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I absolutely love hot chili sauce and use it on pretty much everything I eat. My favorite type of chili is habanero closely followed by the Carolina reaper. Just received a shipment of Heartbeat Hot Sauce that should last me a few months.
What are your favorite hot sauce's?
chip shop curry.
on chips.
Usually 3 or 4 different Encona ones in the fridge plus a couple of the Nando's hot sauces.
Tabasco. There I said it.
Adequately hot, not overly vinegary. Keep coming back to it after flirtations with hotter, fancier sauces.
Dave's Insanity Sauce is my favourite - just a couple of small drops into a bowl of chilli makes it lovely and hot without being overpowered with nothing but a taste of hot pepper.
This is v v hot but still has flavour. 35% Carolina Reaper
@tomd have you tried the habanero Tobasco? It's the hottest Tabasco you can buy and tastes amazing.
I love Holy **** and also Dave's Ghost Pepper. All of the Encona ones are really disappointing.
@tomd have you tried the habanero Tobasco? It’s the hottest Tabasco you can buy and tastes amazing.
No, I'll keep an eye out for it.
One of the lads I worked with, a few years ago, was in some sort of chilli club. He brought some in one day and asked if I'd like to try it.
I dipped (not scooped) the end of my tea spoon in about 10mm. As the spoon left my mouth, I noticed that 15 years of tea staining were gone, and I sort of knew what was coming next.
First, my mouth felt like I'd just sampled molten glass, my nose was dribbling uncontrollably, and my eyes were like Niagara Falls. My head was pounding and even my ears were burning.
It took 2 hours 35 minutes for the molten glass to work it's way through my intestines, I could feel that burning glow through every twist and turn of my innards. Luckily I was at home when Krakatoa erupted, just as hot on the way out as it was going in.
I declined further offerings.
Strangely (or perhaps not) I have no such troubles with a Vindaloo or Phall curry
the bullseye carolina reaper with black garlic is nice and flavour some
the chipotle version has all but replaced ketchup in our house.
The encona reaper sauce has really nice flavour too - unlike ther west indian hot sauce which is just shear masochism - theres no flavor to it just numbing .
my favorite is the west african pepper sauce you got with your bread at restaurants up and down the continent.
Recommendo from DrJOn - this is real good stuff!
@eddiebaby the Encona Carolina reaper sauce is one of the best that you really need to try.
Blair’s Ultra Death
If you're a Habanero man then you shoud definately look up the Marie Sharp's sauce from Belize, which come in everthing from a lively tangy Mango number to 'Beware!' which is a full-on mega heat rager.
They tend to use fairly straight forward ingredients and don't resort to just bunging a load of capsiucum extract in there for easy Scovilles.
Really good stuff.
Not the hottest hot sauce I've had (by quite a long way) but even flow from Orriss and Son is one of the nicest. Their other two are pretty good as well:
Econa caroliner reaper is very nice as mentioned.
My current fave is a milder habenaro & garlic sauce, not super hot but absolutley gorgeous:
https://www.eastcoastchillicompany.co.uk/product/garlic-and-habanero-chance/
@eddiebaby the Encona Carolina reaper sauce is one of the best that you really need to try.
Just cycled to Tesco so whilst there I bought a bottle. I'm about to toast a couple of cheese crumpets and will give it a try.
Sinclair Condiments
Smokey Naga its so hot it turns you teeth numb, has a really nice flavour.
I have the full range of sauces I would reccommend them all the chipotle ketchup have even converted both the kids to loving chilli
https://mkfoodie.co.uk/listing/sinclair-condiments-co-2/
Encona, or as we call it "Fireball Sauce".
Damn! Got competing earworms of Ring of Fire and Burning Spear.
Those Wiga Wagga sauces are really nice. Son is really into his hot sauces and like the Sauce Shop Habanero Kethcup. Is pretty hot but still has some flavour.
https://www.sauceshop.co/collections/chilli-hot-sauces-1/products/habanero-ketchup-white-label
I never really liked the taste of the Encona Sauces. Dave's up above it a great additional to most dishes, however I love Franks Hot Sauce. Not especially firesome, but a lovely flavour.
I found one of my bottles of Marie Sharps from Belize was 10 years past it’s stamped date. Was still ok last week. I have lots of unopened ones, all out of date but they’ll be fine
The standard Encona West Indian Hot Pepper sauce is my fave. Nice and lively, but not so daft that one drop too many takes a meal from 'spicy hot' to 'inedible'.
There's also something unique about the flavour of Scotch Bonnets versus other chillies. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
I have the full range of sauces I would reccommend them all the chipotle ketchup have even converted both the kids to loving chilli
Is "hot banana ketchup" as revolting as it sounds?
This isn't but-puckering, just delightful and all the way from Rochdale (their burgers are genuinely the best)
https://www.whatsyourbeefburgers.com/product/chipotle-ketchup
I flipping love hot sauces. But just like bikes, there is not one sauce for all jobs. Because then compromise creeps in.
My staples are:
1. Morrisons habanero sauce
Lovely. For on poached egg, tuna, and general use. Don‘t be fooled by the modest price and presentation. Everyone needs a good ‘neutral’ hot sauce for a kick without the overpowering spices, or neither too much vinegar. I use this where on e I would have used Tabasco. The Mozzers habanero hot has the good round taste of Habanero peppers with the kick of scotch bonnet. None of that ‘vinegary mash’ rough taste of popular, ironically more expensive, oversold commercial hot sauces sold in big plastic bottles. You know the ones.
Get some.
2. Blair’s ‘Sudden Death’
Holy shit. Massive chilli-fruit taste. Brain-searing heat. Use a drop or two in a cooking pot of chilli or curry, or a dot on a masochistic mouthful. Indescribable.
For cooking and/or parties/dares. It really does a fantastic job and although expensive per drop, those drops go a long way in recipes. I had a bottle for years.
3. Lingham’s Garlic Chilli sauce
Everyone needs a good garlicky chilli sauce. This old favourite works. Hot, sweet and garlicky. Not really hot but very tasty.
For noodles or on chips. To dip. Or for cooking. Versatile.
Other mentions...
https://www.fatmanchilli.co.uk/chilli-sauce
I’ve tried all six! They are all flipping amazing. The hot lemon sauce is special. It tasted of Limoncello. And then I saw the label, it’s made with Limoncello!
Also, home made jalapeño sauce. Sometimes supermarkets sell of big tubs of their end-date salad bar jalapenos (pickled, sliced) which is a MASSIVE opportunity to make many bottles/jars of fresh tasty sauce for a few quid.
I blend the pickled jalapeños with fresh garlic, white vinegar and water (slightly more vinegar) some seasoning (salt, black pepper) and some onion powder. A little lime juice if you have it.
Fresh tasting and very nice.
If you're lucky enough to have access to fresh peppers try this:
https://www.mexicanplease.com/jalapeno-hot-sauce-recipe/
Couldn’t choose a chipotle sauce. Too many choices. Too many nice ones.
Favourite one for me is a fairly new one. Made by a bloke who lost his job in lockdown and needed some £.
Its addictive stuff and very very good. Got a re-up delivery today as it happens. Lead time tends to be a couple of weeks so I re-order when I open fresh bottle.
https://worldfamoushotsauce.co.uk/
Khoos Bajan also a good all-rounder. I love chucking it on the massive prawn crackers I get from the local Chinese.
https://khooshotsauce.co.uk/product/bajan/
Good to see some of the old faves still going. I think I've been buying Dave's Insanity and Blair's since you could first buy stuff on tinternet. Another good one was Rectal Rocket Fuel...
Pretty much standard fare in our house:
just like bikes, there is not one sauce for all jobs.
Never a truer word said. I love chilli sauce. Or should I say, pretty much any sauce or dish should have some chilli in it.
I tend to buy veriety gift packs from the smaller more artisan type 'proper' chilli sauce companies, and usualy have about 5 or 6 bottles of different types on the go at any one time.
There is no one chilli sauce to rule them all! It depends what mood your in and what you're eating it with.
I tend to avoid the gyimky 'super hot' souces, as they tend to use extracts for extra heat, and generally taste boring other than being very hot.
Tabasco original is the closest I can get to the chilli sauce I had as a 7 years old kid. Yes, at 7 years old in Borneo we had noodle for breakfast with gallons of chilli sauce poured onto it. The noodle looked red in colour as it was swimming in chilli sauce. Our locally made chilli sauce taste better than Tabasco.
Nando's are fine but only suitable for certain dishes.
Lingham are the common brand in Borneo. They are made there in Malaysia.
Maggi chilli sauce is fine too and also common brand in Borneo and the region.
Other chilli oil from Chinese supermarket are fine too.
All Thai sweet chilli sauce brands are fine. Not hot but fine.
Encona taste nothing apart from hot.
Most South American or Mexican style chilli sauce are just hot with no flavour.
Ass Reaper
Thanks for everyone's input. Looks like my bank balance and taste buds are going to take a beating.
Simply put, Ass Reaper Hot Sauce is so extremely hot that you will wish you were dead after taking just one taste. The pure pepper extract (African oleoresin) is probably what reaps your insides from top to bottom, but those Habanero and Scotch Bonnet peppers have their roles to play in the pain as well. This hot sauce comes in a collectible bottle with a skull and cape that's almost cute. But after ingesting a drop or two of this hot sauce, you'll be wishing you never met the Ass Reaper.
Hmmmm, sounds like a load of macho BS and the last sentence is correct.
just like bikes, there is not one sauce for all jobs.
+1
Can I add that nandos sauces go brilliant with fish.
Think it's the citrus in them, but so far they work with salmon, tuna, mackerel, sardines, prawns, and white fish.
The Witshire chilli farm stuff is good - love the mango, Habanero and Carribbean. They all taste great rather than just being fire.
I had a bottle of Blair's mega death sauce that I ended up giving away as I couldn't handle the heat any more.
I've got a jar of the Chilli Jam Man's 3 peaks chilli jam in the cupboard that was out of date in October that I can't face opening. I bought 2 and the first nearly killed me
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I've got a bottle of Pain is Good Louisiana #218 hot sauce which is quite flavoursome but not too mind blowing. I need to get a bit more adventurous with chilli sauces, but grew some Apache chilli plants last year which have provided much of the heat for my cooking over the last year.
I really like Holy @&£k. My favourite hot sauce. Not fierce like Insanity sauce. Just delicious chillis.
this one is a mite hotter. https://theribman.co.uk/collections/sauces/products/judas-is-scary-hot
Just made a batch of that West African pepper sauce recipe up.there .
Exactly as I remember it.
Had my doubts while u was making it . Was wrong colour but once all the moisture had gone out. Of it and it was just the oils left. The colour was right. Bottled it up.
Lovely
I'd forgotten about Linghams, adding that to the shopping list. Got hooked on it after a couple of work trips to Malaysia where it's used with abandon. Only downside is it's basically sugar, and extremely moreish.
Might be a good gateway sauce for the kids. The 2 year old still hasn't got over his tabasco episode.
Tabasco. There I said it.
Adequately hot, not overly vinegary. Keep coming back to it after flirtations with hotter, fancier sauces.
This is why we humans are weird! Tastebud discrepancies. The main reason I stopped buying Tabasco was because the more other sauces I tried, the more I realised that Tabasco is basically vinegar and water with a bit of heat. Perplexingly expensive to boot.
As like with other Louisiana hot sauces, Tabasco leans heavily on vinegar. It's the predominant ingredient
Still like it on chips (expensive vinegar!) or mashed into tuna, but much prefer the Morrison’s Habanero. Even Frank’s tastes less vinegary to me than Tabasco, and that’s saying something!
I always love a spot of chilli sauce on my eggs, but Tabasco (and Encona and stuff like that) is like simply squirting hot vinegar on your eggs and toast 😝
ymmv, but if you’re after a bit of heat and less vinegar then I do recommend the Mozzer’s Habanero in place of Tabasco. Smoother, more plentiful, still in a glass bottle yet a much bigger bang for your buck. (£1 per 165ml vs £2 for 57ml)
Mozzer’s
what is mozzers - cant find any refference to a mozzers hotsauce on google . ......
not a fan of tabasco either too vinegary but its a gateway drug 😀
Morrisons, linked earlier in the thread
the bullseye carolina reaper with black garlic is nice and flavour some
This.
the chipotle version has all but replaced ketchup in our house.
And this.
Morrisons, linked earlier in the thread
well thatll be why i cant find it .
wont be having any of that then because those shops locally are in stupid places.
The encona reaper sauce has really nice flavour too – unlike ther west indian hot sauce which is just shear masochism – theres no flavor to it just numbing .
I really like the Encona West Indian sauce - nice and fruity, with just the right amount of kick. I'll keep an eye out for the reaper stuff.
Current bottle is some Mexican "Yucatec" sauce, also pretty nice. But clearly need to up my sauce game and get a few more varieties in.
Linghams is by far the best sweet chili sauce you can buy and my favorite with certain dishes.
I really like the Encona West Indian sauce – nice and fruity, with just the right amount of kick. I’ll keep an eye out for the reaper stuff.
It's about the same hotness wise.. Maybe a teeny bit milder than the standard one.
I prefer the flavour though, more of a darker smokey flavour.
I'd highly recommend east coast chilli Co. Though. Really well thought out flavours and good quality ingredients... Mail order direct from them is fast... I'd recommend the 5 bottle taster set.
Wiltshire Chilli farm stuff is good thier 'fireside' Chutney basically a big red 'make everything taste nice' button should that evening's dinner be a tad bland for some reason.
Dont be put off by the heat rating on thier site, it's really not that bad.
Used up the last of My Marie Sharp's Mango stuff on last night's Fajitas, I'm bereft, looks like a re-up is due.
Witshire chilli farm stuff is good
This - although I do quite like the Trinidad Scorpion one, over the Mango etc
Couple of drops makes all the difference, but it's not just chili - you can taste the flavours as well
I prefer the flavour though, more of a darker smokey flavour.
This.
Butt Puckering Hot Sauce
Personally, I always put it in my mouth, with food...
Linghams is by far the best sweet chili sauce you can buy and my favorite with certain dishes.
Oh hell yes! I was introduced to that by my then girlfriend, back around 1978. She’s half-Chinese, and we used to have these huge family feasts that went on for hours, and Linghams was always on the table.
Trouble was, to get it I had to go to specialist Chinese/Asian supermarkets, so if I went up to London for a gig or something, I’d go to Soho to grab a few bottles.
Now I can find it in the local Morrisons; although it seemed to have disappeared for some time, it was back on the shelves last time I was there.