Favourite hot sauce?

parttime · 09-06-2020 05:53AM

I really like the el yucateca sauces. Especially kutbik Il. Made to a Mayan recipe, apparently...
Really nice savoury flavour, with no vinegar, and not sweet

rubadub · 09-06-2020 10:09AM

the beer revolu wrote: »

I've never tasted it but you always hear how bad it is!

Same here. Also the price puts me off too.

2.99 for regular, and 3.99 for wings in tesco. I usually see it being more expensive when really I reckon it should be cheaper.

regular
Aged Cayenne Red Peppers (35%), Distilled Vinegar, Water, Salt, Garlic Powder

wings
Distilled Vinegar, Aged Cayenne Peppers (27%), Salt, Water, Canola Oil, Paprika, Stabiliser: Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavouring, Garlic Powder

So its like the wings is premade with canola oil instead of butter, and less peppers as you would expect as I think it is "eating strength". So I reckon it is cheaper to produce. If it was cheaper I might try it.

It reminds me of those premixed cans of coke & whiskey/vokda. They usually end up costing more than buying coke and mixing it to your own preference. My perference changes all the time.

I have never heard people say they prefer wings, unless they were not mixing the orginal with butter.

Mellor wrote: »

I'd be interested to see how it does in blind taste tests tbh.

well it seems you would easily pick it out

Mellor wrote: »

Their wing sauce is just the regular sauce with artificial butter flavour added.
The regular one with real butter added for wings is a lot nicer.

Mellor · 09-06-2020 11:00AM

rubadub wrote: »

So its like the wings is premade with canola oil instead of butter, and less peppers as you would expect as I think it is "eating strength". So I reckon it is cheaper to produce. If it was cheaper I might try it.

I picked it up when I was doing wings last minute and the regular was gone. It was the same price. I since bought the extra hot that I prefer to the regular.

It's literally just regular sauce, plus canola oil, butter flavour and paprika.
There's also a hot buffalo flavour. But I've never seen it.

well it seems you would easily pick it out

I think you misunderstood. As I said obviously pick out buffalo wings made with real butter vrs wings without. Regardless of what sauce is used.

I was talking about comparing sauces only. To be as fair as possible. Say;
Original Franks, Buffalo Wings, Louisiana, Cholula. Mixed with a bland base, like shredded chicken.
If the test was blind, I don't think anyone would called any of those muck.

rubadub · 09-06-2020 05:27PM

Mellor wrote: »

I think you misunderstood. As I said obviously pick out buffalo wings made with real butter vrs wings without. Regardless of what sauce is used.

I was talking about comparing sauces only. To be as fair as possible. Say;
Original Franks, Buffalo Wings, Louisiana, Cholula. Mixed with a bland base, like shredded chicken.
If the test was blind, I don't think anyone would called any of those muck.

My point still stands though, in blind tastes you would still be calling the regular one "far nicer", while still finding the other one OK. So your own earlier recommendations in this very thread might be putting people off risking buying it. If you are testing them with no butter added then why would the wings sauce even be in the lineup, its supposed to be "ready made with butter", it could be top of many peoples lists as most would not like the sauces on their own. It would be like a line up of vodkas and then a vodka premixed with coke.

I am not sure if the other poster literally meant it was absolutely vile and totally unpalatable, I would actually guess they did not. This is since I find most people I know calling something "muck" are exagerrating, and often just mean they prefer the other thing they mention. Like you hear hyperbole "heineken is absolute rotten piss water", "heinz ketchup is the vilest thing on the planet, I much prefer chef". while most of those people will actually make do with heineken or heinz if nothing else is on available at say a BBQ in a friends house.

the beer revolu · 09-06-2020 05:47PM

rubadub wrote: »

I am not sure if the other poster literally meant it was absolutely vile and totally unpalatable, I would actually guess they did not. This is since I find most people I know calling something "muck" are exagerrating, and often just mean they prefer the other thing they mention. Like you hear hyperbole "heineken is absolute rotten piss water", "heinz ketchup is the vilest thing on the planet, I much prefer chef". while most of those people will actually make do with heineken or heinz if nothing else is on available at say a BBQ in a friends house.

Imagine if people were like Guinness drinkers when it comes to sauces.

-would you like some ketchup on your burger?

-do you have Chef?

-no only Heinz ketchup

-No thanks, I'll have horseradish sauce instead!

Mellor · 10-06-2020 12:05AM

rubadub wrote: »

My point still stands though, in blind tastes you would still be calling the regular one "far nicer", while still finding the other one OK.

If you are mixing one with butter and not the other it's not a blind test.
If you prefer, mixed both with butter.

And if people in either case pick the buffalo sauce, that proves my point.

So your own earlier recommendations in this very thread might be putting people off risking buying it. If you are testing them with no butter added then why would the wings sauce even be in the lineup, its supposed to be "ready made with butter", it could be top of many peoples lists as most would not like the sauces on their own.

It would be like a line up of vodkas and then a vodka premixed with coke.

Because ultimately it's a hot sauce. That you can have either on their own or mix it with what ever you want. They are no rules for how you eat it.

I think you are grossly misunderstand the extent that it's "ready mixed". It's nothing like the vodka and coke example tbh. It's subtle butter flavour added, nothing close to 50/50 homemade buffalo.
It's more like salted microwave popcorn vrs buttered microwave popcorn.

I am not sure if the other poster literally meant it was absolutely vile and totally unpalatable, I would actually guess they did not. This is since I find most people I know calling something "muck" are exagerrating, and often just mean they prefer the other thing they mention. Like you hear hyperbole "heineken is absolute rotten piss water", "heinz ketchup is the vilest thing on the planet, I much prefer chef". while most of those people will actually make do with heineken or heinz if nothing else is on available at say a BBQ in a friends house.

That's was my point. That it's perfectly fine and the difference between the two is marginal.
The biggest contributor is the extra butter.

Mellor · 10-06-2020 12:05AM

the beer revolu wrote: »

Imagine if people were like Guinness drinkers when it comes to sauces.

-would you like some ketchup on your burger?

-do you have Chef?

-no only Heinz ketchup

-No thanks, I'll have horseradish sauce instead!

That's a perfectly analogy. Never thought about that, but it's really weird.

LLewellen Farquarson · 10-06-2020 01:14PM

Pacifico wrote: »

Valentina Is class and it’s now stocked in Dunnes

Just bought a bottle in Supervalue.
Nice, spicy and hot, and no sugar, so not too sweet.

Roald Dahl · 10-06-2020 11:42PM

The ones I have at the moment are Sriracha with Ginger (yellow cap), Frank's (Original and Chile 'n' Lime) and Cholula Chipotle. All lovely.

Another one I had a couple of times in the past is Beaver Brand Jalapeno Mustard. It is sensational! Harvey Nichol's is where I found it, but they thinned out their range a couple of years and don't stock it any more.

I was thinking of it only last week and found it in the British Corner Shop. I think I'm going to go for it and order it, along with some other goodies, to fool myself into justifying the delivery charge.

The Nal wrote: »

Get Fresh in Rathfarnham in Dublin. Im sure the same suppliers would sell into Donnybrook Fair and Fallon and Byrne etc.

Never even knew this place existed. Had a look at it on Google and it looks fantastic. Will definitely check it out next time I'm over Rathfarnham way!

jill_valentine · 10-06-2020 11:46PM

Any idea what's the closest you'd get to what Wishbone serve?

Charlie19 · 11-06-2020 07:23PM

Another sauce that I think is very tasty, would be the Frisco hot wings sauce by Cali Cali.

Irish made too.

Corvo · 13-06-2020 07:02AM

Big fan of The Rib Man Hot Sauces, have been getting them for some time now.

They can be sold out regularly, however he will tweet when he about to put up another batch.

https://theribman.co.uk/collections/sauces

drunkmonkey · 13-06-2020 12:39PM

More of a cheap cooking hack, peri peri chicken wings in lidl, get a tray of chicken wings there and a bottle of their Batts Peri Peri medium hot sauce it's about 90cent a bottle.
Pop the chicken wings in the oven for 25mins, cover them in the peri peri sauce for another 10 minutes while cranking the over up full blast. Perfect peri peri chicken wings, same works with there Batts sweet chilli sauce, nice and sticky but sweet.
For €3 all in it's a cheap and tasty meal..

LLewellen Farquarson · 15-06-2020 05:46PM

Dropped into Rolfs in Innishannon and saw he has the range of Micks sauces. I was tempted by voodoo reaper, but I'm still working through trouble in Trinidad and naga.

igCorcaigh · 23-06-2020 08:53AM

Nothing can beat this stuff IMHO.
A paste rather than a sauce, this is pure flavour and fire.

Found it in HomeSense a while back.

igCorcaigh · 23-06-2020 09:04AM

Corvo wrote: »

Big fan of The Rib Man Hot Sauces, have been getting them for some time now.

They can be sold out regularly, however he will tweet when he about to put up another batch.

https://theribman.co.uk/collections/sauces

Those shipping charges are insane. £16 minimum on a £5 order of 200ml.

eeepaulo · 01-07-2020 01:52PM

I got a hankering for hot sauce, saw mics chilli is doing free delivery and 30% off (off what im not sure)

I've had a bottle of the normal inferno sauce and it is lovely, smash a load of wings no bother, not burning hot, that one is 60k scoville (varies) how hot should i try, they go up to 1.2m.

Im thinking i might get the extreme 100k and naga knockdown 600k, i am partial to a bit of burn, is 1.2m painful?

The Nal · 01-07-2020 02:39PM

eeepaulo wrote: »

i am partial to a bit of burn, is 1.2m painful?

On its own yeah. Fairly pointless on its own really. You're into Blair's territory there. Not much taste, just burn.

Smiles35 · 10-07-2020 08:13AM

That Batts piri piri from Lidl is a strange concoction. I use it to zing up a lasagne I do from time to time. I do want a proper piri piri to put on some jacket potatoes though. Will the shelves ever be free of Nando's lemon overloaded sauce I wonder? Or better still, they come out with a lemon free one.

biko · 10-07-2020 08:34AM

I like micschilli.com and recently found a local company tribalfoods.ie that does a lovely sauce - Galway Gold Hot Sauce.
The Jalapeno Salsa is also good.

Tipperary animal lover · 10-07-2020 02:57PM

Brought this home from vietnam, even when you open the top to use sweat comes on the brow, a tiny bit goes a long long way, but you'll always come back for more

dastardly00 · 10-07-2020 03:50PM

No matter what hot sauce I try, I keep going back to Frank's Red Hot Original Sauce. I think tit's the distilled vinegar is what I like so much.

(My favourite BBQ sauce is Mic's Chilli BBQ Sauce because it is spicy and not too sweet).

Deadmou5e · 10-07-2020 03:51PM

Tobasco

Tired Gardener · 10-07-2020 03:58PM

Anything with Carolina Reaper in it is going to be a treat, it has a respectable Scoville scale: of 1,569,300 on average.

My go to sauce is currently hot peri peri. It isn't hot by any stretch of the imagination, but the addition of lime in it gives it a very nice taste.

Smiles35 · 10-07-2020 04:04PM

Deadmou5e wrote: »

Tobasco

Can't buy that anymore. I kept going back to the fridge just for sausages to mop it up with. Not healthy just eating sausages and vinegar.

Deadmou5e · 10-07-2020 04:52PM

Smiles35 wrote: »

Can't buy that anymore. I kept going back to the fridge just for sausages to mop it up with. Not healthy just eating sausages and vinegar.

Never tried it with sausages would you believe

thanks for the tip.

Mellor · 13-07-2020 04:07AM

While not specifically a sauce, I picked up some Franks Seasoning at the weekend. Interested to try it out. Open to suggestions

griffdaddy · 14-07-2020 09:58AM

Mellor wrote: »

While not specifically a sauce, I picked up some Franks Seasoning at the weekend. Interested to try it out. Open to suggestions

Where'd you pick it up?

Mellor · 14-07-2020 02:11PM

griffdaddy wrote: »

Where'd you pick it up?

Local supermarket started selling it.
I’m not in Ireland unfortunately.

xvril · 15-07-2020 04:22PM

Love Mic's Chilli, his BBQ sauce is to die for. Probably my favourite ever BBQ sauce.

My favourite hot sauce of his is Trouble in Trinidad, hot but a lovely flavour.

Jaysus i'm getting hungry even thinking about it.

LLewellen Farquarson · 15-07-2020 07:07PM

xvril wrote: »

Love Mic's Chilli, his BBQ sauce is to die for. Probably my favourite ever BBQ sauce.

My favourite hot sauce of his is Trouble in Trinidad, hot but a lovely flavour.

Jaysus i'm getting hungry even thinking about it.

Just fried tofu with a dash of trouble in Trinidad, and a few sesame seeds. As you said, a little goes a long way. Num num.

Ol' Donie · 15-07-2020 09:43PM

xvril wrote: »

Love Mic's Chilli, his BBQ sauce is to die for. Probably my favourite ever BBQ sauce.

My favourite hot sauce of his is Trouble in Trinidad, hot but a lovely flavour.

Jaysus i'm getting hungry even thinking about it.

Wait, what? I have all the inferno sauces up to 7 chilli (it's mental), but didn't know there was a BBQ sauce!

This is excellent.

sheep26 · 20-07-2020 09:37AM

Vietnamese sirarcha sauce

Mellor · 20-07-2020 10:44AM

sheep26 wrote: »

Vietnamese sirarcha sauce

Where is that like?
I thought sirarcha was Thai.

the beer revolu · 20-07-2020 10:46AM

Mellor wrote: »

Where is that like?
I thought sirarcha was Thai.

The original Sriracha is from The USA.
(although this is disputed)

MadYaker · 20-07-2020 10:48AM

The Sauce Shop. You get them in Dunnes sometimes. Really nice hot sauce and good BBQ sauce as well.

Mellor · 20-07-2020 11:33AM

the beer revolu wrote: »

The original Sriracha is from The USA.
Really? Never hard that before.

I know the big exported one is commercial US brand. But my understanding was that was relatively new branding of the traditional thai one. Sriracha it's itself comes from a town in Thailand where a few various families/companies claim to have invented it.

rubadub · 20-07-2020 11:37AM

Mellor wrote: »

I know the big exported one is commercial US brand.

This is the popular US one, it has notes on the history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)

MadYaker · 20-07-2020 11:43AM

rubadub wrote: »

This is the popular US one, it has notes on the history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)

I've seen that in Supervalu. Don't like that particular chilli sauce. The first time I encountered it was in this drink, the combination of chili and tequila was too much.

the beer revolu · 20-07-2020 12:02PM

sheep26 wrote: »

Vietnamese sirarcha sauce

A Thai sauce, made by a Vietnamese man of Chinese extraction in USA.
Nothing confusing about that!!:D:D

Mellor · 20-07-2020 12:14PM

rubadub wrote: »

This is the popular US one, it has notes on the history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)

That's the commercial US one I refereed to, couldn't remember the name but knew the bottle. It's the popular one, it's not the original, 1980 accord to that link. I assume that what TBR refereed to.

Sriracha originally comes from the Si Racha in thailand, hence the name.
Some who first disputes, but looks like 1932 according to wiki. Although that's the name. A recipe for a sauce of chilli, vinegar, salt and sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha

rubadub · 20-07-2020 12:24PM

MadYaker wrote: »

I've seen that in Supervalu. Don't like that particular chilli sauce.

It doesn't show online, but 2 other brands look very similar. They copy the clear bottle and green cap.

https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/search/allaisles?q=SriRacha

I get the flying goose one shown in that link, I get it in Aldi. Tesco do it too but I think its cheapest in aldi.

kg703 · 20-07-2020 12:25PM

A friend of ours brought us back this from a holiday once:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baron-West-Indian-Sauce-397g/dp/B0002DD8S6

It is unreal. Hot and has a lovely flavour of chilli. Add to anything to make extra delicious and spicy

We've always got a bottle on the go now.

dastardly00 · 20-07-2020 01:13PM

xvril wrote: »

Love Mic's Chilli, his BBQ sauce is to die for. Probably my favourite ever BBQ sauce.

Mic's Chilli BBQ Sauce is my favourite BBQ sauce also. I find a lot of BBQ sauces a bit too sweet, so this is ideal for me.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Wait, what? I have all the inferno sauces up to 7 chilli (it's mental), but didn't know there was a BBQ sauce!

This is excellent.

In my local supermarket they had started stocking the BBQ sauce before any of the other versions

Smiles35 · 22-07-2020 03:40PM

Mellor wrote: »

That's the commercial US one I refereed to, couldn't remember the name but knew the bottle. It's the popular one, it's not the original, 1980 accord to that link. I assume that what TBR refereed to.

I think your man Tran is missing a trick not opening a plant in Spain or Portugal. First thing people find when they do a search on that sauce is his success story.

LLewellen Farquarson · 22-08-2020 01:43PM

Thai taste sriracha hot chilli sauce in Lidl.
Nice and inoffensive.
Grand for dips or in a sandwich.

The Nal · 22-08-2020 05:39PM

Just made a Bloody Mary with some a lot probably too much Mics Inferno sauce and two shots of vodka.

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iamtony · 22-08-2020 05:44PM

The missus gets nandos hot sauce and peri peri from iceland its deadly:)
Sorry if already mentioned i didnt read whole thread.

Ol' Donie · 22-08-2020 07:58PM

dastardly00 wrote: »

Mic's Chilli BBQ Sauce is my favourite BBQ sauce also. I find a lot of BBQ sauces a bit too sweet, so this is ideal for me.

In my local supermarket they had started stocking the BBQ sauce before any of the other versions

I gots one tray of wings with Mic's Chilli BBQ sauce and one tray of Reggae Reggae wings in the oven right now.

This is a great day.

MickeyLeari · 22-08-2020 10:10PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I gots one tray of wings with Mic's Chilli BBQ sauce and one tray of Reggae Reggae wings in the oven right now.

This is a great day.

Where can I buy Mic’s chilli BBQ? I bought direct online after finding the hot sauce in a restaurant in Budapest and stunned it was an Irish product.

Favourite hot sauce?

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