/ck/ - Food & Cooking

El Yucateco makes my favorite hot sauce at the moment. I'm mainly using their XXXTra hot sauce at the moment which despite the name is not very spicy. It's just hot to measure because if I do 7-8 drops it's very mild but if I add 9-10 drops it becomes very spicy. It has a great smoky after taste which is nice and it doesn't taste like chipotle which I dislike. It's a nice flavor.

I use their other sauces too but the problem I have experienced is that they have a terrible quality control with the heat levels. Some bottles of the same sauce are spicy and others are mild. They also changed their formula recently and added more color to their sauces. The green one for example had bright little green spheres that where visible when your poured it out. I pray it isn't harmful to eat.

I used to be on the sriracha train until I tried it on Vietnamese food mainly pho. It is just perfect in pho and one of the best things I have ever eaten. Sriracha and hoisin sauce are just part of a perfect pho. Sriracha goes great with everything but good pho just spoiled me on how great the sauce can be.

what are some based hot sauces?