‘This sauce will change your life!’ 30 brilliant condiments to transform your tired lockdown dishes

guardian ^ | 3/1/2021

[mylife]

When you’re barely allowed out of your home, let alone your neighbourhood, you have to mix things up whenever you can. From Chinese XO to Romanian mujdei and Filipino banana ketchup, these spicy sauces will bring the whole world into your kitchen

Feeling saucy ... Crystal hot sauce, Walkerswood jerk marinade, Best Ghana shito, Lao Gan preserved black bean chilli oil and Maggi liquid seasoning. Feeling saucy ... Crystal hot sauce, Walkerswood jerk marinade, Best Ghana shito, Lao Gan preserved black bean chilli oil and Maggi liquid seasoning. Composite: Simon Leigh/The Guardian Britain is splashing out on condiments like never before. To alleviate the grind of lockdown cooking, we are raiding the global larder way beyond ketchup and brown sauce, to unlock a world of hot, concentrated, punchy flavours with the ability to transform a meal in seconds.

Specialist retailers report booming sales, with the importer MexGrocer shifting double its usual amount of Valentina hot sauce last year. At one stage, sales of Lao Gan Ma chilli oils were up a staggering 1,900% at the online shop Sous Chef, a repository of revelatory sauces. But what should you try next?

We asked leading chefs and food obsessives for their homemade sauce hacks and store cupboard secrets, most of which are readily available online if you cannot get to an Asian or African supermarket or a continental deli. Please note: no one suggested serving roast chicken with mint sauce.

[servantboy777]

TABASCO! The most important ingredient in everything but ice cream. lol

[servantboy777]

>>Try a couple of drops of DAVE’S INSANITY SAUCE.<<

I have in a pot of chili and it was almost too hot to eat..and I love super spicy everything.

Shew wee that’s some hot stuff.

[NetAddicted]

Rd later.

[reformedliberal]

...Mix catsup and horseradish in a 50-50 ratio and you have a cocktail sauce that is much fresher than the bottled stuff and you can adjust to taste as well.
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I use that. But best with the XXX hot horseradish AND a tsp or two of lime juice (lemon works. I prefer lime)

[Daffynition]

This past Sat. ATC rated Frank’s Hot Sauce to be the *best*.
FWIW.

[caww]

I never have used salsa on or in anything.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Lots of ketchups out there that have no tomato.

Mushroom ketchup is really good.

[Bob434]

Really? Never even heard of schroom ketchup- will definitely look that one up- love mushrooms- thanks-

[Oshkalaboomboom]

This past Sat. ATC rated Frank’s Hot Sauce to be the *best*.

Franks is a classic if you are making Buffalo Wings. Since they are so popular I could see how it could get a rating like that, but in the world of hot sauces even calling Franks "hot" is a bit of a stretch. Still, congratulations to them.

[dennisw]

Try pasta sauce— Cook the hamurger, melt a little cheese on top. 2-3 table spoons pasta sauce on top. Slap half a toasted bun on top. THIS keeps in the hamburger’s heat.

Eat with a fork and spoon.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Saxon BBQ Sauce Savannah Style

I have been growing Datil peppers for many years. They are one of my favorite. Easy to grow and the plants are good producers. Glad to see that other people appreciate their flavor.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Dave's Insanity and similar sauces use pepper extract. The basic methodology behind making a very simple chili extract is to submerge dried chili peppers in a very pure food grade alcohol which draws out the oil of the peppers into the alcohol solution. Then after 1-2 weeks, the chili peppers are removed and then the alcohol is evaporated off leaving behind a mixture of sugars and chili oil. Once it's cleaned up you have close to pure capsaicin. Then you add that to a regular hot sauce an voila, Insanity.

Sauces like that can claim to be made from all natural ingredients but there is nothing that can match it heatwise that can be made strictly from peppers grown in your garden. That's why I never buy extract based sauces. If you want to go that route you can just buy pure capsaicin and make your own for a lot less money than buying premade sauces from someone else. Here is a link to one seller but you can find plenty of others with a search: Pure Capsaicin

[MAAG]

My favorite hack is to get yum yum sauce from SAMS club and add a good Habanero sauce to taste, a little sweat n heat for wings.

Be careful, it is addictive.

[doorgunner69]

“I never have used salsa on or in anything.”

Let me guess, from the notheast?

[caww]

Exactly! LOL Pa.