Hot Sauce

[JZS_147]

I call bullshit on eating a tablespoon of hot sauce 1,100,000 scovilles and being fine.


Not really into the sauces that just focus on heat and taste like shit. Hot sauce should compliment your food, not overpower it.

Some very flavorful hot sauces I like:

-Matouks Calypso (all of the Matouks sauces are good)
-Susies Original
-Lotties Original
-Huy Fong fresh chilli garlic
-Blind Betty's pineapple hot sauce
-Tahiti Joes Maui
-A Little Nukey
-Extra Hot peri peri

[TKRIS]

FYI: A LOT of extract-based hot sauces will be labeled with the SHU of the extract used in the sauce. This does not necessarily directly translate into the heat of the sauce itself.

For example: To my palette, "Black Mamba" seems hotter than "Z...Nothing Beyond", despite it being labeled as 2 million SHU vs. 4 million SHU.

The SHU labeled on the bottle doesn't usually count for much, especially when you're talking about extracts.

[clem24]

Originally posted by JZS_147
Not really into the sauces that just focus on heat and taste like shit. Hot sauce should compliment your food, not overpower it.

QFT.

One of my favorites is Mama Africa Zulu Peri Peri:

http://www.mamaafricas.com/

Have yet to find it in Calgary (only found it in Ed). Flavour is amazing and has a ton of kick.

I've noticed lately though that I break out with tons of zits if I have too much hot stuff....

[BlackRadon]

Sriracha, it's nothing crazy hot but I out that shit on everything. Soo good. I'm gonna have to check out some of these hot sauces you guys have been posting up. Really big fan of Jamaican style hot sauces. Tons of flavor.

[BlackRadon]

Originally posted by arian_ma
What is a scoville exactly btw? It's crazy how different people's reactions are to this stuff.

89coupe I think if I ate a spoonful of the stuff you had, I would be in the hospital.

Pretty sure it's how many cups of water to completely get rid of the heat..don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure that's what Adam Richmond said( man vs food host) on episode.

[KandabashiDevil]

My favorite is Sriracha!

Red Rooster is king

[Mibz]

It's a measure of capsaicin. There's some scientific method to figure it out. Men in lab coats and such.

In Scoville's method, an alcohol extract of the capsaicin oil from a measured amount of dried pepper is added incrementally to a solution of sugar in water until the "heat" is just detectable by a panel of (usually five) tasters; the degree of dilution gives its measure on the Scoville scale. Thus a sweet pepper or a bell pepper, containing no capsaicin at all, has a Scoville rating of zero, meaning no heat detectable. The hottest chilis, such as habaneros and nagas, have a rating of 200,000 or more, indicating that their extract must be diluted over 200,000 times before the capsaicin presence is undetectable. The greatest weakness of the Scoville Organoleptic Test is its imprecision, because it relies on human subjectivity. Tasters taste only one sample per session.

[clem24]

Originally posted by Mibz
It's a measure of capsaicin. There's some scientific method to figure it out. Men in lab coats and such.

LOL unless it's the same guys over and over again, I'd say it's not very scientific at all, well at least not overly controlled hahahaha.

[Disoblige]

Anyone try Momento de Muerte from Pepper North before?
I found it at Superstore as they started carrying it recently and it's quite nice.

It's pretty spicy but not overwhelming spicy, but more importantly it's tasty with that hint of black cherry. So good on pizza, sandwiches, burgers, etc.

[CompletelyNumb]

Pepper North makes good sauces. Thanks for the heads up about superstore.

I personally grab the entire 10 bottle lineup from Hot Ones every season to try out.

[phreezee]

I tried Marie Sharp's Fiery Hot Sauce the other week; loved the flavor and it was just spicy enough.
Just bought $100 worth to get free shipping, lol

https://mariesharpscanada.com/produc...-ml-10-ounces/

[nismodrifter]

Perfect timing for thread bump. Found myself getting sick of sriacha, the taste is just overpowering on alot of things. Thanks for posting that one available from Superstore, will pick it up today.

[msommers]

Would still love to find Susie's Hot Sauce locally but the struggle is real. Needs to be ordered from Antigua.

[Disoblige]

I have Stargazer from Pepper North now as well (found it at Urban Fare, which is a spin-off on Save-On Foods).
Stargazer is much hotter than Momento de Muerte, but I still keep going back to the Momento because it tastes amazing with that sweetness from the cherries.

[flipstah]

Valentina has been great tasting so far for me. Weak though

[CompletelyNumb]

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I have Stargazer from Pepper North now as well (found it at Urban Fare, which is a spin-off on Save-On Foods).
Stargazer is much hotter than Momento de Muerte, but I still keep going back to the Momento because it tastes amazing with that sweetness from the cherries.

I re-upped on the blueberry and cherry hot sauces from Pepper North. They're so damn good.

[sabad66]

This stuff is my favourite. Good flavour and decent amount of heat. Only two places I’ve seen it in town are Island Foods in Eau Claire and also Latino Food Market on centre street close to McKnight. Worth stocking up on as it’s pretty cheap. Goes great with eggs, tacos, soups, chilli, etc.

[ExtraSlow]

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Valentina has been great tasting so far for me. Weak though

That's my favourite "daily" sauce.

[Swank]

*bump*

Got this for Christmas and love it, an actual serious hot sauce, not just a gag gift for the label. 2nd hottest sauce I've ever had (next to Dave's Insanity) but a very close 2nd. A bit more on the runny side (similar consistency to Thai red chili sauce), excellent flavor. Good enough for me to feel justified in bumping an old thread. Posting this from the toilet for obvious reasons.

[CompletelyNumb]

Wife got me a Mustard hot sauce and a Kimchi hot sauce from https://www.cultureshocked.ca/, they hold up well.