I posted this to :reddit-logo: on the /r/hotsauce but then I got deleted because who the fuck knows. You all certainly have better taste anyways.
Ingredient list:
Ramp/elderberry infused ACV. Dehydrated ramp leaves, dehydrated garlic scrapes, more garlic, smoked onion, dracula, Thai, black Thai, black Hungarian ghost, black pearl, scotch bonnet, and habanero peppers.
(Ramp is a type of wild leek if you're unfamiliar like I was, has an oniony garlic flavor)
Legit one of the best things I've ever tasted, and I need to convince the maker to go bigger production ASAP.
Has an almost balsamic taste? In the best possible way though. Its heat hit fast, but potent, then you're just left with a complex blend of onions and garlic flavors lingering forever. Color is a very muted green.
I've been going through it so fast, and it's mega limited due to the maker foraging and growing most of the ingredients themselves. It'll be at least a year till I can get some more so I'm wondering if there's something anywhere near that with the big blend of peppers and garlics and onions
I know there will likely be nothing exactly the same out there lol.
Can you post ratios of ingredients so I can remake this because it sounds like it slaps and I need a new hot sauce to keep in my bag
I wish I could, I didn't make it myself otherwise I'd be making it again lol
But yeah slaps is an understatement
I help Soothsayer, a local leftist Satanic sauce maker, cook from time to time!
All his stuff is excellent, and he has probably worked with some bands you really like: https://www.soothsayerhotsauce.com/shop
Nice I'll check em out
edit: lol the eradicator hot sauce. kids in the hall references will always be endearing to me
Secret Aardvark
https://secretaardvark.com/
Is that too normie?
Idk about all the other interesting flavors but the basic habanero red sauce is :chefs-kiss:
I'm a big fan of El Yucateco, I recently got hooked on both their Carribbean habanero and "xxxtra hot mayan recipe" habanero. Both really solid sauces and pretty easy to find. Haven't seen it in years but "Brother Bru Bru's African pepper sauce" is pretty damn tasty and that Carribbean sauce by El Yucateco kinda matched the flavor profile so that was a nice find. Marie Sharpe's is a nice sauce from Bolivia, it uses carrot as an additive so its got a nice orange color and it adds a bit of "bulk" to the sauce.
I'm also a big fan of a kind of "sauce" you make at home but its not really a salsa, it's more a like a pickle. Super easy and delicious though. Squeeze a lime or two and add salt and water to create a simple acidic brine. Then add thinly sliced habanero and serrano and then whatever you want to brine. My gf taught me the recipe using onion slices but we also tried it with chunks of mango and damn those were delicious. Sweet heat! Nice dessert item for those that love chilis. The onion version should last a couple weeks in the fridge and as you eat the onion you can replace with fresh to keep it going. Although its better the next day as the flavors have more time to get into the onions it should be ready within an hour or 2 if you want to consume it same-day. My next goal is to do it with fresh pineapple. I still have 2 bright red homegrown habaneros left from the garden to play with.
Edit: oh and you can just sprinkle a spoon of the brine over your taco instead of squeezing a lime, I highly recommend that, super delicious alternative.
Yeah I've got the full el yucateco line going in and out throughout the year here. big fan of the green stuff
It's a great everyday sauce that I won't feel guilty about using up because it's so easy to find a replacement.
The standard El Yucateco habanero beats the hell out of 95% of habanero hot sauces. Great flavor and just the right amount of heat for a habanero sauce.
Most sauces labeled habanero or hotter just taste like jalapeno with some more heat, which is always super disappointing.
One of the more interesting ones I've had is Dirty Dick's :yea: , its base is habanero/banana/raisin with some jamaican jerk-ish spices.
Made a sauce myself a few years back out of lacto-fermented scotch bonnets, shitloads of garlic, and a little allspice. It smelled and tasted like you just opened the best goddamn jar of kosher pickles.
I make a big jug of candied jalapenos a couple times a year, it's not a sauce obviously but they last for months and they're good on basically everything
I'm a big fan of these folks: https://www.coopsauce.com/
They actually have a ramp sauce as well, I wonder if it's at all similar. Some of their flavors are pretty much always available, some they just produce for a while then they're gone. The pablano mustard is amazing. They used to have a Buddha's hand sauce that might have been my favorite hot sauce of all time, but it's gone now.
Oh someone recommended that unicorn tears to me recently as well. I'll check them out, I see the ramp sauce but it's a finishing sauce which im unsure of as to what that means lol
Edit: oh they have a gochujang tho. That's rad
Haha I'm not sure what it means either! I bought it a couple years ago and used it mostly in marinades, pan sauces, and braising. It was good though!
The gochujang is dope too! It's a bit sweeter than the other gochujangs I've had, which I like as a change of pace.
