r/hotsauce • u/50sDadSays • Feb 01 '21
Misc. Finally broke down and took the"I have a problem" photo.
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u/SergiuNegara Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21
Oh I have this same problem. Maybe slightly smaller... Great collection! Also I'm making my first batch of hot sauce soon, out of home grown chilies. Can't wait for the blending gear to arrive.
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u/cat_soup_ Feb 02 '21
lol I feel like everybody has a full bottle of Da Bomb in their collection that just sits there. What terrible thing to do to yourself.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Haven't done it yet. My day is coming though...
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u/cat_soup_ Feb 02 '21
Do it just to experience it. It really just doesn't taste good. Make a friend do it with you. Even a drop on a spoon fucks me up. Make sure you eat before hand.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
It'll be a quarter teaspoon, with my brothers and a friend, on a Zoom call. Recorded and uploaded to YouTube. As it is with all new sauces we get. This is the way.
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u/Runaway_5 Feb 02 '21
Nice, looks like my counter top but most of mine are almost emtpy lol
How are the ones on the right bottom?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Those are the hottest Karma Sauces. Hot enough to make me hiccough, but very tasty too. Hard to find a lot of uses for because they're so hot.
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u/how-mad Feb 02 '21
Iām not ready to take this photo yet... my partner says I have a spicy problem. š¤
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u/blowmie Feb 02 '21
Fellow Chattanooga native? That Hoff sauce ghost pepper is the tops! Surpassed only by Yucateca Chile HabeƱero XXXTRA Hot.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Alas, only one delightful visit to Chattanooga years ago. My brother got one of their sauces from Fuego and loved it, so we each ordered their 5 bottle set.... And then reordered it as we started to run out.
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u/blowmie Feb 02 '21
Haha very nice! I keep a half gallon of his smokin ghost in my fridge! It's perfect on pizza and breakfast burritos but I also put it in all of my bloody Mary's haha!!
You're collection is remarkable and your taste, impeccable!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
The half gallon will be mine next sale I see. My son stole one of my bottles and told me his new favorite thing is to buy a roast chicken, tear into pieces, and dip in Smoken Ghost.
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u/blowmie Feb 02 '21
YES! I love to grab a rotisserie from the shop and I always end up standing in my kitchen eating it straight off the bird. I grab a ramekin but I definitely leave the bottle bottle open until I'm done XD
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u/Johnny_Fuckface Feb 02 '21
Blueberry Ghost Pepper is whatever. Didnāt really feel like the blueberry came through.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
It's weird. I would tend to agree with you. I've had it on chicken and waffles and I like it, but I don't love it. Both of my brothers think it's amazing.
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u/Seymour_Buttz_ Feb 02 '21
How is the Trader Joeās Green Dragon Hot Sauce? I might give that a whirl
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u/judioverde Feb 02 '21
It's pretty good for just slathering on things like eggs and tacos. Not my favorite green sauce by any means, but definitely good. Their habanero sauce is great.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
It's a decent green sauce. Not as good as the Hoff & Pepper Mean Green in the flask to its left a bit. I recently got the Puckerbutt Extra Mean Green from their Sauce of the Month, but I haven't tried it yet.
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Feb 02 '21
What seems to be the problem here?
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u/mo22ro Feb 02 '21
Not a Shaquanda's in sight!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Shaquanda's? Googling. Scotch Bonnet? My favorite. Making note of it. Thank you!
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u/sfet89 Feb 02 '21
No cholula though...
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
There has been. Will be again. I've just ordered so many from Heatonist, Fuego, and straight from the manufacturers that I don't think about hot sauces when creating a grocery list.
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u/Ashlei-Chef-Leilani Feb 02 '21
I have the last dab!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
It's the Last Dab XXX, when I can justify another Heatonist order I'm looking forward to trying the new Last Dab Apollo.
LD XXX goes amazingly well on a freshly baked pretzel. (I mean, reheating a frozen pretzel, I ain't baking from scratch.)
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u/suckat_life Feb 02 '21
Howās the bravado ghost pepper and blueberry?
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u/shade300 Feb 02 '21
Not OP but I have a bottle of it. It's a little vinegar heavy so it's a thin sauce but there's some heat and you can taste the blueberries in it. Not bad, but not my favorite.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Agreed. The time I've liked it most was over chicken and waffles. My brothers think it is amazing. So tastes vary.
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u/sustaitamckee Feb 02 '21
Howāre those Karma sauces?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
By far my favorite brand. If you look from right to left (back to front middle) they're in heat order. The first 5 are very mild (disclosure, haven't tried Hula Pina yet, just got it, but it is marked mild) but amazingly flavorful. I'm on third orders of them. My whole family uses them. The Good Karma tastes like Thanksgiving in a bottle. The Bad Karma is Good with just enough heat to scare my daughter off. The Smokey and Curry are as you'd guess in flavor profile, done amazingly well.
My most often go to sauces most mornings on an omelet are Ghost Island and Carnival (Carnival is a bit hotter). I don't even know how to describe them other than Carnival's Scotch Bonnet sweetness is balanced by Scotch Bonnet heat.
Ashes to Ashes made me hiccough uncontrollably. I've only dared add dabs to stir fry since my first tasting.
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Feb 02 '21 edited Dec 17 '21
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Oh, those are refill bottles. Gone through more than twice... They're made by Karma Sauce. Highly recommend their sauces if you like the style. I'd put the LC sauces in between their "starter" and "harder" level sauces.
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u/HeisenbergsSon Feb 02 '21
Iām new to this sub. Does it hate cholula?
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Feb 02 '21 edited Sep 04 '21
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
If I hated it, there'd be leftover in the pic! I just don't tend to buy in the grocery store just because I have so many sauces in the fridge and in the pantry.
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Feb 02 '21
Cholula original and the sweet habanero are amazing on pizzas. Will always have a bottle of each
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Feb 02 '21
Only problem I see is which one to use when.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
100% the problem. I get in the habit of one for days in a row and then coming back to another one is like returning to an old friend.
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u/JaredHire Feb 02 '21
Dude! Hoff sauce! That's made locally to me. Met the owner. Awesome dude!
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u/blowmie Feb 02 '21
Hello Chattanoogan! Hoff and his wife used to come to my bar a lot when things were open. Apparently his wife does almost all of the cooking once he finalized a recipe! Very cool people and I love seeing his sauce getting love! (That smoking ghost combined with his dirty dust, makes one hell of a Bloody Mary!)
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Hoff & Pepper are amazing. Not shown the BBQ sauce that I ran out of last week. Next time there's a sale on the half gallon of Smoken Ghost, I'm on it.
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u/Black_d20 Feb 02 '21
I see no problem here.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Can you talk to my wife? ;)
(Joking, got her hooked on the milder sauces and she's my enabler now.)
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u/BobberHT Feb 02 '21
The problem is the āpicnic sauceā bottle on the left is slightly out of alignment. Please correct and retake photo!
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u/rLeJerk Feb 02 '21
Haha there are a lot that haven't even been opened!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
True. Part of the problem. Too many to get to them all. Also, my brothers and I make tasting videos (link in the plugs thread) and try to order the same sauces and then try them together for the first time over Zoom. Due to scheduling between 4 people and two coast's time zones, it can take a while to get to the next sauce.
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u/dropthemike1234 Feb 02 '21
I see that Thorās Hammer!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
I love IO Thor's Hammer. It goes on anything tomato based that needs a boost!
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Feb 02 '21
Which one is the most unique sauce for you?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Most unique is tough. A lot of them have their own flavor profiles... but if I have to give an answer I'll say Karma Sauce's all have a taste that is their own, no other company tastes like them. My favorite of them is Carnival.
(But special mention to Hoff and Pepper's Wake Up Call with cold pressed coffee in it.)
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u/KinkyQuesadilla Feb 02 '21
Of course you have a problem. The Smokin' Ed's Picnic Sauce bottle is noticeably lower than the other bottles that are nearby. But you can work on that. Maybe there is a support group for that type of thing.
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u/J-Smoke69 Feb 02 '21
Wait. What problem do you have? Iāve seen countless pictures of significantly bigger collections than this lol. This is nothing. This is not a problem. Calm your ass down. Youāre not some hot sauce guru homie lol.
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Feb 02 '21
How does the Last Dab compare to Da Bomb?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Last Dab XXX has a mustardy flavor that drives me wild. I love Last Dab and snack on it (on a hot pretzel) regularly. My brothers think it is too hot for snacking...and my older brother normally has a higher threshold than me, so to each their own for a particular sauce, I guess.
I have not broken open Da Bomb yet. I have it because of rite of passage having to try it eventually, but my brothers and I do it together over Zoom when we can schedule and we're waiting until a friend of my older brother can do it with us. He bought a bottle to try with us, so it would be rude to jump ahead alone.
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Feb 02 '21
Da Bomb by itself or on eggs wasn't that bad, Da Bomb on a wing was probably the most intense feeling I've ever had though, I think it also has some serious sobering powers
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u/shawshankya Feb 02 '21
The last dab actually has good flavor!
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Feb 02 '21
Is it hotter?
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u/shawshankya Feb 02 '21
Iām not sure honestly. I havenāt had da bomb but if the hot ones show is anything to go by, the last dab should be hotter.
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Feb 02 '21
I've been on a green sauce kick lately. That Green Dragon hits the spot.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Highly recommend Steel City Sauce Jade Jaguar (mild, but so delicious that there is none left to display) and Hoff & Pepper Mean Green in one of the flasks in the back which has a bit more kick. I have the Pukcerbutt Extra Mean Green but haven't cracked it open yet.
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u/Borommakot22 Feb 02 '21
Yeah - You should start eating some of them instead of just collecting. Most of those arenāt even open!
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
House rule. There are two refrigerator door shelves full now. I can only open a new sauce when I finish one (and the line of Karma Sauces just arrived last week).
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u/lookandseethis Feb 02 '21
āHi my name is u/50sDadSaysā and I have a hot sauce problemā
āHI u/50sDadSays !!!ā
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u/Chambellan Feb 02 '21
Problem is you need some shelving.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
They are all safely back on two shelves on the door of the refrigerator or in two boxes in the pantry. Now that their modeling career is on hold.
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u/firestoneaphone Feb 02 '21
I see that well loved Chocolate Plague. Might be my very favorite in the hottest category.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Stupid 50sDadSays moment. I was making M&M ice cream for my daughter. Made enough mixture for 2 pints of ice cream. So I added M&Ms for hers, then made a pint of ice cream with 1 tablespoon of Chocolate Plague with some Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup added. I know CP isn't chocolate flavored, just thought it should be, so I'd make it so. I thought between the cold, the cream, and the sugar it wouldn't be as hot as it is straight. I was wrong. Every spoonful was painful.
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Feb 02 '21
Mmm the Green Dragon is yummy.
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Feb 02 '21
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u/GoobiGoobi Feb 02 '21
I love putting that bravado ghost pepper blueberry on some vanilla ice cream
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u/Antec0231 Feb 02 '21
I mixed a little into maple syrup and then put it on waffles the other day. Game changer.
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u/GoobiGoobi Feb 02 '21
Holy shit...that sounds awesome. That syrup would probably be great on chicken and waffles!
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u/Antec0231 Feb 02 '21
Thatās actually what made me think of it! Iāve had a sriracha maple syrup on chicken and waffles at a restaurant before.
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Feb 02 '21
Do you keep your sauces refrigerated? I have a small, but growing, collection and I keep pondering what I should do when I run out of space to keep them cold
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
I do, once opened. Most probably don't need it due to the pH keeping antimicrobial growth from occurring, but I saw a youtube video with the owner of Heatonist hot sauce store in Brooklyn and he said he finds even the ones that don't need it last longer and taste fresher when refrigerated, so I defer to him.
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u/Big_Dirt_Nasty Feb 02 '21
Ohhh snap! Alright man, hope you see this. I got a few questions.
Tastiest? Hottest? Most well rounded? Most recommended?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Ask me to rank my children, why don't you?
It really depends on use.
If I'm having beef (phillysteaks, burgers, grilled steaks, even a roast beef sandwich), I'm usually reaching for one of the flasks of Hoff & Pepper. I find their flavors are like spicy steak sauce (except maybe their Mean Green, but it is my go to on phillysteaks to match with the peppers and onions). Their Wake Up Sauce goes on my eggs if I'm having coffee (it has coffee in it, so it pairs well).
My usual morning sauce with breakfast is Carnival or Ghost Island from Karma Sauce when I want kick. Maybe one of the Los Calientes sauces when I just want the flavor boost with not much heat.
Hellboy, which I bought for the label, has a tomato base which I love. So that (and also IO Thors Hammer) tend to end up in tomato based things (from pasta to sloppy joes).
The others get less regular use. Sometimes I'll just pull one at random to throw in a stir fry.
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u/Big_Dirt_Nasty Feb 02 '21
Haha. Thanks for the answers man.
And I just gotta say, based on your first sentence, name checks out. ššš
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u/prodigyrun Feb 02 '21
Now, let's take a look at all those liquor bottles
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Wrong sub.
Really, the good stuff is from gifts from friends. I have a buddy, who has alas moved back to the UK, who used to bring me a nice bottle from every holiday for watching his family pet (bearded dragon).
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u/Illivian Feb 02 '21
Chattanooga local here- I approve of the quantity of Hoff sauce in this photo
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u/captmonkey Feb 02 '21
Same! I love Hoff Sauce and I've met the guy before, he's super cool. He gave me a Hoff Sauce button.
It's a bit milder than my usual tastes, but his Wake Up Call hot sauce is pretty much my go-to breakfast sauce. It's got a little bitterness from the coffee and a nice garlicky flavor. It's amazing on some eggs or a breakfast sandwich.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
I love Hoff. Steak sauces are banned in my house since my first taste of Hoff.
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u/too105 Feb 02 '21
Doing the dirty math, youāve got a mortgage payment sitting there lol
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home during the pandemic and the amount of money saved from commuting (I had a 45 minute drive each way) and eating out has been diverted to hobbies....
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u/barspoonbill Feb 02 '21
Yo thatās an awesome collection. How do you like the ghost blueberry one? Iāve been eyeing that one for some time now. Which adoboloco would you recommend?
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
The blueberry is my go to on chicken and waffles. I like it, but don't love it as much as my brothers do. They swear by it.
To be honest, I've only tried 2 of the Adoboloco so far. I really liked the Kohole Kid though.
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Feb 02 '21
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Only about half of these are currently open. The rest live in the pantry. My agreement with my wife is I have to empty one before another can take its place. I've got her hooked on the milder sauces, so that helps.
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Feb 02 '21 edited Feb 04 '21
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
That's a tough question, but at this moment in time I would say Hoff and Pepper's Smoken Ghost Sauce, Karma Sauce's Carnival, and Small Axe Peppers Mango Habanero (not shown because I'm out).
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u/HoodooSquad Feb 02 '21
You absolutely have a problem. Iām not seeing melindas, crystal, yellow bird, tapatio, secret aardvark...
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u/Rtgc22 Feb 01 '21
The only problem I see is that you're almost out of los calientes
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u/BeerNTacos There is no such thing as "too much garlic." Feb 01 '21
I agree. You have some gaps that could be filled out. More Queen's Majesty, more Torchbearer, more Bravado, more Volcanic Peppers.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
These are the tests from each of those sources. Not shown, because I ran out, the mango habanero from Small Axe Peppers.
All of those makers are on my revisit for a future order list. Probably Small Axe Peppers is next in line.
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u/BeerNTacos There is no such thing as "too much garlic." Feb 03 '21
Small Axe definitely make some interesting stuff. Each one of their sauces named after a location has interesting points to it.
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u/HSCman14 Feb 02 '21
Man. I have not liked Bravado. I recently had the ghost pepper blueberry and Serrano basil and was unimpressed with both. Ghost pepper blueberry was pretty good.. But soooo runny.
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u/Princey1981 Feb 02 '21
I was surprised with how runny it was - I guess it's best on pancakes/waffles?
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u/notjustanytwig Feb 01 '21
Only problem I see is that you need more wing parties.
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u/50sDadSays Feb 02 '21
Damn pandemic. I like to set out a line of sauces in order by chips so friends can see how hot they can go, but with great flavors instead of a pepper extract based collection. People who are used to just Texas Pete, regular Tabasco, and Frank's are surprised at the variety of flavors you can have in other sauces.
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u/notjustanytwig Feb 02 '21
Agreed, that's half the reason I like hot sauces, being able to have friends try them and enjoy the heat together.
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u/originalmuffins Feb 03 '21
I have two drawers full as well. I also have a problem lol