Bottom Line: Trader Joe's Habanero Hot Sauce delivers some notable burn and achieves that sweet spot where Fire meets Flavor.
Trader Joe’s has quite a number of items on their shelves that would delight lovers of spicy food, and this hot sauce in particular is one that I discovered several years back. I picked it up while shopping at the store one day and it helped me to realize that the TJ-branded products are the real deal. It is now a go-to...
With so many hot sauces out there, sometimes it is hard to decide which one to purchase when you are staring at all the bottles on the shelves. But as somebody who has been buying and consuming the stuff for years, I have developed my own go-to list of sauces and usually have most if not all of these on hand at all times. For quite a while I have been planning on putting together a list of my Top 10 Go-To hot sauces, and I have finally gotten...
Bottom Line: Secret Aardvark Habanero Hot Sauce is similar to a taco sauce and it really brings the heat along with good flavor.
I recently started working on a compilation of go-to hot sauces (watch for an upcoming post), and as I was reviewing what I had already covered on the site I noticed a glaring omission. Despite the fact that I regularly have a bottle of Secret Aardvark Habanero Hot Sauce in the fridge and that it is my go-to topping...
Bottom Line: Tabasco is one of the oldest bottled sauces and still one of the best. It brings good heat and good flavor and pairs well with a wide variety of foods.
There may be thousands of hot sauces out there (tens of thousands?), many that are quite tasty and that I would highly recommend. But I always find myself going back to the source. The original Tabasco Pepper Sauce is still Number 1 in my book. I bow to king Tabasco! It may not...
Prepare yourselves, hot sauce lovers. Over the past few years, we have had shortages of toilet paper, milk, various produce items, ramen noodles, and more. But now we have one that will really hit home: that go-to favorite Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce! Due to drought and labor issues, chili peppers are in short supply and that is impacting the availability of Huy Fong products which also includes their Chili Garlic Sauce and Sambal Oelek. No new...
Bottom Line: Frank’s RedHot is an old favorite and a standout among the Louisiana-style hot sauces, and the Xtra Hot has a nice kick.
There are lot’s of Louisiana-style hot sauces out there (including one called . . . . well . . . Louisiana Hot Sauce), so you may wonder just which one to pick when confronted with so many choices on the store shelves. The fact is that you can’t go too wrong as all of these offer a similar combination of red...
Bottom Line: This hot sauce/salsa hybrid delivers a tangy kick that is quite tasty and addictive.
Rustlin’ Rob’s Gourmet Foods in Fredericksburg, Texas is a Mecca for hot sauce lovers and you can sample almost every item they have for sale (and I explore that establishment in more detail here). I make a trip there once or twice a year, and when I am in town I make sure I stock on two of their own sauces that I can only buy at that location....
Bottom Line: Zaaschila Salsa Guacamole & Habanero is a tasty and spicy sauce that can prove quite versatile.
Heat Level: Hot
There are lots of hot sauces and salsas on the store shelves these days, and it’s usually hard to decide which new ones to give a try (I often grab whatever is on sale). I stumbled upon this particular sauce in Arlan’s in Hempstead, TX (a place where I have found several spicy treasures), and decided to give it a...
According to Sontava! (the exclamation mark is part of the name), their products are not just sauces, but accents. And thick ones at that. They take pride in the fact that their sauces are made from just a handful of natural ingredients, and they should. This is definitely one of the better habanero sauces out there and one that I usually have at the ready in the pantry. The extra hot version of their habanero sauce contains fresh habanero...
Rustlin' Rob’s, located in Fredericksburg Texas, is Mecca for lovers of spicy foods, and they offer a wide variety of sauces, salsas, spices, rubs, and more (watch for an upcoming post about the store). They have more than just one sauce that I purchase every time I am in town, but out of all of them the Jolokia Hot Sauce counts as my favorite and try to always have a bottle in the cabinet. This sauce is a blend of all-natural ingredients that...
