TAbasco is ok, the vinegar taste kills it for me though. I like to use Trappey's Hot Sauce. Good flavor, puts out some heat, and although its vinega based you can barely taste it. I use it almost daily.

 

I'm one of those who also prefers Melinda's. Tabasco has too much vinegar for me. I prefer checking out the ingredients list and seeing vinegar near the bottom if at all. For an eye opener, check out some of the Asian hot sauces -- especially Thai.

 

I like all the Tabasco stuff, the red and the green.

Texas Gunpowder (powdered peppers) is pretty good for soups and stuff.

 

I just had lunch.... Aged Cheddar cheese, with some strong smelling German cheese, can't pronounce or spell the name, and haven't got the wrapper.. a cold sausage, a few grape tomatoes, and half a soldier's MRE size tabasco sauce.. YUM!!!!!

I love it, but my wonderful family tried it, on my say so, and now will not talk to me All I said was it wasn't hot..

Theo

 

"TRAPPEYS"?

- Dang, I use that stuff for salad dressing when I'm on the BOAT...

Tennessee Sunshine has a real fine body to the taste of it, and there's a few others that are really good.

A little known one is "Juanita's Picante". It's cheaper than dirt - 29 cents a bottle if you can find a place that sells it! But the more you add, the hotter it gets, until you just flat can't stand it! I use it in salsa's when I have some around.

Here's a taste-bud BOMBER!:

Those little yellow chiles they sell almost everywhere in the 'Mexican Food' parts of stores?
Stem those, and hit them in a blender at the puree setting. You'll have a sauce I call "Yellow Peril" that won't let go of your tonsils for a while...
Use it mainly on grilled cheese sandwiches and the like. Anything with cheese in it.

The Jalapeno sauce method I mentioned above takes on a complete new life if you add some liquid hickory smoke flavoring to it - you will find that it makes a custom "Chipotle" that can't be beat!
Hickory smoke flavor can be added to other hot sauces too, with interesting results to say the least. I highly recommend experimenting with that idea....

For a "True Chipotle" you need smoked Jalapenos. A way to do this is to add a tray to your smoker, run some stemmed jalapenoes through your blender and lay the result out on the tray with some mesquite or hickory chips in the coals.

This needs to be stirred a few times as it cooks down, and the juice from the can should be reserved until it's off the grill. Add only enough to the blender to puree them when they are being prepped for the grill.

When they come off the grill, they should be most of the way dried, and preferrably a bit brown. Add this into the blender again and add enough of the juice from the can (which should have been reserved for the purpose) until you have a smooth sauce that will hopefully not seperate into a water layer above the sauce itself.

THAT stuff is awesome...

And one last:
The above Jalapeno tray can be smoke cooked until it is mostly dried, then powdered in a blender or a mortar. This powder is one of the premier shake-on jalapeno spices that you can possibly think of, and I often sprinkle a bit of it out on a plate, and serve it with cheddar sticks which can be dipped in the dried Jalapeno/Chipotle dust, giving it an amazing flavor.

Cheese can also be melted in a double boiler, and Chipotle dust added to make a jalapeno cheese beyond compare! (not to mention unavailable in stores!)

SAVORE!


~Chef Wolfie

 

yup gotta have it! great on eggs

 

the g.f. screams when i put tabasco on everything. i love the stuff.
giant bottles at costco...............

 

How many people here talking about their fav. hot sauce looks down on others that don't care for the stuff? My honey and his family seem to think it makes you macho and if you don't like it you're a sissy. Personally I think its just a preference.

 

I have usually noticed the person screaming sissy loudest is the first one to fold in a crisis.

How the temperature of hot sauce can determine sissyship I do not know..

Theo, lover of things hot.

 

Bubba Gump has a real good hot sauce, almost exact to the hot sauce you can get at KFC. Man that stuff is good!

 

To all of you who clame to love spicey foods I only have one thing to say, I am from Lousiana and Texas, I group up living off of spices. Cayenne mostly. and tabasco, a little habenero everynow and them. Hell, my Grandfather puts on a hot pepper eating contest at the Shot Show everyyear at the company booth. If you want to see it this next Febuary in Vegas, come run by the Taurus Booth, do not which day it will be, and yes, I will be there. This last year it got pretty 'heated' if you get my jest...poke..poke

 

...Oh yea....on eggs and hash browns, man oh man...the number one hang-over breakfast....

 

I like tabasco sauce if it is a couple of drops in an entire meal. If I have it any other way it is way too hot for me!


Oh and I tried it on Theo's say so that it wasn't hot at all. I was not a happy camper.

 

All I have to say is:



-Matt

 

We use tabasco on my ship to polish brass... it works pretty good at taking verdigree off