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Hot sauce is for people who dont enjoy taste.

Current favorites are The Seventh Reaper and Heartbeat Scorpion. Tasty and hot but not stupid hot.

Oh and in the milder end: Dirty Dick’s Hot Pepper Sauce With a Tropical Twist

Might not sound interesting - or maybe it isn't even a "hot sauce", but since it's like, the only I know, schezwan.

Everything from Secret Aardvark and most of Crazy Bastard

• Melinda's ghost pepper sauce (kinda my default)
• Tobasco scorpion (another default)
• yuca tecca reserve (for tacos usually with another sauce for more heat)
• trappey's tobacco peppers (for hot dogs, eggs, and chili)
• Melinda's ghost pepper wing sauce (for nuggies)

Whatever nozzle fits in my ass best so I can boof it.

El Yucateco Mayan Recipe

Crystal hot sauce is my goto. Tangy and just the right amount of heat to casually throw on anything if you don't want to go into battle mode. Frank's come close. Surprised that I'm the only one mentioning Crystal.

Secret Aardvark I think would be my second goto if you aren't looking for a hot sauce with the acidity of Crystal, Tabasco, Frank's, etc.

BOMBA CALABRESE. Sorry, I can't say it in lowercase. It's just crushed peperoncini and oil. Yummmmm I put it on pizza, in soup, curry, stew, I dip my cheeses and fingers in it.

Cholula for eggs but it's hard to find around here.

I'll be on the lookout for Valentina as it's been brought up often in this thread.

Cholula garlic, Valentina, Melinda's habenero garlic and various yellow bird.

Goblin Sauce by Torchbearer, made in collaboration with the band Nekrogoblikon. Jalapeno, pineapple, scorpion pepper. Good solid heat, little fruity. Bought a case of it

Tapatio for me.

Depends what I'm using it on.

Mambo Sauce and buffalo wing sauce for chicken.

Tabasco for eggs.

-Homemade garlic cayenne hot sauce.

-Frank's Red Hot. I put that shit on everything.

-Cholula for Mexican food.

Nando's Peri Peri sauce.

My own. I lacto ferment peppers with (and or) garlic, sjalots, ginger, veg, fruit, paprika, herbs, spices. It is easy to make.

A nice beef gravy. Delicious.

Valentina. Not very hot, but I like it and use it like ketchup.

Tobasco or a mild cherry hot sauce

Aardvark Habanero and Renfro's Habanero Salsa. I just really like habanero, okay?

Franks has no equal.

Gringo Bandito. It's a flavorful medium-heat hot sauce.

I haven't tried that many hot sauces but I like hot sauces that have a good mix of both heat and flavor. What I prefer depends on what I'm eating, so sometimes I prefer Tapatio and other times I prefer (real) Sriracha. I do also sometimes use other hot sauces like the ghost pepper ranch from Wendy's when I can get them.

Trappey's Bull is good. Also have a few varieties of Tabasco (jalapeno, scorpion pepper, cayenne & garlic), and some made by the students at a local culinary program.

sambal djeroek

That depends. For pizza and Asian cuisine, Sriracha. Special shout-out to Underwood Ranch specifically, because that shit is top tier. For everything else, chipotle Tabasco. When that goes on sale, I buy a few bottles because I know I'll go through it lol.

Funky Monkey Banana Rum hot sauce. Cant find it anymore

Queens Majest Ginger and Scotch Bonnet is fantastic

Cholula Chipotle is my go to standard since its available broadly

Xni'pek

In the Netherlands I use adjuma pepper instead of habanero and mix sweet orange juice + lime as the sour orange replacement.

Not sure it counts as hot sauce but a chili oil like Lao Gan Ma is my favourite. Otherwise when I do use hot sauce my favourites are Hot Ones Los Calientes Rojo, Tabasco Chipotle, and Secret Aardvark.

Yellowbird Habanero Sauce, Tapatío, Valentina, Sriracha.

Professor Phardtpounder’s Colon Cleaner.

Blair's Death.

Really liked one of their XB series.

Current favorite is Cosmic Disco by Karma Sauce. It's blazing hot with some great Asian accents that make it perfect for most of what I cook at home.

Valentina regular or black label

Chipotle tabasco

Marie Sharp's

my favorite used to be a sauce named "amor" that was primarily centered around southern california and baja california.

it was a little bit like cholula, but w MUCH stronger vinegar punch to it and it makes my mouth water every time i think about it on top of chips or other snacks; sort of like frank's hot sauce if it were more sour and more picante at the same time.

the brand still exists, but their recipe changed significantly about 20-ish years ago and i've been unable to find anything like it to call my favorite.