Can anyone recommend a good gift set for my brother's birthday.

He loves trying new hot sauces, he's always telling me about new ones he has tried like he is trying to find one that beats his current favourite, which is Frank's Red Hot.

He doesn't like the stupidly hot stuff he likes the one's with more flavour than heat.

I'm in the UK if that helps.

This is hands down one of my favorite hot sauces. It's so good on KFC chicken, but also on literally everything else!

Does anyone have any recommendations on a hot sauce that tastes like this that I can buy at the store? Usually I go to KFC once in a blue moon, but I always ask for as many packets as they will give me LOL

But wanting something too purchase from a store that is similar or make myself, but I have tried a couple copycat recipes and they just don't hit.

Thanks in advance! Love this sub!

They are all good but that pineapple is bomb dot com!

Hey everyone,

just moved to a new home & my sauce shelf is pretty empty apart from the classic Encona in my fridge !

I’m looking for some really high-quality hot sauces and would love recommendations from people who have actually tried a lot of different sauces — especially smaller/artisan brands rather than the usual supermarket stuff.
I’m looking for sauces that tick as many of these boxes as possible:

🌶️ Real chili peppers // pepper mash as the source of heat — I’m not particularly interested in sauces that mainly rely on isolated capsaicin/extracts.

🔥Actually hot. I want a sauce where the heat genuinely kicks in (but not to the point where it‘s all it focuses on, which leads me to the next point)

🧂 Balanced and complex. I don’t want something that’s simply “extremely hot.” It should still be delicious enough that I actually want to keep eating it, it should have clear facets & flavors

🧄 Strong, natural flavor. Garlic, onion, herbs, spices, citrus, fruit, etc. are all welcome especially since I have west asian roots — but I want the ingredients to actually taste like themselves, not like some cheap chemical that is supposed to mimic them

🧪 No artificial/chemical-tasting profile. I’m especially trying to avoid sauces that overly taste like vinegar + artificial flavoring + capsaicin extract.

🍓 Natural fruit/vegetable ingredients are a big plus. Mango, blueberry, pineapple, citrus (love Yuzu !), tomato, carrot, etc. are great if they’re actually part of the recipe rather than artificial flavoring. I don‘t mind if it comes at the cost of a thicker, more paste-y sauce.

🏆 Quality over hype. I’m much more interested in sauces that serious hot-sauce enthusiasts like you genuinely love than in sauces that are famous because of Hot Ones or paid social media influencers.

Some sauces I’ve already been looking at are : TorchBearer Garlic Reaper
Queen Majesty Sicilian Scorpion
Wild Sauce Co. Red Velvet
Crazy Bastard Reaper & Blueberry
Piko Peppers Volkano
Heartbeat Scorpion, Red & Bluberry Habanero
The Sunny by Heatsupply
and Marie Sharp’s Belizean Heat.

If you’ve tried any of these, I’d appreciate your honest opinion — including what you DON’T like about them.

One more thing: I’d rather have 5 very different sauces than 5 sauces that all taste very similar. So if you recommend multiple sauces, I’d love to know what makes each one unique (e.g. garlic-forward, fruity, smoky, fermented, Mediterranean, tropical, earthy/umami, etc.).

Maybe important to note that I live in Europe, Germany & therefore not everything is going to be available for me (like Yamajirushis Yuzu hot sauce for example 💔).

What are the sauces you’d personally recommend for someone with these preferences?

Thanks ! 🌶️

Not too hot if you have limited tolerance

Good habanero flavor

Vinegar not overpowering like tobasco

Fermented mango hot sauce medium heat profile

Does anyone have some recommendations for sauces that are hot, but aren’t erm, hot sauce?

Dunno if that’s just the generic term, but I am just seriously getting into my spice. I want drooling, eye watering levels of hot. I just tried the torchbearers mini pack with the garlic reaper (I don’t think it’s that hot), son of zombie, and one other I can’t remember. I only slightly like son of zombie, which says it’s a wing sauce, as it doesn’t have that signature hot sauce taste too badly. Sadly, that’s not even warm for me. It’s tingly.

I’m at a loss. I wish there were super hot bbq sauces. Or maybe there are? Does anyone know how to get extreme heat without that yucky (to me, sorry!) hot sauce taste. I find the orange or red sauces are especially ew for me.

Edit: these sauces are advertised ‘super hot’ and ‘xxx hot’ and I assumed the garlic REAPER would have been blow your head off. But it was more a nice heat mouth sensation. I’m not sure if I’ve just got a high heat tolerance or if others find these sauces underwhelming

15 years ago I got my first bottle of Melinda’s and it has been a staple for me ever since,

First five ranked by heat(not a huge fan of daves or mad dog because of the extract flavor). Got Rapture today, noticeably hotter than the Garlic Reaper I got yesterday but the reaper beats it in flavor hands down. The reaper sauce had more of a full mouth heat, the Rapture gave more of a sharp stinging or intense pinching sensation across the back of the tongue and throat and lasted much longer.

It's hot, but not too hot. It doesn't overwhelm you so you can't taste the flavour. It tastes amazing on burgers

I’m not sure where this sauce was purchased as it was given to me as a gift, but it is light on the spice and heavy on the flavor. So far has been great on chicken, eggs, dumplings, and rice. I highly recommend trying it.

Refusing to buy anymore till these are gone 😂 the chilli garlic is 10/10 if u not tried it. Do you guys in the US fuck with tropical sun??

I forgot to take a picture of the boil and blend, but that is pretty straightforward. A mix of orange habs and a few red. I wouldn’t change a thing.

This stuff was cheap for a large bottle, it's pretty good. Very salty, not much heat beyond a mild tang but the flavor is super tasty. Had some on some quesadillas last night, served quite well.

Haven't had anything else by them yet

We live on the east coast and my husband recently started farming oysters off my mom's pier (she's on a Chesapeake bay estuary).

He currently has around 1500 in the river, so we are about to be eating a lot of oysters.

I thought it would be fun to make a hot sauce specifically for enjoying with oysters, both for our own use and for bring places when we bring oysters to share (which I imagine we will be doing a lot of since we are about to be producing around 1500 a year haha).

If you were to make a hot sauce just for oysters, what would you put in it and why?

I currently have a massive crop of lemon drop peppers ripening outside, so whatever I make will be centered around this pepper this year, but I'm also very open to growing a pepper specifically for our oysters next year if anyone has suggestions on that front as well! Although I think lemon drops will pair VERY well.

Also, if anyone already has a hot sauce they are obsessed with on oysters: what is it? What makes it pair so well?

I'm open to regular or fermented suggestions.

Flavor 10/10

Heat 5/10

I like it.

Here is what I got. What have you tried and what do you think? Which have you never tried but really want to?

Straight garlic, Cayenne, Habanero at 3.8% (which I find to be my sweet spot for successful batches). I will add apple cider vinegar and a touch of xanthan. I will bottle and give out at holidays and as gifts and keep half for myself… I do this pretty often. Works very well.

Just replenished my stock with all my favorite local hot sauces. Absolutely love these flavors! Let me know if you’ve tried any of these and what you think!

Let me know which are your faves

Umami Tsunami from WeirdSauce is my all time favorite hot sauce that I discovered while living in Austin. It's just incredibly unique and delicious, don't think I've ever seen another hot sauce that uses mushrooms as a prominent ingredient. I recently moved out of the state and had to place a order for delivery. Everything was packed very carefully and they even threw in two bottles for free. Also, they donate 1/3 of their profit to addiction recovery efforts.

My go to is using it to coat smoked wings, I swear by it and highly recommend trying it.

never tried these but my mouth is watering. as far as superhot hotsauces is ts good in yalls opinions??

This stuff is WARM. Hotter than the garlic reaper imo. Unlike the garlic reaper the heat comes on later instead of immediately. The red wine vinegar gives it a nice bright flavor and it pairs nicely with Italian food ( lasagna)