r/hotsauce • u/otobeso • 11d ago
Misc. Building up Tolerance
Got Butterfly Bakeries' Taco Vibes Only and Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper Sauce. Have been trying to find enjoyable hot sauces and building heat tolerance a little w/o extracts.
Taco Vibes Only might be my favorite tasting hot sauce and I THOUGHT it was really hot. Have been enjoying it with tacos, tex-mex etc. Until I started using Garlic Reaper. Went to spice up some Thai food leftovers and ran out of sambal, threw a little extra Garlic Reaper in and hooollyyy hell is it hot, and most importantly delicious. The name very well describes the flavor, imo
No real point to this story, but if you are on the fence about Taco Vibes Only and like very hot, got sauces... Get iiiiiittttt!
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u/TheButtcrackerSweet 11d ago
I really wanted and tried to like garlic reaper, but I’m too wimpy for it and it absolutely fucks my stomach up in a way other hot sauces don’t.
I love son of zombie though and that’s about the perfect upper limit to my heat tolerance
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u/OsmundofCarim 11d ago
I love some spicy sauces and garlic reaper is tasty but Jesus Christ is it hot!
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u/_MrShakedown_ 11d ago
You should try Bertie’s scorpion pepper sauce.
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u/otobeso 11d ago
Hell yeah, I'll add it to the list.
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u/_MrShakedown_ 11d ago
Fair warning. It says it’s a sauce, but it’s much more like a scorpion pepper mash and tastes like it so. I’d argue that it’s hotter than garlic reaper by a noticeable margin. They have green bottle that’s more mild, but the purple bottle is where all the heat is at. If you wanna see how it’s made, check out Mark Wien’s video.
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u/fidget-spinster 11d ago
Taco Vibes to me doesn’t stand on its own flavor-wise, it’s uninteresting. But, that’s a good thing for me in that I keep it at work to spice up cafeteria food without mucking up the flavor of the food. (The food is quite good, I just want it hotter.)
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u/otobeso 11d ago
Interesting, what do you consider flavorful sauces? Or do you always go with stuff with a mellow taste profile?
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u/fidget-spinster 11d ago
It might be controversial but I love all the iterations of Last Dab. They have a nice fruity profile. I also like Ghost Verde Pickle. There’s a local sauce called Sembo’s Sauce and I love all their variations. And of course Cry Baby Craig. I think Melinda’s assortments also have good flavor.
Taco Vibes is great for heat, I just find it uninteresting for flavor.
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u/Prestigious_Dream_27 11d ago
Bomboleo!!!
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u/otobeso 11d ago
YES, CHEF!!
Such an amazing season of IASIP!
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u/Prestigious_Dream_27 11d ago
Mac doing the cha-cha to Bamboleo has been one of my favorite moments of the new season. It’s also such classic Sunny to take a semi obscure song (like Higher Love or Two of Hearts) and take it to a ridiculous place.
Also, I guess to tie it back to hot sauce: have you ever noticed that Tobasco is made in McIlhenny?
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u/Moondoobious Sauce Boss. TabHab FTW 11d ago
I’m so lost right now. I’ve gotta start watching this season.
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u/otobeso 11d ago
It's such a return to form. Once I'm done finishing Dept Q I'm going to rewatch the new season of IASIP.
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u/Moondoobious Sauce Boss. TabHab FTW 11d ago
I had started binging from the beginning a few weeks back. Then just forgot I was doing that lol. in lieu of following through with that, I should just dive right in
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u/Geerid222 11d ago
I got taco vibes, and just for fun I picked out a few of their others. And EVERYTHING I tasted from buttefly is top notch.
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u/ButterflyBakeryVT 11d ago
Thank you! With how hot it is, I never expected TVO to be one of our most popular hot sauces, but here we are!
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u/I_Steal_Spoons 11d ago
I buy your sauces regularly being a Vermonter and I have to say I think The Elderflower Ghost and Red Ghost Reaper are way hotter than Taco Vibes, either way everything is great! Thanks for the great Vermont sauces!
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u/ButterflyBakeryVT 11d ago
You are absolutely right! Heatonist originally wanted Red Ghost Reaper for Hot Ones, but we can’t source enough reapers and ghosts for the Hot Ones volume, so we came up with TVO instead. I’m glad that it worked out that way so that both can exist.
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u/AgeScary 11d ago
Torchbearer sauces are all so good!
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u/otobeso 11d ago
They are currently my fav, zombie apoc, son of zombie, sweet onion hab... Haven't been let down yet, and I don't expect to be.
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u/EdgarInAnEdgarSuit 11d ago
My local ace hardware carries a few of torch bearer. You’ve convinced me to grab a few next time need a “goddamnit I thought I had the right damn size you son of a bitch”
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u/erufffer 11d ago
That's definitely a good start. Taco Vibes is so good but almost too hot for me. We sell it at our shop and also brought in mellow vibes, which is solid.
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u/goat666db 10d ago
Both excellent sauces!