Bottom Line: Marie Sharp’s Habanero Pepper Sauce and Melinda’s Original Habanero XXXtra Hot Sauce have similar ingredients and similar tastes, and both should satisfy lovers of habanero sauce
You may have noticed that the bottles of Melinda’s hot sauces are starting to show up everywhere these days, and that is because the company has worked its way to the Number 2 hot sauce brand in the country. But there is another hot sauce brand out...
Monday was National Hot Sauce Day, and the folks over at online grocery platform Instacart took that opportunity to list off the top hot sauces people are buying from them and what the preferences are by state. Below is the full map which shows you what sauces people are buying the most across the country. Now take into account this is based strictly on orders through Instacart, so I don't know how good of a representation this is of actual hot...
It's just a few days before Christmas and you may still be looking for a last-minute gift option for someone you know who loves spicy food. Might I suggest Fuego Box which is a hot sauce of the month club that offers carefully selected craft sauces from across the world. These are not the generic concoctions made in places like China and thrown together in a cheap set, these are mostly small-batch sauces made by people who care about the...
Bottom Line: The Tabanero Hot Sauce Challenge makes for a good gift with quality sauces that range from Medium to Insane levels on the heat scale.
As Christmas Day approaches and you find yourself doing some last-minute shopping, you might be tempted to grab one of those generic hot sauce gift sets for someone who enjoys spicy foods. But don’t do it! (More on that here.) Instead, seek out hot sauces that are not cheaply made in China or...
The holiday time of year is upon us and you will almost certainly see those generic hot sauce gift sets in big box stores and gift shops calling out to you. But if you know somebody who likes spicy food and you are looking to buy them a gift, do them a favor and pass those by (as I discuss in more detail here.) Instead, buy something with better quality and taste, and if you have a Trader Joe's market near you then you will have plenty of...
Bottom Line: Flying Goose Original Sriracha Sauce is a little more blunt in its flavors than Huy Fong and does not bring much heat, but it acts as a decent stand-in.
It appears that the Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce may be in the process of returning to shelves. I bought some at the local Asian market and I am hearing that more and more people are starting to find it again. But it is still not widely available and the Chile Garlic Sauce and Sambal...
Bottom Line: The Organic Sriracha from Sprouts brings a little more heat and sweetness than the Huy Fong sauce, but still acts as a good substitute while that one is absent from the shelves.
There’s still little to no Huy Fong Sriracha on the shelves, and it doesn’t look like the shortage will end anytime soon. I talk about what is going on with that company in more detail here, and people are looking for bottles of sauce they can substitute...
Bottom Line: Tabasco’s version of Sriracha sauce has a similar taste to Huy Fong’s but with a little extra kick of heat and garlic.
Huy Fong Sriracha sauce is still hard to find in stores due to a pepper shortage (more on that here) and bottles of the stuff are selling for upwards of fifty dollars on Amazon.com! No need to be spending that much money, though, because there are options out there to tide you over during this period of...
Bottom Line: Weak Knees Gochujang Sriracha is a gourmet version of the familiar sauce that delivers a unique taste along with some heat.
Huy Fung Sriracha is still hard to find in the stores these days due to a chili pepper shortage (more on that here), but there are options out there to hold you over until those green-topped bottles start returning to the shelves. Weak Knees Gochujang Sriracha may not be a direct replacement for the rooster...
Bottom Line: Diamondback Texafied Sriracha is bolder than its Huy Fong competition with more heat and garlic, but still acts as a good substitute.
If you have been looking for that familiar bottle of Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce with the rooster on the front and have not been able to track it down in your local market, you are not alone. The company ran into a chili pepper shortage back in 2022 (more on that here) and apparently still has not been...
