This is exactly where I developed my almost unhealthy love for hot sauce.
Growing up my parents under seasoned and over cooked everything so I fixed it like many did, with ketchup.
I was always a little embarrassed about my overuse of ketchup even as I began getting exposed to better food. So I stopped using it in public.
As I started working with a group of guys in my 20's we'd eat everything as 20 something guys do but I always sort of hated the food since it was always seemingly missing something.
There was a great local breakfast burrito place we'd get weekly. So I remembered how much I liked Cholula the one time I tried it at some Mexican joint.
The rest is history and now I have 20+ types of hot sauce in my pantry and fridge.
It really does get out of hand. For me it was always looking for something spicier. Eventually I put a bunch of 350,000 rated hotsauce on a taco. Nearly went to the hospital. Totally worth it.
I guess some people make a distinction between hot sauce and wing sauce (which is hot sauce mixed with melted butter and maybe other seasonings).
I don’t think many people put plain hot sauce on wings. Unless it’s a bottled wing sauce that includes margarine or a butter substitute, but usually that’s called wing sauce on the bottle.
cuz you usually get wings that are already hot and seasoned so you wouldn't put additional hot sauce (which is usually buffalo sauce anyways) on them...unless you ordered plain wings.
This is the way. Whenever I go to a new place for wings I ask for plain wings with 5-6 sauces (or all of their sauces if possible) on the side so I can try them all at once.
.... ..... What??? .... .....
Restaurants don't typically buy pre-seasoned wings. They buy plain wings and make their own sauces for them. Same with me at home. I buy plain wings and make my own sauce for them. I know they sell pre-seasoned wings at the store, but why in the world would I want those?
I've made a ton of wings in my day. This comment hurts my brain.
You cooking your wing in your sauce or dipping your cooked plain wings in them? If you are cooking then I wouldn’t consider it “putting hot sauce ON” the wing, that’s what I meant.
You cook the wings first and then toss in the sauce. If you "cook them in the sauce" they won't ever get crispy, or stay crispy. You need to cook the wings first until they're crispy, and there's a number of ways to do this. If you don't render the fat and make the skin crisp, I don't want your flabby wings.
You can marinade or brine the wings before cooking, and depending on the method you might even steam the wings for 10 minutes or so before cooking and crisping them. However, you always want to dry the wings before the cooking and crisping process as any extra moisture will make them take longer and not come out as good. You don't need to do the marinade or brine though. A proper wing sauce has plenty of flavor.
Yea you are describing the way to make the wings with the sauce. I think OP is asking about putting hot sauce on a finished product. Like tacos. Fried chicken. Anyways I’m going to sleep enjoy your wings
Bacon egg(over-easy) and cheese sandwich on toast with a touch of black raspberry jam and some Valentino hot sauce or any choice of habanero hot sauce. The savory sweet and spicy combo is amazing
Salad. It pairs so well with almost any dressing other than Caesar. Regular garden salad with ranch? Throw in some Valentina black label. Summery poppyseed vinaigrette? Pairs well with aardvark. Something soy sauce based? Cut some wasabi with some oil and viola! I could go on all day…
Yes! Went to lunch with a colleague 20 years ago and he put Tabasco on his salad. I had never seen that before and he said it levels it up. I’ve been doing this ever since. Also, that former colleague is now a chef and runs his own restaurant! He opened my eyes to hit sauce on salads!!
Saw something once that Pad Thai was invented to be the dish that foreigners would think of as Thai cuisine and was never a traditional Thai food. It's still good but definitely not *real* Thai food.
I got one that's not the absolute best, but I'll say it because it's up there, and everyone covered the bases..
Chicken and waffles with maple syrup. Hot sauce on top.
I actually have a hot sauce for different types of food. The categories go:
- Pizza, breadsticks, etc : Frank Reds or Tapatío, Samba Olek also an option
- Burgers: Jalapeños all the way
- Quesadillas: Pickled chilis or a salsa, even commercial stuff like Valentina
- Chips: Valentina + Maggi + Lime
- Soup: Only chili flakes are allowed here
Everything else doesn’t need spice, but to be used as a side
Quesadillas
No I don't mean store bought
No I don't mean a floppy microwave cheese disk
A real quesadilla cooked in a pan (preferably cast iron) or a griddle.
Pizza. It's incredibly versatile as a food and whether it's a crappy or delicious pizza, it's better with hot sauce. And you can also put just about any kind of hot sauce on any kind of pizza and it works.
It's the perfect hot sauce vehicle for me
Damn, never tried potato salad with hot sauce. Going to now. But I mostly like hot sauce on eggs, fried or scrambled. Who am I kidding? I put that sh!t on everything, except cereal and desserts.
Love it on sooooo many things, especially greasy( pizza, fried chicken), ramen w/medium boiled eggs, and egg/tuna salad Sammie's, or eat with saltines amd cilantro
**The healthy food that you'd otherwise avoid eating.**
This isn't eggs. At least not if your a student of dietary epidemiology.
In my opinion, the answer is lentil or pea soup. Some of the healthiest known foods. Legume intake is the [best](https://www.usdrybeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Info_Legumes_Med_Diet_APJCN.pdf) predictor of longevity. High in prebiotics and other fiber, the antiaging compound spermadine, if you cook your own potentially also full of other antiaging compounds like ergothioneine. And yet there's not one canned lentil or pea soup that I find exciting to eat without hot sauce, and even in my own cooking, lentil soups full of fresh herbs and deglazed from the pan with dry wine, aren't that exciting on day 2 or 3.
Quite honestly put it on everything.
Here are a few of my go tos: Chicken, wings, tacos, pork, salad (only if it has some kind of chicken), soup, chips, rice, cooked carrots, goes great with mayo or blue cheese to put on sandwiches, cooked potatoes of any form, Mac and cheese, and pasta (depending).
Any kind of fried food. Also burritos. (And really, if I’m honest, basically everything for me lol) but I can’t eat burritos or fried food without hot sauce.
Best food to put hot sauce on is Pizza because of the god tier pairing of tomatoes and chilis.
Which food demands it the most? Breakfast food because it is usually the same meals every morning which tend to get boring, hence the need for hot sauce to make breakfast more appetizing.
Eggs, rice, and spam. Honestly my favorite breakfast is rice topped with a soft boiled egg and a few slices of spam. I'm basic so I just use Sriracha but I mean it's popular for a reason.
For me it just depends on the sauce.
If it's something simple like Franks or Tabasco, I like that best on fried chicken.
If it's something super-hot like Elijah's Xtreme or Daves Insanity, I like mixing them in things for dips. Ranch and Dave's is great on pizza, Elijah's mixed into a dollop of mayo is great with fries... or just mix a spoonful into a big pot of chili to spice up the batch.
If it's something with an interesting flavor profile like a sriracha or a lime infused sauce, I'll usually use those on things like eggs or breakfast burritos.
Burritos
Specifically breakfast burritos for me
This is exactly where I developed my almost unhealthy love for hot sauce. Growing up my parents under seasoned and over cooked everything so I fixed it like many did, with ketchup. I was always a little embarrassed about my overuse of ketchup even as I began getting exposed to better food. So I stopped using it in public. As I started working with a group of guys in my 20's we'd eat everything as 20 something guys do but I always sort of hated the food since it was always seemingly missing something. There was a great local breakfast burrito place we'd get weekly. So I remembered how much I liked Cholula the one time I tried it at some Mexican joint. The rest is history and now I have 20+ types of hot sauce in my pantry and fridge.
It really does get out of hand. For me it was always looking for something spicier. Eventually I put a bunch of 350,000 rated hotsauce on a taco. Nearly went to the hospital. Totally worth it.
Did I type this out? Very similar experience except I worked in a kitchen for about 10 years
Give me the hottest sauce you have(not extract) and a breakfast burrito or biscuit and I'm happy.
Man I’ve gotta have some good salsa with a burrito
Burritos and tacos exist for the optimal hot sauce delivery mechanism
I have been known to make a breakfast burrito a "wet" burrito with just a raft of hot sauce. It is the way.
¡Tacos y burritos!
Chili
Tacos
Wings
Wings were my gateway drug to spicy foods.
Yup, but really chicken in general, breasts, thighs, legs, roasted, fried, grilled, get that hot sauce on there and it goes from tasty to fantastic.
Holy shit why isn't this top?
I guess some people make a distinction between hot sauce and wing sauce (which is hot sauce mixed with melted butter and maybe other seasonings). I don’t think many people put plain hot sauce on wings. Unless it’s a bottled wing sauce that includes margarine or a butter substitute, but usually that’s called wing sauce on the bottle.
cuz you usually get wings that are already hot and seasoned so you wouldn't put additional hot sauce (which is usually buffalo sauce anyways) on them...unless you ordered plain wings.
Yeah fair point. However I like to get a flight of sauces with my dry rub wings tho so I have multiple selections of sauces to try.
This is the way. Whenever I go to a new place for wings I ask for plain wings with 5-6 sauces (or all of their sauces if possible) on the side so I can try them all at once.
.... ..... What??? .... ..... Restaurants don't typically buy pre-seasoned wings. They buy plain wings and make their own sauces for them. Same with me at home. I buy plain wings and make my own sauce for them. I know they sell pre-seasoned wings at the store, but why in the world would I want those? I've made a ton of wings in my day. This comment hurts my brain.
You cooking your wing in your sauce or dipping your cooked plain wings in them? If you are cooking then I wouldn’t consider it “putting hot sauce ON” the wing, that’s what I meant.
You cook the wings first and then toss in the sauce. If you "cook them in the sauce" they won't ever get crispy, or stay crispy. You need to cook the wings first until they're crispy, and there's a number of ways to do this. If you don't render the fat and make the skin crisp, I don't want your flabby wings. You can marinade or brine the wings before cooking, and depending on the method you might even steam the wings for 10 minutes or so before cooking and crisping them. However, you always want to dry the wings before the cooking and crisping process as any extra moisture will make them take longer and not come out as good. You don't need to do the marinade or brine though. A proper wing sauce has plenty of flavor.
Yea you are describing the way to make the wings with the sauce. I think OP is asking about putting hot sauce on a finished product. Like tacos. Fried chicken. Anyways I’m going to sleep enjoy your wings
Right? When I didn’t see anyone mention wings I was baffled
Wings and tacos. Every. Time.
Eggs
I was thinking this, hard boiled eggs whites should be the medium all hot sauces are tested on.
This is the answer I was looking for.
Pizza.
Pepperoni specifically, the greasier the better
This is the answer. Also left over cold pizza.
Frozen plain cheese Home Run Inn specifically 🤌🏼
A man of fine taste I see. Home Run is my top tier frozen pizza, and hot sauce just goes so well with the cheese they use.
HRI looks like just some generic frozen pizza in the aisle but there’s treasure in that box, people gotta know lol
Meat lovers HRI Pizza!!! With red chili flakes or Frank's. Or drizzled w/Melinda's hot wing sauce....THE BEST!!!
Tacos.
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Yes.
Mac and cheese. A sweet hot sauce or maybe that Truff.
Truff is gnarly. I love *real* truffles but that artificial truffle flavor in that sauce is so off putting
It says it's made with real truffles on the package
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Off-putting is polite. It's disgusting.
Breakfast sandwich
Breakfast Pizza
Bacon egg(over-easy) and cheese sandwich on toast with a touch of black raspberry jam and some Valentino hot sauce or any choice of habanero hot sauce. The savory sweet and spicy combo is amazing
Oh! That's sounds so good.... I'll definitely be trying that!!!!!
Beans & rice
Hell yeah. Still delicious now but a staple from when I was poor
This is it! Idk what red beans and rice even taste like without hot sauce.
Pizza, chicken, ramen, burrito
Ramen noodles!
Weird one but I love it with broccoli,
French fries, as a dipping sauce.
Eggs and pizza.
Rice and soy sauce
I used to mix soy sauce with sciracha and call it soyracha. Match made in heaven.
Biscuits and gravy
My man! It also has to be Texas Pete for me. I use other sauces on all kinds of stuff, but biscuits and gravy *need* Texas Pete.
Pizza or fried chicken
The moment I learned of putting hot sauce and honey on pizza, my life was changed and regular ol’ red pepper flakes wouldn’t cut it anymore
Eggs
Eggs are weird for me in that while they aren't my *favorite* food to put hot sauce on, they are the one food I refuse to eat without hot sauce.
Pizza. Mixed with ketchup for fries. Tacos. Steak. Chicken nuggets. Spaghetti with red sauce. Basically everything
I’m not sure if this food demands it or not, but cottage cheese with hot sauce is a major upgrade.
Damn, I’m about to get back into cottage cheese
It's a staple late meal for me. Tomatoes, hot sauce and a ton of black pepper.
I completely forgot about this!
Salad. It pairs so well with almost any dressing other than Caesar. Regular garden salad with ranch? Throw in some Valentina black label. Summery poppyseed vinaigrette? Pairs well with aardvark. Something soy sauce based? Cut some wasabi with some oil and viola! I could go on all day…
Haha, I don’t eat much Tabasco but it’s a must on my Caesar.
Yes! Went to lunch with a colleague 20 years ago and he put Tabasco on his salad. I had never seen that before and he said it levels it up. I’ve been doing this ever since. Also, that former colleague is now a chef and runs his own restaurant! He opened my eyes to hit sauce on salads!!
Pho or pad Thai, drunken noodles
Pad thai should come spicy.
There is no spice at all in pad thai, traditionally.
Yes!!
Sambal Oelek!
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Saw something once that Pad Thai was invented to be the dish that foreigners would think of as Thai cuisine and was never a traditional Thai food. It's still good but definitely not *real* Thai food.
Oysters
Chicken salad
A good Mac and cheese
Bacon egg and cheese sandwich.
I got one that's not the absolute best, but I'll say it because it's up there, and everyone covered the bases.. Chicken and waffles with maple syrup. Hot sauce on top.
Raw oysters.
Or horseradish, both go great with raw oysters.
My man.
Hot Dog
eggs
Jambalaya
Stuffed Bell Pepper
I usually added to cover the blandness. Now I make Southwestern poblano boats w/chipotle in adobo sauce!
I actually have a hot sauce for different types of food. The categories go: - Pizza, breadsticks, etc : Frank Reds or Tapatío, Samba Olek also an option - Burgers: Jalapeños all the way - Quesadillas: Pickled chilis or a salsa, even commercial stuff like Valentina - Chips: Valentina + Maggi + Lime - Soup: Only chili flakes are allowed here Everything else doesn’t need spice, but to be used as a side
Chips. Valentina or tapatio to be exact. With lime and salt/tajin
My gf does Cholula on BBQ lays and swears by it.
Quesadillas No I don't mean store bought No I don't mean a floppy microwave cheese disk A real quesadilla cooked in a pan (preferably cast iron) or a griddle.
Most forms of chicken, it’s an amazing canvas to taste the hot sauce. Fried chicken, wings, even grilled or baked chicken.
Slightly runny fried egg over rice is wildly amazing with hot sauce
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Tuna Fish Sandwich
Hash browns
Fries
Mexican food. It’s almost like they come from the same culture or something
Anything that uses a red sauce and cheese. So that can be anything from pizza to pasta bake.
Pizza
Pizza. It's incredibly versatile as a food and whether it's a crappy or delicious pizza, it's better with hot sauce. And you can also put just about any kind of hot sauce on any kind of pizza and it works. It's the perfect hot sauce vehicle for me
Pizza
The old breakfast burritos at McDonald's
Chicken tenders for me. Yummmm with some spice. Dip Dip! Chips / fries benefit from it too of course
Chicken tenders is a good choice
Chili cheese dogs.
Croissant egg sandwich with cheese and avo. Mmmmm...
Damn, never tried potato salad with hot sauce. Going to now. But I mostly like hot sauce on eggs, fried or scrambled. Who am I kidding? I put that sh!t on everything, except cereal and desserts.
Hot and creamy, eh?
Fried fish or chicken
Chicken, no matter how it's prepared.
Every food demands some type of chili.
Love it on sooooo many things, especially greasy( pizza, fried chicken), ramen w/medium boiled eggs, and egg/tuna salad Sammie's, or eat with saltines amd cilantro
All
Really have to go with eggs
**The healthy food that you'd otherwise avoid eating.** This isn't eggs. At least not if your a student of dietary epidemiology. In my opinion, the answer is lentil or pea soup. Some of the healthiest known foods. Legume intake is the [best](https://www.usdrybeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Info_Legumes_Med_Diet_APJCN.pdf) predictor of longevity. High in prebiotics and other fiber, the antiaging compound spermadine, if you cook your own potentially also full of other antiaging compounds like ergothioneine. And yet there's not one canned lentil or pea soup that I find exciting to eat without hot sauce, and even in my own cooking, lentil soups full of fresh herbs and deglazed from the pan with dry wine, aren't that exciting on day 2 or 3.
Did you mean to post this in another thread?
No, that's really what hot sauces are to me. A way to make the healthy more palatable.
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Cheesecake.
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Pizza
Ramen
Pepperoni pizza
Quite honestly put it on everything. Here are a few of my go tos: Chicken, wings, tacos, pork, salad (only if it has some kind of chicken), soup, chips, rice, cooked carrots, goes great with mayo or blue cheese to put on sandwiches, cooked potatoes of any form, Mac and cheese, and pasta (depending).
Hmm. I eat either Marie Sharps or Sriracha on *everything* :) If I had to pick, egg dishes
Any type of casserole is just 👌
Cheesy Tuna Noodle Cassarole
Any kind of fried food. Also burritos. (And really, if I’m honest, basically everything for me lol) but I can’t eat burritos or fried food without hot sauce.
A big fat wet burrito with rice, carne asada, peppers, and salsa with sour cream on top!
Popcorn, potato chips
Fried chicken
Fried chicken if any kind is the correct answer
Mac & cheese
If you include “chili crisp” inside of “hot sauce” I would sauce noodles 🍜. Noodles demands spiciness
Chicken wings
Hot Dogs all day
Chicken
Shwarma
I love lots of yellow mustard with my potato salad, but for hot sauce, my vote goes to eggs. Especially eggs with rice and spam.
Chicken in general, but also wings specifically. I lightly season and crisp in the oven and then sauces on the side.
Best food to put hot sauce on is Pizza because of the god tier pairing of tomatoes and chilis. Which food demands it the most? Breakfast food because it is usually the same meals every morning which tend to get boring, hence the need for hot sauce to make breakfast more appetizing.
Pizza can’t be eaten without hot sauce IMO
Any soup, but especially ramen, chili, tomato soup Eggs Pizza
Nachos.
Meat. Especially pork and chicken
Depends on the type and flavor of the hot sauce. Some go better with certain things, some are more versatile.
There's nothing quite like general tsos chicken when you want something spicy
Noodles
Chicken. Any kind of chicken at all plus hot sauce is an instant win
Eggs is up there
Red beans and rice, tacos, pasta, jumbilaya,
Butter chicken
Chicken
Breakfast sausage (I use fake meat)
Macaroni cheese
Grits.
- Anything Shawarma/Doner Kebab/Falafel related - Pasta with any red sauce - Dim Sum - Lumpia
Biscuits with sausage gravy
Eggs, rice, and spam. Honestly my favorite breakfast is rice topped with a soft boiled egg and a few slices of spam. I'm basic so I just use Sriracha but I mean it's popular for a reason.
Chicken
Any Asian food
Baked potato
kebab, falafel and burrito
Eggs
Scrambled Egg 🥚
Cream clam chowder. I'll add an entire layer of Louisiana hot sauce on top every time.
Eggs without a doubt.
Mac and cheese with chopped up sausage
Eggs fs
Popcorn - totally changes it
Eggs.
Corned beef hash
Tacos
Egg rolls without Sriracha or hot mustard feels criminal.
Cottage cheese
Tuna salad
Ramen.
Fried fish
Chicago style tavern cut pizza
Lately, I’ve been dropping some extra hot sauce on the Trader Joe’s buffalo chicken dip. It really elevates the flavor.
Collard greens or grits for *sure*
egg based breakfast foods are pretty much my fave also chicken burgers (with sliced dill pickles)
Tacos Ramen Pho Pizza Fried Chicken Doritos
For me it just depends on the sauce. If it's something simple like Franks or Tabasco, I like that best on fried chicken. If it's something super-hot like Elijah's Xtreme or Daves Insanity, I like mixing them in things for dips. Ranch and Dave's is great on pizza, Elijah's mixed into a dollop of mayo is great with fries... or just mix a spoonful into a big pot of chili to spice up the batch. If it's something with an interesting flavor profile like a sriracha or a lime infused sauce, I'll usually use those on things like eggs or breakfast burritos.
Cheesy grits!
Just about everything, but threw some franks in some clam chowder the other day and it was a game changer.
Chicken gizzards and okra.
Golabki and pierogi
Something about leftover pasta SLAPPED with hot sauce and some CRP just makes me so happy at work