain. I use it on everything, to my wife's chagrin.

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post #22 of 50
7/22/02 at 12:47am
Isn't that stuff the best Marty! They sell it here in those little bottles, as well as a gallon jug, so I get the gallon, YUMMY.

I had a friend who is a hard core hot sauce guy, and I have never seen a guy eat so much frickin Pure Cap!!!! Man, his nose would not stop running, but he took it surprisingly easy, I wasn't gonna try it though, the waiver to eat it scared me off!
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post #23 of 50
7/22/02 at 5:09am
I go straight to the source. I just add cut and sliced raw habaneros, Thai peppers and/or jalapenos into my food, YUMMY!!!
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post #24 of 50
7/22/02 at 6:11am
Endorphine Rush is very good but not even close to the heat the Daves Insanity (or even better, Dave's Insanity Private Reserve, comes in it's own coffin I have a bottle from his 1998 stock).

But none of these match up to Possible Side Effects, simply the hottest sauce I've ever had that had any kind of flavor to it at all. Great sauce.

I have at least 35 bottles of hot sauce of all different kinds in the fridge. For everyday spice, I like simple Red Hot. To go really hot, I use Dave's or Possible Side Effects. Otherwise, it is just what mood I'm in at the time.
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post #25 of 50
7/22/02 at 6:43am
Another vote for Cholula; my number one everyday sauce. Although garlic Tabasco is pretty damn good too.

Another good hot sauce site: www.peppers.com. And if you are ever in the Rehoboth Beach, DE area check out their store (it's in the outlet mall leading into town). Picked up a great chipotle/habanero sauce last time (don't remember the name). You could sit there for hours trying to decide. It's mind-boggling. The Starboard restaurant in nearby Dewey Beach is owned by the same folks. How about a Sunday brunch Bloody Mary bar with a couple THOUSAND sauces to choose from ?
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post #26 of 50
7/22/02 at 6:46am
Gentlemen,

I'll throw in my vote: Blair's 2AM. Got this at Hot Licks in SanDiego. Cool store that sells a ton of salsa and salsa stuff. Had gotten DaBomb previously. Blair's 2AM is 7 times hotter (on the Scovill scale) than DaBomb!! Had to sign a waiver to buy it. It looks like pitch black oil on top of thick habanero seed stuff on the bottom. Bottle is only a couple of ounces and there is a skull sealed into the lid with wax. Yousa!

MM
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post #27 of 50
7/22/02 at 7:37am
Mmmm, hot sauce. Love the stuff. But for me, a hot sauce has gotta have flavor. Just pure pain hot is not what I'm after, it's gotta taste good. The 2 bottles which I keep in the cupboard right now:
Tabasco Habanero sauce and
Melinda's XXXX Reserve

Tabasco is great, not kill your stomach hot but tastes awsome. Melinda's isn't quite as spicy but a bit more fruity of a flavor.

Andrej
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post #28 of 50
7/22/02 at 7:48am
Hot sauce rules, too bad my wife doesn't agree with me so I can't make stuff too hot.

As for what's the best kind, who knows, Hot = good IMO. Tabasco is great stuff.

Brian
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post #29 of 50
7/22/02 at 7:48am
http://extremefood.com/

I use Blair's After Death sauce. We add 1 drop to our meatloaf and it completely changes the taste, yummy!

There is a Blair's 3 A.M. and a 5 A.M. sauce now.

Quote:
3 A.M. Reserve
WOW - 1,500,000-2,000,000 scoville units>>> 3 a.m. Reserve takes our classic 2 a.m. one step further. Gift Display Box is included as with all the Reserve Bottles. Feel Alive!!!

Quote:
5 A.M. Reserve
This is it my Chili head friends... Each bottle is handmade Sighed and numbered. Filled with a World record breaking 6 million Scoville unit Oil then sealed with White and Platinum Wax from Italy. Topped off with a Red warning label. This is a sure collector Piece for the most Diehard Chilihead... Feel ALive!!!!
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post #30 of 50
7/22/02 at 8:02am
I vote for Chalua sauce as well, its the secret ingredient to my bloody marys. My wife and I love that stuff, good flavor, right amount of heat. Best on scrambled eggs too.

This year I'm growing my first veggie garden, aside from the usuals, I'm growing Red Cowhorn Peppers, hopefully I can make my own sauce with them.
:b <--what my face did after eating a tiny slice of raw habanero pepper one time
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