[PJ-Comix]

I love hot sauce but are any of these new sauces better than Tabasco?

[1rudeboy]

LOL—there are hot sauces out there that make Tabasco seem like ketchup . . . that being said, Tabasco is fine stuff (the original).

[mylife]

Yes, many are better than Tabasco.
The fellow that invented this is a gazillioniare.

[JRandomFreeper]

I go through a large bottle of Tabasco Chipotle in a couple of months. I haven't used it on ice cream, yet, but I darn sure used it on my scrambled eggs this AM.

/johnny

[hinckley buzzard]

Matter of taste. Sometimes I like Franks original, or chipotle flavor, but Louisiana hot sauce remains my overall favorite. You can't go wrong with Tabasco of course.

Incidentally I don't think this is a novel development. Last time I was in New Orleans, about ten years ago, there was a kiosk down by that beignoir & coffee place, with whole shelves full of little bottles of different sauces.

[Safetgiver]

They seem to go for the hotter the better so it kills the taste of whatever your eating. No, there is nothing BETTER than Tobasco. I even make my own, but only for single dishes ( one for venison, one for fish, and one taste for veggies)).

[Dr. Sivana]

I love hot sauce but are any of these new sauces better than Tabasco?

Crystal has had better flavor than Tabasco for decades. The green Tabasco is pretty good, though. Stay away from Frank's. Bull and Louisiana are okay as well.

[Scoutmaster]

If they would only bring back Holy City Heat hot sauce, made from the Charleston Hot Pepper.

Just hot enough and with the best taste I've ever experienced in a hot sauce. It was introduced about 1995, during the last heyday of the hot sauce revolution.

The salsa, reintroduced recently, just isn't the same thing.

[muawiyah]

The new sauces seem to have this in common ~ Anaheim peppers ~ with plenty of meaty texture AND a high capsaicin count (see Scoville Units).

Some, like siracha, are finished off with plenty of garlic ~ everything is pureed in ~ it's not just a chopped pepper with vinegar.

So, what's the deal with Anaheim peppers? First, they have a shorter growing season so you could probably grow them in upstate NY ~ and second, they have a very high capsaicin count. Third, they puree well ~ outside tissues and all.

SE Asians are appreciative of the high quality of Huy Fong ~ which I am not advertising, and this one has expanded well beyond the days when it was whipped up in the restaurant kitchen. I know some Malaysian guys who seriously looked into IMPORTING Huy Fong brand from California to Thailand and Malaysia ~ the very heart of the ancient spice trade.

Answer ~ yes, folks there love it, no; no, they have nothing like it even though the product was invented there, and you wouldn't believe how high the tariffs were!!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Living in Silicon Valley, my kids grew up eating Thai, Viet Namese, Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In high school, they’d let out a yell “Weak Sauce!!” for something lame — used to crack me up. They all really like spicy foods.

[SeeSharp]

Firehouse Subs has a large selection of hot sauces. Monk Sauce is my favorite.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Texas Pete is the winner in my book.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I like flavorful hot sauces but the ones that are in a competition to be the “hottest” are awful. Tabbasco is good stuff. I like Lousiana too.

[Ditter]

I don’t eat hot sauce, it burns me all the way through, if you get my meaning. But there are some shops in New Orleans that have dozens and dozens of brands of hot sauce. I think maybe you buy them for the funny labels and not actually to eat. My favorite doesn’t have a name just a picture on the bottle of a guy with his mouth wide open like he is screaming. Too funny.

[tiki]

I love sriracha but we eat red or green chile on pretty much everything.

[ConservativeStatement]

Let's ask Adam. He eat's anything.

[LibWhacker]

Tobasco was my favorite for many years. Then a few years ago I read somewhere that it was too vinegary for some people. After that, all I could taste was the vinegar. So I moved on to Tapatio (still my wife's favorite) and, for Mexican food, Bufalo and El Yucateco Red (the hotter, the better). El Yucateco (some people call it YUCK-ateco, which I'll never understand) is definitely my favorite now for Mexican food, followed by Bufalo in close second.

Sriracha is beloved by many for Asian food -- and for lots of other things, too. I like it, too, but far and away, my favorite Asian hot sauce nowadays is Sambal Oelek ground "fresh" chili paste. Hot, yes, but full of fantastic flavors as well and available in most supermarkets here on the left coast.

Then there's the million billion trillion Scoville stuff. Nuts if you ask me. Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Scares me. Drather handle rattlesnakes.

Ever seen this poster?

Might be fun to track down all of them and give them a go, as long as they don't fall into that insanely hot category I mentioned earlier!

[Gabz]

I love hot sauce but are any of these new sauces better than Tabasco?

Nearly ANY hot sauce is better than that kerosene equivalent.

[who knows what evil?]

Business Inside just woke up to this??? There are already hot sauce shops all over this country, and they have been there for quite a while. Get with the program.

[Edgar3]

This is a subject that I can relate too. In another life, I was known as “PyroMan”. I founded Pyropepper.com, one of the original 3 fiery foods retailers on the web. I operated for 14 years and shipped hot sauces all over the world. It was fun! Anyway, I am a HUGH and SERIES Chilehead and eat hot sauce with every meal. To answer the original question “are any of these new sauces better than Tabasco?”, it is a matter of personal taste. Hot sauces are like wine, in that the illiterations are infinite, and it depends on the food pairing.

[mplsconservative]

Like a lot of others, I’m a big fan of sriracha, but I also love El Yucateco. Both the chile habanero and salsa verde are numbingly great with heat AND flavor.