The spicy spice thread

[Inconuucl]

I genuinely like sriracha, despite the bad rap it gets.

What bad rap?

A lot of people give it shit, calling it Hipster Ketchup and the like. Fuck them.

[jrfox92]

I remember when Sriracha first got big: Subway had a Sriracha sauce, Pizza Hut had the Honey Sriracha drizzle.
Then came the bad times when everyone switched to chipotle sauce.

[worra]

Pepper Plant!

Great if you like your shit spicy and with garlic, a Gilroy, CA original:

https://www.amazon.com/Pepper-Plant-Ori ... plant&th=1

[adamajah]

sambal oelek eats sriracha for breakfast:



also mama's crispy chili sauce:

[ProCarsteNation]

I don't know how well smoked peppers would travel across the world.

Well once they're smoked, they're like dried.
So they would probably arrive in tiny particles,
which would be exactly what you want
cause Carolina Reaper
reaches 1.8 - 2.0 million scoville

[ProCarsteNation]

I also use 'em to make one super-tasty sauce/paste (if I say so myself)
with dates n shit.
But as that takes many more ingredients & postage
I'd probably have to ask you for postage along with the adress...
or maybe for Xmas...who knows :-P

[Benn Roe]

I eat a lot of sriracha too, but I really like this company's habanero-flavoured hot sauce (just the regular habanero one): http://www.scovillefoodinstitute.com/

[gnomethrone]

my true love forever and always:

tried this last week and i dig it:

[UglyCasanova]

sambal oelek eats sriracha for breakfast

True dat.

[friendship]

I'm a spice slut. I keep a bottle of each of these around. I'm not into the competitive, how-hot-can-it-get spiciness.

[friendship]

It's also really fun and easy to make your own hot sauces at home. One time I got a hold of some bright orange scotch bonnets and made a sauce that looked straight up radioactive. It smelled like burning.

[BetterOffShred]

friendship nailed it with the Crystal Valentina and Pickapeppa sauce. The regular Valentina is pretty bomb too, I have all three. I have a serious hotsauce addiction. I have 9 bottles in my drawer at work, and probably 50 at home. I'm not kidding. I also do not get into the "My taste buds melt off and I get the flaming squirts for a week when I eat this one because it's so hot!" game. I prefer the flavor over the heat, that being said I can handle pretty hot though. "Kick Ass" hot sauce with the picture of a jacked Donkey on it is pretty good and hot as well, I also have a bottle of "Eye Hate God" branded hot sauce that's pretty diabolical. "Dave's Insanity Sauce" makes great hotsauce in all varieties.

[Inconuucl]

Any recommendations for slow burn sauces? I don't like to have heat up in the front since it usually masks a lot of the flavors from the food that it's put in.

[friendship]

friendship nailed it with the Crystal Valentina and Pickapeppa sauce. The regular Valentina is pretty bomb too, I have all three. I have a serious hotsauce addiction. I have 9 bottles in my drawer at work, and probably 50 at home. I'm not kidding. I also do not get into the "My taste buds melt off and I get the flaming squirts for a week when I eat this one because it's so hot!" game. I prefer the flavor over the heat, that being said I can handle pretty hot though. "Kick Ass" hot sauce with the picture of a jacked Donkey on it is pretty good and hot as well, I also have a bottle of "Eye Hate God" branded hot sauce that's pretty diabolical. "Dave's Insanity Sauce" makes great hotsauce in all varieties.

Yeah! Regular Valentina is indeed great, I usually switch between them but probably I should just keep both on hand in case.

A funny story: I used to go to this empanada joint that had great hot sauce, but it closed overnight before I could ask them what they used. All I knew was it wasn't homegrown, so I kept buying new hot sauces hoping I'd eventually stumble onto it. I don't have a very refined palette, so I was afraid I wouldn't remember the flavor and I'd never find that hot sauce again. But when I bought a bottle of Crystal: boom, unmistakably the same. Now I never go without having a bottle.

[BetterOffShred]

Any recommendations for slow burn sauces? I don't like to have heat up in the front since it usually masks a lot of the flavors from the food that it's put in.

El Yucateco, you can get it at walmart. I like the black kind. It's a roasted private reserve or some shit. Really good, heat comes on slow, and dies off slow, tons of flavor. It's worth $3 to try it out my man