Posted on 06/27/2014 5:00:12 AM PDT by kingattax
Flavor, balance, heat and appearance. These hot sauces rock the house.
There are thousands of hot sauces to choose from today, and most of them are terrible. They’re novelty items designed with an amusing label and name. The sauce itself is inedible, with inferior ingredients and so much capsaicin from the peppers you’ll blister your tongue. A good hot sauce is a combination of great ingredients and a balance of heat and flavor.
These ten hot sauces are filled with zest, spice and peppery heat. Dash enough on your eggs or tacos and you’ll find your eyelids sweating, but no matter how hot the temperature gets you’ll still get a mouthful of great flavor. Let’s start with a surprising number 10 on the list:
10.) Taco Bell Hot Sauce
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Besides, living here in NC where there are now so many excellent small breweries, I would be a fool to stick to the mega breweries.
A couple of my favorites are The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery and Mother Earth Brewing. Both of these are located <1 hour from my house so I can always be sure it's fresh!
I grew up in a mixed neighborhood of Eastern European and (mostly native born) Hispanic makeup and was raised eating homemade (from scratch) salsas, now that`s good eating!
“If it doesn’t burn on the way in, and burn on the way out, it wasn’t hot enough.”
Several years ago the talk at work turned to hot food. I opined that there are two things which should not hurt, food and sex. Everyone agreed. Then I added that, at least, sex should not hurt me. The women got mad. But the guys had a good laugh.
I'll give it a try, thanks for the tip!
It`s expensive but the German beer purity law, Reinheitsgebot, says Barely, Hops, and water. I tend to stick with them, the Germans do brew some good beers to choose from.
FWIW, I’ve found “Endorphin Rush” to be a particularly good sauce. The “hit” is a bit delayed, and it has a nice, slightly sweet flavor.
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I like hot sauce but anything you need to wear gloves and protective respirators to prepare or sign a waiver to purchase is too hot. The best is not the hottest and I like the new direction some of these guys are taking by creating layers of flavor, instead of just capsaicin.
Nice post. My mouth waters just reading it. The list of 10 looks good. I’ve occasionally enjoyed Blair’s Death Rain Habenero Potato chips. A small bag will light me right up. Oh . . . and Bud Light really *is* cat piss.
No, Bud Light is possum piss. Coors Light is cat piss.
I didn't even know Tabasco made a wing sauce until recently. Now I find myself putting it on everything.
I’m not so much into the “melt your teeth” hot sauces.
For me, a good blend of heat and flavor is Texas Pete’s Hotter hot sauce.
Funny you say that. I got tired of ordering Thai in a restaurant ‘hot’ and they come back with ‘American’ hot. I said - hey how do you say Thai hot in Thai.
‘Pet Mak Mak’ - spelling’s probably off. But it means (supposedly) Thai hot.
El Yucateco Habanero is our favorite and we buy them off the Internet 4 at a time. We actually take a bottle with us when we go to the Mexican restaurant in town. We gave them a bottle once and they loved it.
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I’ve never believed that you have to scald the inside of your mouth and have your nose hairs singed in order to enjoy a good hot sauce.
I’ve always believed too hot of a hot sauce can mask the flavor of the food.
My favorite is Cholula. Not too weak, not too hot. A nice touch of flavor that accents the food you put it on.
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