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JFReturns
Original Poster
2,503 posts
40 months
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I'm a big fan of spicy food, but SWMBO hates it. The answer? Encona West Indian hot pepper sauce  It has a nice balance of flavour and kick, but I find myself wanted a bit more heat..... so, I tried a few more:  Bit dissapointed - some nice flavours in there (especially the peri peri) but not as spicy as I would have liked. So.... what hot pepper sauces do you use / recommend? A balance of flavour and outright heat would be nice 
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Anthony Micallef
715 posts
64 months
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Having a dad from Tunis means that I love Harrisa. I get some good stuff from an Arab food shop near where my dad lives in France. None of this rubbish from the supermarkets over here.
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Truckosaurus
3,529 posts
153 months
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I visited my brother in Africa last year, picked up a jar of this:  Man Alive it's hot, a third of a teaspoon is more than enough to make a huge pot of chilli-con-carne. [edit: spelling]
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Wadeski
5,745 posts
82 months
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Encona is lovely stuff, althoguh their other ones are a bit odd. At university i used to have huge shelf of hotsauces thanks to the bland cafeteria food in the first year, but these days just keep Encona, Siracha sauce, and some home-made pickled chilli sauce from a Fillipino shop.
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VR6time
1,295 posts
79 months
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Have you tried to make your own? Loads of recepies on the interweb. I did one with this years crop from my chilli tree. It wasn't as scorchingly hot as some of the shop ones but it is nice to dip crisps in.
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simonej
741 posts
49 months
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Firehouse Subs (in the States) has the best selection of hot sauces I've come across! Some of them are so hot they're inedible!  Edit: This is my favourite! 
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thetapeworm
4,711 posts
108 months
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I like the Holy Cow Himalayan Hot Garlic Sauce as a general "table sauce" but would like to try and step up a bit and try some others, I blame Man vs Food.
I'm not into the whole pain and agony sauce experience though, I like a buzz but like taste more.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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That's just ghey. I use Franks Hot Sauce for Pizza's Thats 4-5000 scovilles in heat. And these two for curries and chillies. Just one drop though. Mad Dog 357 - 357,000 scovilles  Blairs 3AM 1.5 - 2 million scovilles  They are great fun at BBQ's etc. Doesn't matter how much you warn someone, blokes just have to try a drop. With funny results. It's good stuff though and since using them my tolerence to hot food has gone up. For a delicious taste I do recommend Mrs Balls Chilli Chutney. It is absolutley beautifull. South African shops sell it.
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otolith
19,389 posts
73 months
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Getting a bit low, needs topping up: 
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rsole
569 posts
56 months
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Try Mr Naga Hot Pepper Pickle (ok not sauce technically but you use it the same) Awesome stuff, but VERY hot. www.shahnazfoodproducts.com
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escargot
15,946 posts
86 months
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Just the encona and tabasco in my cupboard at the moment.
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jas xjr
7,425 posts
108 months
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There used to be a lovely chilli sauce called lion brand. Nice and hot but more importantly very tasty.
It seems not to be sold in shops but I have heard it is available in catering size from larger branches of Bookers
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Shaolin
2,095 posts
58 months
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Nothing touches fresh chillis IMHO - I (and 2 chilli addicted sons) have tried most sauces going and they are ok if it's all you have but fresh is always best.
Scotch bonnets are my chilli of choice, there is a lovely flavour along with the heat that you just don't get from a bottle.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Scotch bonnets are great in fresh burgers on the BBQ, but they are nowhere near as hot as the Blairs special sauces.
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Shaolin
2,095 posts
58 months
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Zaxxon said: but they are nowhere near as hot as the Blairs special sauces. So have two - who cares about the pissing up the wall scoville units? I can easily add so many fresh chillis to anything that it becomes inedible - for what purpose? The great majority of chiilli sauces taste the same (a bit like a HP brown sauce base) with diffreent degrees of hot and different labels - there is little other difference.
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Ah misread your post there, you said 'nothing touches fresh chillies' you mean the experience not the heat.
Understood and agree, I do prefer fresh chillies when cooking, can never get the amount quite right though always too hot or hardly notice them.
And I always manage to blind myself later by rubbing my eyes, doesn't matter how much you wash your hands.
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Ynox
413 posts
48 months
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Got:
Encona Hot Pepper sauce
Nando's Extra Hot Peri Peri
Cholula Hot Pepper Sauce
Frank's Hot Sauce
Dave's Gourmet Ghost Pepper sauce
In the cupboard at the moment. I'm particularly liking the ghost pepper one. It's too hot on its own but works great for making food spicy quickly and easily.
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Shaolin
2,095 posts
58 months
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Zaxxon said: And I always manage to blind myself later by rubbing my eyes, doesn't matter how much you wash your hands. Yes good point - and as for a swift adjustment down below, the price is too just too high!
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prand
2,585 posts
65 months
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otolith said: Getting a bit low, needs topping up: Wow, botulism waiting to happen, or do you roast/boil the oil first??
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otolith
19,389 posts
73 months
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prand said: otolith said: Getting a bit low, needs topping up: Wow, botulism waiting to happen, or do you roast/boil the oil first?? It isn't oil, it's alcohol - they're in sherry.
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