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Folks share your savory spicy sauces with the rest of us so we all can get the rumble rumble tum tum tums together!
Stolen from here: Favorites hot sauces by State (on instacart) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hot-sauce-by-state_l_65a99626e4b041f1ce6553d1
Also which state buys the most hot sauce
lmao at all the states around Louisiana using "Louisiana Hot Sauce", but Louisiana uses Tabasco.
Tabasco is made on an island in Louisiana that I think is called a “salt dome” or something like that. It’s Louisiana af
Tabasco is ass it tastes like somebody added water and red food coloring to a pepper shaker.
Not even like a fresh pepper grinder like the beige pepper shaker that's next to the Grey salt shaker in diners.
Its bc they give the bad Tabascos for white boys as a punishment
Texas uses Louisiana Hot Sauce, and not Texas Pete, which is only used on the east coast.
You have to keep in mind that this is the most purchased via Instacart. I don't know a single person who does this (gets their groceries regularly delivered).
lol I know a tech bro type who does. He’s agressively white and never eats hot sauce anyway I’m assuming he’s “Heinz” on the map and that just means ketchup
South Dakota..jeez
Hey should be disqualified for that. Wins most 
state in the union.
El Yucateco XXXtra Hot baybee
the objectively correct answer
I buy it by the quart. IDK why they even come in tiny bottles.
Same. Tiny bottle wouldn't last 3 days.
It's so damn good. Elevates a breakfast burrito.
I knew I was among good people here.
The goated hot sauce
It’s good shit, though I do like the black label stuff too sometimes
Tobasco is pretty GOAT. They make it in the mansion from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Moon-worshipping cat people must know a thing or two about about peppers.
TIL I am a Moon-worshipping cat person
Chances are there are a couple small local hot sauce companies wherever you live and those will always be the best
will do!
My favorite is local to the PNW, brand is called "2 angry cats", preferred flavor is "hero sauce", specifically. it's stupid hot, but has good flavor. Just checked the website, and they're winding down operations
For Mexican hot sauces, Cholula ($$) or Valentina ($).
For Asian hot sauces, normal Sriracha or garlic chili oil or whole dried Thai chilis.
For American, Frank's or Louisiana or even green Tabasco
I like hot sauce
Cholula gang rise up
I'm a close friend of Soothsayer Hot Sauce and help cook sometimes. I'll plug my homie.
Soothsayer Hot Sauce
darn closed for winter, guess ill have to wait. whats your favorite?
I honestly haven't looked at the stock in a while, but the pizza sauce, Chili Lips, and Perdition are great.
Mainly the good name brand sriracha sauce is the stuff you should be using everywhere. I'm still choking down a bottle of Ox Brand sriracha sauce that I bought because I couldn't find any of the good stuff and it's awful, it's like pepper ketchup.
franks red hot
Surprised Sriracha wasn’t the top sauce in any state.
Iowa?
Oh snap I missed that
This isn't top sauce. It's the sauce that is most popular in the state relative to its popularity in other states.
I wouldn't call Nanita's a hotsauce. It's green chili.
But i can confirm that i order it by mail now that i live somewhere without proper green chili.
yeah what the fuck i had to double take there
Rocky Mountains remain the only sensible states
Very funny to see the South Dakota/Nodak divide in hot sauce consumption.
i through hot sauce too quick to buy it, but i do delight in receiving it as a gift. i tend to make my own bullshit and i'm on a perennial quest to come up with a few recipes of my own. if i want more heat straight up, i use Rani Mirchi powder. if i want more "something" i use Tony Chachere's. if i want more complexity/volume + heat i add in gochujang.
my latest move is a dipping sauce of 50% Zhenjiang (rice-based black vinegar the market name of which sets off the filter), 50% soy sauce, pinches of Rani Mirchi, sugar, and a blob of toasted sesame oil. it's more of a latent heat. i'm trying to get away from salt and into vinegar more when looking for punch/kick, though i am not super keen on sour so it's not a straight substitution. luckily there are so many different vinegars.
but there was a time when it was gochujang with rani and lots of garlic + butter. Rani's ground mirchi is insane, btw. i think they are afghani ground chilis, or that's what the marketing seems to say. you can get like a pound of ground for $15 and i am pretty sure i will die before i use half of it. like a teaspoon will wildly heat up several quarts of stew. wash your hands and measuring utensils immediately after use. or touch your tongue to the barely perceptible dust on the spoon for a pick me up.
a friend of mine just came back from central america and brought me a little bottle of some Chilango Pepperoncino Picante that i haven't yet cracked, though i am eager to. the art on the label is p cool.
I love hot sauce and could recommend so many of them each for different purposes, but right now I’m really high on Secret Aardvark, the habanero one specifically but the green one is also very good. Mexican palate so not for Asian. Asian I like Lao ganma or just straight chilies
Love Secret Aardvark so much I'm lapping it off the plate like a starving dog
From California. Tapatio is definitely my default hot sauce, cheap and tasty on everything. My favorite taco place has an incredible habanero sauce that I can't get enough of. The only bottled habanero sauce I liked was by Mezzetta, but my grocery store discontinued it. All of the other bottled stuff I've tried has a overwhelming vinegar flavor. Any habanero sauce suggestions? I'm not that afraid of heat, but I'm not fucking with like ghost pepper sauce. Just something that might make me sweat a bit.
Have to recommend El Yucateco XXXtra Hot if you haven't tried it. It's a habanero sauce, and it earns every one of those three Xs. Brings the heat and flavor. I wouldn't say it's vinegary.
Yellowbird hab
For cheap hot sauce I’m a franks guy but they’re all about the same. I also love that green pepper Tabasco. But most of the time I use huy foods chili garlic sauce. It’s simple and really good
A bunch of these I've never had and want to try now, except Heinz. Shame on South Dakota.
I mainly use Secret Aardvark. It's a thick veggie mash that's got a good balance of flavor and spiciness.
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It's hard for me to pin down exactly one hot sauce, but I think for me it's Huy Fung's Sambal Oelek. (which tbf is more of a chili paste)
Big runner ups for me are Bravado's Serrano Basil and Ghost Pepper Blueberry.
My top sauce that is no longer around was Dr. Stadnyk's Habanero and Carrot. Their site is still up but they've 'been on hiatus' since 2022, IDK if they're ever gonna come back. I guess I could just make this one at home though since it's just vinegar, habanero, carrots, and salt.
