Posted on 06/16/2008 10:16:37 AM PDT by Sonny M
I'm getting some hot sauces shipped to me over the next couple of days, and wanted to get some opinions from folks who have either tried them or in some ways experienced them.
One set I'm getting is from Dave's Gourmet, i.e. the guy who created the "Insanity sauce" and the "ultimate insanity sauce". The batch I'm getting is the spicy 6 pack which is Roasted Pepper & Chipotle Sauce, Roasted Garlic Hot Sauce, Scotch Bonnet Sauce, Insanity Sauce, Cool Cayenne Sauce and Hurtin Jalapeno Sauce.
Has anyone here ever tried any of these sauces and does anyone have an opinion on their quality, taste, flavor and heat?
The other batch that I am getting is from Blairs.
From them I am getting the "super 6 pack" which is the Death sauce, the Muerte sauce, the After Death sauce, the Jalapeno Death sauce, the Sweet Death sauce And the Sudden Death sauce and also, I'm getting the soon to be discontinued Jersey death sauce.
I'm aware that buying products that imply impending doom or shortening of life, may not be the best consumer decision.
Has anyone tried the Blair hot sauces, and have any opinions on them, either on their flavor, or heat or anything?
House of Tsang’s Szechuan Sauce is also excellent if you are looking for hot/spicy Chinese sauce.
There was one I actually did enjoy in a masochistic sort of way - Dixie BBQ's The Man on one of their diet specials - a hotlink on top of a pulled-pork sandwich. The amount of beer required to cool that one was equal to the amount required to remove consciousness...
I really like the cool cayanne. As advertised, all of the cayanne flavor without the heat.
My wife and I have talked about learning to cook Thai and Vietnamese food for a while. Maybe I'll get that Asian cookbook down...
Dave's Insanity is best used a drop at a time in a big pot of something. It's more like an industrial strength than a consumer product. It does have surprisingly good taste and not just hotter than hell.
I'm one of those people who can walk down the aisle of hot sauces in a grocery and break out in a sweat just thinking about them, heck I'm sweating a little now. On the good side though is I never have any afterburner issues in the morning. I make my gumbos pretty bland and take different hot sauces with me to group picnics. That way people can add what suits ‘em. Really hard to get the sauce out once it's in there.
Hot sauce ping! (Do you still make your own?)
Hope all is well...
The current obsession with heat has resulted in a lot of sauces with rather silly names and absurdly high heat.
Too true, but worse are the k-mart, wal-mart type of gift packs. They have three or four sauces with funny names, but they are mostly food color and thickeners. If you just want heat, buy a few Habeneros at the grocery store. They may be $5.99 a pound, but you can get all you need for a buck because they are so light. I use a small jar and some regular olive oil. Dice up the peppers really fine keeping a few seeds on the side. Warm up the oil in the jar (without the lid of course), add the diced peppers. One drop of this will heat up anything. Plant the seeds in a pot and put in a sunny window. They make cool looking plants kind of like dark green bonsai trees, and it will make peppers forever. I had one in my office window for years, went away on vacation and my partner forgot to water it.
Man, I'm such a sriracha addict that sometimes I'll walk in the kitchen and put a drop of that stuff on my finger just to get a tatste, then go about my business.
I'm like you - the list of things that I don't put hot sauce on is pretty short.
Unopened bottle in my cupboard!
The absolute hottest stuff I ever had was in Chinatown down Bay area.
I and a friend were at a computer convention there and decided to go have Chinese... pretty much standard stuff, chicken and shrimp, that sort of thing.
But on the middle of the table, there was a small bowl with a lid on and a spoon inside. It was some kind of red pepper sauce.
You had to stir it, because there was oil floating on top. So I took really, a pretty small amount and put it in my Won Ton.
MAMA FREAKIN MIA!!!!
I’m still sweatin just thinkin about it!!
This is the kinda stuff if you got a good taste of it, somebody could come along with a chain saw and carve your leg off and you wouldn’t notice...
Man!!
I don’t know where in Louisiana you are from, but I was wondering do you recall a sauce called “Slap Your Mama” or “Slap Ya Mama” marked by, I think, Dr. Kerry Thibodeaux in Opelousas, LA? I was trying to find their web site, but couldn’t find it.
Thanks from an Opelousas to GA transplant.
I do not think they even started actively advertising until 20 - 25 or so years ago and they are not very aggressive advertisers even now. Some how it just caught on and traveled the world.
This site has a rub by that name.
I remember seeing that name, but I don't know if they make a hot sauce too. There's so many things around here with "Mama" in the name, it's hard to keep all of them straight.
Hope ya don't miss Opelousas too much. I'm in New Orleans.
I've been too chicken to give it a try.
If you just want heat and you have a big pair, you can go for the habanero sauces. If you're going to drink any wine with your meal, you might want to forget about the habanero sauces if your wine cost more than three bucks a bottle. Some sweeter type wines Rieslings, etc. may "work" with some spicier foods and sauces.
You might also want to try some curry paste sauces. I think they have interesting flavors. They can have spicy, piquant flavors without burning a new one for you. But there are plenty of really hot curry sauces. If you get them at a local Indian market, while you're there also buy some basmati rice. I think it's the best, most flavorful and most interesting rice. Don't use it for sushi or risotto though.
There's a great spice and chili store in Ft. Worth, Texas called Penedry’s. They've got more kinds of chili powders and pepper sauces than I've ever seen. They're here:
If your mouth is burning from too hot chilli's or pepper sauces, don't drink water or beer to put the fire out. Drink some milk or cream or have some ice cream. The fat in the milk or cream will mitigate or help neutralize the pepper burn.
Good luck.
It's not as hot as many others, it is delicious because it has cumin and chili powder and garlic and other stuff in it. Try a small drop on a cracker first.
I do not think they even started actively advertising until 20 - 25 or so years ago and they are not very aggressive advertisers even now. Some how it just caught on and traveled the world.
Sometimes I wonder if people from places other than Louisiana like Tabasco more than people from here because I don't really like Tabasco and neither do a lot of people I know who otherwise like hot sauce. I love everything Tabasco makes other than their main hot sauce. Their garlic hot sauce is one of the best hot sauces I've ever had in my life. Their pepper jellies are amazing, but I just never liked their hot sauce that much. I don't hate it and am very happy to have it rather than nothing, though.
As for how they spread so far and wide, I think I've heard (not sure if this is true) that they gave little bottles to soldiers in WWII. Also, their bottle and label are sheer perfection. Everything about their packaging is brilliant -- the shape of the bottle, the diamond shaped label, the red top, the green neck label...it really is perfect packaging.
I miss Opelousas terribly. We just came back from a trip to LA. We went to Marksville to visit friends then to Opelousas to visit family and friends. There is never enough time to visit all we want to.
How is NO right now. I went through there not long ago and it seemed abandoned in comparison to before the storm.
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