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It's can be a pain to buy hot sauce online when you have to deal with shipping costs and higher prices on some sites.

I mainly order from heathotsauce. They have so many sauces to choose from and the $5.99 flat rate shipping is great. Always very helpful to answer questions and recommend sauces as well. I really like them as a company.

Otherwise, I try to keep an eye out for good deals when I can find them.

19.6oz Yellowbird Habanero is now on amazon for $7.99 which is a great price. They also have Dirty Dick's. They had 2-packs of 10oz Marie Sharp Habanero at a good price, but I just noticed it went up by like $5. However the [Fiery Hot Habanero 2-pack](https://www.amazon.com/Marie-Sharps-Fiery-Sauce-Pack/dp/B00FZ6GO04/ Fiery Hot Habanero) is now even cheaper. Prices can fluctuate on there so I check them out every so often. If you order enough to hit the $25 free shipping mark it's definitely worth it.

Ebay can also be a good place to look. I recently bought more Scorpion Gourmet for $7 shipped per bottle, which is a solid price when you think about shipping. You can get 3 bottles of Gringo Bandito for $14 shipped. That's pretty much close to retail, and it's only place where I can get the hotter black label version, which aren't in the stores near me.

Queen's Majesty is good:

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Majesty-Sauce-Combo-3-Pack/dp/B07NLMWTHY

Another of my favorites is Detroit Hellfire Habanero.

Tabasco Scorpion is delicious.

Los Calientes (hot ones) is great for tex mex.

This one is cheaper than most and has a standard vinegary, salty, roasty flavor. I really enjoy it:

https://www.hotsauce.com/organic-harvest-habanero-pepper-sauce/

Cutino has a tropical/chipotle, a mustard/habanero, ghost pepper, miso, red jalapeno, and verde, that are all very good. Free shipping on their 4-pack. I love their stuff

https://cutinosauce.com/shop/

Marie Sharp's makes some of the tastiest hot sauces I've had, as well as Maya Mike's.

https://www.mariesharps.bz/

https://mariesharpsusa.com/collections/vendors?q=Maya%20Mike

>it was uncomfortable, but it was also exhilarating. There was a little adrenaline boost. I felt high, and my consciousness was affected in a weird yet exciting way.

welcome to the club, friend.

a couple recommendations based on personal experience.

Ghost pepper: 1 of them INSTANTLY can be recommended. ADOBOLOCO HAMAJANG is INSANELY delicious. if there is a cost plus world market near you, they probably have it. if you are lucky, they are in the clearance section. manageable heat. EXCELLENT flavor. its more of a pepper water than your traditional hot sauce but w/e.

habanero: secret aardvark habanero hot sauce is by far my favorite habanero sauce. i would avoid "DA BOMB" like the plague. literally no flavor at all, and it just feels like you are stabbing your tongue with a hot knife.

Trinidad scorpion: personally, i cheated with this one. i am PROBABLY the only person out there with an actual BOTTLE of the Buffalo Wild Wings "Scorpion Rum" hot sauce. scorpion peppers mixed with meyers dark rum makes for a SERIOUSLY delicious sauce. shame it as a limited time only deal...

i actually havent had a sauce with carolina reapers in it, so i cant recommend anything. but if you stay here long enough, you wont just try one or 2 of them, you will probably find a GOOD one.

If you like green sauces the Bronx Greenmarket sauce and Marie Sharp's Green Habanero are great options.

Any of the yellowbird condiments are also good starting points and they come in variety/sample packs, though you'll pay a premium for the sample sizes. They have a 3 pack of the 19oz bottles for about the same price as the 5 pack of tiny bottles but you get to try 2 less flavors. Cholula also makes some very good flavors, their Chili Garlic is among the best for less heat inclined people and you can also find it in most grocery stores.

Most of the non-green sauces that I use regularly are pretty spicy, I'm familiar with more mild green sauces because those are my wife's preference.

Also Butterfly Bakery of Vermont's hot sauces are on amazon, though they're cheaper on their actual website

Not answering your question because I make all my own sauces around here. You suggest that you make sauces though so have you tried canning? I usually make large batch sauces and bottle them like this: https://i.imgur.com/nQrm71Y.jpg

I don't always label them but I had grown close to 2000 Tabascos and decided to have fun with it. This year I'm growing around 1500 and doing the same.

Canning in bottles or mason jars, small or large, can keep for years. So on a rainy Sunday fire up the pot, make a gallon of the stuff, and store it away in a dark closet. I bottle them in these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079568NXP/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 with a funnel. I boil them for 10 minutes to set the seal. With verde it's 20 minutes to make sure they're clean. I use a heat gun to seal the red sealer on for about 2 seconds. I have bottles around here that are 5 years old.

I spend like 10 days a year making sauce but have availability of my home made sauces year round. Other than tending to the peppers that is, which is easy, since I made an automated watering system for them. It's just pick, freeze, pick freeze, then make once everything has ripened. Then I age them in big masons for at least a year. I use Habaneros in my verde and lime juice rather than vinegar.

Took me a while to find something to pair with it, but High River Sauces 'Rogue' definitely has a unique taste. It's formulated with Maruga Scorpion peppers using a Blood Orange base for the sauce.

I've found that it pairs surprisingly well on grilled and fried fish, along with pizza and chili. It takes a while to really get the flavor, but once you do it's awesome.

• Heartbreaking Dawn 1498 excellent flavor and unique. + heat :-)
  
• Dirty Dicks great flavor
  
• Marie Sharp simple, bright flavor with decent heat and goes with a lot of different types of food

My farm's hot sauce is newly on amazon with free shipping. Super awesome flavor https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CV4XBYZ?ie=UTF8&ref_=v_sp_widget_detail_page

I'm a big fan of the Melinda's line. It's not terribly hot for a habanero sauce, but the flavor is great. The XXXXtra Reserve is my personal favorite.

Amazon link

Edited the link to not go to the one that costs $38 lol...

This is the collection that I've amassed over 15+ years of collecting. They range from sauces made by restaurants from around the country, to collectables, and everything in between. I get them from all over the place, but I really like going to hot sauce expos and festivals and picking some up from there. You get to try and buy some really unique sauces (my favorite "odd" sauce is a Heatonist sauce made with charcoal, so it's completely black).

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In case anyone is wondering, the shelves on the right are these ones from Amazon, and I can't recommend them highly enough: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQ1UEUP. My father and I made the display case on the left years ago. The ones in the corner are from Home Depot.

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If anyone has any questions, let me know!

They work great so far. Here is the link do yourself and get some weights as well.

Easy Fermenter Wide Mouth Lid Kit: Simplified Fermenting In Jars Not Crock Pots! Make Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Pickles Or Any Fermented Probiotic Foods. 3 Lids(jars not incld), Extractor Pump & Recipes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DJVVORE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_x4epDbEKK7H0Y

4-Pack of Fermentation Glass Weights with Easy Grip Handle for Wide Mouth Mason Jar https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076V66FZ4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_T6epDbKRM0CDH

Wow it's going to be tough to have a less spicy one without a significant decrease in spiciness but secret aardvark tastes so fucking good and is definitely less hot than those.

Whoever downvoted this had better tried this sauce before bc it's fucking amazing.

Cool.

Here's a great hot sauce, you can buy it right here:

https://www.amazon.com/Bollitos-Calabrian-Pepper-Condiment/dp/B073WLRB4T/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=bollitos&qid=1501784811&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1_a_it&sr=8-1

Please leave a positive review, too.

Just wanted to point out that they have tiny and small trial packs of 5 sauces on Amazon for those curious to try their product out. I picked up the smallest 5x2.2 oz pack for $25, though for an extra $10 you can get the 9.8 oz 5 pack.

I like their version of sriracha probably about as much as the regular sriracha. They're all pretty good imo though.

i think you would like secret aardvark habanero or the yellowbird habanero

i def love the hot ones sauce (and their youtube series), bit pricey but worth it

also check out adoboloco, you can get a pack of 3 with free shipping for $30 until november 4th.

Grey Poupon. Far right bottom. /s/ Actually like the Tabasco products because of the vinegar tang. But this is just grocery store selection and there is so much more out there. My last purchase was Elijah's Xtreme Carolina Reaper with sweet black cherries and more. It is fantastic.

Secret Aardvark Habanero Hot Sauce. Arguably the most delicious tasting hot sauce, and served on the table at every restaurant in Portland. Perfect balance of heat and flavor. It's legit. I've had a bottle in my fridge since it hit the market. It's good on everything and quite infamous in the Northwest. It's a staple in many homes out here.

Kinda depends on what "cheap" means to you. For starters, Valentina (my fav grocery store brand!) makes a black label that is hotter than the yellow (should be about the same price).

Frank's Red Hot is a fairly ubiquitous sauce that is pretty tasty and a staple around our house (especially for buffalo sauce).

I don't see Tabasco on your shelf, it was my first hot sauce and will always have a place.

A bit more expensive ($8) but a dang delicious sauce is Dirty Dick's.

I just bought Rogue Moruga Blood Orange Scorpion Pepper Sauce based on a recommendation I saw on here. I can't get enough of it. Strong kick with a nice sweet citric base—if you're into that.

Huh.. when I was a kid, a friend's mom would always serve us a snack just like that - sauce on top of cream cheese, with either wheat thins or triscuits to dip in it.

She always used this: https://www.amazon.com/Homade-Sauce-Chili-12-Oz/dp/B008401AWA , which is only a few bucks at the grocery store. It's not a "hot" sauce at all, though - think of something like a sweet ketchup with a bit of chili flavor to it.

I think I'm gonna try it with a few other sauces.

I agree with this 99% of the time, but Aardvark goes great on both eggs and fish tacos. Out of the hundreds of hot sauces I've tried, aardvark is by far the most applicable to any situation. https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce/dp/B00AIR3Q38

One of my favorite vinegary sauces is Adoboloco's Hawaiian flavor. It's kind of pricy on its own, so it makes the most sense to get a Build-Your-Own 3 pack to cut the per-bottle price.

My other go-to options for flavorful hot sauces are Lucky Dog's Black Label, Yellowbird's Habanero flavor, or my Habanero & Carrot.

Hope this helps!

Don't look for the sauce with the most heat. Find one with the flavor that you like the most, you can always add heat.

For my taste, this is the best out there for me - https://www.amazon.com/El-Yucateco-XXXtra-Kutbil-ik-Habanero/dp/B001EOMQ9E

Solid list! One that I really enjoyed, that also shot up to the top of my list to cover everything with, is Dirty Dick's Hot Sauce

Ah yeah here ya go.

Easy Fermenter Wide Mouth Lid Kit: Simplified Fermenting In Jars Not Crock Pots! Make Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Pickles Or Any Fermented Probiotic Foods. 3 Lids(jars not incld), Extractor Pump & Recipes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DJVVORE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KA3jDbFHA0H7T

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I love his stuff

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce/dp/B00AIR3Q38/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1499726378&sr=8-1&keywords=aardvark+hot+sauce

Dude, try Bravado's other stuff. The blueberry is the worst sauce I've had from them.

[This is quite sweat, but amazing on ice cream] (https://www.amazon.com/Elijahs-Xtreme-Carolina-Cherries-Cranberries/dp/B01JGRUB88)

I recently picked up a bottle of Yellowbird Habanero and it quickly became the favorite of my 30+ sauces. There's no Tom-foolery with this sauce. It's simple and well executed, and pairs well with everything I've tried it on.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce/dp/B00AIR3Q38?th=1

secret aardvark is so good, hands down my all time favorite hot sauce. If youre looking for someting really burns try Trader Joe's habenro hot sauce, personally it's too spicy for me.

Another favorite is Yuctan habenro pepper sauce. Is phenomenal on tacos.
https://www.amazon.com/Yucatan-Sunshine-Habanero-Pepper-Sauce/dp/B0005ZYSI0?th=1

lastly salse picante de chile habenro is good but it always makes me have weird poops so i stay away

Melinda's XXXXtra Reserve has a very similar recipe to Marie Sharp's habanero, so if you like one you may like the other. Personally, I think the tastes are fairly distinct (and strongly prefer Melinda's), but they're both carrot based and habanero spiced.

It's this one: https://www.amazon.com/El-Yucateco-XXXtra-Kutbil-ik-Habanero/dp/B001EOMQ9E

So good.

El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Kutbil-ik Mayan Style Habanero Hot Sauce - 4 oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EOMQ9E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LhNTDbNBN9VX0

There you go brother. It is good.

Including the XXXtra hot Yucateco? If you've not had that one yet, it's a step up in heat from the others and definitely tasty.

Some comparably tasty and easily acquired habanero sauces: Yellowbird, Secret Aardvark, Queen Majesty.

Next beyond habs you're going to start looking for sauces with ghost pepper. Nothing specific comes to mind off the top of my head, I have a random assortment of a bunch at home, but Yellowbird makes one in a larger bottle.

Yellowbird is your new friend. It's a sriracha style sauce, but made with habaneros rather than red jalapenos.

https://www.amazon.com/El-Yucateco-XXXtra-Kutbil-ik-Habanero/dp/B001EOMQ9E/ref=sr_1_1

Don't buy it from amazon though, any half-assed Mexican grocery should have it for half that price

there was a time when secret aardvark wasn't that easy to get. of course you can order it on amazon now.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce/dp/B00AIR3Q38?th=1

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce-Net/dp/B00AIR3Q38?th=1

Secret Aardvark Red Habanero. https://smile.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce-Net/dp/B00AIR3Q38/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1524697383&sr=8-3&keywords=secret+aardvark

Yellowbird Habanero Condiment or Aardvarks, personally. They're the right consistency for me.

yellowbird!!

I think he means this one.

This one!

El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Kutbil-ik Mayan Style Habanero Hot Sauce - 4 oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EOMQ9E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3fNTDbQ13HH56

Here is the non-referral link for the Dirty Dick’s Hot Sauce -

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PZ6B080/

I cannot change the link in my title thread.