{"id":10443,"date":"2023-08-30T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:20:56","slug":"my-top-five-favorite-hot-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=10443","title":{"rendered":"My Top Five Favorite Hot Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\">From a few years ago:<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\"><br \/>\n#1 Tabasco\u00a0Hot Sauce<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"paragraph\">Hands down, the best pepper sauce made.\u00a0 I eat this sauce mostly on expensive cuts of steak.\u00a0 One day I will take a pilgrimage to Avery Island and see the the blessed fields of pepper plants, the vats of fermenting hot sauce, and say a prayer to God for allowing such fine people to produce the nectar of the south.\u00a0 This visit is on my bucket list.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=10444\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4558140_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4558140_orig.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4558140_orig-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=10445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10445 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/7819256_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/7819256_orig.jpg 524w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/7819256_orig-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\"><br \/>\n#2 Crystal Hot Sauce<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"paragraph\">Down in Louisiana a majority of people who enjoy pepper sauce like one of two brands.\u00a0 If you are a Tabasco man, you don&#8217;t touch Crystal.\u00a0 If you are a Crystal man you don&#8217;t partake in Tabasco.\u00a0 Went into a local restaurant in Hammond La. a while ago and they had a bottle of Crystal on every table.\u00a0 I asked my favorite question when I visit a one and only eatery in that fine state (not) and the answer was no, they didn&#8217;t have any of that nasty Tabasco. The place was a Crystal joint.\u00a0 For me, I like both, depending upon what I am eating.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t use Crystals on steak, but I have been known to use it on almost everything else. I can go through a bottle of Crystal in a week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to find the hot sauce in Oklahoma after Katrina, but when I do I will pick up a a six pack of the sauce.\u00a0 Crystal has the right blend of pepper and vinegar.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not to hot and doesn&#8217;t overpower the food you put it on.<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=10446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10446 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4781249_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4781249_orig.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4781249_orig-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n#3 \u00a0 Valentina Hot Sauce<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"paragraph\">Hot or regular, this sauce is made for extremely hot Mexican dishes, such as a large tamale dinner from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffcc66;\">Cocina de Mino<\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffcc66;\">Chelino&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span>Mexican Restaurants. \u00a0 It is a very cheap sauce that is much tastier than the higher price ones. \u00a0The sauce is used on fruits as well as heated Mexican dinners. \u00a0Buy the big bottle and both the hot and the regular are top notch sauces.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin \"><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=10447\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10447 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2967562_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2967562_orig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2967562_orig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2967562_orig-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2967562_orig-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\"><br \/>\n#4 \u00a0\u00a0Huy Fong &#8211; Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"paragraph\">When I eat Chinese food my favorite hot sauce is this brand. \u00a0Hot but with a great taste, not a runny Louisiana sauce or a spicy Mexican variety. \u00a0This sauce goes well with veggies, white and brown rice, and egg foo young. \u00a0In Dec. 2009,\u00a0<a title=\"Bon Appetit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bon_Appetit\">Bon Appetit<\/a>\u00a0magazine named its\u00a0<a title=\"Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)\">Sriracha sauce<\/a>\u00a0Ingredient of the Year for 2010.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=10448\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10448 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/9597032_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/9597032_orig.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/9597032_orig-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin \">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: xx-large;\"><br \/>\n#5\u00a0 Louisiana Hot Sauce<\/span><\/h2>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My #5 choice of hot <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">sauces<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;\"><u>Louisiana Hot Sauce<\/u><\/em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.\u00a0 It is not too hot, not to runny, and is best used fried chicken.\u00a0 It was the sauce I grew up with, and will always be welcomed at my table.\u00a0 It has one of the nicer red colors and it&#8217;s bottle\/package is traditional.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\">Louisiana &#8220;The Original&#8221; Hot Sauce<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0has been\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_produced\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">mass produced<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Foods\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Bruce Foods Corporation<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0for\u00a0 over 80 years.<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_Hot_Sauce#cite_note-0\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[1]<\/span><\/u><\/a><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_Hot_Sauce#cite_note-1\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[2]<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0 As a<br \/>\n<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cayenne_pepper\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">cayenne pepper<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0 based hot sauce, it is similar toother mass produced brands such as\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Hot_Sauce\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Crystal Hot Sauce<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas_Pete\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Texas Pete<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank%27s_Red_Hot\"><u><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Frank&#8217;s\u00a0 Red Hot<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. It is usually packaged in 6 oz. shaker bottles, and sports a\u00a0 yellow, blue and red label. 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