This is probably due to the addition of garlic powder, which provides a rounder, sweeter base. Because it uses cayenne chiles, Crystal Hot Sauce has a flavor profile close to Louisiana, albeit with a much bigger cayenne kick.
The heat lingers confidently on your tongue for quite a while. Crystal also has a more prominent dark chile flavor, and a slightly subdued vinegar profile compared to Tabasco. This can oddly make it seem less spicy at first, before the chile heat begins its ascent. Valentina is thick and complex, with an intriguing citrus note that comes at the end. This is what I drizzle on my avocado toast at home. Ingredients: water, chiles arbol and piquin , salt, vinegar, garlic powder, spices and xanthan gum.
Known for its distinctive wood top, Cholula is thinner and slightly spicier than Valentina, with an official rating of 1, SHU. It also has a complex chile profile, thanks to the use of two kinds — arbol and piquin. Ingredients: water, red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, acetic acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate as a preservative. In Jose-Luis Saavedra Sr. Four years later, it was renamed Tapatio , which is a term for someone from Guadalajara.
Tapatio is thick like Valentina, but no one would ever confuse the two. After a few seconds, a genuine heat floods your tongue that eclipses even Cholula. This is the hot sauce you want if you really need to spice something up.
Ingredients: fresh red jalapenos, sugar, salt, garlic, acetic acid, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfite as preservatives, xanthan gum. Sriracha has exploded in popularity over the past several years. Unlike the hot sauces mentioned above, it has a prominent sweetness that helps to temper the chile heat.
Skip to content. Type: Louisiana-style hot sauce. Ingredients: Distilled vinegar, tabasco chiles, salt. Research shows that spicy foods increase the feeling of satisfaction you get from your meal. Capsaicins are believed to help prevent the damage that bad LDL cholesterol causes to arteries. This is why cayenne and chili pepper are often noted as a couple of the best spices for heart health.
Hot sauce is our favorite condiment at Zipongo. And we analyzed taste and nutrition to figure out which hot sauce brand really is best. Tapatio took first place while Cholula came in second in the taste comparison. Testers remarked that both Tapatio and Cholula had the perfect blend of spiciness and flavor. Scoring last place in the taste comparison was Tabasco , which testers said had an overpowering vinegary flavor. Between the top two hot sauces, Cholula scored extra points for having a lower sodium count than Tapatio 85 mg vs.
Click here to read about the most volcanic partnership in the history of condiments. Louisiana Hot Sauce Original Founded in: Based out of: New Iberia, Louisiana They claim to be one of "the very first commercially available Cajun food products" and the "first hot sauce to use the state's name", and they make a large deal about having "ORIGINAL" in there, and, if you go on their website, you can hit the red dot on the bottle and it makes a satisfying dinging noise.
But Crystal claims to have been invented five years before in New Orleans, and is the number-one-selling Louisiana hot sauce, and just has a little extra tang this Louisiana stuff doesn't. You're still good, Louisiana, but maybe you need to realize that original doesn't necessarily equal best. Huy Fong Chili Garlic Founded in: Based out of: Los Angeles, California The lesser of the two glorious David Tran-produced sauces on this list, chili garlic is still pretty damn delicious, but it loses points for being such a thick paste and not being squeezable.
You're telling me I need to get a spoon to put this ish on my now-very-much-expired Wheatables? And I proceeded to put it on every single thing our cook Dano made no offense, Dano -- I still love your Thanksgiving wraps!!
It also holds the illustrious title of being the main ingredient in the first buffalo wing sauce created in at the Anchor Bar and Grill in Buffalo. And that strength might also be its weakness -- everything really tastes like buffalo wings, which is a mighty fine problem to have in most cases, but leaves it stuck no higher than fourth-place.
With that said, I push it above Louisiana in the state's hot sauce feud partially because of that aforementioned tanginess the other just doesn't have, and partially because every single person I've met from Louisiana puts it on everything, even stuff they don't eat, like magazines and their taxes. Cholula First entry into US Market: Based out of: Chapala, Jalisco What do you get when you mix pequin and arbol peppers, salt, vinegar, "spices", and good ol' xanthan gum?
If you said "an ulcer", well, why are you even reading a top ten list of hot sauces!?!? Of course I'm referring to good old 'lula, the iconic wooden-topped Mexican hot sauce with the very calm ladyfriend on the front.
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