Hot sauce?

[earthson]

Other than Frank's and Cholula, I don't really buy much other hot sauce - I MAKE MY OWN! Before I made my own, I was also waaay into Marie Sharp's.

Most years, I make a traditional orange hab sauce, a green sauce (with extra lime, garlic, and a few fat bunches of cilantro), and my wife is awful partial to my homegrown yellow tabascos steeped in vinegar and a little salt.

There are so many brands of hot sauce out now and they're all about the same - sometimes I think that there are just a few GIGANTIC vats of a few kinds of hot sauce, and they're bottled into bottles with a million different labels.

[SaintLuis]

If it's not homemade, I prefer Tabasco or Texas Pete.

But honestly, it's so easy to make a great hot sauce, I use homemade most of the time. It's the only reason I grow peppers anymore.

[Smalls]

I saw that a couple people mentioned Marie Sharp's. That is far and away my favorite hot sauce. I didn't know about it until I took a vacation to Belize where it is made. They have it on most tables down there where I was like ketchup here in the states.

It is so good that I really haven't had any interest in making my own.

[dangolf18]

Marie Sharp's has the best flavor imo, but unfortunately it's pretty hot. I wish they made a milder version with the same flavor profile. I'd use it more than ketchup.

I saw that a couple people mentioned Marie Sharp's. That is far and away my favorite hot sauce. I didn't know about it until I took a vacation to Belize where it is made. They have it on most tables down there where I was like ketchup here in the states.

It is so good that I really haven't had any interest in making my own.

[Fosgate]

Tobasco to me tastes weird or maybe it was the fact I used it to much to kill the taste of Army food and put it on everything for a few years that it turned me off.

I have a bottle of Tapatio near me wherever I go although I will have cholula on occasion for my daily. If I want something really hot I usually order Daves Insanity Sauce out of Mo Hotta Mo Betta. Been using them to find new sauces to try every now and then since the mid 90's. http://www.mohotta.com/

I thought this once was the most powerful sauce I have ever tried at 800,000 skovill

Then I tried this at 1,000,000 and thought it melted my skull and sent my a-hole running. Called the "Cool Million"

Blair's makes a 3am reserve at 1,500,000 and can't fathom that being anything less than lethal and require a concealed weapon permit to own.

[Smalls]

Marie Sharp's has the best flavor imo, but unfortunately it's pretty hot. I wish they made a milder version with the same flavor profile. I'd use it more than ketchup.

Have you tried the mild version? I always use the hot habanero, but there is the mild version with the green label and seal.

http://www.drchilepepper.com/acatalog/Marie_Sharp_s_Headquarters.html

[vinnyvega]

Tapatio is my all time favorite for flavor. For heat, Blair's 2 A.M. is very nice to add to salsa or chili.

[Mr Cholmondley Warner]

Tapatio is my 'put on anything that doesn't move' sauce, on my breakfast, lunch and dinner.....not a joke at all.

Hab Tabasco is in a similar category, but prefer that on a nice cracker with cheddar cheese after work.

I grew 30+ of the hottest varieties of peppers a few years back and have good supplies in the deep freeze and have made some great sauces from them.

Being adventurous I've even made fairly pure capsaicin extract from them for the novelty factor....though a good burn is addictive and it can see it's way into some Sri Lankan curries I make.

Bless those peppers!