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...
Bottom Line: Ba Nam Cali Super Hot Chili Garlic in Oil is the best of three substitutes I tried for Huy Fong’s Chili Garlic Sauce and Sambal.
Huy Fong’s Sriracha Sauce is finally starting to show back up in the stores after a shortage of a couple of years due to a drought in the area where their chili peppers are grown and other factors. But still rather sparse are bottles of the Chili Garlic Sauce and Sambal, both of which are favorites of...
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: 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: 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: 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...
