I haven’t tried that many hot sauces but I like hot sauces that have a good mix of both heat and flavor. What I prefer depends on what I’m eating, so sometimes I prefer Tapatio and other times I prefer (real) Sriracha. I do also sometimes use other hot sauces like the ghost pepper ranch from Wendy’s when I can get them.
Depends what I’m using it on.
Mambo Sauce and buffalo wing sauce for chicken.
Tabasco for eggs.
Goblin Sauce by Torchbearer, made in collaboration with the band Nekrogoblikon. Jalapeno, pineapple, scorpion pepper. Good solid heat, little fruity. Bought a case of it
Valentina. Not very hot, but I like it and use it like ketchup.
Love Valentina so much. Not too spicy, but it’s got such a unique flavour too.
Try the black label if you want a bit more heat.
Encona hot sauces are some of the most readily available in the UK, reasonably priced, and they generally slap
El Yucateco - all of their habanero-based sauces are good. I had the black label one recently and feel like I’ve discovered a new favorite.
Kill Sauce - limited selection but really unique sauces with complex flavor profiles to balance the heat. The Habanero is exemplary, but the Carolina and Ghost versions are the pinnacle, IMO.
- Melinda’s ghost pepper sauce (kinda my default)
- Tobasco scorpion (another default)
- yuca tecca reserve (for tacos usually with another sauce for more heat)
- trappey’s tobacco peppers (for hot dogs, eggs, and chili)
- Melinda’s ghost pepper wing sauce (for nuggies)
Gringo Bandito. It’s a flavorful medium-heat hot sauce.
My own sauce because it’s not cooked, without vinegar and hotter.
Current favorite is Cosmic Disco by Karma Sauce. It’s blazing hot with some great Asian accents that make it perfect for most of what I cook at home.
Oh man, how has nobody mentioned cholula? I can’t even use other sauces except for siracha.
I came here to mention Cholula. Glad someone did. Its just the right flavor and spice imo
It truly is fantastic. I put it on everything, pizza, breakfast burritos, tacos…whatever. I snag packets of it for free at the local store because I’m a broke ass lol.
Absolutely it is godly on frozen pizza. Quik trip has ot on packets
Marie Sharp’s
Might not sound interesting - or maybe it isn’t even a “hot sauce”, but since it’s like, the only I know, schezwan.
Valentina regular or black label
Chipotle tabasco
my favorite used to be a sauce named “amor” that was primarily centered around southern california and baja california.
it was a little bit like cholula, but w MUCH stronger vinegar punch to it and it makes my mouth water every time i think about it on top of chips or other snacks; sort of like frank’s hot sauce if it were more sour and more picante at the same time.
the brand still exists, but their recipe changed significantly about 20-ish years ago and i’ve been unable to find anything like it to call my favorite.
All that buildup only for heartbreak in the last sentence!
