Chili and Hot Sauce

[TwinBeast]

Do you like chili? What's the hottest sauce you've tasted or done, and what did you put in it if you made it yourself, or your favourite hot sauce? Or do you prefer your hot sauces and chili milder?

 

Previous hottest sauce from the shop was a naga jolokia sauce that is 8/10 hot in this brand's hotness ranking system (used this sauce surprisingly fast). Today bought this smoky reaper sauce that is 10+/10. Tasted a little of it, very smoky hot flavour, not as fruity flavour as the naga jolokia or their 5/10 habanero sauce I've usually used. There's also this hot sauce named: "PAIN 100%" at the shop which I've not dared to buy yet (maybe next time).

 

Years ago I used to put a lot of habanero into pizzas, until at some point I put way too much and couldn't eat the pizzas. Switched to just jalapeño on pizza. Seems hot enough for pizza. There used to be these pre sliced habaneros in cans that were tasty, but not too hot. But they're not sold anymore.

[Biodegradable]

I'm not much of a hot sauce connoisseur myself, but I've enjoyed sweet chilli sauce for as long as I can remember. I've also recently gotten into Sriracha when I'm feeling particularly spicy. I've yet to really explore the range of hot sauces out there, but I do love condiments, so it's only a matter of time.

[Aaron Blain]

- Take some dried chiles, chop them up and remove the seeds.

- Soak them in hot water for 20 minutes to rehydrate.

- Put the rehydrated chiles in the blender with some garlic, vinegar or other acid, salt, and enough of the soaking water to get the consistency you like.

 

Heat for heat's sake doesn't particularly interest me (though I do like spicy food), but you can get some really nice flavor making your hot sauce from scratch. You can also toast the peppers a little in a frying pan before rehydrating them, and you can keep them underwater for a week or so to ferment them for a different flavor.

 

I'm also fine with Cholula or Frank's on virtually anything.

[Doom_Dude]

Like Biodegradeable said, I'm not a big hot sauce connoisseur.

 

I sometimes make a chilli with a hot sauce called Bacon Blaze. Red kidney beans, ground beef, various spices... and I usually peep in the fridge and put different things in there. It's a bit different every time I make it. Good stuff.

 

[[McD] James]

I like Sriracha a lot.

[forgettable pyromaniac]

This one, specifically the black label, and if I hate myself, sriracha.

[MFG38]

I love chili. I put it into almost everything I cook.

[Decay]

Sorry for bad quality, old phone photos. It was pretty out of control

 

[Lippeth]

As far as sauce goes, I'm very vanilla and stick to Cholula and Sriracha simply out of convenience. I do love hot pepper jelly when I can find it. And on special occasions I "enjoy" those Korean Samyang 2x spicy ramen noodles.

 

I've never tried the more exotic connoisseur hot sauces because there are so many choices and I'd want to try them before buying a whole bottle, so this looks like a good thread to find something tasty and extreme!

[Bridgeburner56]

This is the hottest sauce I've tried. Same scoville rating as pepper spray and contains (apparently) the world's hottest chilli pepper. 

 

https://heatonist.com/products/hot-ones-the-last-dab

 

I usually use it for cooking but I have had it straight on chicken nibbles and can confirm, it packs a bit of a wallop. This is the sauce that you see on the hot ones videos where they make celebrities cry by feeding them hot sauce. The Gordon Ramsay one was pretty funny.

 

I usually go for sauces a little less insane than this but I do like it spicy. One of my recent favourites was a smoked ghost pepper and whisky sauce and it was really fucking good.

[Arrowhead]

I grow hot peppers as a hobby. Right now I have some Anaheims, Jalapeno M, Cayenne, Ghost, 7Pot Brain Strain, and some Cumra cherries starting up. Nowhere near ready yet, they're still very small plants. Was thinking about planting a peach habanero, but decided against it.

 

Would post a pic of the bed, but it won't let me because of file size limit!

[insertwackynamehere]

I like spicy food but I also easily get mouth sores and stomach aches so I just power through lol

[leejacksonaudio]

I'm kind of odd when it comes to peppers. I can't handle pickled jalapenos on things like nachos or other Mexican food, nor can I handle too many fresh jalapenos on anything. However, I can put chopped fresh jalapenos in my chile con queso recipe all day long - or serranos, for that matter - and not bat an eye. I like the extra hot version of Japanese curry-in-a-box. And when it comes to chicken wings at Wing Stop, mango habanero is my favorite flavor. Outside of that, though, I've been too fearful to tread. I had bad experiences forced upon me when I was a kid, and there's a sort of PTSD involved, I guess.

[Remilia Scarlet]

Carolina Reaper chilis are damn tasty.  So are ghost peppers, though not in all dishes.  I used to have some crystalized capsaicin that I tried in a few dishes and that was pretty good as well, but that was quite a while ago.  My favorite chili peppers to add to dishes are serranos and habaneros, though.

 

As far as individual hot sauces go, aside from the taste of the usual things like Sriracha and Tapatio, I like the flavor of Blair's Ultra Death Sauce and the (surprisingly mild, relatively) Ass Kickin' Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce.  Also sambal oelek, which is hilariously tasty to me and works really well in a lot of things.

 

I'm kinda odd with sriracha in that I only seem to like it in certain dishes, like pho or pad thai.

[HavoX]

CaJohn's Reaper Sling Blade and Trinidad Scorpion Sauces are the BOMB. 'Nuff said.

 

It all started when I tried Tabasco sauce, and I was hooked.

[I Drink Lava]

Spoiler

I've been eating a lot of knock-off Skyline Chili ever since I got a bunch of packets of it for my birthday. When I was a little kid, I had a frozen meal of it once and I thought it was the worst thing ever due to the overpowering cinnamon. Now I can't get enough of it. There's just something bizarrely good about it, even though it's completely backwards from a typical chili recipe. I eat it with the spaghetti, pinto beans, chili, chopped raw onions, and like nearly an entire bag's worth of finely shredded cheese to match the pictures.

 

As for hot sauce, I used to eat at a latin market that had $6 lunch specials in the back. They had a few tables with this unique hot sauce. It had a mild amount of heat, but it was more fruity-tasting and sour than anything. Before the pandemic hit, I went in near closing time to ask them what flavor it was or where I could buy it, but all they said was "we get it from a restaurant supplier". To this day, I haven't been able to find anything even remotely similar. I tried "chamoy sauce" because it was a similar color, but it just tasted like salty water. I got some "Mango Habanero" recently after getting my shots, but it just tastes like regular hot sauce with no fruity flavor.

[VanaheimRanger]

I didn't notice this was in Everything Else so I assumed it was a WAD called Chili and Hot Sauce.

[Grazza]

Hottest I've tasted is 1.5 million Scovilles. This thing (actually up to 3.5 million according to this; I dunno - hot anyway). There's a Pepper Palace at the Mall of America with a lot of sauces you can taste. You need to sign a disclaimer before they let you try this one.

 

The hottest I use on any sort of a regular basis is the Mad Dog 357. Good flavour and good physical properties: you can actually pour a drop out without having to clear a blob of dried-out crap from the top of the bottle. Doesn't seem to separate too readily either. A few drops in a large dish livens things up nicely. Just got boring marinara sauce? A few drops of Mad Dog and you'd suddenly got an Arrabbiata! Well, sort of.

 

Edit: I seem to be repeating myself, lol. Well, at least I'm consistent.

Edited June 4, 2021 by Grazza

[viti95]

I tried 100% PAIN with some nachos, it was very painful and awesome at the same time. I've never experienced something like that, 30 minutes of pure pain.

[TwinBeast]

Did a little investigating and the Poppamies brand webpage says their 10/10 sauce is 333000 scovilles and their other 10+/10 sauce is over 600000 scovilles. They don't seem to list the scovilles for all their sauces.

 

13 hours ago, Grazza said:

Hottest I've tasted is 1.5 million Scovilles. This thing (actually up to 3.5 million according to this; I dunno - hot anyway).

Looks like the Pain 100% is only 13650, kinda expected it to be more with name like that.

 

We used sriracha for punishment in a truth or dare game with my gf, if didn't want to tell the truth or do the dare. Turned out to be so good tasting that we had to switch it to vodka for me :D

[Grazza]

If you have them by the spoonful, then anything over 10000 is going to bring a fair amount of heat. Over 100000 you start with a drop and see how it goes. Over a million and any visible amount on the end of a toothpick needs to be taken seriously.

 

My dad once chucked a "glug" of Mad Dog into something he was cooking, not quite realizing what he was dealing with. Whoops.

[Reelvonic]

Hell no. I can't handle anything spicy.

 

But there was this thing going around where people would vape I think either ghost peppers or carolina reapers

[out_of_service]

My main hot sauces are Franks, Cholula, Valentina and Tabasco. Any recommendations are welcome!

[leejacksonaudio]

1 hour ago, PSXDoomer said:

Tabasco

Tabasco have come out with their own brand of BBQ Sauce. I have tried it. It is excellent. I wouldn't dare put it on a Texas brisket, but I would dunk a rib or a sausage in it.

[DuckReconMajor]

20 hours ago, Grazza said:

The hottest I use on any sort of a regular basis is the Mad Dog 357. Good flavour and good physical properties: you can actually pour a drop out without having to clear a blob of dried-out crap from the top of the bottle.

 

I saw this version with the buff Mr. Peanutbutter on Hot Ones and had to have it.

 

I had a couple people try it and we all agree like you said the flavor is really good. I can't handle a drop of it when it's spread out through multiple bites of food so I just keep it on my desk and eat a drop of it if i want some mouth pain lol. I've only done it like 5 or so times though. 

 

I think it's time for another one. Welp this drop came out bigger than normal. Here goes.

 

On 6/3/2021 at 5:55 PM, insertwackynamehere said:

I like spicy food but I also easily get mouth sores and stomach aches so I just power through lol

 

Yeah several hours after I eat something really spicy I feel like I've been punched in the intestines. Usually worth it though.

 

edit: 6 minutes later i can keep still enough to type again. If you guys like LGR this is a great vid.

Edited June 4, 2021 by DuckReconMajor

[Vic Vos]

My ulcer says no.

[General Rainbow Bacon]

I've had Da Bomb: Ground Zero, All the Blair's sauces, Mad Dog 357, Vicious Viper, Dave's Insanity.  Hot peppers are amazing.  Currently growing tabasco peppers, cayenne peppers, habanero peppers, ghost peppers, Trinidad scorpion peppers, and reapers.  Love all this stuff.

[Murdoch]

Do i like chilli? Yes. Does my digestive system? Sadly not so much.

[betabox]

Don't know, but that post above mine kind of seems like spambots have come a really long way :P

EDIT: Looks like the post got removed, so it was spam. But it could have very easily passed for legit like 5 years ago, responding to several things in OP.

 

On topic though, yeah I'm really big on spicy food. It's not even whether or not it enhances the flavor, I probably just have gotten a strong affinity for the heat about 11 years ago. If ordering food, I get the spiciest options. Always have a bottle of sriracha stocked, and my current pick-of-the-month (more like last 3 years) is this local brand which sells like 7 or 8 flavors of hot sauce. I try to have 3 of those flavors handy, being the carolina reaper, scorpion and jolokia. Oddly, the scorpion is way hotter than the reaper.

Edited June 26 by betabox

[P_A_Z]

Chili is good for my taste but not for my ass.

 

I use a hot industrial chili sauce, oignons, red beans, red peppers, beef and rice. I stop eating this recipe because it gaves me seriously pain when i go to the toilet with constipation and other stuff like varicose veins and haemorrhoids. What a shame because my recipe is delicious.

Edited June 26 by P_A_Z