i like both franks, and tobassco as well flavored, everyday use hot sauces... certainly there are "hotter" sauces that I prefer when i'm looking to heat things up though.
However, I find skylines hot sauce to have both a better flavor, and to be hotter, then both franks and orignal tobasco.
Does anyone know more about skylines hot sauce? I've purchased through skylines stores, and i've never seen it at JJ's. Is it perhaps a "rebranded" nationally available hot sauce, or is it actually made by, and only availble through skylines?
I'll give those a try. I'm branching out into gormete sauces as I try all the retail labels (my local GC, no JJ around, has started carrying Dave's sauces, so I'll probably give them a try next trip.) You may notice I ad the wrong name. It's Yucatan Sunshine, which I corrected. I'll try to fix it on other posts. Don't know why I messed it up so bad, but I didn't realize my mistake until I was at the store yesterday.
Hey Texas Pete, Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb Co. (www.wildpepper.com) makes some flavorful HOT sauces. Their Red Savina/Garlic sauce is excellent! Nuckin Futs and Liquid Stoopid are also in that catagory. Not quite as hot as DaBomb or Dave's Insanity but having good flavor. All that I have listed are way too hot for average folks and should only be enjoyed by us hardcore chiliheads.
Texas Pete (duh) is my favorite mild hot sauce. Great on eggs, fries, chicken nuggets etc. For Chili, Soup and other foods you blend the sauce in, I'm partial to Valentinos extra hot. Like most Mexican sauces, it doesn't overpower the food with a vinegary taste and adds an excellent burn! I've not tried many of the gourmet sauces yet. Tabasco's good, but not great. I like Yucatan Sunshine Habenero. It's mild but tastes SOO good!
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While I like lots of hot sauces, I never saw the point of adding pure cap or something similar just to make something hot. It's the FLAVOR that matters. If the chiles and/or spices are tasty, and also happen to be hot...perfect. But to take a mediocre sauce and add heat then sell it as something superior seems a waste. But, whatever floats you boat.
I'm with unknown foodie. Bone Yard Brew is a very good hot sauce. Hot enough it has some kick but it doesn't numb your lips and mouth like some of them do. Leaves a sweet aftertaste in your mouth.
Last time I was in the Jungle, I was looking for Mild To Wild's Red Savina/Garlic habenero sauce and could not find it. I noticed serveral other MTW sauces were on the shelf. Time to reorder?
Recently tried Joe Perry's Boneyard Brew. It's one of the best for meat. It's kind of like a semi hot steak sauce being sweet/savory/hot all at the same time.
Big fan of Melinda's here. It's an habanero sauce, but tempered with a little sweetness. There's another one too that sounds awful but was really good - and I can't remember the name - but it was a peach & vidalia onion hot sauce. (Very mild, more sweet than heat, just a bit of burn in the finish). They had it out for tasting once when I was there and I liked t so much I bought 2 bottles.
Franks is OK, but very mild and middle of the road.
Dave's Insanity and their ilk I just don't get into. I used a toothpick to put a very, very tiny ammount of Dave's Insanity on a burrito, and ended up throwing it away. Yay, you made a sauce so hot that I can't eat it! Makes no sense.
I like different hot sauces for diferent types of foods. My overall favorite is Tobasco. I prefer these sauces for the following foods:
Mexican - Tobasco Smoked Chipoltle Pizza and Italian - Franks or Tobasco Garlic Eggs - Trappy's Soups - Tobasco Origional Beef marinaids - Tobasco Origional Novelaty Sauce - Scorned Woman Cincinnati Chili - Skyline, Tobasco, or Franks Texas Chili - Trappys or Franks extra hot
At one time, I saw that Jungle Jim's carried the gallon-sized tubs of Frank's Hot Sauce. I was very hesitant to get it, but now that I think about it, it's probably cheaper than buying bottle after bottle! I wonder if they still carry it in that size...
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