Thats the original Red, Chipotle, Green, Habanero, Garlic and the new sweet and spicy sauce.
Its low heat and pretty safe, anyone have opinions on the Tabasco line of sauces?
All of the Tabasco sauces are great. The chipotle sauce is an excellent addition to a pot of chili. The garlic sauce is my favorite for beans and peas.
Dave’s insanity 2 is horseradish based. Great for slow roasting a big chunk of cow or deer.
No one hot sauce is good for everything. For Buffalo wing sauce, Frank’s is the only way to go. For clean heat, Original Tabasco is best in my opinion.
My favorite sauce is one my daughter eats on crackers, Cholula. http://www.cholula.com/
The one you want to avoid is called "Frank's Red Hot". No kick whatsoever. I've tasted better catsups.
The original Lingham’s is the best chili sauce I’ve ever tried. it is more of an “Oriental” flavor, but it is awesome:
http://www.pugsly.com/Lingham.html
The reason I ask is because I've tried Dave's Insanity and I would never put something that hot on food. All of those Insanity and Ten-Alarm type sauces have always struck me as more of a novelty than anything people really use to put on food.
My favorite hot sauce (actually more of a paste) in the world is Thai Sriracha.
I also use tons of Crystal hot sauce from Louisiana. Tabasco Garlic hot sauce is also very good.
I generally steer away from sauces that make a big deal of how hot they supposedly are. Hot is not a flavor.
I do like nam prik taa daeng [Thai “red eye” chili paste], but cannot recommend a brand, as the stuff Mrs. Flash gets comes in a plain brown wrapper.
Nam prik mang da is pretty good too, if you don’t mind eating ground up cockroaches.
My favorites:
Arizona Gunslinger Red Jalapeno Sauce
Marie Sharp’s Habanero Pepper Sauce
Trinidad Habanero Pepper Sauce- Mild
Marie’s is the hottest of the three, but I like these for their flavor, rather than because they are hot.
One I have wanted to try and haven’t be able to locate is “Mrs Tull’s Homemade Hot Sauce” (Barbados).
Insanity sauce is a Habanero reduction sauce. It was designed for manufactuers and 1/8 of a teaspon will put you on the floor.
The winner year after year is Frank’s Hot Sauce.
I agree with HAL9000 in post 3. Tobasco is really the best and has quite a variety of flavors.
http://www.tabasco.com/main.cfm
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.
Hot sauce ping! (Do you still make your own?)
Hope all is well...
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.
I like hot sauces, I don’t shy away from heat, and like most on this thread I can drink Tabasco straight. (About all it’s good for anyway.)
However, Try as I may, I cannot use Dave’s or any other multi-million scoville hot sauces. You’re better off just spraying Mace on your tongue.
Frank’s has a good flavor, but not much heat. Add some Tobasco for the heat.
My daily favorite is a brand of Louisiana Hot Sauce sold by Aldi’s. Not too much heat, good flavor, and enough vinegar kick to add that little something extra.