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Favourite Hot Sauce Brand?

  • 18-02-2011 04:13PM
    #1
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭


    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?




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  • #2
    novarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


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


  • #3
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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!


  • #4
    novarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭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..


  • #5
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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


  • #6
    novarock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


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

    http://smokingtongue.blogspot.com/


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  • #7
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    Tabasco is nice. I like Cholula sauce myself.


  • #8
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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!


  • #9
    SBWife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭SBWife


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


  • #10
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Lornen


    DoesNotCompute wrote: »
    I like Cholula sauce myself.



    Available in Ireland?!


  • #11
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    Has anyone tried out Mic's Chilli Inferno Sauces?


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  • #12
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #13
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • #15
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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.

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  • #16
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    Franks
    Sriracha sauce
    Tobasco


  • #17
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


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


  • #18
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #19
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭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!!
    ]

    From their site
    http://www.micschilli.ie/utilities/stockists.asp
    It seems Fallon & Byrne on Exchequer Street might be your best option.


  • #21
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    Call me mainstream, but Tabasco is my favourite.


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  • #22
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #23
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #24
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭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?


  • #25
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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! :)


  • #26
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭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?


  • #27
    Unregistered.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


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


  • #28
    s3129
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭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.


  • #29
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    Daegerty wrote: »
    is this something that only affects men?

    Not sure about that lol


  • #30
    Fart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #32
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Rebel Chilli do savage tasty sauces - the second hottest one is nice, can't remember the name. Orange coloured habanero sauce. You can feel the chillis in your nose when you open the jar.
    The super hot version (Chillionaire??) must be mental.


  • #33
    gmf1024
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭gmf1024


    I am a big fan of spicy food and love the Rebel Chilli range too.
    The drawback is that it seems to only be on sale in Cork.
    I stock up accordingly on visits to the self styled REAL capital :D.
    Hot Habanero is the 2nd hottest.
    1 tbsp of Chillionaire will put the heat into an Arrabiata for 4 people who like it hot.
    I cannot find a website but RebelChilli is on FB


  • #34
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    gmf1024 wrote: »
    1 tbsp of Chillionaire will put the heat into an Arrabiata for 4 people who like it hot.
    Judging by the heat of the habenero relish, i reckon you mean 1 teaspoon of Chillionaire. 1 tablespoon of Chillionaire into a dish would kill the average Irish person!!! ;)


  • #35
    Menolias
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭Menolias


    +1 for the Encona Range
    You should give Peri Peri sauce a go,very different burn than usual,can be found in tesco sometimes.
    Also thai sweet chilli sauce for chicken is very versatile


  • #36
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Dunne's in Blanch have Hot Headz Zingy Chilli sauce with Jalapenos and a NAGA(or ghost chilli) mustard. Just got them yesterday and tried them today. The zingy is nice and tasty with a kick, the Naga I have only tried a wee bit and it was lovely, still have a burning in my mouth :)
    I also like Franks, tabasco(lovely on beans) and Nandos extra hot peri peri. I love the Nandos sauce, it's not too hot for me and has a nice citrus taste to it. I put it on every thing.
    All my sauces were bought in Dunnes Blanch, will have a look in Dunnes Georges street and Fallon and Byrne for more types later.
    PS Lidl do the Marinade Me range which are nice, not really spicy though.


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  • #37
    faigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭faigs


    Lornen, where did you get the Iguana range?


  • #38
    Lornen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭Lornen


    faigs wrote: »
    Lornen, where did you get the Iguana range?


    TKMaxx of all places! I don't know how branches stock differs but try your luck looking around the tills, the food is kept around there!


  • #39
    katharinewheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭katharinewheel


    I mostly use tabasco for cooking with, but as an everyday hot sauce it isn't too bad.

    I find Encona hot sauces are also pretty good, they've plenty of variety and the hotter sauces tend to pack a lot more heat. I currently have a bottle of their Creole Hot pepper sauce languishing in the cupboards which only uses habaneros and scotch bonnet peppers. :)


  • #40
    SmartFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭SmartFox


    The Encona is okay, but a bit vinegary for my taste, masks the true flavour of what your eating.

    The Mic's Chilli Inferno sauces are tasty, saw them on Nationwide yesterday. Nice to see locally produced sauces are popping up at last. Tried the Extreme, yep it's the real deal. Still burning! ;)

    They've got a link to the Nationwide piece on their Facebook page (it's at the beginning of the program) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mics-C...29969363721463


  • #41
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    An Irish company! Good on 'em. I'll try that out.. that link's broke... fixed one is

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mics-Chilli/129969363721463


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  • #42
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Tried Mic's Inferno last night, picked it up in the local Centra in Limerick.
    Savage stuff, very nice, along the lines of the Rebel Chilli Habanero relish (maybe more coriander in the Rebel sauce). These will be my hot sauces of choice for the next while!

    Fair play to Centra for carrying this brand and other local Irish brands!


  • #43
    ryandublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭ryandublin


    Is there any Asian grocery stores near Jervis centre that carry Sriracha sauce?


  • #44
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    I'm not a huge lover of hot Sauce but Franks is special.


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