Favorite Store Bought Hot Sauces

[luvcatchingbass]

Been getting into trying some different store bought hot sauces. Really like the Killer Hogs and good old Franks Wings but a couple of my new ones is Lola's green sauce and one called Cajun Sunshine that I have put a hurting on the past week. I really like me a good green sauce and that Cajun Sunshine is a cayenne based sauce that has a little heat but really good flavor.
Anyone else got some recommendations?

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

 

[Timber II]

A good buddy sent me this care package last year. The elixir is the best I’ve had. Not sure you can get it in stores tho

 

[1MoreFord]

In no particular order:
Louisiana Hot Sauce
Crystal
Franks
Texas Pete
Trappeys
Cholula
Tapatio
Tabasco Chipotle
Panola Pepper Company sauces
Tiger Sauce
Valentina
Huy Fong Chili Garlic but not their Sriracha
ETA - forgot one, not really a hot sauce, just Good!
Cajun Power Garlic Sauce
They now make a hot sauce but haven't found and tried it yet.
Also forgot my latest find and it's local
Arkansas Diamond Fire Champagne Pepper Sauce

ARKANSAS DIAMOND FIRE Champagne Pepper Sauce 5oz. Bottle | supertasterz

ARKANSAS DIAMOND FIRE Champagne Pepper Sauce is a classic yet elevated hot sauce that's perfect for your favorite Southern foods. We add Fine French Champagne to our centuries old salt-fermented Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce recipe as a toast to Arkansas's 1836 admission into the United States, its...

www.supertasterz.com

Sorry, but I had to shill for 'em since it's local

 

[luvcatchingbass]

In no particular order:
Louisiana Hot Sauce
Crystal
Franks
Texas Pete
Trappeys
Cholula
Tapatio
Tabasco Chipotle
Panola Pepper Company sauces
Tiger Sauce
Valentina
Huy Fong Chili Garlic but not their Sriracha

I forgot about the good old Tiger Sauce, need to throw that back in rotation. I used to like Cholula but now it is meh sometimes, maybe it is just what I am adding it to that it doesn't agree with. I have never tried Louisiana so that might need to be the next try in a side by side with the Cajun Sunshine.

 

[normanaj]

Melindas.The Red Savina is my go-to put it on everything hot sauce and for heat the Scorpion.

 

[1MoreFord]

Forgot a couple more
NJ reminded me of Melinda's ^^ above and I remembered Bulliards sauces.

The Original Bulliard’s | Peppers Unlimited of Louisiana, Inc.

 

[texomakid]

Tabasco on almost everything. Popcorn with Tabasco is next level.

 

[912smoker]

Melinda's
Fire Roasted Garlic & Habanero
Fire Roasted Jalapeño
Green Sauce
Thai Sweet Chili
Sweet & Spicy Polynesian
Mango Habanero
and ALL of their jellies!

Keith

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Melindas.The Red Savina is my go-to put it on everything hot sauce and for heat the Scorpion.

I forgot I have a sample bottle of Melindas green sauce, grabbed a handful on sale at Walmart one time after trying the first bottle. I like that one too for the flavor, will need to look for Red Savina

 

[normanaj]

I forgot I have a sample bottle of Melindas green sauce, grabbed a handful on sale at Walmart one time after trying the first bottle. I like that one too for the flavor, will need to look for Red Savina

If you have a TJ Maxx, Marshalls nearby that's a good place to look. Ocean State Joblot is a regional store around here that carries Melindas too.

 

[mdboatbum]

Buddy of mine sent me a bottle of this stuff out of the blue a couple weeks ago and it's some of the best hot sauce I've ever had. He sent it because my dog is named Hank. :)

 

[chef k-dude]

I'm out of the game on the boutique hot sauces. I'll eat them when someone gives me some (I tend to get gift sets at Christmas sometimes). I just cant bring myself to pay the money for some of those, so I stick to what I know usually.

My standard go to is Texas Pete, but it's really not much different than Crystal, Louisiana, Tapatio and Cholula in my opinion. Not a side by side taste test, but out in restaurants they all seem to hit the same or similar notes for me. Well balanced, not too hot and not a bunch of competing spices.

Beyond Texas Pete, in my fridge (yes I'm a hot sauce refrigerator) I also keep:

-Franks wing sauce (because I find it to be real close to the Alton Brown's recipe for Buffalo wing sauce I've used for years. Just makes it easy-button to pour it out of the bottle). I used to use franks regular on various Tex/Mex stuff but not so much anymore.
-Sriracha= for very specific things, not always Asian, I actually like in on the Sam's 5 bean salad we keep on hand (Paisley Farm)
-Tabasco=another one for very specific uses like bloody Mary's and cocktail sauce.

For green sauces, a couple I have been keeping handy lately are:

Herdez Avocado Hot sauce= This is now one of our go-to's for tex/mex stuff like quesadillas. It's no joke on spice level but not murder either.

And Green Sriracha. Picked this up at the Asian market. It goes very good on just about everything, more than regular sriracha for me. I keep forgetting I have it though for some reason.

 

[hooked on smoke]

I'm a Melinda's fan as well.
I have a discount code for their sauces in my signature page for anyone that's interested.

 

[ajbert]

We don't use a wide array of hot sauces, and we only have two in the house.

Tabasco for fried eggs as I won't use anything else. And Mae Ploy's. I use it on lumpia and my wife always to find more uses all the time.

Not your typical "hot sauce" but it really goes with a variety foods!

 

[forktender]

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Same here, Chris, I buy six bottles of each flavor at the Dollar store.
I only buy two of the garlic, as it's not one of my favorite, I like it but not as much as the orig., hot, and Mexican. And I always have a big bottle of Tapatio, and Tabasco on hand as well.

 

[forktender]

We don't use a wide array of hot sauces, and we only have two in the house.

Tabasco for fried eggs as I won't use anything else. And Mae Ploy's. I use it on lumpia and my wife always to find more uses all the time.

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Not your typical "hot sauce" but it really goes with a variety foods!

Mae Ploy's. I use it on my homemade lumpia, and I love it on steamed rice, and broccoli, and pot stickers, and fried wanton.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

Same here, Chris, I buy six bottles of each flavor at the Dollar store.
I only buy two of the garlic, as it's not one of my favorite, I like it but not as much as the orig., hot, and Mexican. And I always have a big bottle of Tapatio, and Tabasco on hand as well.

Funny thing is the garlic is may favorite. I wish I could buy it by the gallon.

 

[mr_whipple]

Herdez Avocado Hot sauce= This is now one of our go-to's for tex/mex stuff like quesadillas. It's no joke on spice level but not murder either.
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That stuff is awesome! They have an avocado salsa that is quite tasty also.

Melinda's has more than a few great sauces, but I can't stay away from the black truffle and I really like their take on sriracha. Everyday use is the TP Hotter and Tabasco. Also, I'm never a great distance from some pickapeppa, but that's really not hot sauce.

 

[Flatrate]

Dirty Dick's Mango Habanero is the bomb. Everyone I've gifted a bottle to falls in love with it.

Dave