Everything from Secret Aardvark and most of Crazy Bastard
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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- Melinda's ghost pepper sauce (kinda my default)
- Tobasco scorpion (another default)
- yuca tecca reserve (for tacos usually with another sauce for more heat)
- trappey's tobacco peppers (for hot dogs, eggs, and chili)
- Melinda's ghost pepper wing sauce (for nuggies)
Whatever nozzle fits in my ass best so I can boof it.
Goblin Sauce by Torchbearer, made in collaboration with the band Nekrogoblikon. Jalapeno, pineapple, scorpion pepper. Good solid heat, little fruity. Bought a case of it
El Yucateco Mayan Recipe
BOMBA CALABRESE. Sorry, I can't say it in lowercase. It's just crushed peperoncini and oil. Yummmmm I put it on pizza, in soup, curry, stew, I dip my cheeses and fingers in it.
Cholula for eggs but it's hard to find around here.
I'll be on the lookout for Valentina as it's been brought up often in this thread.
Cholula garlic, Valentina, Melinda's habenero garlic and various yellow bird.
Depends what I'm using it on.
Mambo Sauce and buffalo wing sauce for chicken.
Tabasco for eggs.
Crystal hot sauce is my goto. Tangy and just the right amount of heat to casually throw on anything if you don't want to go into battle mode. Frank's come close. Surprised that I'm the only one mentioning Crystal.
Secret Aardvark I think would be my second goto if you aren't looking for a hot sauce with the acidity of Crystal, Tabasco, Frank's, etc.
Tapatio for me.
Tapatio goes with everything!
My own. I lacto ferment peppers with (and or) garlic, sjalots, ginger, veg, fruit, paprika, herbs, spices. It is easy to make.
Do you use an airlock or do you burp the vessel when you ferment?
I used to have those but now I just use weck jars and burp them every day.
Tobasco or a mild cherry hot sauce
Nando's Peri Peri sauce.
A nice beef gravy. Delicious.
-Homemade garlic cayenne hot sauce.
-Frank's Red Hot. I put that shit on everything.
-Cholula for Mexican food.
Willing to share your fav garlic cayenne formulation?
I use Franks and Franks wing sauce a lot.
I live in NM so we have New Mexican Food, for that it comes pre covered in green or red chile.
I haven't tried that many hot sauces but I like hot sauces that have a good mix of both heat and flavor. What I prefer depends on what I'm eating, so sometimes I prefer Tapatio and other times I prefer (real) Sriracha. I do also sometimes use other hot sauces like the ghost pepper ranch from Wendy's when I can get them.
Trappey's Bull is good. Also have a few varieties of Tabasco (jalapeno, scorpion pepper, cayenne & garlic), and some made by the students at a local culinary program.
sambal djeroek
Franks has no equal.
Funky Monkey Banana Rum hot sauce. Cant find it anymore
Queens Majest Ginger and Scotch Bonnet is fantastic
Cholula Chipotle is my go to standard since its available broadly
Thats the one! Imma have to have a word with the guy that said they dont make it anymore.
Thanks!
Valentina. Not very hot, but I like it and use it like ketchup.
Love Valentina so much. Not too spicy, but it's got such a unique flavour too.
Try the black label if you want a bit more heat.
Aardvark Habanero and Renfro's Habanero Salsa. I just really like habanero, okay?
In the Netherlands I use adjuma pepper instead of habanero and mix sweet orange juice + lime as the sour orange replacement.
That depends. For pizza and Asian cuisine, Sriracha. Special shout-out to Underwood Ranch specifically, because that shit is top tier. For everything else, chipotle Tabasco. When that goes on sale, I buy a few bottles because I know I'll go through it lol.
I bought a restaurant sized container of the Chipotle Tabasco a few years ago. Turns out that might be a bit too much for a single person to get through in a reasonable amount of time.
Sriracha on pizza, you're my kind of people.
I actually had somewhat of a dependency on sriracha at one point in my life. I was working at a summer camp, and the food being kinda bland I brought in a bottle of sriracha one day. Then a few others did the same. At the end of the summer, we were basically daring each other to douse our meals in unholy amounts of that rooster's sauce.
It took me three weeks after the job ended to be able to taste anything that didn't have sriracha on it.
Not sure it counts as hot sauce but a chili oil like Lao Gan Ma is my favourite. Otherwise when I do use hot sauce my favourites are Hot Ones Los Calientes Rojo, Tabasco Chipotle, and Secret Aardvark.
Gringo Bandito. It's a flavorful medium-heat hot sauce.
Professor Phardtpounderβs Colon Cleaner.
Yellowbird Habanero Sauce, TapatΓo, Valentina, Sriracha.
Current favorite is Cosmic Disco by Karma Sauce. It's blazing hot with some great Asian accents that make it perfect for most of what I cook at home.
Blair's Death.
Really liked one of their XB series.
Valentina regular or black label
Chipotle tabasco
my favorite used to be a sauce named "amor" that was primarily centered around southern california and baja california.
it was a little bit like cholula, but w MUCH stronger vinegar punch to it and it makes my mouth water every time i think about it on top of chips or other snacks; sort of like frank's hot sauce if it were more sour and more picante at the same time.
the brand still exists, but their recipe changed significantly about 20-ish years ago and i've been unable to find anything like it to call my favorite.
All that buildup only for heartbreak in the last sentence!
Jethro's Naga Fire or Lord Reaper.
Torchbearer Garlic Reaper Sauce. Well, before alcohol, hot sauce, and pain meds fucked my stomach up. Be careful kids
Marie Sharp's
Valentina is the only true hot sauce. It makes Chalula taste like dogshit in comparison. That's how perfect it is.
I like both but for different reasons. Valentina is thick and has a very vinegar tang, great if I want a punchier mouthful of sauce like on tacos. Cholula tends to blend in with the food, makes for a more even heat, plus the variety of flavors is awesome.
kinda boring if thats your perfect. To each their own i guees, but i hope you keep trying new ones as time goes by, theres so many varieties they arent all good for the same uses
Some good producers, Queens Majesty, Hot Ones, Heartbeat
Hot ones barbacoa is fantastic, Queens majest Ginger and scotch bonnet is so flavourful, secret Aardvark habenaro is amazing on pizza.