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I lost my favorite hot sauce.

Don't ask me what it was. I cannot remember the name. I grocery shop by remembering what the bottle, or whatever, looks like. One day it disappeared from my local market's shelves, and now I am lost for a good hot sauce.

I'm not looking for a hot sauce that promises death, or pain, or the sudden ejection of subatomic particles from my rear end.

I like something that's equal parts taste and heat. I don't like tobasco or anything that first covers what you eat in vinegar and then covers the taste of vinegar with heat. The sauce I liked was nice and thick, like a barbeque sauce, so you could spread it. It had a nice speckled rust color. I'm pretty sure it had mango or papaya or pineapple in it. [Edit: and definitely habaneros.] It came in a rectangular half-pint bottle. And I could find it in a reasonably stocked grocery store.

I've tried seven or nine new kinds and darn it none of them stack up to ... whatever it was.

If you have any recommendations for me, pleased pass them on.

Otherwise, I presume a thread for discussing hot sauces that we like would be generally useful.

Micanopy Gold Products

Made locally to me, but worth having shipped if you can't find it locally to you. I like the top and last products, although they both say "Ultra Hot," I don't find them to be so.

Sweet before the heat...

Hard to find on the East Coast, but I love this stuff.

Here's my favorite. www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/r ... uce-no-10/

And on days where I'm looking for something greener...

www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/r ... auce-no-9/

For an inexpensive, basic hot sauce that delivers more taste than heat, this is my standard hot sauce: Lousiana Hot Sauce. They have lots of flavors that I haven't tried, because the original is perfect. (It says so on the label. )

I don't like Tabasco, either. It's more heat than flavor. Not that I don't like heat, but I like flavor more. Good pepper flavor without much to get in the way and mask it. I love simple foods and simple flavor combinations, as opposed to trendy fads, and this one delivers just that. I use it on eggs, cheese grits, cajun food, microwave meals that don't have enough flavor, and I've even marinated salmon in it. It's a staple ingredient in lots of my recipes, too.

"Siriacha" Tongue Out Sauce except it's in some asian language looks like "toung ot" or something. Even Wal Mart has this.

Dave's Insanity Sauce is mild and pleasing.

...ah...The Despiser raises his head...

There's a Tabasco sauce out there with garlic that I find pretty good. I use hot sauce mostly on eggs in the morning, but I've found that a shot of it in my mac and cheese recipe is pretty good.

Damelon wrote:There's a Tabasco sauce out there with garlic that I find pretty good. I use hot sauce mostly on eggs in the morning, but I've found that a shot of it in my mac and cheese recipe is pretty good.

Cool, another hot sauce + egg connoisseur!

Malik, you nailed my fave. That stuff RULES. I roll my chicken parts in that before I fry it. It makes my fried chicken as addictive as crack.

Malik23 wrote:

Damelon wrote:There's a Tabasco sauce out there with garlic that I find pretty good. I use hot sauce mostly on eggs in the morning, but I've found that a shot of it in my mac and cheese recipe is pretty good.

Cool, another hot sauce + egg connoisseur!

Eggs don't taste right without it!

gotta have my hot sauce on my huevos!!

Chulula is great for that.

Damelon wrote:

Malik23 wrote:

Damelon wrote:There's a Tabasco sauce out there with garlic that I find pretty good. I use hot sauce mostly on eggs in the morning, but I've found that a shot of it in my mac and cheese recipe is pretty good.

Cool, another hot sauce + egg connoisseur!

Eggs don't taste right without it!

I thought I was the only one! I like salsa on my eggs, too.

I don't have any hot sauce recommendations since I like Tabasco. The hotter, the better for me.

I asked my bf who's insane when he comes to hot sauce. But he likes the ones that have a good flavor, too. He recommends this: www.hotsauceworld.com/hsw1207.html

(Plus, it comes with a cool keychain!)

Try Vidalia onion hot sauce. www.localharvest.org/images/cat/prod_7200_5806.jpg

All my Latino employees use Valentino's. It's awesome. I use it all the time now.

Tabasco < Texas Pete < Cholula < Tapatío

The first two are pretty much salt and vinegar with a little heat. The last two actually have some taste, but I think Tapatío has a slightly more robust flavor. They also get hotter and better the longer they sit in the cabinet.

Good on eggs, better on mac n' cheese.

This stuff is ridiculously hot - so much so that after a sliver of it on a piece of cracker, I honestly thought I was going to die.

And that surprised you Stonemaybe? I can't believe you actually put a product labelled "Satan's Shit" in your mouth. That is so wrong on so many levels.