Favourite hot sauce?

se25 · 22-08-2020 11:15pm

Wonderful...and Irish.

xvril · 22-08-2020 11:39pm

MickeyLeari wrote: »

Where can I buy Mic’s chilli BBQ? I bought direct online after finding the hot sauce in a restaurant in Budapest and stunned it was an Irish product.

https://www.micschilli.com/stockist

List of all the places that stock mics chilli sauces. Not sure how up to date it is. I actually just got a bottle today.

igCorcaigh · 09-12-2020 9:41pm

Got some Bullseye Carolina Reaper hot sauce.

Very garlicy and a slow build to a strong heat.
Thick and sweet. Nice

I've yet to try the Al'fez harissa.

Both are currently on sale in Tesco.

LLewellen Farquarson · 11-12-2020 12:10pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Got some Bullseye Carolina Reaper hot sauce.

Very garlicy and a slow build to a strong heat.
Thick and sweet. Nice

I've yet to try the Al'fez harissa.

Both are currently on sale in Tesco.

Thanks for that, just picked up one of each.

Skerries · 11-12-2020 12:18pm

what commercial sauce would be the closest to what you would get in a restaurant or pub as regards the Louisiana sauce?

LLewellen Farquarson · 11-12-2020 2:56pm

Bought a bottle of Call cali Tijuana hot sauce in Supervalue.
Not a fan. Very watery and tastes like flavoured vinegar.

Skill Magill · 11-12-2020 4:10pm

Bought a selection of sauces from Mics Chilli and found this one the tastiest, really nice peppery taste and hot but not senselessly so.

Inferno Sauce Original :
https://www.micschilli.com/webstore/inferno-sauce-original

Got the Voodoo reaper one too, but haven't tried it yet, not sure I want to now

LLewellen Farquarson · 11-12-2020 7:22pm

Skill Magill wrote: »

Bought a selection of sauces from Mics Chilli and found this one the tastiest, really nice peppery taste and hot but not senselessly so.

Inferno Sauce Original :
https://www.micschilli.com/webstore/inferno-sauce-original

Got the Voodoo reaper one too, but haven't tried it yet, not sure I want to now

I have the Trouble in Trinidad (6)
Two drops is good, three is overload.
Voodoo reaper at (7) night be a bit much for me.

LLewellen Farquarson · 12-12-2020 2:53pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Got some Bullseye Carolina Reaper hot sauce.

Very garlicy and a slow build to a strong heat.
Thick and sweet. Nice

I've yet to try the Al'fez harissa.

Both are currently on sale in Tesco.

Just had the Harissa on a poached egg on brown bread.
Very nice with a strong taste of star anaise. Going to mix some into couscous tonight.

Thanks for the recommendation.

First time trying Harissa and won't be the last.

igCorcaigh · 12-12-2020 3:40pm

LLewellen Farquarson wrote: »

First time trying Harissa and won't be the last.

I love trying different harrisas, some can be heavily spiced, others just a simple chilli paste.

Check out the rose harrisa from Belazu if you can, it's lovely.

igCorcaigh · 13-12-2020 8:13pm

LLewellen Farquarson wrote: »

Just had the Harissa on a poached egg on brown bread.
Very nice with a strong taste of star anaise. Going to mix some into couscous tonight.
.

it's very different from other harrisas alright (the Al' Fez).
Very star anise flavoured. And contains tomatoes.

It got some bad reviews because of that (on the Tesco site), but I really like it.

Mixing it through couscous is a good use for it, as you say, I bet it might make a good marinade too.
It's just not a condiment style harrisa!

Mellor · 15-12-2020 10:54am

Skerries wrote: »

what commercial sauce would be the closest to what you would get in a restaurant or pub as regards the Louisiana sauce?

Louisiana is the name is a commercial hot sauce brand. Its a fermented vinegar based afaik. So similar to Franks or Tabasco. Closer to franks in heat.
They also do a wing sauce. Which is the same hot sauce base emulsified with oil, and sugar.

igCorcaigh · 25-12-2020 9:12pm

Skill Magill wrote: »

Bought a selection of sauces from Mics Chilli and found this one the tastiest, really nice peppery taste and hot but not senselessly so.

Inferno Sauce Original :
https://www.micschilli.com/webstore/inferno-sauce-original

Got the Voodoo reaper one too, but haven't tried it yet, not sure I want to now

Got the original Inferno (60,000 SHU) as a present!
It will come in very handy.

The Voodoo (1,200,000 SHU!) is just way too much.

Eric Cartman · 11-01-2021 10:01pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

it's very different from other harrisas alright (the Al' Fez).
Very star anise flavoured. And contains tomatoes.

It got some bad reviews because of that (on the Tesco site), but I really like it.

Mixing it through couscous is a good use for it, as you say, I bet it might make a good marinade too.
It's just not a condiment style harrisa!

The al'fez range is quite good. I took a cooking course in Morocco a few years ago, brought back some clay tagines and have been making moroccan since. The preserved lemons are spot on for the chicken dish we learned to cook

the Harissa is very close to some of the local pastes made in Morocco although a tad duller, if you can't deal with star anise or coriander that country will disappoint :pac:

their ras el hanout is the best blend off the shelf I've found.

LLewellen Farquarson · 12-01-2021 12:24am

Eric Cartman wrote: »

their ras el hanout is the best blend off the shelf I've found.

Sounds good, where did you pick it up?

Eric Cartman · 12-01-2021 4:33am

LLewellen Farquarson wrote: »

Sounds good, where did you pick it up?

Got it in donnybrook fair

Hodors Appletart · 12-01-2021 11:33am

Has Sitto Z been mentioned here?

I really like their lava sauce, it's hot but has a lovely flavour backing it up.

The Nal · 12-01-2021 11:57am

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

Has Sitto Z been mentioned here?

I really like their lava sauce, it's hot but has a lovely flavour backing it up.

Cheers will go for a bottle now, haven't heard of them before. I fancy a few hot wings in the next week or so. Still have some Carolina Reaper sauce I made in the fridge. Bananas hot but tastes nice.

Thread reminds me I need to do cull. The Yellowbird is the still my favourite hot sauce.

Gloomtastic! · 12-01-2021 2:10pm

That's mad. A whole cupboard taken up with hot sauces!

igCorcaigh · 12-01-2021 2:55pm

The Nal wrote: »

The Yellowbird is the still my favourite hot sauce.

My new mission!
Any local suppliers down my way?

Tilikum17 · 12-01-2021 2:58pm

https://www.crazybsauce.com/product-page/superhot-reaper-pre-order

The Nal · 12-01-2021 3:27pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

My new mission!
Any local suppliers down my way?

I don't think so unfortunately. Online only, like Amazon, but I got mine when I was in Wholefoods in America.

Tilikum17 wrote: »

https://www.crazybsauce.com/product-page/superhot-reaper-pre-order

They're the guys I got the Reaper from. Very nice sauces too. Lovely fruit content to them.

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

I really like their lava sauce, it's hot but has a lovely flavour backing it up.

Ordered at 11am, just got delivered! Yeah its hot, very nice taste though. Good shout cheers.

Tilikum17 · 12-01-2021 4:02pm

The Nal wrote: »

I don't think so unfortunately. Online only, like Amazon, but I got mine when I was in Wholefoods in America.

They're the guys I got the Reaper from. Very nice sauces too. Lovely fruit content to them.

Ordered at 11am, just got delivered! Yeah its hot, very nice taste though. Good shout cheers.

Yeah I used to always get the Carolina reaper & blueberry. It’s hot, but nothing like that one I posted above.

Black Sheep · 12-01-2021 4:52pm

Mister S (Camden Street) did a larder box before Christmas, with various restaurant-made condiments. They've consistently been the best of the "eat at home" / "cook at home" restaurants that pivoted during lockdown, in our opinion. When the larder box came out I wasn't sure whether I would bother, but we did.

I'm only getting around to trying some of the elements now... One of which is a fermented hot sauce. I have to say, very very moreish. It's got a relatively light but cloudy body. Heat wise it is somewhere above your standard taco shop hot sauce and some of the inferno chilli type products. Hot, but definitely still approachable for most people.

Anyway, worth trying if anyone has the opportunity - while acknowledging it is one of the more unobtainable items mentioned in this thread, if they don't restart doing the larder boxes again soon.

igCorcaigh · 13-01-2021 8:50pm

One I picked up today: Arbol chilli sauce from Wahaca (Thomasina Miers) for €1 in Mr. Price!

I know food safety advice is not allowed, but do people keep their hot sauces in the fridge?
This one says to, but I tend not to bother.

interlocked · 13-01-2021 10:36pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Got the original Inferno (60,000 SHU) as a present!
It will come in very handy.

The Voodoo (1,200,000 SHU!) is just way too much.

I loved the Inferno so I upgraded to the Naga Knockdown and the Voodoo, I was a bit apprehensive of the Voodoo so I was initially only using a few drops in a stir fry but to be honest it was less nuclear than I was expecting, good kick but not overwhelming, the problem now is that I'm lashing it in like I did the Inferno, and it's a lot more expensive!

Fair play to Mic's btw, I've ordered a couple of bottles twice now and they've thrown in a bottle of barbecue sauce each time, very decent of them and next day delivery as well! Their online service has been a godsend, I found it impossible previously to get any of their products locally, other than the Inferno.

igCorcaigh · 13-01-2021 10:40pm

interlocked wrote: »

I loved the Inferno so I upgraded to the Naga Knockdown and the Voodoo, I was a bit apprehensive of the Voodoo so I was initially only using a few drops in a stir fry but to be honest it was less nuclear than I was expecting, good kick but not overwhelming, the problem now is that I'm lashing it in like I did the Inferno, and it's a lot more expensive!

Fair play to Mic's btw, I've ordered a couple of bottles twice now and they've thrown in a bottle of barbecue sauce each time, very decent of them and next day delivery as well! Their online service has been a godsend, I found it impossible previously to get any of their products locally, other than the Inferno.

I tend to not mix hot sauce into food during cooking, rather use it as a condiment, so mileage varies.
I tasted the voodoo directly, so maybe that's why I found it OTT!

I'm lucky to have local vendors, but good one on the online delivery.

Corvo · 14-01-2021 5:21pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I tend to not mix hot sauce into food during cooking, rather use it as a condiment, so mileage varies.
I tasted the voodoo directly, so maybe that's why I found it OTT!

I'm lucky to have local vendors, but good one on the online delivery.

This is how I use the Voodoo as well and it absolutely kills me and I have a pretty high tolerance for heat

interlocked · 14-01-2021 7:40pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I tend to not mix hot sauce into food during cooking, rather use it as a condiment, so mileage varies.
I tasted the voodoo directly, so maybe that's why I found it OTT!

I'm lucky to have local vendors, but good one on the online delivery.

Good call on the above, I just made a stirfry, threw some voodoo into it whilst cooking it and then splashed a good shot on it when it was on the plate, a lot more bang for your buck all right! Not intolerable though, but a good shot of heat.

limnam · 19-01-2021 5:40pm

anyone use mics instead of franks for wings?

do you just add butter like the franks recipe ?

The Nal · 20-01-2021 10:29am

limnam wrote: »

anyone use mics instead of franks for wings?

do you just add butter like the franks recipe ?

Bit of garlic powder and worcestershire.

igCorcaigh · 06-02-2021 10:13am

Can't wait to try this!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKyZWb3lilP/?igshid=tpcblv5komkn

igCorcaigh · 06-02-2021 10:14am

Sauce Shop sriracha is really delicious, great texture.

igCorcaigh · 13-02-2021 12:50pm

I must get myself to Mr. Bells!

Has anyone tried the Tapatio hot sauce?

https://twitter.com/MrBellsCork/status/1360549842502705152?s=19

igCorcaigh · 13-02-2021 2:12pm

We shall see!

Edit: yeah, yummy but very salty.

Jimmy Bottlehead · 13-02-2021 2:16pm

Bit of a random one, but I had the Tomato & Mascapone soup from Aldi yesterday and splashed in some Mic's Inferno Extreme and it went VERY well. Wonderful kick off it. Got the scalp sweats and all.

The Nal · 13-02-2021 2:18pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Has anyone tried the Tapatio hot sauce?

I have some yeah. Fairly standard stuff, nice though. Similar to Cholula. Lovely on eggs. Staple of American diets. 7/11 sell it for 99 cents.

igCorcaigh · 13-02-2021 2:24pm

The Nal wrote: »

I have some yeah. Fairly standard stuff, nice though. Similar to Cholula. Lovely on eggs. Staple of American diets. 7/11 sell it for 99 cents.

€2.30 here, which is fine.

Yeah, it's tasty enough, but again too salty, as I like to use a fair bit. Same with sambak olek, I find.

(about 230mg of salt or 90mg of sodium per teaspoon. Not too bad I guess)

Bit of a cumin flavour to it?

igCorcaigh · 13-02-2021 2:39pm

The Nal wrote: »

I have some yeah. Fairly standard stuff, nice though. Similar to Cholula. Lovely on eggs. Staple of American diets. 7/11 sell it for 99 cents.

Did you spend time there?

I see in American recipes, they use fire roasted tomatoes, canned. Are they much different to our canned tomatoes?

Can't find them here. Canned tomatilloes not available either. The fresh ones are really expensive and hard to find.

It's only recently that I've been able to get canned chipotle in adobo sauce. But the shop I use changed the brand and they are not as good.

igCorcaigh · 13-02-2021 5:32pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

We shall see!

Edit: yeah, yummy but very salty.

Oh, that El Pato is not what I expected at all. I thought it would be a tomato salsa.

It's a dark brown liquid, sharp and a bit hot.

I'm currently cooking my black beans in it. Had to make a quick homemade salsa with cherry tomatoes, onion, green chilli, lime juice and cumin.

Would make a great enchilada sauce.

The Nal · 13-02-2021 6:45pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Same with sambak olek, I find.

Actually did fried rice during the week with a sambal sauce mixed in. Two tablespoons of sambal, 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar and a teaspoon of honey. Sweetens it up. Lovely.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Did you spend time there?

I see in American recipes, they use fire roasted tomatoes, canned. Are they much different to our canned tomatoes?

Theyre just roasted or grilled before theyre canned. Just get normal tomatoes and whack them in the oven on max heat for 20 mins until they start to char.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Canned tomatilloes not available either. The fresh ones are really expensive and hard to find.

Not sure what neck of the woods you live in but I got some canned in Picado. They deliver too.

https://www.picadomexican.com/

But yeah, fresh ones are way better but my green grocer doesn't do them anymore. Supplier stopped growing them.

the beer revolu · 14-02-2021 10:21am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Can't find them here. Canned tomatilloes not available either. The fresh ones are really expensive and hard to find.
.

Superfruit in The English Market had them fresh for a good while last year.

igCorcaigh · 14-02-2021 10:25am

the beer revolu wrote: »

Superfruit in The English Market had them fresh for a good while last year.

They did! I should have tried them then

the beer revolu · 14-02-2021 11:08am

igCorcaigh wrote: »

They did! I should have tried them then

The fresh ones are really lovely for a green salsa!

Heroditas · 14-02-2021 11:27am

Another big fan of Mic's here. Absolutely love their Voodoo Reaper. I'd splash a load of it onto enchiladas, pizza etc.
Not my hottest sauce by a long distance but my favourite "regular usage" one.

Hodors Appletart · 17-02-2021 3:50pm

I got some Mic's for Valentine's Day, my wife ordered the Foam & Fury and they also sent a Junior

I had the Junior on an omlette and it was grand, nice flavour

not opened the F&F yet though, what to expect?

Heroditas · 17-02-2021 9:01pm

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

I got some Mic's for Valentine's Day, my wife ordered the Foam & Fury and they also sent a Junior

I had the Junior on an omlette and it was grand, nice flavour

not opened the F&F yet though, what to expect?

It's not hot at all. Comparable enough to Frank's sauce

Hodors Appletart · 20-02-2021 3:20pm

wife just brought home a bottle of Savage Sauce Sriracha from a local market

anyone had it? it smells lovely, I'm going to put it on some mac and cheese later

igCorcaigh · 20-02-2021 3:33pm

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

wife just brought home a bottle of Savage Sauce Sriracha from a local market

anyone had it? it smells lovely, I'm going to put it on some mac and cheese later

Oh, the fermented one, can't wait to try it. Let us know how it is!

Hodors Appletart · 20-02-2021 3:38pm

i definitely will

Favourite hot sauce?

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