What’s Your Daily Go-To Hot Sauce?

[Alan]

Lately, I've been exploring a bunch of different hot sauces and stumbled upon a new favorite from Tabasco. Their Chipotle version has this amazing smoky kick that just elevates every meal I put it on. It's been especially great with eggs and tacos.

This whole hot sauce adventure got me thinking — what's your go-to daily hot sauce? You know, the one you always have stocked in your fridge or on the dinner table? I'm looking for those straightforward, no-fuss sauces that you grab for breakfast, lunch, or dinner without a second thought.

Are you sticking with tried-and-true options like Texas Pete or Cholula, or have you discovered a hidden gem? I'd love some recommendations for something that brings flavor without overwhelming the dish. What's your everyday hot sauce, and what do you usually pair it with?

 

[Outpost75]

Crystal!!!! Good heat. Good flavor. Inexpensive. Lower sodium. Not produced by Yankees. Mom always sent it in CARE packages when deployed. Puts a touch of home in C-Rats, MREs and MCWs.

Essential ingredient for grits, SOS and sausage gravy, huevos rancheros, red beans & rice. Add to V8 juice instead of using Snappy Tom as a base for Bloody Marys. Wonderful to mix a teaspoon into a shot of dark rum to add bit of heat!

 

[OdinRoad]

My preference these days is Cholula, then just about anything from the folks on Avery Island. The Cholula is used on just about everything Op75 mentioned, except the beverage. Perhaps I went a step too far when I suggested we try the Cholula on the fresh out of the oven pineapple upside down cake.

There is small chain of stores here called Shetlers that brings in good quantities of oddball foodstuffs and they nearly always have several previously unheard of hot sauces that I frequently experiment with. Much of is quickly discarded but some is pretty good.

 

[Creeker]

Never touch the stuff.

 

[White Rook]

Do not use it

 

[Wvcruffler]

I use Sriracha a good bit. It's more like a ketchup. It's not as good as it was a few years back but still solid. Valentina is super cheap and reallly good. My favorite "hotter" sauces are all from Grace which is a carribean brand. Grace "very hot" is true to its name. Also cheap.
Phil