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I'm going to talk a lot about Take Out Chinese Food.
FrostBite is a very high recommend from me. Adds great balanced heat but no flavor. (this is a feature not a bug) Specifically this is my Jamm on Chinese Food. I love the taste of Chinese Food but wish it was spicier but without changing the balance of flavors i love in said Chinese Food. A lot of pepper sauces I love on western styles of food i find throws my favorite
Take Out flavors off balance. My Number #1 favorite hot sauce of all time is Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce LOVE THIS PLEASE TRY IT. I can put that shit on anything and it's now a smokey hot delight but if i put it some on my favorite Beef Lo Mein to be honest it no longer tastes like Lo Mein to me. But not with FrostBite. You can have all the heat you want but still have the Lo Mein taste i crave. I have only found two so far I really like for this specific job FrostBite and SEED RANCH UMAMI RESERVE This is also a sauce worth trying PS. SEED RANCH UMAMI RESERVE has a lot of flavor Chocolate Habanero's provide the heat but all the flavors melds with the flavors in Chinese food I love so much. God i need some noodles now.

Those are the nice ones. There's another category of budget ones from like $20-60 all over Amazon from a hundred Chinese clone companies. They're hit or miss on quality as the reviews show, but I figured they're so cheap, why not give it a try. It has been great. The nicer ones offer better options, heated water, aerated water, air dryers, fancy remotes and all this, and that would be great but I don't want to pay for it and my hot water line is across the room from the toilet, so a cheapo is fine for me.

I got this one and it has been great. People in the reviews talked about it blasting your starfish skin off and wow they weren't kidding. The pressure twisty knob on this one is an illusion - realistically there's only Off or Peel Paint. So I got one of these twisty valves to go between the bidet hose and the main water pipe so I could fine tune the pressure to more reasonable levels and that has been great. You want some pressure to get that stuff off of you but not so much that your proctologist runs out of the room crying.

Wet butthole cleaning is the only way to go, the only way that makes sense, and sometimes it's nice to just let it run while you contemplate things and see if any more wants to come out. Toilet paper lasts forever now because you just need a couple squares to dab dry.

I really like zombie apocalypse. It has a ton of flavor, is a thick sauce, and packs great heat.

shit the bed Is also right up there with great flavor and has thai food notes in flavoring.

*fixed my link tag

Yeah, I think that one is pretty heavy on extract. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone extol the virtues of the flavors in an extract based sauce - only the heat.

So if you’re after flavor, I’d steer clear of those. Plenty of the pepper based sauces are still plenty hot.

[This] (Mad Dog 357 Pure Ghost, 5oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030J4YTG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QOwdBb7JBW8JH) is the stuff I referenced previously. Highly recommend

Arizona Gunslinger Habanero Pepper Sauce! Probably my fav hot sauce, very much on the salty/vinegar-y side, no real sweetness or other added flavors. Definitely recommend for the purist when it comes to hot sauce.

These are pretty good too.

Not sure on the Hot Ones branded, I think they were only given out in the subscription box. I have these from Amazon which are great and appear to be the style.

https://www.amazon.com/HQY-Stainless-Bottle-Opener-Openers/dp/B01N00Z92D

I've found the Dirty Dick's sauce to be close enough to the Fiery Chipotle that I didn't need to own both. I really like FC but prefer the DD ever so slightly. For those that haven't tried it, it's definitely worth picking up a bottle.

I love reactions to Da Bomb, but I think that it might be possible to pull off a convincing lineup with all non-extract sauces. El Chupacabre hits really hard for a non extract sauce. Exhorresco is supposedly way up there in heat and Reaper Sling Blade packs a decent punch too. They can always kick the heat up by saucing the wings up a notch too.

I dunno. Not much to say. In the early 2000s Dave’s Insanity Sauce was de facto hottest hot sauce out there. Apparently it put someone in the hospital when it was used in a chili competition (chili like with beans, not ‘hot chili’s’)

I’ve had it before and just a couple drops is enough to spice up a pot of spaghetti sauce. “Spice up” or “ruin,” depending on your taste/tolerance.

Amazon has it: Dave's Original Insanity Hot Sauce - 5oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DID5R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_u7KYCbP4PAWA2

I don’t know how these others compare. I’ve been out of the scene for years. Good luck!

good to hear that Dirty Dick's is tasty! just purchased it from amazon today, alongside El Tucateco XXXtra Hot

if you had to plot the hot sauces on taste vs. heat axes, which sauces would be at the top right (best taste for high heat levels)?

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One here

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Three here

They have it on Amazon. I reccomend saving a bottle from the regular serving size and just refilling that one with the half gallon, made it easier for me to use on a day to day basis

It's readily available on Amazon and other online sources.

EDIT: corrected link below


Thx /u/weff47 - here's the correct link.

dirty dicks is super tasty. only other ones i would suggest putting on there are these two

https://www.amazon.com/Smoked-Onion-Hot-Sauce-Ounce/dp/B071XN3R32/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3T7M1LJO5XERO&keywords=smoked+onion+hot+sauce&qid=1563285630&s=gateway&sprefix=smoked+onion+%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Majesty-Scotch-Hot-Sauce/dp/B0716G5MBX/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2BKTS9BJT7IU6&keywords=scotch+bonnet+hot+sauce&qid=1563285679&s=gateway&sprefix=scotch+bonnet%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-9

As someone that has been a hot sauce and spicy food connoisseur for 30 years, here’s where I’m at.

On Amazon get a bottle of “Carolina Reaper Chili Pepper Powder Wicked Reaper World's Hottest Chili Pepper” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U5G7IN6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_6cpSCb7SYKMC9 or “Scorpion Powder Chili Spice Seasoning Trinidad Moruga Pepper Powder Red Tail” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWG673S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_iepSCbR6R628N (the scorpion is my favorite)

The bottle is about $10 and will last you quite a while. Since it is nothing but the pepper itself, you can add it to food to drastically raise the heat level without changing the flavors. Sometimes you want heat but maybe your hot sauce is made with something that may not pair well with the food you’re eating. This is where the powders come in handy. Hot sauces can be pretty pricey and it stinks that with a lot of the sauces what you’re paying for is usually a lot of vinegar or other cheaper ingredients.