Most Popular Hot Sauce by state

Huy Fong sriracha was a food craze attributed to the rise of social media and foodies 10/15 years ago. Like many fads, they fade. I don't think sriracha is made from tabasco peppers which I kinda prefer, at least for store bought hot sauce. I've made my own hot sauce, but not from tabasco peppers. Hot sauce is OK, but this heat craze is losing sight of some of the unique pepper flavors drowning in hot. I'm kinda liking some of the efforts to remove the capsaicin from hot peppers to reveal/focus on the unique flavors that are there.

 

That’s a bummer.

 

I can taste salt in Texas Pete, but I don’t salt anything. Maybe that’s why I like it on everything.

 

No Siracha in this house. Texas Pete goes on everything, but I may have picked up the taste after many years having been stationed in North Carolina. I do still keep Tabasco handy as that was the staple in messhalls and while out in the field/deployed. Before any deployment, I would always purchase a couple large bottles of Tabasco, wrap the heck out them in electrical tape (to prevent breakage) and stuff them in my pack.

 

My favorite. Not even an honorable mention.

 

The original flavor is great but my personal favorite from their lineup is the sweet habanero. At one point I was buying a bottle of that almost every other week.

 

What makes it hot?
Guessing habernaroes

 

If you are into growing your own peppers and like the flavor of jalapeno peppers but don't like the heat, try these. Jung Seed: Vegetable Seed, Flower Seed, and Garden Supplies, fooled you hybrid jalapeno peppers. Look just like the real thing but can be eaten right off the plant

 

My local plant nursery has been stocking "Fooled You" heatless jalapeno sets for the last few years. I usually buy two sets of heatless and one set of the real jalapeno peppers and plant in my vegetable garden. If I'm fixing salsa or pico de gallo I use three heatless and two real jalapenos and that seems to be the right mix for me.

 

The best homemade hotsauce I ever concocted was from lemon boy peppers. About as hot as serrano peppers, but very citrus like flavors and after taste. Best served with ceviche. I remember I let a plant go till frost and it got about 8 foot tall. I sure wish I could grow tomatoes and peppers again.

 

I had to look up North Dakotas favorite from the map above. Very different.Village Hot Sauce

 

My wife bought some cheese & crackers tonight thinking that our 18 month old granddaughter would like them. She should really start reading the labels when she buys stuff… It was Carolina Reaper cheese, my lips were burning for 15minutes, she doesn’t even like pepper on her food so it was well worth it seeing her eyes water & nose run. Needless to say I am glad we ate it before she tried feeding our granddaughter.

 

I did some heatless habaneros last year but they didn't have much flavor along with no heat.
I want to try the lemon peppers this year. Aji lemon / Aji limon. Hot but supposed to have some flavor. I find when I cook or can hot peppers they lose quite a bit of heat. I have a few jars of put up of salsa that are not as hot as I expected. I just add some pickled jalapeno to it.

 

Sriracha is good stuff. It has great flavor, unlike Tabasco.

 

I’ve seen some of the pepper eating contests where they munch on Carolina reaper. Lol
Everything on their heads starts leaking.

 

Maybe 8-10 years ago when I still had a garden and was raising the Fooled You Jalapeno peppers. one of our grandsons was here with our son and I gave him one to eat right off the plant. He loved it. I gave him a few to take home with him. He showed his mom what he had and proceeded to take a bite. His mom identified it as a jalapeno and almost fainted when her son took a bite. It did fool our DIL,

 

Its really a shame that so many of the pepper sauces and spice mixes are so salty. I like Lawry's seasoned salt, cajun, blackened, french fry, old bay, ect.
And all of them are mostly salt. (Lawry's has salt in the name, so i expect it to be salty, but holee cow! It almost pure salt).
And the pepper sauces are pretty much the same.

 

Yep, we just bought a bottle of that, it's pretty good. Had their lime version one time and that was quite tasty. I like crystal as well. Don't use that much hot sauce as I used to, just sometimes now. I think my heat receptors have gotten more sensitive since covid.

 

This is Instacart data and may or may not be representative of the general public.
Instacart had 9.6 million clients who used their service at least once a month in 2020.

9.6 /330 = 2.9 % Probably not too bad of a sample size compared to far too many (targeted for results) polls these days.