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Chow Chow is a condiment created from cabbage. Originally from Newfoundland, I believe, and later introduced to Louisiana by French migrants where it became a staple in Louisiana/Southern cuisine.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:01
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So is it like relish but cabbage instead of cucumber? Sounds like something I'd love.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:21
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Mrs. Renfro's is cabbage, sweet pepper and onions. The regular stuff just tastes too goddamn sweet to me without the bite to even it out so I stick to the hot stuff. Natch there's variants depending on brand and region, but it's still fantastic stuff.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:28
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This is what i get shipped to me in Colorado from a friend. It is the best I have ever had.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:31
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so... it's Redneck kim chi?
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Apr 1, 2016 17:58
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Squashy Nipples posted:so... it's Redneck kim chi? pretty much
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Apr 1, 2016 19:09
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Now I have dae bow bow stuck in my head but for hot chow chow : (
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Apr 1, 2016 19:16
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Salt Fish posted:Now I have dae bow bow stuck in my head but for hot chow chow : ( OHHHHHHH yeaaaaa the cabbage -- byooootiful!! the peppers -- EVEN MORE byoootiful!! ♪ hot chow chow ♫
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Apr 1, 2016 19:19
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Jmcrofts posted:Not technically a hot sauce, but Mrs. Renfro brand salsa has some insanely hot variations, including ghost pepper and a ton of habanero salsas. They have them in the salsa section of my local supermarket. Refenro's poo poo is loving awful. I bought a jar of their salsa once and it was loving thickened with corn starch. It was like eating tomato syrup.
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Apr 1, 2016 19:42
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Bum the Sad posted:Refenro's poo poo is loving awful. I bought a jar of their salsa once and it was loving thickened with corn starch. It was like eating tomato syrup. I tried their ghost pepper queso once and there was nothing to it but heat and onion flavor. Didn't finish the jar.
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Apr 3, 2016 06:23
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please, do not allow this experience with their salsas to color your opinion of their hot chow chow, it's really something else
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Apr 3, 2016 12:15
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http://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Puree-Net-Wt-FL/dp/B0097YI480/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1459709540&sr=8-1&keywords=reaper+puree I've been keeping that at my desk for a while now. It can be found cheaper and I love it. Pureed reapers with barely anything else.
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Apr 3, 2016 19:54
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Has anyone tried cajohns reaper salsa? My butcher has it but it's pretty loving expensive.
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Apr 3, 2016 20:31
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MysteriousStranger posted:http://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Puree-Net-Wt-FL/dp/B0097YI480/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1459709540&sr=8-1&keywords=reaper+puree What do you think about the taste? I have some reaper sauce and it's got such a weird sweet almost sour taste. It reminds me of something slightly fermented or perhaps an artificial banana flavor. I can't figure out if I like the taste or not. Both the HBD fervor sauce and dave's scorpion sauce have this taste in them so I imagine that's just what superhots taste like?
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Apr 3, 2016 20:45
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Just bought uni-eagle and huy fong sriracha, and it kinda boggles me how the sugary and vinegary one is the most popular.
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Apr 3, 2016 21:14
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Salt Fish posted:What do you think about the taste? I have some reaper sauce and it's got such a weird sweet almost sour taste. It reminds me of something slightly fermented or perhaps an artificial banana flavor. I can't figure out if I like the taste or not. Both the HBD fervor sauce and dave's scorpion sauce have this taste in them so I imagine that's just what superhots taste like? That's normal of fermented reapers, this isn't strong in that way though. There's really no way out of it. It's sweet and sour at the same time, hits hard and hits fast but has no long term burn. Most of them are pretty sweet to start with, reapers are almost citrus like, toss in some fermentation and there you go. The only ones I've had that weren't were highly vinegar based.
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Apr 3, 2016 21:20
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Highblood posted:Has anyone tried cajohns reaper salsa? My butcher has it but it's pretty loving expensive. I hate it. It's way too bitter and hot with the only actual flavor being the small amount of vinegar you taste before it ramps up and goes nuts. Granted I disliked the reaper peppers whenever I tried to use them in a meal also. If you love the reaper taste you might like it but I can't recommend spending money on it just to try it.
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Apr 5, 2016 09:29
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Highblood posted:Has anyone tried cajohns reaper salsa? My butcher has it but it's pretty loving expensive. I haven't had the reaper stuff, but I got some various bottles of Cajohn's in the mail out here and it was very, very good. If it's not insanely expensive and you've had reaper before and liked it I'd give it a go.
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Apr 11, 2016 10:19
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Jmcrofts posted:Jimmy Johns uses Cherry Peppers, but the taste is pretty indistinguishable from plain ol Pepperoncinis, aka the peppers you get with a Papa Johns pizza. You should be able to find them either whole or pre-sliced in the pickle section of the grocery store. Jmcrofts posted:Not technically a hot sauce, but Mrs. Renfro brand salsa has some insanely hot variations, including ghost pepper and a ton of habanero salsas. They have them in the salsa section of my local supermarket. We are posting friends now for you putting me on these things.
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Apr 11, 2016 10:47
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On vacation in Barbados, and drat, the locals like thier hot sauce!!! We went to a super market, and bought a ton of bot sauce, all different kinds. Will post a pic of the entire haul when I get back.
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Apr 11, 2016 11:46
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I got this hot sauce somewhere, I can't even remember where. I cracked it open last week and applied liberally to some tacos for dinner. Holy poo poo, what a mistake. This stuff is searingly hot. I am an evangelist of capsaicin, but will be using this stuff very sparingly moving forward. It had me drenched in sweat. Good poo poo.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:20
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Was it bitter at all? I've been avoiding the extract sauces, but I don't see a reason that a quality extract would have an off-taste although that's been my experience so far.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:23
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No bitterness that I could detect, no.
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Apr 12, 2016 15:33
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Herr Tog posted:We are posting friends now for you putting me on these things. 
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Apr 12, 2016 15:45
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Has anyone ever tried making their own hot sauce? My sister got me a book of hot sauce & related recipes for my birthday last month and I think I'm going to try making a fermented pepper mash, which the book in turns uses to make several different kind of hot sauces. Basically it calls for aging some smushed-up chiles in vinegar for a week or two, filtering out the seeds and pureeing it all.
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Apr 27, 2016 05:12
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I think if you read back through this thread you will find people have made their own. There was also a whole other thread about people making their own sriracha but it may be in archives now.
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Apr 29, 2016 00:50
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 Had I tried this before I bought it, I probably wouldn't have bought it, but now the more that I eat this the more that I like it.
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Apr 29, 2016 16:09
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Salt Fish posted:Was it bitter at all? I've been avoiding the extract sauces, but I don't see a reason that a quality extract would have an off-taste although that's been my experience so far. I've got a bottle of the same stuff, it's a shame it's so mind-searingly hot because it really is tasty. It's hot enough that if I'm making a burrito I'll typically put 2-3 drops on the tortilla and spread it around with the spoon as opposed to pouring a fat line in. Edit: Just don't do what I did make food with it while drinking. I added what I thought was a reasonable amount and the only thing that helped soothe the burning was to hold a swig of cold beer in my mouth. When it got too warm, swallow, take another swig and repeat. It really ruins the conversation. Wild T fucked around with this message at 11:30 on May 10, 2016 |
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May 10, 2016 11:27
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Crystal is the best hot sauce, bar none
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May 12, 2016 09:32
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wormil posted:Supermarket had Peri-Peri Hot on clearance, drat this stuff is delicious. I'm going back to see if they have any left. Found a few bottles of these a while back. Didn't last more than a couple of weeks. Holy poo poo is it good.
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May 12, 2016 14:49
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Jimson posted:Crystal is the best hot sauce, bar none You're silly.
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May 12, 2016 15:21
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Crystal is the best with southern food, especially fried chicken.
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May 12, 2016 19:42
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You guys ever watch Hot Ones? It's an interview show where between every question they eat a chicken wing doused in increasingly spicy hot sauce. Key and Peele did admirably: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v-7rtVDk Cholula was too spicy for DJ Khaled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcEpHnaZMgg They also sell their own brand of hot sauce which I should probably buy and do a trip report for this thread.
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May 12, 2016 19:47
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snyprmag posted:Crystal is the best with southern food, especially fried Louisiana and Crystal are both just standard good sauces. Not the best nor the hottest, but just good.
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May 13, 2016 00:25
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Jmcrofts posted:You guys ever watch Hot Ones? It's an interview show where between every question they eat a chicken wing doused in increasingly spicy hot sauce. This was really really awesome.
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May 13, 2016 16:59
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Tommy Chong appeared and you didn't post that one? https://youtu.be/6tmSC1BpAFc
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May 14, 2016 06:48
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What a great concept, he needs better guests.
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May 14, 2016 11:41
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The haul from Barbados. I bought all of this at a supermarket in a mall, and it was cheap. It had a great selection and quality food, probably the best supermarket I've been to in the Caribbean. They even had Herr's potato chips. The two items on the left aren't local to Barbados. I loving love that Jamaican yellow scotch bonnet stuff. Matouk's hot sauces are available in my area at Caribbean markets, but I'd never seen their pepper jelly. It's yummy. Bajan sauce comes in two varieties, red and yellow. Red is a little hotter and has some vinegar, yellow has some mustard and is creamier. Both of the sauces have a nice texture from chunks of garlic, onions and peppers. The Delish brand was budget, about 82 cents a bottle. The other bottles were about $1.49, and the big plastic bottle was $2.50. The foil pouch has a wet marinade and was 69 cents. Amanda's is like Barbadian Heinz, I'm pretty sure that it was the sauce that they served at the Hilton. It's fantastic. The Delish has been surprisingly good so far too. I haven't opened the two in the middle yet.
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May 14, 2016 12:20
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We have Barbadian friends, and they bring us Bajan sauce, as well as top secret homemade sauce too. I like the freshness of the cucumber.
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May 14, 2016 14:01
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Sort of related to hot sauce, but is there any appreciable difference in terms of spiciness between different colors of habanero peppers?
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May 15, 2016 04:45
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