What are your fav hot sauces & or salsas?

[Bellaon7]

I'm a heat freak, but am more interested in taste. I love Tabasco & their variations, but my hangup with American hot sauces is that they use vinegar as a pres/med. I just don't like vinegar. Even if you evaporate it out, it just remains with it's base concentrated. Mexican hot sauces in general use sodium benzate or some other carcinogen as a preservative, & taste ooo...so right.

[Janet_Girl]

Chipotle Tabasco is as hot as I get.  Mild is the way this girl goes.  I don't care so hot sauces or salsas. A basic salsa made with tomatoes, cilantro, onions is the only thing I like.


Janet

[aubrey]

I love just about all of them and can take pretty extreme hot but yeah not a huge fan of the really vinegar-ey stuff like tobasco. Also cayenne and jalapeno are way too acidic/caustic and just seem designed to destroy your intestinal tract. Pace is a pretty good brand and they have alot of flavors. They have alot of lesser known brands here but i haven't tried too many of them. I like to sprinkle chipotle chili powder on alot of things when im cooking. Indian and Thai food have alot of hot sauces that can seem more balanced. Poblano peppers aren't usually very hot but I absolutely love stuffed, fried poblanos or rellenos!

[Christo]

Tapatio hot sauce & extra hot habanero sauce.

[heatherrose]

I love the flavor of Chipolte Tabasco and like Louisiana and Tapatio Hot Sauce.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvPql0OQ3Y#noexternalembed

[placeholdername]

Ah yes, total heat freak here.  My dad is Mexican so maybe it's genetic... my favorite so far was this weird thing I only found once in Mexico... Habanero Oil?  It was like the oil of the habanero pepper and it was sooo good and sooo spicy.  I'll put hot sauce on almost anything... one of my current housemates thinks I'm nuts.  When I was in boarding school I basically subsisted on the Chipotle Tabasco to make the food there have any taste, but I don't really like the other Tabasco flavors except sometimes the green one on scrambled eggs.  I love real authentic Mexican hot sauces... but I also like spicy thai food or malaysian food too.

[LordKAT]

Wasabi, curry, habanero oil is good too, jalapeno sauce, horseradish, etc.

[V M]

I like hot sauces in general. But mostly I'm a chunky Jalapeno green sauce fiend. If I get a burrito at someplace, I'll get salsa fresca and green sauce and mix them together to put on my burrito

[Virginia87106]

I am in New Mexico, the salsa capital of the world.  We do not ask if it was a boy or a girl, we ask....do you prefer red or green chile?

We have a number of local salsas that are wonderful, most made with tomatoes, green chile, jalapinos, salt and garlic.

[BrandiOK]

I love the vinegar based hot sauces...I love all kinds of sour pickles too (never sweet pickles ack!).  I love Louisiana brand hot sauce for the flavor but it is a bit mild on heat.  Tabasco is also a favorite although I don't care too much for their Chipotle flavor except as an ingredient.  One of my fave spicy sauces is Sriracha which is a Thai chili garlic sauce.  A bit sweet but still plenty of heat.

For salsa's I make my own with roma tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, jalapeno and lime (salt to taste).  In a pinch I'll use Pace.

[Dana Lane]

I like extreme heat! I actually got addicted to it for a long time and now add mad dog 357 silver addition to a lot of things I eat. It is 650,000 scoville units! As a comparison tobasco sauce is only around 5,000 scoville units. Oh the euphoria I get when I eat hot stuff like that!

[daisybelle]

I make my own FRESH salsa with a variety of peppers including the following
Serrano
Jalapeno
Chile doe Arbol
Chile Petin or Pequen
Habanero ( some times )

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[Bellaon7]

Has anyone ever tasted a Ghost Pepper(Naga Jolokia) in any form fresh, dried, or in a sauce? They're from NE India & are roughly 2x as hot as the red Savina Habanero & has been rated at over 1,000,000 scoville. Blair's hot sauce made a very limited sauce called Blaire's 16 Million Reserve that was pure capsacin & ranked at 16,000,000 scoville. Can you imagine getting that splashed in your eyes?!!? I once went to take my contacts out ofter chopping up a bunch of habaneros, AFTER washing my hands with soap & it still burned so bad I was ready to dig my eye out with a spoon!
Post Merge: October 20, 2009, 04:41:53 PM
Has anyone ever tasted a Ghost Pepper(Naga Jolokia) in any form fresh, dried, or in a sauce? They're from NE India & are roughly 2x as hot as the red Savina Habanero & has been rated at over 1,000,000 scoville. Blair's hot sauce made a very limited sauce called Blaire's 16 Million Reserve that was pure capsacin & ranked at 16,000,000 scoville. Can you imagine getting that splashed in your eyes?!!? I once went to take my contacts out ofter chopping up a bunch of habaneros, AFTER washing my hands with soap & it still burned so bad I was ready to dig my eye out with a spoon!

[Dana Lane]

Has anyone ever tasted a Ghost Pepper(Naga Jolokia) in any form fresh, dried, or in a sauce? They're from NE India & are roughly 2x as hot as the red Savina Habanero & has been rated at over 1,000,000 scoville. Blair's hot sauce made a very limited sauce called Blaire's 16 Million Reserve that was pure capsacin & ranked at 16,000,000 scoville. Can you imagine getting that splashed in your eyes?!!? I once went to take my contacts out ofter chopping up a bunch of habaneros, AFTER washing my hands with soap & it still burned so bad I was ready to dig my eye out with a spoon!
Post Merge: October 20, 2009, 04:41:53 PM
Has anyone ever tasted a Ghost Pepper(Naga Jolokia) in any form fresh, dried, or in a sauce? They're from NE India & are roughly 2x as hot as the red Savina Habanero & has been rated at over 1,000,000 scoville. Blair's hot sauce made a very limited sauce called Blaire's 16 Million Reserve that was pure capsacin & ranked at 16,000,000 scoville. Can you imagine getting that splashed in your eyes?!!? I once went to take my contacts out ofter chopping up a bunch of habaneros, AFTER washing my hands with soap & it still burned so bad I was ready to dig my eye out with a spoon!

I have 3 different sauces that have that pepper in it. I can't remember two of them but one is mad dog 357 ghost sauce. It is fairly hot but i have to use a lot to get my heat fix. If I put enough on there it is incredibly hot.

[heatherrose]

I grabbed a bottle of Tabasco and shook it before I put some on my omlet,
in a truck stop. As I did the cap came off at it squirted me right
between the eyes. You learn something new every day.

[Bellaon7]

One time on a busy Sunday breakfast rush the room chef was working the line & needed hard boiled eggs on the fly, so he put the eggs whole in a bowl of water & then into the microwave.I didn't see him do this otherwise I'd have stopped him. Well of course all is fine untill he opened the door to peak, then the seal/pressure released & they blew up in his face. He was burned so bad he had scabs on his face for almost a month! The kicker is we had precooked hard boiled eggs for salads that he could have dropped in hot water for 2min.

[Jester]

Tobasco red, tobasco green, tobasco habanero, Frank's Red Hot (even though it's mostly just red... delicious though) and that's about it for particular favourites.

[heatherrose]

...the room chef...he put the eggs whole in a bowl of water & then into the microwave...we had precooked hard boiled eggs

Was it his first day in the funny hat?

[Bellaon7]

No but it was the funniest! I really liked the guy so I feel bad saying I had to run to the walk-in to laugh like the crazygurl!

[heatherrose]

The kitchen manager thought that the walk-in was more sound proof than it
actually was. He was under a lot of pressure and not having a good day.
Among other things, half the scheduled crew called off for the Sunday brunch
buffet and half of the crew that did show up was green. He hurriedly stomped
past us into the walk-in. A few seconds after the door clicked closed, he
gave voice to each and every one of his frustration with his job AND elsewhere.
After his vent was finished and a few minutes to regain his composure he emerged
from the cooler, staring into the face of his crew's shocked disbelief.