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Ali > wrote:
>I am looking for recommendations on chilli sauces.
>
>I love Tabasco Sauce and would like to try similar chilli
>sauces. From memory, people seem to like Marie Sharp's Hot
>Red Habanero, but it is such a mine field out there, I am
>totally lost.
>
>Any recommendations?

A lot depends on your taste. Like many others, I find
Tabasco too vinegary. Similiar types of hot sauce are
Crystal and Louisianna brands. I like those better, since
the vinegar taste isn't as overpowering. Among these types
of sauces, I think I like Cholula the best.

I like Tabasco Chipotle a whole lot. It's a bit hotter than
standard Tabasco, and not as vinegary.

I like Tabasco Habanaro, too. It's incindiary, but not
stupid-hot, like a lot of the "macho one-ups-manship" sauces
that are more a chemistry experiment than a condiment.

Someone else mentioned the Sriracha sauce. This is a thick
sauce, looks like catsup. It contains no tomatoes. It's
pretty much pureed red ripe serrano chiles and garlic. Very
tasty. Also pretty hot.

What I use most these days is pure powdered chipotle chiles.
I used to get this in the local hot sauce store, but
since it went out of business, I've found it on the net.
I buy it in bulk, one-pound packages, from Los Chilereos
de Nuevo Mexico. Since it's a dry powder that doesn't
need refrigeration, it's easy to put it in one of those
little picnic shakers and take it with you. It's great on
hamburgers, or mixed in with the catsup for french fries.

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