Hot sauces, spices and foods

[Mr Greene]

I'm fond of a Lamb Bhuna, no stranger to a Chicken Madras and have had the odd Maharani. Not particularly keen on the Vindaloo but I tend to prefer flavour over heat.

[vorlon13]

Hu Hot is a chain of Mongolian grill type restaurants mostly in the Midwest.

Their first franchisee in the chain was the 114th/Dodge location in Omaha (since moved to 120th/Blondo) and I have been a fan for a very long time.

Their Black Thai peanut sauce is without peer.

LOL, my perfected beef recipe also works well with shrimp when they have it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm fond of a Lamb Bhuna, no stranger to a Chicken Madras and have had the odd Maharani. Not particularly keen on the Vindaloo but I tend to prefer flavour over heat.

I take your point, but a well-done vindaloo has both.

Boru

[Assimilate]

I put hot sauce on everything, no personal preference, I like to try different stuff. My parents recently went to Jamaica, and brought me back some hot sauce I'm looking to try soon.

[J a c k]

I'm Mexican.


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[Angrboda]

Not a big fan of super hot stuff. But I'm a sriracha addict. I go through two bottles a week.

[Ravenshire]

I grow own pepper and am crushed that my red savina habaneros died this winter. Fortunately, I seeded a couple pepper before using them and kept the seeds. I'll be starting them in the next couple weeks.

Still, my jalapeño plant is doing well, along with my regular habanero. I'm going to try planting some serranos as well. That will give me a full heat range from bells all the way to the red savinas. I would consider ghost peppers, except that once you get past the heat, they're awfully bitter.

Yea I'm not a huge fan of ghost peppers  by themselves... had a ghost pepper pizza once and while it wasn't insanely hot it definitely had some heat to it but it didn't taste great. I love love love habaneros...

you make me want to start a garden

If you want red savinas, you'll have to either find a good specialty shop (I haven't managed yet) or start that garden. Be careful with them though. The guy at the nursery where I got my plant told me they were 30% hotter than the orange ones. I can believe that of the dragon's tongue peppers (another really good habanero hybrid) I bought the same day. The red savinas rate between 300 and 400 thousand scovilles where the orange ones you can get at the supermarket run 120-130 thousand. The red savinas do have a slightly sweeter taste (once you're past the heat) as well so they're becoming my go-to hot pepper.

As you can tell, I love spicy foods. I don't typically bother with store bought hot sauces any more Home made is soooooo much better (and hotter). The one exception I make is Cholula because it has such a wonderful flavor for cooking.

[Seraphina]

The hotter, the better for me. I grew up with no spices at all and then I discovered heat in my 20s. Now I'm making up for lost time.

I like sriracha sauce too. I put that on everything from eggs to chocolate.

[Astreja]

I make my own buffalo wings with butter and Frank's hot sauce. Hot and sour soup is also a standard around here.

One of my favourite hot flavours is habanero, although I've never worked with the actual peppers. Used to regularly use jalapeno peppers in chili and tacos, but now for the chili I prefer any dried Chinese pepper because it's easy to grind with the other spices and dump into the pot.

Curries and anything that uses Jamaican jerk seasoning get a thumbs-up. If I have a jar of jerk seasoning in the house, I use it when making jambalaya.

Hottest dish I ever concocted, though, was a chili made from strips of beef roast. I used dried peppers, a fresh jalapeno, Tabasco sauce, jerk seasoning, cayenne pepper, and Chinese hot pepper oil. Marinated 5 pounds of beef in it, and I swear it was cooking in the bowl...

[SteelCurtain]

Cock Sauce = life.

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I like spicy stuff, but when the heat gets so much that you cannot taste the flavor of the food, it's just stupid. One of the greatest culinary staples in Nashville is Nashville Hot Chicken, and the place to get it is Prince's Hot Chicken on the west side. It is so good, but anything hotter than medium and you are sweating and nose running and you can't taste the fucking chicken!

My favorite hot sauce (other than the rooster, ofc) is Tapatío, but it isn't really hot. Just has a great flavor.