Good old Tobasco is nice. Great splashed on a hard boiled egg.
One thing to note about hot sauces, they do lose a bit of their heat over time. So better guzzle them down whilst they're hot.
Ugh, hot sauce is an area of cuisine ruined by macho idiots. I don't want my food to hurt, and I don't care who knows that - I just like the taste of chillies.
My favourite supermarket hot sauce is Cholua because I also don't like the taste of vinegar unless it's on chips; and Tabasco seems to taste only of vinegar.
No vinegar on chips? What! You philistine 🫣😎😄
He said the opposite...?
So what do you all use the sauce on? Is it a dipping sauce, put it into the cooking process, drizzle over chicken etc???
All of the above?
Depends on the sauce really. As a dipping sauce I'd want essentially a spicy ketchup; at Nandos, a 50:50 mix of Extra Hot and ketchup is far better than anything they offer on its own. Tabasco is good as a quick dash in tomato soup. The nuclear option like Dave's is invaluable as an ingredient when making a chilli con/non carne. Sriracha is a good drizzle as I said earlier, a pizza isn't right without a couple of swirls. A generic all-rounder hot sauce like Frank's or Encona is a decent topping for burgers (and I presume wings etc).
Tabasco seems to taste only of vinegar.
Making it a fabulous substitute for vinegar on chips 🤤
Ugh, hot sauce is an area of cuisine ruined by macho idiots. I don’t want my food to hurt, and I don’t care who knows that – I just like the taste of chillies.
Agree 100%...too much chilli will easily overpower and ruin the flavours of any given dish. Heat aside some chillies are actually really tasty.
It's just an ingredient/spice like any other, but it is a really good one when used appropriatly... it needs to balance and be appropriate for the dish.
If you cant taste the food for the hotness, then you're doing it wrong...
There is a lot of macho culture around the hotter ones, but it's just that...
A good examlple is the carolina reaper with honey and fermented soy from ECCC...
Wonderfully tasty but it blows my brains out if I use it as a dipping sauce...it's a superb addition to many chinese or thai style dishes though, if used in 'moderation'.
Even raw scotch bonnets have a lovely fresh 'green' flavour for want of a better word...but they are too hot for me to eat whole ones.
How the hell people can eat things like nagas and trinidad scorpions is beyond me, it's just bravado/sadomasochism.
Ugh, hot sauce is an area of cuisine ruined by macho idiots.
I'm not necessarily recommending you try these but having just recently finished this little lot off that I got for father's day last year I suspect another shipment is due to arrive shortly....
£6 for 125ml? Lol...
A big +1 for Mr Vikkis. His hot sauce is a staple, hot enough but very tasty. I got a selection hamper with some pickles for Christmas, a little goes a long way!
+1 green tabasco
Goes on beans on toast, fried egg butties, bean goos, all sorts. The reds are too harsh for my softie palate but the green is tasty.
Have you tried the chipotle one?
It's amazing. I've bought about 10 of them from Ocado as I was struggling to find more when I ran out.
