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I admit it: I'm the guy who doesn't like Sriracha as much as everyone else. At home, I always keep Tabasco Chipotle and Crystal (so much better than regular Tabasco) on hand. I don't like super-hot sauces that burn on their way out even more than on their way in, but whenever anything is described as hot and smoky or hot and sweet, that's when I have to try it. Quizno's Subs used to have a "Batch 41 Three-Pepper" hot sauce that I loved. It was thick and spicy and smoky and slightly sweet, too. At one point, they sold it in flask-shaped bottles, but I stopped eating at Quizno's when they stopped carrying the sauce.
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I just picked up some Nando's Peri Peri sauce because I've always heard Nando's is a great chicken restaurant (we don't have any in the Southeast), and I always see that bottle of sauce on the top shelf of the little section of British foods at Publix. It was almost $4 for the small glass bottle, but this time I splurged, and it is great so far. I made New York halal street cart-style chicken and rice with the creamy white sauce, based on a recipe I found online. Unfortunately, the rice (which I cooked with low-sodium chicken broth) came out really bland and boring, but the white sauce and Peri Peri really saved it. It is tangy, vinegary, and fruity, not too spicy (I got the medium because I'm not hardcore like most of you), and different from any of my regular hot sauces. I always keep Tabasco Chipotle, Crystal, and Thai sweet chili sauce on hand, and this is a nice addition to my collection. Since I prefer sauces that are thicker and either sweet or smoky as well as spicy, what should I try next? I've heard good things about Tiger Sauce and Pickapeppa. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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So far Pickapeppa Sauce tastes like A1 with a little bit of jerk seasoning. I haven't opened my Tiger Sauce yet.
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Oct 19, 2014 16:21
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Butch Cassidy posted:Tried some Try Me Tiger sauce, tonight. It is very sugary with a decent pepper flavor. Not my thing but my wife really likes it v I bought some recently as well. It reminds me of a thinner Thai sweet chili sauce. I added some to sour cream as a dip for crackers, but it would be better poured over cream cheese. I also bought Pickapeppa Sauce, another one I had always wanted to try, which was a lot like A-1, but perhaps with more of a jerk-seasoned kick. Very fruity and sweet, and would probably also be good with cream cheese, but of the two, I preferred the Tiger Sauce.
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Thunder Moose posted:What are some of our favorite chipotle hot sauces? Tabasco Chipotle is one of my all-time favorite hot sauces, and one of the only ones I'll always replace when I run out. Gotta have it.
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Jun 10, 2015 01:53
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Power of Pecota posted:I go through bottles of Chipotle Tabasco and Tiger Sauce way faster than anything else, imo they're the best if you hosed something up and want to drown out the flavor (which happens a lot to me) Those two and Pickapeppa Sauce are my favorites. Pickapeppa is similar to A1 or British HP Sauce, but a thousand times tastier.
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Jun 21, 2015 05:17
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Butch Cassidy posted:Tiger sauce is a very sweet pepper sauce made by Try Me and is tasty and one of my wife's favorites but the sugar limits its use for me as it can get cloying in a hurry. It reminds me of sweet Thai chili sauce, and it's great with chicken, pork, or fish, or poured over a brick of cream cheese as a party dip.
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Today I dumped out about half a bottle of Crystal that I kept in the pantry, because the color had changed from bright red to brown, and it smelled a little funky and didn't taste as fresh and piquant anymore. I'm the only one in the house who uses it, and when I bought a fresh bottle for the break room at work, I realized how red it was, and how brown my home bottle was. I'm a hot sauce wuss compared to most of you, but I love Crystal for a basic, everyday hot sauce, and I was shocked it went "bad," due to the vinegar content. I also dumped out most of a bottle of "Smack My rear end and Call Me Santa" hot sauce I received as a gift several Christmases ago, just because it felt like it was time, it wasn't too amazing, and there was sediment floating in it. Now I need to buy more Crystal to keep on hand, but I have my favorites: Tabasco Chipotle (so good!), Pickapeppa, and Tiger Sauce (I prefer sweet/fruity and smoky hot sauces), plus Nando's Medium Peri-Peri and Thai sweet chili sauce in the fridge. I wish I liked sriracha as much as everyone else, but I had a bottle that took me years to get through. Any suggestions for other sweet/fruity/smoky, medium hot-to-hot sauces I should try? For what it's worth, I used to LOVE the Batch 81 three-pepper sauce that Quizno's Subs used to have. It was sweet AND smoky and thick, almost as thick as barbecue sauce. They used to sell it in glass flask-shaped bottles, but not in over a decade.
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Has anyone ever tried neonata? It's an Italian condiment, a spicy relish made of crushed hot and sweet cherry peppers and salty young anchovies in oil. It looks like that Wickles spicy sandwich spread (which I really like), but I'm sure it's completely different -- spicier, richer, funkier. It sounds amazing, but I've only ever seen it on Amazon, where it's very expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Coluccio-Neo...onata+anchovies But this Saveur article, which brought it to my attention, is tempting me: http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/Go-Fish
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My current favorite sauce is Minorcan Mayhem datil pepper sauce. Our local chain of amazing barbecue restaurants, 4 Rivers Smokehouse, started putting bottles on each table about two years ago, and I had to buy my own and start giving it as gifts. It has a nice heat that isn't overpowering, but it's also fruity and sweet and a little smoky. https://www.minorcanmayhem.com/ My good friend just gifted me his current favorite: Hot Ones Fiery Chipotle, from the Heatonist website. I had never heard of these before, but I can vouch for this one being a very good sauce, with pineapple, carrot, and lime to balance out the chipotle, habanero, and ghost pepper. I made a nice hot chipotle mayo with it, but I haven't tried any straight yet. https://heatonist.com/products/hot-ones-hot-sauce?variant=378292305929
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Smugworth posted:That's a lot of tiger sauce Tiger Sauce is good poured over a block of softened cream cheese for people to dip crackers, chips, and vegetables into. I just discovered this thread, and I'm so impressed by all the people who make their own hot sauces. I'm not there yet, largely because I'm not into the super-hot stuff like habaneros, ghost peppers, and Carolina reapers. I love hot sauces that have smoky, fruity, and/or sweet elements. This is what I keep at home most of the time: Crystal (for when I just want vinegar and heat; so much better than regular Tabasco) Tabasco Chipotle (so thick and smoky; nothing like regular Tabasco) Texas Pete Green Pepper Sauce (the best thing to shake onto stewed greens; I keep refilling the bottle with regular white vinegar when it gets low): https://texaspete.com/shop/green-pepper-sauce/ Mayhem Datil Pepper Hot Sauce (thick, a little sweet, and good with everything): https://www.savethedatil.com/store/c3/Minorcan Trader Joe's Italian Bomba fermented Calabrian chile peppers (great spread on sandwiches or added to pasta sauce and meatloaf): https://spicyfoodreviews.com/2021/03/go-to-hot-sauce-trader-joes-italian-bomba-hot-pepper-sauce Keith's Burger Sauce (truly perfection on burgers and great on everything else): https://heatonist.com/products/keiths-burger-sauce Small Axe Peppers' The Oakland hot sauce, made with California raisins and carrots: https://heatonist.com/products/small-axe-peppers-california-raisin About half an hour north of where I live, there is a fabulous little market called Spice Is Nice that only sells spicy foods and hot sauces. I believe he may do mail order sales, but if you can make it to Sanford, Florida, he'll let you sample almost anything in the store. It opened in mid-2022, and it is a real local treasure in a neighborhood full of good restaurants, bars, and breweries. https://spiceisnicegrocery.com/ The owner also has his own hot sauce brand, Hotter Than El, and I've never been disappointed by any of his flavors. https://www.hotterthanel.com/sauces
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