Comments on: Letters from HSB Readers

By: hot sauce searcher

hot sauce searcher — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:04:46 +0000

go to http://www.kingstonmiami.com
and click products. look under browse by categories and click sauces and condiments.
i think the one they have is the one that youre looking for.

By: Tracy C

Tracy C — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:28:09 +0000

What the heck… I’ll give it a shot. The older Lottie’s Traditional labels were very plain looking and the bottle was very similar to Matouk’s. Another possibility could be Susie’s Original in the 12oz bottle. Hope this helps!

By: Jordyn

Jordyn — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:36:54 +0000

Hello. My aforementioned name is Jordyn and I may know what the second gentleman is talking about. A while back, my sister took a trip to the Bahamas and brought me back two bottles of hot sauce: a tomato-based one and a yellow habanero sauce that was fairly plainly labeled. It had some color and a toucan if I recall, and I do seem to remember it saying West Indies on it somewhere. It was a tasty sauce and I devoured it within a few days of receiving it, and I’m not exactly a collector so much as I’m a consumer of sauces, so I don’t have the bottle. Anywho, his letter flared up my curiosity because I think I’ve had the sauce before and it was pretty damn tasty. I don’t know what else to say.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:40:46 +0000

“the only way i could describe what was going on in my mouth was that it felt like my tounge needed to take a piss.”

Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. Read it at work and actually burst out laughing. I feel your pain. Dave’s Insanity actually got me in to the extreme hot sauce. Now it’s not a problem.

Ian

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:10:06 +0000

I too started off with tons of tabasco on everything. When hot sauce became a hobby/passion, I started putting Dave’s hurt’n habanero which isn’t all that hot, but it packs a little more heat than tobasco. Then one of my Blair’s 3AM’s developed a nasty crack, so I started putting that in soups, but that’s still a little much to be using on a regular basis. These days I use sudden death quite frequently (since I have an extra bottle). What you need to do is find your comfort zone and step it up a notch. You already know that tabasco doesn’t quite cut it, and sounds like you’ve found what you can’t quite take yet. Find something in the middle and move up. That’s half the fun of hot sauces…pushing your limits

By: clint

clint — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:45:32 +0000

I used Daves to get me into the hot hot sauces.

welcome.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:54:05 +0000

For the guy looking for the Yellow Hot Sauce.
We have an area in Toronto called Kensington Market that would be a great area to check out. There are a couple West Indie stores there that have shelves of West Indian sauces that are imported from there. Best I can offer is to keep my eye out for it the next time I venture to that area and report back.

By: John S.

John S. — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:07:31 +0000

Brian,

As for sauces hotter than tabasco but not extract level, El Yucateco is a good place to start. It’s much less hot than Blair’s, but has some heat and good flavor.

For the extract variety, Endorphin Rush at 33,000 SHU is a good place to start. It’s a smokey, non-tomato based sauce that tastes pretty good. Get used to eating that, and you’ll be on your way up the heat ladder.

Another good, natural option is Peppermaster’s hurricane mash. Very, very tasty, and pretty hot, but not nearly as hot as Sudden Death.