Chef's thoughts and ideas about HOT SAUCE

JD

September 27, 2019

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TURN UP THE HEAT WITH HOT SAUCE

Usually added in small doses, hot sauce can introduce just the touch of heat that a dish might need, whether used in cooking or as a condiment. But the options can be bewildering. While most hot sauces share the same core ingredients—chiles, vinegar, and salt—their heat levels can vary drastically. When you want to avoid a searingly hot bite, we recommend our favorite traditional hot sauce, Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce, which has mellow heat and deep flavor. It was the base for the original Buffalo sauce recipe.

We also highly recommend Huy Fong Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce (with the iconic rooster label). Sriracha is thicker, sweeter, and more garlicky than Mexican- or Cajun-style hot sauces (such as Frank’s) but we found it works at least as well in just about any application. A related hot sauce, Asian chili-garlic sauce, is like Sriracha but is coarsely ground rather than a smooth paste. Sambal oelek, the Indonesian hot sauce, is made purely from ground chiles, vinegar, and salt, without garlic or other spices, thus adding a purer chile flavor.
We don’t recommend Tabasco, the top-selling hot sauce. Its high vinegar content and skimpy amount of salt makes it taste out of balance. Once opened, hot sauces will keep for several months in the refrigerator. Note that some brands of hot sauce are nearly twice as hot as Frank’s, so be careful the first time you use one.

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