Poll of the Day > Tabasco is the worst hot sauce

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like what is this shit get something else

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Franks Red Hot is kinda fine, I haven't had any hot sauce I've fallen in love with tbh.

shadowsword87 posted...

Franks Red Hot is kinda fine, I haven't had any hot sauce I've fallen in love with tbh.

queen majesty makes my favorite. tapatio and cholula are great common sauces though.

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Zangulus posted...

Its a basic hot sauce for sure. I like it on pizza with Parmesan cheese. But not much else.

yeah I guess I end up just putting crushed red pepper on pizza usually

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I like Valentina and it's super affordable

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Clench281 posted...

I like Valentina and it's super affordable

I probably spend like $50 a month on hot sauce >_>

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Ehhh maybe closer to $30-$40

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Yeah its just salt and heat, no real flavor depth

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Mead posted...

Yeah its just salt and heat, no real flavor depth

a lot of hot sauces are extremely one note

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It's good for fried chicken. I used to like Cholula. I was all like "omg it's the best flavor." Now I just like Frank's Red Hot. It's either that one or one like it.

I'm almost convinced a ghost or something possessed me in 2013 or earlier and started giving me all new opinions. Either that or brain damage.

It's just different. And I appreciate it for being different. The more hot sauces that taste different from one another the better!

But the best is generally homemade. It's super easy, you can make it to your own tastes, and you can make a SHITLOAD at once and it lasts forever.

Not really a hot sauce, but doubanjiang (spicy fermented bean paste) is good with a lot of dishes.

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Sarcasthma posted...

Not really a hot sauce, but doubanjiang (spicy fermented bean paste) is good with a lot of dishes.

Ha, I just got some in the mail today. I've been on a "trying to learn how to cooking chinese food" kick

That's one of the best kicks you could be on!

What are you going to try cooking next?

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tomorrow i am going to try a carolina reaper pepper. probably just a small piece of it.

i cant wait

My girl just reminded me of the time we met my brother at a hot sauce shop here. Like morons, my brother and I tried the super hot sauce on the tortilla chips they had for free. It felt like someone punched me in the stomach for 30 minutes. I was spitting and moaning like a wuss. "Ooooooh .. ooooh my stomach." Sweating and tearing up. I can't imagine how pitiful I looked. You know when you're in pain and someone is laughing at you so it makes you mad? Both girls and my brother was laughing. And all the sudden I had to go to the bathroom too. My God what a nightmare that was.

I remember how good that popcorn and coke tasted when we went on ahead to the movie. It Follows was the movie. That was right before summer I think in 2014 or 15. Time sure does fly. Someone needs to slow it down. That seems like it was just last year.

Tabasco has apparently been around 153 years. You may not like it personally but stuff doesn't last 153 years for being the worst.

no it objectively sucks

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tabasco sucks

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I knew a cook that would put it in his gatorade

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I use either Sriracha or Cholula! You can actually make your own hot sauce at home. It's not too hard to do.

I stopped buying pickles when I learned to make them myself and since I don't eat pickles on a regular basis, making them myself saves money on buying them in store.

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It is the introductory hot sauce, kind of like Jack Daniel's is the introductory bourbon. Not a bad place to start, but you probably should be moving on to better things after a while.

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I thought ghost pepper was going to be hot but I guess it isn't. Haven't had my hot sauce yet but I've had things that use ghost pepper in it.
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I use it for my eggs at diners but outside of that I use real hot sauce

Revelation34 posted...

I thought ghost pepper was going to be hot but I guess it isn't.

Go ahead and eat an actual ghost pepper, then.

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Encona Hot Pepper Sauce is probably one of my favourites that's easily available.

Chipotle Tabasco is fuckin fire dude. Just don't eat the original shit.

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All that vinegar is awesome.

Most hot sauces end up being way too spicy for me, so I usually stick with just a little bit of cholula or sriracha

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I don't like vinegar based hot sauces

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hypnox posted...

I don't like vinegar based hot sauces

what kind do you like?

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Sarcasthma posted...

Go ahead and eat an actual ghost pepper, then.

I can't find one. I looked everywhere but I think it must be invisible.

Smarkil posted...

Chipotle Tabasco is fuckin fire dude. Just don't eat the original shit.

Yeah that's what I love to always have on hand. More flavor than heat though.
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Revelation34 posted...

I can't find one. I looked everywhere but I think it must be invisible.

https://www.thespicehouse.com/collections/chiles

There you go.

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Sarcasthma posted...

https://www.thespicehouse.com/collections/chiles

There you go.

I think you missed the joke.
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It got a slight eyeroll from me.

Now go ahead and eat a ghost pepper.

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I think I had Tobasco years ago. It was lame and bland. Don't know what Americans see in it. Our local hot sauce is really good. Expats that come back home often pack up bottles to take back to NA/UK.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

I think I had Tobasco years ago. It was lame and bland. Don't know what Americans see in it. Our local hot sauce is really good. Expats that come back home often pack up bottles to take back to NA/UK.

I miss the iguana sauce from Costa Rica.
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Revelation34 posted...

I miss the iguana sauce from Costa Rica.

I just looked that up the main heat base is habanero. Ours is scotch bonnet which is the main heat for a lot of things in the Caribbean whether its straight hot sauce or meats etc. There's not much deviation from scotch bonnet unless it's some touristy/restaurant thing deliberately doing foreign stuff like Mexican.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

I just looked that up the main heat base is habanero. Ours is scotch bonnet which is the main heat for a lot of things in the Caribbean whether its straight hot sauce or meats etc. There's not much deviation from scotch bonnet unless it's some touristy/restaurant thing deliberately doing foreign stuff like Mexican.

They had a variety. I only had the red and green which are both good.
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Revelation34 posted...

I thought ghost pepper was going to be hot but I guess it isn't. Haven't had my hot sauce yet but I've had things that use ghost pepper in it.

I'm convinced most people don't appreciate how hot hot peppers actually are. Most sauces or equivalent that say they use said peppers do not even have a fraction of heat that the actual pepper does. If you're actually eating the pepper straight, even a habanero is rather hot, let alone something in the range of a ghost to a reaper. Outside of people who have a mutation where they don't properly react to capsaicin, you'd have to be a masochist and/or stupid to actually eat a whole ghost/reaper (or equivalent) by itself.

Also, on the topic itself, while Tabasco is crap I'm not sure I'd say it's the worst. Honestly most commercial hot sauces are garbage and it's hard to differentiate between different forms of garbage.

Tabasco is the "better than nothing" hot sauce.
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scotch bonnet based hot sauces are my favorite too

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sveksii posted...

I'm convinced most people don't appreciate how hot hot peppers actually are. Most sauces or equivalent that say they use said peppers do not even have a fraction of heat that the actual pepper does. If you're actually eating the pepper straight, even a habanero is rather hot, let alone something in the range of a ghost to a reaper. Outside of people who have a mutation where they don't properly react to capsaicin, you'd have to be a masochist and/or stupid to actually eat a whole ghost/reaper (or equivalent) by itself.

Also, on the topic itself, while Tabasco is crap I'm not sure I'd say it's the worst. Honestly most commercial hot sauces are garbage and it's hard to differentiate between different forms of garbage.

I did have an habanero once. I don't remember the exact details since it was such a long time ago. I just remember it was hot but not terribly hot.
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Mead posted...

what kind do you like?

Not trolling, but almost any I have tried that don't have vinegar :) Don't get me wrong, I like vinegar, just not in hot sauces.

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idk man I really like the tangy ness of vinegar

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