Like mustard, salt, vinegar and oils, it's nice to have all your bases covered when it comes to hot sauce. I can think of at least four categories of sauce to have on hand, all very different.Recognize that the elephant in the room is Tabasco, the face for its Louisiana brethren. And really, let's just get this out there, Tabasco sucks. I want to love this iconic sauce, but the flavor feels flat and sour to me. If I'm making a Oregon dover sole po' boy with homemade bay shrimp slaw, it's Crystal Hot Sauce or bust.
It's a little thinner and less hot than original Tabasco, but it just tastes right. This isn't the sauce you reach for when pitched in a macho Scoville-off, this is your trusty sauce-by-default. Everyman hot sauce and priced as such. We shouldn't even be talking about it this much...
Get it. They persevered and eventually rebuilt from Katrina, for chrissakes!
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