In praise of hot sauce

[Andrew_Culture]

I've been a fan of hot sauces since I was a kid and I'm always on the lookout for interesting or annihilating new sauces, so any recommendations will be gratefully accepted!

Here's what's currently weighing down my hot sauce shelf:

The Chilango bottle actually contains my homemade habanero curry(ish) sauce.

Sadly absent is Louisiana Habanero sauce as I can't find anywhere to buy it any more

The only sauce I'm not keen on is the Rectum Ripper, it's supercharged with mustard which makes it hot and uncomfortable with almost no flavour payoff, just painful.

So what's your favourite?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I like this Saino's paste (nearly a sauce). I bung it in loads of stuff much to Mrs 3BM's delight!!!!
It's great in baked beans especially if 'someone's' gone and bought that healthy no-taste version.

 

[Silver Fox]

Encona Hot Pepper sauce.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

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Ooh, where does one find that for sale?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Encona Hot Pepper sauce.

Nice but too much fire not enough taste for my liking.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I like this Saino's paste (nearly a sauce). I bung it in loads of stuff much to Mrs 3BM's delight!!!!
It's great in baked beans especially if 'someone's' gone a bought that healthy no-taste version.

Chipotle has totally changed my cooking, it's amazing in spag bog!

 

[vernon]

Having worked my way through the Plaza Cafe's menu in Manchester, nothing on offer in a bottle can ever match what Charlie served up.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Chipotle has totally changed my cooking, it's amazing in spag bog!

I don't want to start getting all fancy or owt but I found the chipotle way at a food festival in Austin, Texas - it was hot sauce city central.

Kelly Willis was playing there too, and she signed my CD

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Having worked my way through the Plaza Cafe's menu in Manchester, nothing on offer in a bottle can ever match what Charlie served up.

Not sure I'd fancy going beyond suicide!

&.English.Gravy.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I don't want to start getting all fancy or owt but I found the chipotle way at a food festival in Austin, Texas - it was hot sauce city central.

Kelly Willis was playing there too, and she signed my CD

I wish I'd found it sooner and in as much style!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Does anyone make their own hot sauce? I got all excited when I found dried habanero and naga peppers online but haven't decided what to do with them yet.

This year our entire pepper harvest was wiped out by slugs, except the habaneros...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was recommended this site the other day - haven't tried them yet.

http://www.coolchile.co.uk/

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I was recommended this site the other day - haven't tried them yet.

http://www.coolchile.co.uk/

Looks great! Before the interwebs I used to use a mail order company called Hot Headz.

 

[green1]

Does anyone make their own hot sauce? I got all excited when I found dried habanero and naga peppers online but haven't decided what to do with them yet.

Yeah I make it to a sweet chilli sauce recipe but I add a bit of ginger and triple the amount of chillis in it.

Edit:
900ml water
300ml Red wine vinegar
300g sugar
1 bulb crushed garlic
1 small finger of ginger
Chillis to your own taste. I use 8-10 birdseyes, 4 scotch bonnets, 2-3 nagas (all with seeds)
Spices again you own taste, I use paprika, turmeric, fennel cumin and coriander seeds all freshly ground.
cooked for 30 minutes then well blitzed, then cornflour to thicken. Normally enough for 4 big tomato sauce bottles.

I use it like other people use tomato sauce.

 

[vernon]

I got all excited when I found dried habanero and naga peppers online but haven't decided what to do with them yet.

Put them into bottles of vodka and let them impart their hotness to the alcohol over a few months. Fantastic sensation dissonance when served chilled in iced glasses.