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Ugly In The Morning posted:Little sweet from the maple syrup in there, mice and garlicky, fairly hot but not overpowering (do not take my word on this part, my heat tolerance is bizarre). On the other end of the spectrum, I don’t have a great pallet and I have a low tolerance. In order to get any flavors, I have to put a lot of sauce on. Regardless of the amount though, to me the black garlic is just loving hot, like near the upper limit for me. I put that on one wing and it’s enough to make me stop for a few minutes.
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I come to consult the hot sauce hivemind. I would like to buy a gift set of hot sauces for my dad who is getting more into that sort of thing. Money not particularly an object. Only restrictions are: We are both from the UK, so it might be more feasible to order from a UK maker, although I'll consider ordering from other countries so long as they are explicitly fine with international shipping and they are like, an undisputed excellent choice. In terms of heat, I don't think I'm looking for a road to hell. One or two murder-bottles is probably fun, but generally I think just a wide variety of moderately/mildly hot but with good diversity of chilis and styles/flavours. Appreciate any suggestions.
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Jeza posted:I come to consult the hot sauce hivemind. I would like to buy a gift set of hot sauces for my dad who is getting more into that sort of thing. Money not particularly an object. Wiltshire Chili Farms is in the UK and makes good stuff, check out their options.
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Jun 17, 2020 17:58
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hot-headz.com looks like they have a good selection of thread favorites and might save you some money on shipping. Torchbearer and Heartbreaking Dawn's are two of my current favorite sauce makers.
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Jun 17, 2020 18:09
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Going off of Hot-Headz, I would vote (in order): Bravado Black Garlic, Torchbearer Garlic Reaper, Bravado Blueberry, Heartbreaking Dawns Pear & Apple, Marie Sharp's Belizean, Mikey V's Sweet Ghost Pepper, Blair's Heat Wasabi Green Tea, Angry Goat Pink Elephant. I wish someone would send me a hot sauce gift box. edit: ranked them from awesomest flavor -> just plain awesome flavor... keep in mind that they're all properly hot with Blair's maybe being the mildest. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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Jun 17, 2020 18:25
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N'thing Hearthbreaking Dawns, I like the Cauterizer but all the sauces of theres I've had have been great. Otherwise I just bought a bottle of High River Sauces Rogue Moruga Blood Orange Scorpion and it's really nice. My partner and I really like the Bravado Aka Miso as well.
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Just a PSA: if you make a batch of anything involving super-hots, you should probably just hand-wash the dishes you used. I made a bunch of wings last night with Bravo Aka Miso and ghost chili oil and my wife put the steel mixing bowl I used into the dishwasher, probably without rinsing. This morning I discovered that all my dishes, silverware, and glasses are both clean and very spicy.
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Jun 23, 2020 17:38
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just a PSA: if you make a batch of anything involving super-hots, you should probably just hand-wash the dishes you used. This is extra bad if you wash your sex toys in the dishwasher
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Jun 23, 2020 18:34
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also be careful when hand washing. the Hot gets into the water vapor and the vapor goes into your face holes.
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 My 5-year-old daughter has been taking an interest in the shelf of hot sauces she sees me using all the time and I've been giving her a little dab here and there. Not that I used a ton but she no-sold this today on her veggies at lunch.
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Quiet Feet posted:
Sounds like your daughter knows that Melinda’s is the lovely former “distributor” that hosed over a small Belizean farmer, stole all of her recipes and told her to get hosed. Please buy Marie Sharp’s. It’s the real brand after she got back on her feet.
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Doom Rooster posted:Sounds like your daughter knows that Melinda’s is the lovely former “distributor” that hosed over a small Belizean farmer, stole all of her recipes and told her to get hosed. Ah. I vaguely recall hearing this story but not which was which or exactly what the names were. Oh well.
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Jun 24, 2020 19:53
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Marie got done dirty. Melinda's makes good product but that story really made me mad when I first read it. Marie Sharp's is just as good anyway. http://www.belizemagazine.com/edition04/english/e04_05questions.htm
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uber_stoat posted:Marie got done dirty. Melinda's makes good product but that story really made me mad when I first read it. Marie Sharp's is just as good anyway. I wanted to try Marie Sharp's but my package delivery process involves a final step where the deliveryperson throws the package over my gate into my courtyard. The bottle as packaged could not survive the drop onto the walkway (although fuego box did fine).
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Jun 24, 2020 20:06
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Wow. That is some world-class hot sauce drama. There are too many shitheads in the world right now.
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So, I saw this thread mention Secret Aardvark a little while ago and I saw it at the grocery store. I think I’m going to need to order it in bulk. Less than a week and it’s about half gone. I can use it on everything.
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Jun 24, 2020 20:32
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Lol I just bought a bottle of Melinda's Scotch Bonnet and opened it yesterday Kroger isn't doing returns right now but I wonder if "learned the company is a bunch of thieving shitheads" would have counted under their satisfaction guarantee
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Jhet posted:So, I saw this thread mention Secret Aardvark a little while ago and I saw it at the grocery store. I think I’m going to need to order it in bulk. Less than a week and it’s about half gone. I can use it on everything. I will preach the gospel of Serrabanero until my lungs give out. The hab sauce is good, Serrabanero is transcendent.
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Discussion Quorum posted:Lol I just bought a bottle of Melinda's Scotch Bonnet and opened it yesterday Kroger has a pretty depressingly bad hot sauce aisle near my house. Pretty much the only thing I ever get recently is black label valentina. I ran to walMart for a quick supply run last week and saw bottles of the xxx hot Mayan yucateca sauce and picked up 3 bc I haven't had it in months. Love that smokey habenero flavor. 
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:Kroger has a pretty depressingly bad hot sauce aisle near my house. Pretty much the only thing I ever get recently is black label valentina. I ran to walMart for a quick supply run last week and saw bottles of the xxx hot Mayan yucateca sauce and picked up 3 bc I haven't had it in months. I actually can't remember which store I bought this at (did a double run) but I figured Kroger would carry the joke better  Mine has a large selection in terms of shelf space, but it's nearly all Mexican or Louisiana mass-market stuff. They do have some varieties of El Yucateco and Melinda's. No Crystal. As a NOLA-area native I'm surprised at how annoying it is to find Crystal just one state over. These days I'm mostly doing Valentina Black Label, Kutbil-Ik, and Yellow Bird Sriracha. Trying to broaden my horizons a bit and thought I'd find something a bit more Caribbean-inspired.
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Jun 24, 2020 23:33
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I just wish Zaxbys would sell bottles of their insane sauce.
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Jun 24, 2020 23:53
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I took a chance and got a blueberry ghost pepper sauce I saw on the shelf of my grocery store. It’s more like hot vinegar with a hint of fruit.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I actually can't remember which store I bought this at (did a double run) but I figured Kroger would carry the joke better this stuff is a good Caribbean style sauce if you can find it. I just get it from amazon. 
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Democratic Pirate posted:I took a chance and got a blueberry ghost pepper sauce I saw on the shelf of my grocery store. It’s more like hot vinegar with a hint of fruit. What brand?
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this is my favorite hot sauce Mod Edit: Goatse was here. It is not now. Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Jun 25, 2020 00:53
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ah, well,
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uber_stoat posted:this stuff is a good Caribbean style sauce if you can find it. I just get it from amazon. Oh drat my Kroger does have that. Forgot they have a smallish Caribbean section with some additional hot sauces, but I remember seeing it now.
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Jun 25, 2020 01:23
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Matouks is good stuff.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:What brand? Bravado spice co, apparently it was on a season of Hot Ones now that I looked it up. I’m hoping I didn’t shake it enough and missed out on the bulk of the sauce - it’s pretty solid on the bottom.
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Yeah, shake it up better. That's one of the better sauces they have, imo.
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Just tried the mad dog 357 sriracha, it's quite good! I had it on a pita with a bunch of other things but the flavor came through nicely but wasn't overwhelming, which to me is the sign of a good sauce. Taken by itself it's a little hot but did great with food. I'm excited to try it on noodles.
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I previously suggested people try Hank Sauce's Cilanktro for pork and fish. Well, now I recommend their Honey Habanero sauce. It's a tad sweet, excellent pepper flavor but also not knock your socks off spicy. I totally see myself using a whole bottle on a plate of wings in the near future.
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Ordered the sauces from the stupid Hot Ones show - nothing mind blowing but the "Constrictor" sauce is a proper hot reaper sauce. One of the ingredients is "reaper distillate" whatever the heck that is but it will definitely get your attention on a wing. For a good fifteen minutes. Also got Wiltshire Chili Farm's trinidad scorpion sauce and Angry Goat's Hippy Dippy Green. Scorpion sauce I think will go well with noodles, ramen type savory dishes. Good heat, scorpion is definitely one of my favorite peppers for flavor. Hippy Dippy is a good breakfast sauce, went well on a plate of sunny side up eggs. I don't think it will displace Angry Aardvark's Serrabanero at the breakfast table but it's a solid sauce. I can see it going well on a good pastor or asada as well.
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mischief posted:Ordered the sauces from the stupid Hot Ones show - nothing mind blowing but the "Constrictor" sauce is a proper hot reaper sauce. One of the ingredients is "reaper distillate" whatever the heck that is but it will definitely get your attention on a wing. For a good fifteen minutes. The Wiltshire scorpion sauce is really good but it fucks up my guts without fail. The first time I tried it, had some the night before a first date and it was still messing with me during the date a day later. I don’t know why but scorpion peppers will wreck my insides way fiercer than anything else.
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To revise my review after beer and some friends over - the Hot Ones game show sauces are hot. Brain Burner is not so bad. Scotch bonnet is a fantastic (and hard to grow) pepper with a little bit of lime. Good on a crispy wing, seems like a good match for any kind of mexican/central american dishes. Eye Of The Scorpion is a ninja. I've said it multiple times here and the garden thread that I love trinidad scorpions. It's a very robust plant with a ton of nuanced flavors. This sauce takes about 30 seconds for your brain to process the garlic then it's just loving hot. I'm a pretty grizzled hot sauce fan and this one had me reaching for some tortilla chips and an additional cold beer. Constrictor needs to go on the Hot Ones line up. It's not "da Bomb" levels of gently caress you but it's getting there. Layers and layers and layers of eye opening Carolina reaper and that's pretty much it. This has an immediate aluminum/ozone nose that fills the room - people notice when it gets opened. Hint of the sweetness of the pepper itself and then about 30 minutes of question why we're here and where is God heat. It's an expensive novelty. I cannot think of a single useful cuisine for this sauce. gently caress.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Going off of Hot-Headz, I would vote (in order): Bravado Black Garlic, Torchbearer Garlic Reaper, Bravado Blueberry, Heartbreaking Dawns Pear & Apple, Marie Sharp's Belizean, Mikey V's Sweet Ghost Pepper, Blair's Heat Wasabi Green Tea, Angry Goat Pink Elephant. I wish someone would send me a hot sauce gift box. Carillon posted:N'thing Hearthbreaking Dawns, I like the Cauterizer but all the sauces of theres I've had have been great. Otherwise I just bought a bottle of High River Sauces Rogue Moruga Blood Orange Scorpion and it's really nice. My partner and I really like the Bravado Aka Miso as well. Thanks for the suggestions (and I did check out Wiltshire Chili farms and they looked good, but I felt the sort of brand exotic factor made Hot-Headz seem like the better gift choice). I went for: Bravado Blueberry, Heartbreaking Dawn's Cauterizer, Bravado Pineapple, Angry Goat Dreams Of Calypso, High River Sauces Rogue Moruga Blood Orange, High River Sauces Hellacious Hot Sauce. Couple of the other suggestions that looked good were out of stock unfortunately. And I dodged the ones that looked like pure murder for now because I don't want to kill an old man who mostly dabbles with Cholula. Maybe one day. I did kinda find it surprising that nowhere really sells what resembles a chunky gift box. Like, max 4 small bottles. Maybe there just isn't a market for it and I'm just weird. Feels like a faux-fancy 6 bottle mini-hamper of curated sauces would be a pretty good shout for somebody to offer, but I'll just make it myself.
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It might be a cool gift box idea, but that’s an entire second product line for sauce maker. Seems like there just wouldn’t be a good benefit for them when you’re laying out a bunch of capital on what’s more a novelty item. I’m not saying I wouldn’t appreciate getting a gift set, but I’d still prefer the 5oz or larger bottles.
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Jeza posted:Thanks for the suggestions (and I did check out Wiltshire Chili farms and they looked good, but I felt the sort of brand exotic factor made Hot-Headz seem like the better gift choice). Awesome! Great choices all around, report back when you get them, it should be a fun time!
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I finally figured out what to do with Bravado Aka Miso - it makes for some baller kimchi. I just finished a two week ferment and I used Aka Miso in place of red pepperflakes/gochugaru. Turned out really drat awesome.
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Missing Name posted:I previously suggested people try Hank Sauce's Cilanktro for pork and fish. Oh, their stuff is great! I met the guys who make it at the Atlantic City Beer Festival a few years ago, and I picked up a few bottles of their stuff. It's excellent, and not too hot so my family enjoys it too.
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