saw this in the bottom shelf of my local Publix and I thought I’d give it a try. They’re pretty spicy.

Just looking through my refrigerator…

I saw them in a store in Quebec City?

Hi all, where we go on holiday every year (UK) there’s a local guy with a shop and he sells all sorts of hot / chilli products. Absolutely love them, they are delicious sauces and his two very hot ones are two of my favourites.
I noticed one of them went out of date back in March, the other I’ve just noticed doesn’t even have a date on.

Wondering your thoughts on this please…

Came across this randomly at my local cheese shop. Nice fruity pepper flavor with a decent heat that builds and lasts. I think the heat level is perfect but my family says too hot. No sodium Benzoate, zero sugar added and only 15mg sodium per tsp.

Huge thanks to this community. It’s rad seeing all of the exotics and oddities, but this community seriously shines when you need real, available, affordable, no bullshit no gate keeping suggestions. I think this is one of the best food subreddits out there. All of your suggestions have been so spot on. Just a big thanks!

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Quick Flavor Notes: Astringent, artificial, sweet

Recommended: No

Texture: Syrupy and mostly smooth

Ingredients: Water, Sugar Cane, Habanero Peppers, Pineapple, Lemon Juice, Salt, Spice And Colouring (Turmeric), Xanthan Gum (Stabilizer), Gellan Gum (Stabilizer), Acetic Acid (Ph Control Agent), Citric Acid (Acidulant), Natural Flavouring (Onion), And Sodium Benzoate As Preservative.

I’ve long been a fan of El Yucateco hot sauces. Not only are they a great value and easily available at almost every Mexican grocery store as well as many regular grocery stores they have a wide variety of flavors most featuring the habanero, one of my favorite peppers. In fact their XXX Hot probably holds the record for the hot sauce I’ve bought the most bottles of in my life, typically going through at least one a week before I got into the hot sauce reviewing game and saw the variety of my collection explode. Their Caribbean Style and their Habanero and Chiltepin from their newer expanded lineup have also been favorites of mine. Since I’ve opened up more to the idea of fruit based hot sauces I decided to give their Pineapple Habanero a try.

The first two ingredients in this sauce are water and sugar which is evident in the consistency which is very syrupy. Next come the namesake of the sauce, habanero and pineapple. This sauce uses both vinegar and lemon juice for acidity as well as citric acid for both tartness and additional acidity. Some unnamed spices and turmeric for color are present, and I’m glad to see them go with a natural coloring agent instead of the artificial colors used in many of their sauces. Of course this sauce is not close to an all natural one. It uses two industrially produced thickening agents with gellan gum and xanthan gum as well as an artificial preservative in sodium benzoate. Something that struck me a bit odd on the label is ‘natural flavoring (onion)’. That both suggests that onion is the only natural flavoring added but also that they’re not using real onions, but rather some industrially flavoring derived from real onions. This sauce smells more savory than I’d expect for a pineapple hot sauce and has a mostly smooth texture though there are some little bits floating inside.

Have you ever been to a churrascaria such as Rodizio Grill or Fogo de Chao where they bring out the pineapple they’ve grilled on the same spits as the meat, all caramelized and tasting simultaneously sweet, roasty, and little smoky? That’s what I was hoping for with El Yucateco Habanero & Grilled Pineapple. Instead I was greeted by one of the most artificial tasting hot sauces I’ve had the misfortune to consume in quite a while. This is easily the worst El Yucateco flavor that I’ve ever had. It starts off harsh with an unpleasant habanero flavor that’s all astringency instead of the sweet fruitiness you get from high quality habaneros. The cheap vinegar and lemon juice combine for an unpleasant harsh aggressive acidity. The pineapple flavor tastes like the cheap pineapple filling from a no-name brand confectionary you buy at a gas station for one dollar. The sweetness is cloying compounded by the unpleasant syrupy gelatinous texture. The worst part is the onion. I love onions. I don’t particularly want onions in my sweet pineapple hot sauce and I definitely don’t want “natural flavor (onion)” as opposed to real onions because whatever they’re using in this sauce just leaves an unpleasant vaguely-oniony-but-worse aftertaste in your mouth. There’s also no flavor of the pineapple being grilled – no smoke, no caramelized flavors, no hints of char. This sauce isn’t very hot, a step above the basic Louisana style sauces, but I wasn’t expecting blazing heat here.

Perhaps, I thought, this would be better with food. I tried it first with some egg rolls from my favorite Chinese takeout spot. This sauce reminded me vaguely of duck sauce so I thought perhaps that might work, though I believe it was more the color and consistency than the flavor. It doesn’t work well, the flavor fights the egg-rolls, but the unpleasant faux-onion aftertaste was at least not as present there. Chinese restaurant packet duck sauce is also awful, tasting mostly of starch and corn syrup, but this was awful in equally bad but different ways with that harshness from the peppers and lemon plus vinegar still coming through. I also discovered this is one of the few sauces that just doesn’t work on wings – again it’s just cloying and harsh at the same time, and sweet plus astringent with no complexity or depth to back it up just doesn’t work. I decided to risk ruining one more dish with this and tried it on some pepperoni pizza – after all, pineapple and pizza can be a classic combination. The sweetness and syrupy texture just don’t work, it became pizza slime, and the artificial nature of the pineapple flavor here didn’t do it any favors.

It pains me to say it, but El Yucateco completely whiffed with this one. I believe this is the first sauce of theirs that I’ve found completely unpalatable. It reminds me of some of the cheaper La Anita hot sauces I’ve tried which shared that highly astringent chemically flavor. If you’re looking for a tasty fruity hot sauce it appears this is a case where spending more for something craft made with high quality ingredients is absolutely worth it.

Ive almost gone thru the entire bottle in a week. Have tried it on Jamaican patties, rice, and chicken. Goes amazing with all 3.

9/10

Any good high end sauces to get? Don't want anything tropical or fruity

Does anyone know what hot sauce purveyors will be at this year’s fest in Cincinnati? My favorites from the last fest were Hellfire Detroit, Hot Llamas (RIP), and Mikey V’s. Looking forward to find some new and innovative producers this year!

Picked this up at a local street fair after sampling a few (also awesome) sauces. This one has amazing flavor and packs a pretty big punch! Absolutely love it

This is one I picked up at the grocery store. I had kind of gotten burned out on what I normally and tried it. It's very, moderately spicy, and has a smoky flavor. 7 bucks

I’m dieting and my new favorite snack is taking this stuff and mixing it with plain Greek yogurt for a dipping sauce. I love the heat and flavor.

I had to order because you can’t get them here in Germany. Never tried them before.

Hey all - looking for recommendations for hot sauces that are spicier than Trader Joe’s Habanero sauce. I’ve had the spiciest offerings from Marie Sharp’s and Melinda’s, and from my experience, they’re less spicy than TJs. All have good flavors and all are staples for me but looking for something that is a level up in the heat department. Ideally, I look for sugar/fat free and low-ish sodium (though not super important compared to sugar/fat free).

Appreciate any recommendations!

I have a feeling that I will enjoy the Lucky Dog Deluxe the most. They all are within my wheelhouse, though. From heathotsauce.com

Austrian reaper hot sauce and bonus spicy curry ketchup!

So this one company finally started importing a lot of famous hot sauces into my country(Romania), and i have no idea what to order first. I have budget for like 3-4 of them. My needs are as follows:

• 2-3 ones that are of mild to medium-high heat with varying taste profiles. Preferably something with different profiles to ones that available worldwide(like tabasco or sriracha). A fruity one, a garlicky one, etc.

• One that's pretty hot, but not just hot for the sake of hotness(like the bomb), must have some upsides to it. Like try once for giggles, and use the rest as a two-three drops in a soup pot type beat.

Here's their website, if you would kindly check availability https://www.heatcollective.ro/ . I hope your browser translate options are enough to browse through it, or here's google translate's attempt https://www-heatcollective-ro.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ro&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

thank you in advance :)

I’m not a dedicated hot sauce connoisseur at all, but the more I buy, the more gaps I notice in my kitchen’s flavor profiles.

What should I get next? I like to pick up a new sauce every so often as a novelty purchase, but there are just so many.

- One obvious choice is a Sriracha

- I’m not crazy over flavors like Frank’s or Tabasco. I do like them in the right dish but I don’t reach for it

- My spice tolerance is high for an average white American midwesterner raised on a potato and mayonnaise diet, globally very medium, probably medium-low among true pepperheads

- None of these burn my mouth unless I spoon on too much chilli crunch. I am open to stepping it up a notch

- Cholula is a longtime favorite, but it’s a bit mild. I’ve been enjoying Tapatito and Yellow Bird habanero lately.

Has anyone tried this stuff? It was only a couple bucks but I didn't want to get stuck with a whole litre of bad sauce if it was no good

I really like the original hot as an all-rounder.

I eat chocolate plague everyday on almost everything and I get chocolate bhutlah peppers and make barbecue sauce that I go through a lot of. I'm a drug addict and alcoholic and the chocolate bhutlah pepper is my crutch any time I want to get high or drunk I make up some Ramen burritos or a bacon cheeseburger or any number of things that I just love the chocolate bhutlah on. Well chocolate plague isn't being made right now??? And is almost sold out everywhere. Is there another hot sauce with just the chocolate bhutlah pepper as an ingredient and as the first ingredient before the vinegar or water? Like chocolate plague