As I write this, I’m eating, for breakfast, a parfait made with (among other things) close to a tablespoon of cayenne pepper and 11 hearty shakes of 650,000 Scoville unit jolokia pepper hot sauce. (The cayenne pepper hits quick. As soon as it hits the tongue. The jolokia peppers take a bit before the heat starts. So, I like to balance the two.)
Last night I made a 7-layer bean dip also with cayenne and the same hot sauce. The day before that, egg salad with… you guessed it: cayenne and jolokia hot sauce. Most of what I eat, I add really spicy stuff to it.
AMA!
What’s your favorite hot sauces?
For heat I’m partial to Smokin’ Ed’s Special Reserve and Tabasco Scorpion but I usually mix them with milder sauces to get a flavor profile. Tabasco Scorpion is kind of sweet so I’ll pair it with something like Local Honey’s Mango Habanero. Smokin’ Ed’s is neutral but hot af so I’ll pair it with anything that tastes good but needs more heat - like Mexico Lindo for Mexican or Conch Republic’s Fire Coral for seafood.
I think my favorite for just straight flavor is Baron West Indian Hot Sauce. A friend of mine came back from a Caribbean vacation and said they served something like this there. (He also said the bottled stuff didn’t quite live up, but was close.) And man is that stuff good. They used to have one they call “Bajan Style” that’s very similar but not as super spicy as the stuff I linked above, but I haven’t been able to find that on the Baron website. (Maybe it’s discontinued.)
I love an Indian/curried flavored hot sauce. Have you had https://hdsauceco.com/products/tikk-hot-masala
It’s my favorite. Absolutely delicious