Dustin Poirier's hot sauce

nonoob said:
Been a pretty hardcore chile head since the 80's. Growing super-hots and making small batches of hot sauce has helped me to take food flavors to another level.

El Yucateco is, IMHO, the best bang for the buck hot sauces, bar none.
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Free tip - Avoid hot sauces made with extracts - unless you like to punish yourself.
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What's better with chile over , let's say argentina?
 
HI SCOTT NEWMAN said:
Never tried it. I think I need to buy some and try it. Have you had it @Poirierfan ?? any good?
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I'm ashamed to say I haven't tried Dustin's stuff. I just use trusty ole Louisiana hot sauce (It's my favorite). I'll use it in gumbo, red beans and rice, beef roast, etc etc. Besides that I'm not much of a hot sauce guy unfortunately.

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nonoob said:
Been a pretty hardcore chile head since the 80's. Growing super-hots and making small batches of hot sauce has helped me to take food flavors to another level.

El Yucateco is, IMHO, the best bang for the buck hot sauces, bar none.
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Free tip - Avoid hot sauces made with extracts - unless you like to punish yourself.
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What's better with chile over venezuela?
 
Poirierfan said:
I'm ashamed to say I haven't tried Dustin's stuff. I just use trusty ole Louisiana hot sauce (It's my favorite). I'll use it in gumbo, red beans and rice, beef roast, etc etc. Besides that I'm not much of a hot sauce guy unfortunately.
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Pf, then I'd stick to that one - you'll save a TON of money. Just like Tabasco sauce and Dustin's original, they have imho adequate heat for average users. By itself, those have vinegar flavor that WAY overpowers the heat content for my enjoyment. Mind-blowing seeing the factory's time consuming fermentation process.

Flavor, like heat, is an individual choice. If the initial heat overpowers the flavor (by itself or on a single chip or cracker), the sauce clearly misses it's mark.
 
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nonoob said:
Been a pretty hardcore chile head since the 80's. Growing super-hots and making small batches of hot sauce has helped me to take food flavors to another level.

El Yucateco is, IMHO, the best bang for the buck hot sauces, bar none.
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Free tip - Avoid crazily named hot sauces made with extracts - unless you like to punish yourself. Their savage heat KILLS any and all flavors & Ruins Your Food.
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I ain't worried about price, just tried most of what is in local grocery stores, but crystals and lousiana are hard to beat. They aren't real hot but just good flavor. I also like the vinegar too. I also like its thickerness compared to some like tabasco.
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
I move around a bunch, always trying to grab a new one for this or that which doesn't always work out, like I sat on bottles of chocolate habanero and nugget honey for a while. So I haven't stuck with many for too long, but the Poirier ones tend to stay in my lineup. I just usually think what "category" am I missing, then look for stuff in that territory without breaking the bank. The online stuff can have real bad markups

I really like Los Calientes Barbacoa, but it's not quite an everything sauce to me. I will try to find things specifically to put that on. Brain Burner is pretty good reaper sauce, but I feel like anything that throws some scotch bonnet is the perfect flavorful pairing to help take down the punch of the reaper. Hard to go wrong doing that. A while back, I used to always have a bottle of Hoboken Eddies Homegrown. There's only a personal reason I stopped, nothing to do with its quality. It's quite good from what I remember.

This will sound super weak for someone who does pride himself on eating pretty spicy, but the Hot Ones Jr Red is an extremely mild sauce with some fruity / rooty vegetable influence, and I could just drink that stuff. I don't have to think "spicy" about any meal before throwing that on. I've been relaxing a bunch on my reaper obsession, and just enjoying

But that's all online order stuff. I don't think anyone needs to get fancy. Your usual stores should carry not only your crystals and louisianas, but also Cholula or Tapatio. I notice Valentina a lot too in Hispanic households, but haven't had enough to form an opinion. It's at least fine. Personally, I think Tabasco tastes like pool water, but the Chipotle flavor is great. Cholula chipotle too is a go to
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I've tried some of the mexican hot sauces but not sure I like them like the two I mentioned. Next time I'm going to get another bottle of them again. I will say I got one haberno sauce and it was pretty fire, but not sure I would use it the way I would a traditional hot sauce. It was pretty thick if i'm remembering right, and maybe just a tad too hot to slater it on 15 chicken wings or chicken livers (my go to for hot sauces).
 
Substance Abuse said:
They're actually really good. If you like hot sauces, they all pack good flavor, especially the Creole Maple. The KO edition is hot, but not too much. They did a good job with those sauces. Heartbeat makes good hot sauce. The Mango and Pineapple Habenero are both excellent.
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I was actually going to say the opposite. To me, these seem like hot sauces made for someone who doesn't like hot sauces.
 
checktheknuckles said:
I ain't worried about price, just tried most of what is in local grocery stores, but crystals and lousiana are hard to beat. They aren't real hot but just good flavor. I also like the vinegar too. I also like its thickerness compared to some like tabasco.
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Always try out new sauces from grocery stores as well. The El Yucateco sauces rock, I just love the Chipotle sauce - it's top notch. Also really like the heat kick in their Habanero XXX, mixing that with Chipotle give me the best of both worlds. Their entire line can't be beat for taste with excellent value.

I'm done paying twelve dollars and up for a small bottle that gets wore out in a couple of meals with chips.
 
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