Favourite Hot Sauce Brand?

Lornen

I've always really liked spicy foods and sauces.
When I was alot younger the only thing around really, was Tabasco sauce and their limited range of hot sauce flavours.

In recent years, I've started to sort of, "collect" different types of hot sauces.
I've recently purchased 2 bottles of Iguana hot sauce.

The 'Radioactive Explosively Hot Atomic Pepper Sauce" is really nice, lovely lime and garlic element to it as well as some pretty intense heat.

I was interested in the Chipotlé sauce yesterday so I went back for it today and it's a sauce I can see myself slapping onto absolutely everything.

Really subtle heat and a nice smokey flavour. Can't wait to get it over some scrambled eggs!


I'm eyeballing several other from this Iguana brand, so that made me wonder, how many boardsies love their hot sauces and could they recommend any to me?

novarock

Ive taken to putting Franks hot sauce on literally everything.. It has become a serious obsession.

Lornen

novarock wrote: »

Ive taken to putting Franks hot sauce on literally everything.. It has become a serious obsession.

Ah Frank's hot sauce is lovely, it's very light though. I got a bottle of the Xtra hot Frank's sauce and it was still a little tame for me.

Would love to try the chile and lime variety of it!

novarock

Not in it for the heat, just the flavour. Completely unaware that there was a hotter variety - will defintely check it out.

I have this guy too at the moment

http://www.mexgrocer.com/3120.html

Hot enough that you could put it on most foods without it completely dominating the flavour..

Lornen

Frank's is amazing on eggs with some cracked black pepper.. Hard to beat! also makes baked beans ridiculously tasty.

You know, I picked up a bottle of hot sauce made by Cottage Delight, and I thought "ah, these one's probably don't know what hot sauce is!" and no joke, it is one of the hottest sauces I found by a brand that didn't specialise in mouth watering goods..

It had 64% habenero/scotch bonnet content but they dropped it 8% recently. What a shame!

Stuff is killer though and only about 4 euro's in my local deli, total STEAL.

http://www.cottagedelight.co.uk/1.aspx?p=Seriously_Hot_Caribbean_Sauce&m=S&sp=56&id=18503

novarock

you should become like this guy - an entire bottle of a different hot sauce every day:

http://smokingtongue.blogspot.com/

DoesNotCompute

Tabasco is nice. I like Cholula sauce myself.

Lornen

novarock wrote: »

you should become like this guy - an entire bottle of a different hot sauce every day:

http://smokingtongue.blogspot.com/

Some people have more money than sense! :pac:

Toilet roll in the freezer I hope!

SBWife

Encona Original Hot Sauce gets added to many dishes around here.

Lornen

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

I like Cholula sauce myself.

Available in Ireland?!

Mrs Fox

Has anyone tried out Mic's Chilli Inferno Sauces?

Professey Chin

Try this but beware.Its caused tears,temp blindness, vomiting and exteme drunkenness from trying to stop the burning

http://www.scorchio.co.uk/sauce-with-bullet-keychain-silver-collectors-edition-750000-scoville-p-622.html

schemingbohemia

Mrs Fox wrote: »

Has anyone tried out Mic's Chilli Inferno Sauces?

No but love the designs on their bottles, must check them out, I see they have a stockist in Dalkey, nice one.

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/dabomhothots.html

Scrazy hot sauce. I put it in everything. At the beginning I could only put a couple of drops in but now my tolerance is getting better.

Tabasco and Habenero sauce tastle like water now

Lornen

Are the sauces with the little día de los muertos figures on them sold in Dublin City somewhere?
I don't live in Dublin so I'd never be able to venture out to Dalkey!!

Look sick as though..


I picked up this bad boy yesterday. Lovely lovely. Not super hot but it goes on everything.

nice1franko

Franks
Sriracha sauce
Tobasco

SadieSue

I use Sriracha and Tobasco. My husband doesn't like anything too spicey. He gets the hiccups from it lol

rubadub

Lornen wrote: »

Are the sauces with the little día de los muertos figures on them sold in Dublin City somewhere?

The food mall in liffey street (near the halpenny bridge northside) has/had a shop with loads of extra hot sauces, literally shelves brimming with loads of them, somebody might confirm if the shop is still there.

In the past I have mixed my own, like got the extra hot tobasco and put it in franks or in sweet chilli sauces to boost them.

The strong ones are just raw heat to me, franks is really tasty, to me its like comparing vodka to beer.

In this thread a guy confirmed the shop was there last april
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65436264

Lornen

rubadub wrote: »

The food mall in liffey street (near the halpenny bridge northside) has/had a shop with loads of extra hot sauces, literally shelves brimming with loads of them, somebody might confirm if the shop is still there.

In the past I have mixed my own, like got the extra hot tobasco and put it in franks or in sweet chilli sauces to boost them.

The strong ones are just raw heat to me, franks is really tasty, to me its like comparing vodka to beer.

In this thread a guy confirmed the shop was there last april
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65436264

Oh perfect!! Thank you so much!

Even though I do love a bit of heat, I agree that some sauces are just TOO hot.
I got the first Iguana sauce, the radioactive atomic pepper sauce, and it was pretty hot to me. So I looked it up online some lads were on about how it wasn't THAT hot and that it was pretty bland yada yada. Get a good finger dip of the stuff and it gets pretty uncomfortable! And I love hot sauces and hot foods so I think some people talk out their arse sometimes when reviewing sauces on the interweb.. Keyboard warriors!

Frank's is a cayenne based sauce and it's really pleasant. I found sauces that had a base of Habenero the hottest.

schemingbohemia

Lornen wrote: »

Are the sauces with the little día de los muertos figures on them sold in Dublin City somewhere?
I don't live in Dublin so I'd never be able to venture out to Dalkey!!
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From their site
http://www.micschilli.ie/utilities/stockists.asp
It seems Fallon & Byrne on Exchequer Street might be your best option.

FTGFOP

Call me mainstream, but Tabasco is my favourite.

Lornen

FTGFOP wrote: »

Call me mainstream, but Tabasco is my favourite.

Have you tried anything else other than Tobasco? I was that way for a while. Quite reluctant to purchase a larger container as I felt "surely that can't be as strong as my tiny bottle of concentrated pain" but I put my big girl pants on one day and I haven't regretted it!

I like getting little seeds and pieces of flesh in my hot sauce, it feels more real then!

I don't want to sound like I'm dissing the most important stepping stone in my quest into the world of all things scorching, but there total lack of variety in Ireland bothers me. Only ever found the original and habenero sauce here in Ireland!


Can't beat the little portion containers when on the road though. Also, I quite like Tabasco on scrambled eggs

FTGFOP

Not much other than Tabasco. I've had Louisiana hot sauce, and some home-made stuff from a farmers' market in the US. Louisiana is nice but probably milder than Tabasco, and the home-made stuff was this evil brown gloop that just gave me heartburn. I'm not a connoisseur. I bought the Tabasco Habenero to try it and it's been in the fridge for a couple of months. It's just too strong for me to use it directly on food and it doesn't have a nice flavour either.

I can taste the oak in the Tabasco, as well as the heat and I like that. +1 on the scrambled eggs. Sometimes I'll open up a grilled cheese sandwich and put it on the cheese. Also use it for improving shop-bought salsa

daymobrew

Lornen wrote: »

I was interested in the Chipotlé sauce yesterday so I went back for it today and it's a sauce I can see myself slapping onto absolutely everything.

Really subtle heat and a nice smokey flavour. Can't wait to get it over some scrambled eggs!

Can you get the Chipolte sauce in Dublin? If so, where?

Lornen

daymobrew wrote: »

Can you get the Chipolte sauce in Dublin? If so, where?

You could check out TK Maxx, that's where I found my sauces. Towards the til. That's where all of their foodstuffs reside. I hope you find it!

Daegerty

SadieSue wrote: »

My husband doesn't like anything too spicey. He gets the hiccups from it lol

is this something that only affects men?

Unregistered.

Bought a bottle of franks there last night. Look forward to trying it out!

s3129

Cool, I love this kind of stuff.

Where can you buy Iguana from? I live in Galway.. and super markets do it or anything? I've never seen it before.

SadieSue

Daegerty wrote: »

is this something that only affects men?

Not sure about that lol

Fart

Oh boy do I love my hot sauces, but unfortunately now I'm a poor student and some of the varieties out there can be expensive.

I'm dying to taste Dave's Insanity Ghost Pepper Sauce. There are plenty more on that site that I want to try.

Argh you're making me hungry.

Lornen

Unregistered. wrote: »

Bought a bottle of franks there last night. Look forward to trying it out!

They had it in TKMaxx a few weeks back, not sure if they'll have it in your store but try it! Should be up near the til