Hot Sauce part II

[Shaun @ Tru6]

After getting Jeremy's posted hot sauce, I decided to do my own Hot Ones episode using 4 of my favorite sauces in the fridge. Was suppsoed to do 5 with a Frank's Texas Pete's black pepper mix but it would have been a waste of the wings.

Sauces were:
Matouk's Calypso
Marie Sharpe's Beware (Jeremy's/Gogar's sauce he just picked up in Belize)
Carribean Curry
Hotter than El

Soaked 25+ wings in buttermilk all day long. Coating was a hushpuppy inspired mix of flour and potato starch, salt, pepper, lot of onion powder and a good amount of sugar. This turned out great, sweet and oniony. Had one or two by themselves and definitely a good fried chicken base, just need to add some herbs.

Taste:
All of these sauces mixed with melted butter and wings tossed in were winners. No favorite one as they were all distinct and unique.

Heat:
I expected the Marie Sharp's to be the hottest. It was very hot straight out of the bottle and definitely hotter than the Hotter than El I just got.

But by far the hottest of the 4 was the Matouk's Calypso. I've dropped it on all kinds of things and it was very hot then but maybe heating it up activated something but it was much hotter than I remember and easily hotter than all the others.

Cold cold glass of milk and 2 nearly frozen IPAs were on hand and very necessary. Lot of sweating and just being hot. Whole body hot. Oddly enough while there was a good amount of pain in eating the wings (8), each of the flavor profiles came through beautifully. That was the best part of the whole project.

Only thing I would do differently next time (and there will be a next time) is 4 plates. The bowl of heat was overwhelming.

[pwd72s]

Doesn't anybody use Tabasco these days?

[gregpark]

I'm a hot sauce lover, all kinds but my stand by go to is Tobasco.
My wife makes some salsa to die for. Everything from our garden, vine ripened all. She roasts everything first, heavenly.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by gregpark

I'm a hot sauce lover, all kinds but my stand by go to is Tobasco.

I can handle tobasco. Made right down the street from you in Avery Island, Los Angeles. Says LA right on the bottle.

I can't handle the powerful stuff. In 1984 my boss took me to a hole in the wall wing place in Rochester and we had "Buffalo Nuclear" wings. I ate them just fine with pitchers of beer but the next day the second burning turned me off for all time. I was bleeding while auditing a physical inventory of a factory. PM me for details.

[Bill Douglas]

Ring of Fire hot sauce

[Crowbob]

Ill bet you guys could just mix up some battery acid and tomato paste and call it good. Spicy is one thing, HOT is something else. Hot simply for heat’s sake I don’t get.

[gregpark]

The ring sting! There is a limit to certain enjoyments

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Today wasn't terrible. Certainly worth how great each of these tasted. Had 3 more with dinner tonight, a nice little appetizer for some steak and fries.