Hot Sauces - what are you using?

[DarkMonster620]

OK some links,

http://www.sansaeexport.com/

http://panamarts.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4  → place to purchase thru interwebs

In April 2002, the D’Elidas hot sauce product and brand was acquired by a group of Panamanian entrepreneurs. From that point the company D’Elidas S.A. was formalized and the first exports from Panama to the United States started. Today, D'Elidas S.A. exports its products to the USA (New York, North Carolina, and California, as well as to Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, India and most recently Sweden.

Congo brand, http://www.proluxsa.com/english/

Some other brands available ...

[Buckethead]

Unlike something like Dave's Insanity or Nuckin Futs sauces (also in my fridge) which are just hot without much flavor, the Melinda's have good flavor and heat. 

If you use Dave's as recommended, it's not terrible. It gives that nice, slow burn but doesn't get ridiculous. Unless you don't mix it really well and hit a hot spot. Then your face melts.

The Naga Jolokia isn't a brutal all-at-once onslaught of pain, but rather an ever-increasing burn that feels like your head is being slow-roasted and doesn't quit until you're soaked in sweat.  It's awesome.

This sounds like what I like. I'll have to keep my eyes open for it. 

While we're on the subject, Should hot sauces be refrigerated? 

I keep mine in the fridge just out of habit.

Had a bottle of Sriracha on deployment that got kept at room temp. No ill effects or change in flavor, but when the new bottle showed up, it was obvious that the color had changed somewhat.

[Mike_D]

Here's the linky to Melinda's website...enjoy.

http://www.melindas.com/products.html

[Thuddds]

[Buckethead]

Your house looks like a delicious place to live. 

[ManaloEA]

So... you are having everyone over, when???

[Thuddds]

So... you are having everyone over, when???

Come by.  We'll blast loud music, drink beer, and cook meat.
 

[ManaloEA]

Headless, Sumo wrestling chickens... Just what the doctor ordered. 

[Buckethead]

Beer can chicken is sooooo good. 

But it looks kinda funny when you get done. 

I'm doing several of them next weekend for an Oktoberfest get together.

[DarkMonster620]

Come by.  We'll blast loud music, drink beer, and cook meat.
 

On my way with at least one bottle of each local hot sauce available ...

[triangleforge]

I recently finished off the last bits of the last bottle of Bajan hot sauce (Bajan = from Barbados) I'd squirreled away many years ago and have to find some more. It's a lot like many of the habanero based sauces out there - it's based on the similar Scotch Bonnet pepper - but it's got a noticeable dose of mustard seed & tumeric in the mix that adds a nice bitter note to the flavor.

Other than that, we've got a lot of the standards in the fridge: Tabasco, Cholula, Sriracha, Bufalo chipotle sauce, whatever Chinese garlic hot sauce they carry at whatever asian market I've recently visited. There's also a bottle of Dumb Ass Hot Sauce - that one was a gift from my step-daughter.    It's edging into the "Double-Dog-Dare-Ya" heat range, but it's not too bad.

[rgramjet]

El Yucateco is one that I crave often. 

Although an overabundance will make one hallucinate about ice cube suppositories the next morning.

[DarkMonster620]

El Yucateco is one that I crave often. 

Although an overabundance will make one hallucinate about ice cube suppositories the next morning.

 

[Vindingo]

These days in new Orleans, you're more likely to find Crystal hot sauce than even Tabasco in local restaurants. There's a reason for that 
It gives you flavor, not just heat.

 

I tried to teach DTM about Crystal, but good taste seems as if it can't be taught.  

I had a buddy that worked at the mid-city Baumer factory pre-K. I think it added to my enjoyment of their hot sauce.  

Tapatio isn't bad, but I never liked Tabasco.  

[sugarcrook]

I go through this stuff at about a jar a month.  Great flavor and heat:

https://www.nativeseeds.org/index.php/store/263/2/food/sauces-and-seasonings/P-pueblo-roasted-hot-red-chile-sauce