Hot sauce
 

I have a recipe I want to make mainly because I think I have all the ingredients at home and won't have to go to the store. I just have one question - are tobasco sauce and hot sauce the same thing??

Thanks!

Sauce made from peppers, that's hot sauce. Tabasco is made from peppers, and that's the main source of the HOT. But flavor is a different aspect and that comes from the peppers, but also from the balance of the recipe.

Tabasco Sauce is a brand name, hot sauce is a generic name.

Hot sauce can be anything from Cajun Chef, which has a slight twang and can be slathered on, to Dave's Insanity Sauce, which one drop of will blow your head clean off. Tabasco is somewhere in the middle of that scale.

Thanks guys. Stupid question, I know, but we never used anything hot when I was growing up.

I love this stuff. Asian hot sauce..used like we use ketchup. The good ol' cock sauce.

http://veryasia.com/srchsa.html

Hot sauce is really good on Hot Wings!

Tabasco is one of many Louisiana bottled hot sauces. The original variety, like Louisiana hot sauces in general, is hot-plus-vinegar flavored. Peppery and somewhat sour.

The pepper-extract sauces like the various Dave's outings -- Insanity, Death Sauce, After Death Sauce, along with others like Endorphin Rush -- are a more dangerous proposition altogether, being a good bit more able to turn a marauding mosquito into a booming fireball than anything Tabasco can offer. You can tell a lot of these guys by sniffing the neck of the bottle: a sawdust-like smell is a warning to use this 750,000-Scoville sauce a drop or two at a time, and keep buttered tortillas and drinks handy.

The Brasilians make the malagueta pepper into an incredibly hot, yet suprisingly tasteful hot sauce. It's generally applied with a tooth pick, but it tastes so good you can't help but put too much. Awsome on feijoada if you're lucky enough to get some of that. If not, black beans and rice.

This is an outrage!!
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Damn that Merc. Oh geez. I haven't eaten all day because I've been working my butt off, and you, You!!! Always pops up when I'm starving.:yum: Mmmm...wings. Wiings..What was I talking about?

Does anyone else think Tabasco isn't hot or flavorful at all? It always tastes slightly sweet to me. I prefer the more tasty sauces like Cholula.

http://www.tabasco.com/taste_tent/me...co_de_mayo.cfm

Guess what? Some smart ass at Whole Foods decided to stock the top shelf with Tobasco mayonnaise. Of course I bought that completely embarrassing abomination. It was packaged by the devil so my mouth can be on fire while I'm having a heart attack. Never was a disgusting food directed so- right at me. I was going to finally do the right thing and get a healthier version of mayo. And there it was demonically possessing the top shelf. I even had to get on my tippy-toes to reach it. OOOh. A little self-humiliation. And we aren't even going to talk about what I ate with it.
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Dont Remind me (Dave's Insanity Sauce) :flamer:

Had some on eggs at a friend of mines restaraunt. I was on the crapper for an hour, plus my head was exploding!

I went to school in Cholula, Puebla, so I have a fondness for the sauce of the same name.

If the recipe says "hot sauce"--Tabasco is fine to use. Salsa, on the other hand, is something different.

Cicero, oh do let's! To be sure, we shouldn't try and restrain your embarrassed writhings -- just let it all hang out and get it out of your system. Hot sauce bottles better than emotions, anyway. Who knows, we might think it's good on whatever you ate it on.

It's easy enough to tell Cholula from Tabasco, but I reckon them about the same for heat. Cholula gets its kick from pequins and chiles de arbol, and is more cumin-y.