What CAN'T You Put Hot Sauce On???

Being from the Southwest REQUIRES all kinds of hot sauces for all kinds of different things. I probably have more than a dozen different kinds on the shelf right now. That being said there are three that I feel are indispensable. For all things Asian (or not Asian), I love Sriracha. For general use on or in anything I prefer Crystal, a Louisiana style sauce similar to Tabasco. To add a little kick to tacos or burritos, the Cholula sauce is quite good. None of these three sauces are fiery hot, but boy do they have great flavor.

+1 on the Cholula - I put it on my eggs every morning. My 11 year old daughter loves it also.
 
I've see several references for "Texas Pete" hot sauce... If you look at the label you'll see that it's from Winston Salem, NC. Something is just plain wrong with that.

I really enjoy Cholula in all of it's variations. It has a great flavor and you can use quite a bit without "burning up" your food.

A taco place that I frequent has one that always makes me laugh... It's called "Smack my *** and Call Me Sally".

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Seems like everything benefits from a little zing. I have a few different ones in the house but my go to sauce is definitely Frank's (the ONLY proper sauce for Buffalo wings).

So, tell me; what can't be enhanced with a few shakes of hot sauce?....'cause I got nuthin'!
Frank's is my favorite, by far, but I have never put it on ice cream.


I had a hell of a time talking my wife out of that bottle. I used it, cleaned it, and filled it with Hoppe's #9 and put it in my mini-cleaning kit that went with my Colt Challenger when I shot with the Isaak Walton club at the NRA pistol range in Fairfax on my way home from work in Herndon. Even the DC area can have some advantages to offset all the disadvantages.
 
My dad was a war correspondent in WWII (he was 33 and nearly blind) and crossed the North Atlantic aboard an LST in the winter of '43 to stage for the Normandy invasion. He said they had a Mexican-American officer who, on a bet, knocked the neck off one of the larger bottles of Tabasco sauce, chugged it down without taking a breath, lit a big black cigar, and walked out of the tiny "wardroom".

And my 63-year-old kid sister, the one who does shots of sriracha, can pick a green cayenne pepper (about ten times as hot as a jalapeño) off the plant and eat it like a Milky Way. Saw her do it. Her eyelids broke a sweat, but she enjoyed it.

I love hot stuff, but come on!
 
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OK, we all know this will be a much shorter list that the "what can you put it on" list.

I've seen it on cold breakfast cereal, ice cream and popcorn. The farm market by me make fudge and candy apples with hot sauce. My wife puts couple drops in her pecan pie (bless that woman).:)

Seems like everything benefits from a little zing. I have a few different ones in the house but my go to sauce is definitely Frank's (the ONLY proper sauce for Buffalo wings).

So, tell me; what can't be enhanced with a few shakes of hot sauce?....'cause I got nuthin'!:confused:

And if, on the outside chance, there is something out that would be destroyed by hot sauce then I'm sure it would work great with a dry rub!:D

I personally don't think it would go well with:

  • Aebleskiver
  • Danish
  • Lefse
  • Scottish Shortbread
  • Gingersnaps
  • German Chocolate Cake
to name a few things...;)


Pete
 
I love hot sauce on eggs. But I think it spoils the taste of grits.

Cholula (and lots of others) are good. But the odd/funky taste of tobasco peppers is addictive. I keep coming back.
 
It is wise to keep it out of mucus membranes as well as your eyes, other than that it can be used on just about anything. I remember my first indoctrination to hot sauce was while stationed in Virginia at Fort Eustis. A guy that I bunked next to was a Cajun from Louisiana, he was a funny sumbitch and we got along right from the git go. We went down to the chow line for breakfast the first morning and he saw the cooks had bottles of Bells Louisiana Hot Sauce standing around their griddles and asked them for one which he took back to a table we sat at. I watched him take that bottle and dump it all over his SOS and scrambled eggs...I gave it a try and was hooked from then on. The cooks used the hot sauce with steel wool to keep their griddles spotless clean. Another time we went to the PX, he bought a sack of pork cracklins a couple bottles of Tabasco sauce, we got outside the PX and he said "You are in for a treat my friend." He opened the bag and dumped a full bottle of tabasco into the bag and shook it all up, rolled the edge up and said "Lets find us a beer", we found the EM club and went to order a couple beers, he would shake that bag from time to time and after we had drank a couple beers he opened up the sack and offered me the contents....it was one of the most amazing things I had ever ate, we sat there and ate that entire bag of cracklins soaked in hot sauce and drank a bunch of beer, watching the ugly EM club strippers bump and grind.
 
There was this guy at a dealership that I used to work at that could handle ANYTHING heat wise. He had this homemade habanero sauce that was ungodly hot. One tihe I was on the showroom floor & one of the salesman told me there were snacks in the sales break room. Since I was & still am a chow hound, I headed that way. I knew something was up when I walked in & all the salesmen were "casually" standing around. They had some pizza rolls that had just come out of the oven, & offered me some. I popped one in my mouth while the salesmen watched in anticipation. Apparently they had pried the two halves of the pizza rolls apart & filled them with the homemade sauce I mentioned earlier. The inside of my mouth immediately blistered, but I kept my best poker face on. I knew I had fooled them from the looks of disappointment on their faces. I said something like "those are a little warm...mind if I take a couple with me?" So I grabbed a couple more & walked back to the parts department, but as soon as I was sure they couldn't see me, I dashed out a side door of the dealership & across the street to a Circle K, where I bought a pint of vanilla ice cream & ate it right there, trying to get that fire put out!:eek::eek::eek:
 
Anyone ever made their own spicy peanut butter? Its kind of the thing at work right now. Cayenne pepper is by far the best to put in there. It really enhances the flavor and gives just a touch of spice to it. Every other dried pepper we tried just didnt work out right.
 
I don't think it would help your poison ivy.
I like going to our local Fire House Subs restaurant. They keep 30-50 kinds of hot sauce on a shelf for you to pick from, and they rate them from 1-10 for heat. Be careful with the .357 sauce, it's rated 11. My boss told me one day that he ruined his sandwich with it, and he's a chilihead.
 
It depends.

Here, Giant Eagle seems to carry decent hot sauce purely on the whim of the individual store. Most of them don't anymore, but a few still carry Dave's Insanity Sauce.

I got my bottle of Dave's Insanity Ghost Pepper at the West Side Market. $20 and worth the money.

Ahhh, the West Side Market. What a place. Fist time I went was last year. Bought fresh headcheese & corned beef, amongst other food items. The headcheese was fantastic. Hadn't had that in years.
 
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