Posted on 04/27/2021 6:18:20 AM PDT by mylife
Hot sauce an invaluable condiment for peppering up food that needs a splash of acid or heat, whether it’s soup, dip, or fried chicken. Hot sauce is also a good option if whatever you’re eating is boring or terrible. The culinary world features an entire rainbow of hot sauce, but one of the most divisive is Tabasco. It seems like either you’re a fan, or you hate it. No room for ambivalence here. So, what do you think? Are you a hater or a lover of Tabasco hot sauce? We present both arguments below.
Tabasco is good For a while, I decided I was not a fan of Tabasco sauce. It was mostly because everyone around me said how much they hated it, so I went with the flow. Peer pressure is real. But recently I got to thinking about how much I missed going to a diner for things like a late breakfast. When I go to a diner, I’m not really a pancake or waffle person, I’m more of an egg breakfast person. Omelets, eggs Benedict, skillets, you name it—I prefer that kind of stuff. And it all gets me reminiscing about things like those possibly ancient stacks of single-serve jellies and hot sauce caddies on the table.
While I like Cholula, which is usually in those caddies, the more I think about it, the more I realize that I almost always reach for Tabasco sauce. I really like some form of acid in my food, otherwise it feels kind of plain to me. And that’s why I like Tabasco. The acid thing seems to be the main complaint (that and the fact that it’s kinda watery).
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May be so, yet it comes from only one place in the U.S., Avery Island, LOUISIANA.
Crystal is highly favored in the lower South, especially in the oyster bars in Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle...it is a perfect blend that allows the taste of the peppers to come through without numbing the tongue...probably the best selling pepper sauce in the South is bottled by many brands and is a small green pepper in a salt and vinegar base found in every meat and three restaurant and is an essential sauce for collards, turnips, or mustard greens.
More than four decades ago, in college at Tulane University in New Orleans, I attended a small reception for a US Senator at the McIlhenny home. The event was superbly hosted, with Mcllenny and his wife being models of Southern charm and good manners.
That works, too! :)
Your professional opinion is needed over here!
Ping!
N idea, since I make my own hot sauces, from home grown peppers, which usually (unless I screw up) blows away just about any commercial grade hot sauce.
The going in doesn’t bother me it’s the uhhhhh coming out that gets me... When I was younger I would eat a whole bowl of hot pepper at every meal now not so much lol...
I keep Valentina, Crystal, and Sriracha on hand at home. Out, any Louisiana hot sauce will do.
Tabasco is a great hot sauce, the premier breakfast hot sauce.
And ANY hot sauce is junk if it contains anything besides peppers, salt and vinegar.
Two other world-class sauces:
La Victoria Salsa Brava - Red Jalepeno
The Original Louisiana Hot Sauce - Cayenne
The addition of garlic to a hot sauce is the ultimate abomination.
I prefer their green Tobasco, the Jalapeno variety. A bit less heat, a bit more flavor. Sauces so hot that you can’t taste a flavor through your burning out receptors are not my thing!
I find it difficult to equate burning my mouth with fun. But that's why they make chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and the 57 Heinz varieties. Enjoy!
Red Hot is the best....I’ve also gotten to like mild green salsa from La Victoria....great on scrambled eggs...
Amen, brother. Try their green sauce also.
I can’t eat morning eggs without hot sauce. Tabasco is too vinegary. Cholula first, Texas Pete second and Frank’s third.
As Queen Elizabeth says, “I put that sh_t on everything”...
Dave's Insanity is made with pepper extract. They call it all natural but you can't grow a pepper that hot. The extract isn't even usually made from very hot peppers, just Jalapenos because they are cheap and plentiful. Whenever I see a sauce that uses extracts I cross it off of my list.
Spicy Chili Crisp is good stuff and is a nice break from normal Thai Chili paste.
” Habeneros give me migraines.”
My girlfriend’s brother gets migraines from Cayenne.
Korean friend of mine (yes, Korean) would agree with you. He tells me he does not like food that just has pure heat; he favors flavor first, heat second.
Of course, he's got some good heat tolerances...
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