Hot sauces from every state in America

[Arcanetrance]

A lot here I want to try
http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/american-hot-sauces

[NaturalHigh]

1. Wow, Oklahoma really struck out.

I've tried that stuff. Just one point above heinous.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Louisiana hotsauce for Louisiana? Let's don't be silly - Tabasco sauce is genuine Louisiana nt

[Enthusiast]

19. But many like the original Louisiana Hot Sauce better.

We use a load of it.

[Xipe Totec]

21. McIllhenny's Tabasco sauce is the original.

[Enthusiast]

22. I understand that.

But I still prefer the other one.

[Xipe Totec]

23. That's perfectly okay.

[KamaAina]

29. Few of the Louisianans I know serve Tabasco

Crystal is the most popular in New Orleans; it used to be made there, right up the street from me in fact, until Katrina. They rebuilt upriver in Reserve.

One of my NOLA contacts suggests that if Sriracha can't strike a deal with Irwindale, CA, they should relocate to NOLA instead of Texas, as has been discussed!

edit: Right down the street (Carrollton Ave.) was Streetcar Sandwiches. They had bottles of at least 40 different kinds of hot sauce from all over the world on the tables! I'm pretty sure that's where I first discovered habanero.

[Xipe Totec]

30. All this is true, but it's a different point.

McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce is the original and will forever be associated with Louisiana. Good, bad or indifferent, the sauce is recognized as a Louisiana product anywhere in the United States.

[yuiyoshida]

31. Tabasco is word famous...

I saw Tabasco in Tahiti as well as Scotland which surprised me!

[hobbit709]

3. A ONE flame TX hot sauce. Who put this list together?

Most of those look pretty wimpy or too vinegary.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Totally agree - I've had hotter BBQ sauce at Luther's than the pineapple atrocity representing Texas

[Chan790]

5. It's Bon Appetit.

They're a haute cuisine magazine.

They're not looking for the hottest, but for the most gourmet and tastiest. A lot of the ultra-hot sauces like pain and ass-sweat.

The one that made no sense to me was Louisiana for Louisiana. That's slightly more offensive than if they'd made Texas Pete the choice for Texas...because Texas Pete is actually a decent hot sauce. Louisiana is awful. I'd have gone with Crystal or Tabasco or one of the weird brands that people make in their backyard bathtub and only sell through the local shrimp shack.

[hobbit709]

6. That's still no excuse for this list.

I've tasted about a third of those and they're crap.

[Arcanetrance]

8. Yeah the Louisiana one seemed kinda like they didn't bother researching

[Xipe Totec]

11. McIlhenny is legend.

http://www.tabasco.com/mcilhenny-company/about/

[kwassa]

12. I did the corporate tour on Avery Island ...

which is out in the middle of nowhere, but still a slick corporate tour for tourists.

The one interesting fact that came out of it was that they would give chili pickers a red-painted stick to judge the right color the pepper ready to be picked.

En francais, red stick is "baton rouge".

The other impression of Louisiana is that there are a million local hot sauces that never make it out of the state.

Personally, I can't stand Tabasco, because I've had too much of it in life. I favor Asian hot sauces, finding sauces in my local ethnic market. Even Sriracha is old hat. I like bottles with no English names on them.

[Xipe Totec]

13. I prefer the fresh Thai peppers

Short story, I've had the real thing. Hand carried by CIA operatives who worked with my wife on a NOAA/NASA project many, many, moons ago.

They knew I was Mexican. They wanted to surprise me.

[kwassa]

14. I like fresh Thai basil.

and Kaffir lime leaves.

and my local ethnic market has a rack of about 40 types of dried chilis. I have no idea of what the differences are.

[OriginalGeek]

25. lol, did they?

I grew up in Texas and love jalapeño but never evolved much hotter than that. I remember the first time I tried a Thai red curry.


I do NOT remember it fondly.



(Turns out I LOVE Thai red curry but I have to order it "american mild". Even medium is just too much sweat for me. I'm staying out of the kitchen.)

That said, I do still like to _try_ hotter sauces - I just don't glop them all over my food. We go to lunch every Tuesday to a local chain for Taco Tuesday that has a hot sauce bar and they are always rotating great, fun (and hot) sauces in. One of my faves is Louisiana Swamp Scum. It's billed as a "medium" heat but is still nowhere near what those Thai folks do.


And I don't really care for the flavor of regular Tabasco but I love their chipotle Tabasco.

[Xipe Totec]

27. I didn't let on, but...

The taste of fresh green Thai peppers cannot be described, but it can be imitated:

Take a pair of vise-grips. Tighten the gap to about 1/4" and then clamp them on the side of your tongue. That's the sensation of biting a green Thai pepper; pure 100% pain. Not heat, not cold, just pain.

After I bit the first one I knew I was in trouble but I saw them watching me. So I took a second one and bit into it. Then I smiled at them, waited the longest minute in my life, and slowly made my way to the kitchen to put a small pile of salt on my tongue and waited for the pain to subside.

[a la izquierda]

17. I was in the middle of nowhere Mexico...

And McIlhenny was on the table. I couldn't believe it.

[sendero]

42. You keep defending...

.... this stuff but nobody likes it's funky fermented taste. It doesn't matter how "authentic" it is or when it was first made, as a huge consumer of hot sauces of various kinds I can say without reservation that it sucks.

[Xipe Totec]

44. I don't care that it sucks. I'm not defending it. But it's from Louisiana. Deal with it. nt

[sendero]

46. Louisiana brand sauce is also.

.... from LA and it doesn't suck

[jmowreader]

10. Texas Pete would be the choice for North Carolina

It's made in Winston-Salem.

The problem with these kinds of lists is, the people who make them want to show how cool they are, and "cool" is defined as finding obscure shit. That's how Hudson's Hamburgers n Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, keeps making lists of The Best Hamburgers in America when they don't even have the best hamburgers in Coeur d'Alene.

[blueamy66]

28. I used bring home 6 bottles of that stuff when I visited Charlotte.

Couldn't get it in AZ 10 years ago.

[Arcanetrance]

7. That surprised me as well since moving to Texas I've found a bunch that seem more deserving

[Enthusiast]

20. Not a good list.

[Raffi Ella]

9. I love a good Hot Sauce.

I haven't had the one from GA, I'll have to look it up. The one from Rhode Island sounds good too.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Arkansas and North Dakota are the only states not represented

I know there must be some local Arkansas brand because I bought some many years ago at a local festival, but I can't remember the name of it.

[Demoiselle]

38. I checked on North Dakota because I didn't believe it had a hot sauce. (I was born there.) ...

I was right.

[Art_from_Ark]

40. I found the Arkansas hot sauce

Good and Evil Hot Sauce, produced by the War Eagle Mill near Rogers, Arkansas.

http://war-eagle-mill.mybigcommerce.com/good-and-evil-hot-sauce/

[WinkyDink]

16. I dislike a fruity hot sauce! I'll take Texas Pete!

[RebelOne]

39. Yes, Texas Pete beats all the others. n/t

[WinkyDink]

41. On red beans and rice? Me gusta mucho!

[JCMach1]

18. Rubbish, Florida's official hot sauce has to contain Datil peppers...

[jakeXT]

24. “The kind of folks who get their kicks spittin’ into the wind and arm rasslin’ big women.” ?

Crazy Jerry’s Brain Damage – Mind Blowin’ Sauce

The pink plastic brain isn’t joking around: This is a seriously hot sauce. Made with mango, mandarin oranges, chipotle and habanero chiles, this sauce, as Crazy Jerry says, is for “The kind of folks who get their kicks spittin’ into the wind and arm rasslin’ big women.”

OK

[Raffi Ella]

37. rofl.

I just looked it up and was gonna say! Glad I scrolled down before I commented, haha. Not very high falutin but if Bon Apetit says it's good then who am I to judge.

[sendero]

43. Few things annoy me more..

.... that hot sauces with sweet components. Yuk! they (hot and sweet) do not go to together! Pfooey!

[Nolimit]

26. Oregon's REAL best hot sauce

This stuff is rad on everything!

[Trailrider1951]

32. This should be the entry for Texas

http://www.tearsofjoysauces.com/

Made right here in Austin!

[Arcanetrance]

33. They have a lot of good stuff on that site

[NightWatcher]

34. Sriracha hot sauce is made in California, it's one of the biggest sellers out there

[kwassa]

35. It's one of the biggest sellers nationally.

I first encountered in LA, but it is all over the east coast, too. I always have some in the fridge.

[kwassa]

36. Maryland hot sauce

It's all about the crabs.

[Xyzse]

45. Wow...

I still have to try DC Redbone.
I will check it out this Friday! I'm glad it at least hit 3 on the Heat Meter.

I may want to try the one from Kansas for kicks and giggles.

Though Infusion Hypernova which also has 3 on the Heat Meter from MD where I'm at sounds fine. I am not sure how I would be with infused vinegar, as it mentions. I am not in to hot sauce on salad, but I may have to try it.

I've tried the one from New Mexico. I am a little bit surprised that they are showing a red sauce rather than a green chili sauce.

As for Virginia, that looks weak on the heat meter, but I may have to try it to add a little kick on barbecue. Most of my family except for me and my brother can't really handle heat any way.