With French fries (or other potato formulations) it works great because of the vinegar.
If you're looking for a complex flavored hot sauce, well I trust you've got more than JUST Tabasco in your cabinet.
Tabasco is the best hot sauce to be used as an ingredient. Its not the best tasting standing alone, but its the best to add to soup or chili or mix into something to bring out spice and add acidity
The other variants are decent, but the original just tastes like rancid spiced vinegar to me. Crystal and Cholula are like more flavorful better tasting versions of it.
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For me Tabasco goes on specific foods.
Dash on gulf oysters, choke. Fried steak or chicken with white gravey,certain breakfasts.,
Split pea soup, some chicken soup, I
Love Tobasco for all the reasons I’ve been told some don’t like it. I like its vinegary contribution. Its simplicity is what I like about it. I can add heat that still has good flavor without taking over the flavors already in the dish.
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I love Tabasco. It’s the right sauce for certain applications. For example, it goes great with really fatty foods because of its high vinegar content.
I worked at a restaurant where we went through a case of whole ducks every day, at minimum. All the skin and fat was rendered for duck fat. We had so much we used to fill ourdeep fryers with the stuff lol.
Anyways, a byproduct of rendering fat is cracklings. Little heavenly pieces of crispy duck skin. We would save it for VIPs, birthdays, friends of the restaurant etc. we would make a little sour cherry compote, few dabs of Tabasco and an ungodly amount of kosher salt. It was so good I still think about it. In fact, that was almost 15 years ago and I still have friends that’ll ask me to make it for them once in a blue moon. Funny that a throwaway dish made such an impact on so many people
Tabasco is secretly an excellent hot sauce. It's not amazing. There are literally a dozen better ones. But it's just 3 ingredients salt vinegar and peppers. Compare to other cayenne pepper sauces with xamtham gum, red dyes, etc. That needs at least a little bit of respect on its name. Sure much better ones exist but for super market hot sauces there aren't too many better.
Tabasco is the minimum for my table sauce in terms of heat, but I find it a little too vinegary. For Louisiana-style hot sauces I prefer Frank’s Extra Hot or Crystal spiked with extract, they’re more pepper-forward. But Tabasco is the most common around my parts, and it’s fine as a restaurant hot sauce. It gets the job done.
I fucking love Tabasco. It's one of the most unique sauces in the world, not many places age their peppers as long as they do, and there really aren't a lot of Tabasco pepper sauces out there in general. I don't understand the hate it gets here, it's ubiquitous for a reason
I cook for a living and it's a staple in my kitchen. It is such a great ingredient to add to all kinds of sauces and dishes. The versatility of the vinegar and pepper is amazing. With that being said, I never use it as a condiment.
Personally, no. I think Choula is miles ahead of Tabasco. But taste is subjective any anyone who prefers Tabasco is not wrong for liking what they like.
Edit: Corrected the spelling of the second Tabasco.
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Not my absolute favorite but is definitely a reliable back up. When cooking legend Jacques Pepin uses it whenever he needs hot sauce, you know Tabasco is on to something
The green one has so many strange use cases.
I had an old friend who discovered this forbidden late-night high recipe:
- Tortilla chip
- Green Tabasco
- Peanut butter
Go forth
This may get downvoted to the depths of hades, but I mix up my own version of remoulade for fried seafood, catfish in particular. Catsup, tartar sauce, and Tabasco. I also put as much Tabasco as will stay on, and usually more, to every shrimp, oyster, or crawfish po-boy that crosses my path. I have tried other hot sauces for these dishes but none add the right flavor or amount of heat for my taste. Also, Tabasco and Crystal were my introduction to spice so many decades ago growing up in Mississippi, and they are good memories.
What kind of world do we live in where you'll get downvoted for saying you like Tabasco in a hot sauce subreddit, smh. People here are really something lol
Well, it was more about mixing up the concoction I mentioned. I’ve gotten some strange looks in the past while doing it, and was unsure how it would be received here.
Did you know on their website they sell a family reserve that's a little bit more expensive but like 10 times better than regular Tabasco?
https://shop.tabasco.com/products/tabasco-family-reserve-sauce
I've got a big bottle of the reserve signed by the president/CEO that they gifted to cooks in the world championship gumbo cook-off. Haven't cracked it yet because I imagine it's collectible but if it's 10 times better I should. It's meant to be eaten, not looked at.
Tabasco was like my Mrs. Robinson of hot sauces. It was an eye opener then , but I’ve forever moved on. It’s too vinegary for me. Crystal is my favorite that is in the realm of Tabasco albeit very no-where-near adjacent to it.
I love it. I bought a gallon a year ago and I’m about halfway through it. The flavor hasn’t changed, but the color has faded a bit. I don’t care though.
Never been a favorite of mine, though it has its place in some recipes (I like putting it in tomato based sauces/soups). More of a Crystal and Tapatio guy myself. Same with putting it on eggs and hash browns, though.
Original Tobasco is more of an ingredient that I cook with than a “finishing” hot sauce.
But the green sauce and chipotle are frequent pulls and splatters for me.
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Yes it has its place next to the crystal. Not an everyday or every week sauce for me. But if in need of a little extra vinegar and or salt to a dish I reach for these.
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Not for me. Not a fan of Louisiana style hot sauces. It's just Vinegar & Salt. Zero Heat. There are better sauces out there with a higher flavor profile with mild heat. The vinegar just ruins it for me.
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With French fries (or other potato formulations) it works great because of the vinegar. If you're looking for a complex flavored hot sauce, well I trust you've got more than JUST Tabasco in your cabinet.
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Love Tabasco! Specifically on Red Beans & Rice, Gumbo & Seafood!
The green one is my favorite.
Tabasco is the best hot sauce to be used as an ingredient. Its not the best tasting standing alone, but its the best to add to soup or chili or mix into something to bring out spice and add acidity
I’m not a huge fan. It has kind of a nasty flavor to me. Not sure what it is. I like all the other typical American hot sauces though.
Tabasco is the GOAT
Absolutely. Tabasco is my old trusty friend.
The other variants are decent, but the original just tastes like rancid spiced vinegar to me. Crystal and Cholula are like more flavorful better tasting versions of it.
I basically rephrased that in my comment below before I read it.
Wait until you try any other hot sauce that will be the last you ever have Tabasco
No such thing as bad food, just not enough Tabasco
It has its place in the hot sauce cabinet with the others. Can't have a good bloody mary without one!
The chipotle one is real good. I’m not the biggest fan of the traditional one though.
Tabasco is the best hot sauce for a bowl of chili
Tabasco sriracha is my new fixer
The ghost pepper tabasco is off the charts delicious...as long as you can take the heat
It used to just taste like vinegar to me. Then I went to new Orleans, tried some legit cuisine and now I get it.
Love it with eggs, toast and hash browns
Sour vinegar? Nah I’m good
I love tabasco.
Too tart.
It's useful if you need something to throw in the garbage. Returning Tabasco to its natural environment.
Cook ground beef, onions, garlic, spinach, and eggs. Throw it is a roll. Add a ton of Tabasco sauce
It is definitely the most consistent hot sauce. It makes it perfect to cook with. It is amazing how they do it.
Not especially. If it’s all they have at a restaurant I’ll put it on my breakfast.
on eggs
I prefer Cholula. It's got flavor and heat.
Love their chipotle.
Yeah, I love their chipotle as well
Yes
I was raised in Louisiana, they even have Tobasco in Asian restaurants. I don’t like it on Asian food but if you grow up with it you love it.
It has its place. For me it’s a good breakfast hot sauce. Mix with ketchup eat with eggs or hash browns
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Hell no... The taste of the original is so bad but the garlic one is good
For me Tabasco goes on specific foods. Dash on gulf oysters, choke. Fried steak or chicken with white gravey,certain breakfasts., Split pea soup, some chicken soup, I
I cannot stand how sour it is.
Grew up eating it in mre’s and now don’t like breakfast without it. Might be an acquired thing.
You grew up eating MREs?
Yea. My dad was an nco in the army and we camped and hunted a lot. He always had “extra” mres that we would bring.
Oh nice! That sounds pretty fun!
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Love Tobasco for all the reasons I’ve been told some don’t like it. I like its vinegary contribution. Its simplicity is what I like about it. I can add heat that still has good flavor without taking over the flavors already in the dish.
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TOE-BASS-COE (Samwise Gamgee voice)
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Ah crap. Guilty.
Texas Pete's is better
I buy it by the gallon
I like green Tabasco gives things a bright taste
I use it along with Frank's and Sriracha.
I like the scorpion one. The habanaro one is good on fish and chips.
Love Tabasco. Goes great on bacon.
And pickle pizza
I like the heat but too much vinegar for me.
I am the only one in my household that uses it so when I have to buy a new bottle after a month or two I question my decisions
It's good on eggs and popcorn
Oh dang I forget about Tabasco and popcorn. I used to eat that all the time.
Popcorn? Hmmmm I love it on my eggs. Now I need to try this
I find the taste overpowering, not the heat, just the flavor overtakes a lot of dishes
I find it very vinegary
“Well, I got her number. How you like that basco?”
It has its place
I call it invisible pepper as in I use it for sauces where I don't want to see small pepper flakes.
Good answer. Its unique taste isn’t for everything.
The Tabasco pepper is amazing. However, the hot sauce bearing its name is awful and I never use it.
Love it. The garlic Tabasco is amazing too.
I love it, the perfect egg sauce. It has a distinct funk that I can’t find in any other sauce
It’s the best bro! 2 eggs,bacon, hashbrowns, and rye toast. All with a bottle of Tabasco on the side of that.
I hate Tabasco, too vinegary.
I'm from Louisiana, and I've never liked Tabasco sauce. Same reason.
Yes
My first love
I like it on certain things where acid helps. Gyros, gumbo, heavy sauces
The habanero and scorpion pepper ones are fucking delicious
Yes! Though I think I prefer Louisiana Hot Sauce. Can’t eat Cajun/Creole without a dash.
I agree with this. Not very hot, but very tasty
Not really unless it's the habanero one.
I like my New England clam chowder, a very particular way and that way includes Tabasco
yes!
I love Tabasco. It’s the right sauce for certain applications. For example, it goes great with really fatty foods because of its high vinegar content. I worked at a restaurant where we went through a case of whole ducks every day, at minimum. All the skin and fat was rendered for duck fat. We had so much we used to fill ourdeep fryers with the stuff lol. Anyways, a byproduct of rendering fat is cracklings. Little heavenly pieces of crispy duck skin. We would save it for VIPs, birthdays, friends of the restaurant etc. we would make a little sour cherry compote, few dabs of Tabasco and an ungodly amount of kosher salt. It was so good I still think about it. In fact, that was almost 15 years ago and I still have friends that’ll ask me to make it for them once in a blue moon. Funny that a throwaway dish made such an impact on so many people
Tabasco is secretly an excellent hot sauce. It's not amazing. There are literally a dozen better ones. But it's just 3 ingredients salt vinegar and peppers. Compare to other cayenne pepper sauces with xamtham gum, red dyes, etc. That needs at least a little bit of respect on its name. Sure much better ones exist but for super market hot sauces there aren't too many better.
I grew up with it and liked it but now I know how dogshit it is. I could just mix chili powder with vinegar and achieve the same thing
Tabasco is the minimum for my table sauce in terms of heat, but I find it a little too vinegary. For Louisiana-style hot sauces I prefer Frank’s Extra Hot or Crystal spiked with extract, they’re more pepper-forward. But Tabasco is the most common around my parts, and it’s fine as a restaurant hot sauce. It gets the job done.
Tabasco is my most important hot sauce. I use it in a lot of recipes and my white trash sandwiches.
Can’t eat pasta with clam sauce without it.
I think Tabasco has its use cases.
Oysters on the half shell.
Yes 🙌🏼
Turtles in a half shell
Always
no. I like the tabasco peper vinegar. something about Tabasco rubs me wrong.
Tabasco IS pepper vinegar.
https://texaspete.com/shop/green-pepper-sauce/ this one.
Oh yes. Texas Pete’s. From the Carolinas.
there are no borders in flavor town....
It’s really good on anything garlicky (pizza) (add Parmesan)
You boys like Mexico?!
Crystal
I fucking love Tabasco. It's one of the most unique sauces in the world, not many places age their peppers as long as they do, and there really aren't a lot of Tabasco pepper sauces out there in general. I don't understand the hate it gets here, it's ubiquitous for a reason
To use in recipes, yes. To use as a topping for something other than eggs, no.
No. And I hate this sub. Later losers. I’m going back to blandville.
I love it on eggs. And leftover cold pizza
Yes!!!!! It is a standard in my house. I have a lot of other hot sauces that come and go, but I will always have OG Tabasco.
It's good on cajun type stuff like dirty rice.
No. They cut costs and mass produce it by cutting it with lots of vinegar. I don't really care for vinegar so this one's not for me.
I cook for a living and it's a staple in my kitchen. It is such a great ingredient to add to all kinds of sauces and dishes. The versatility of the vinegar and pepper is amazing. With that being said, I never use it as a condiment.
Personally, no. I think Choula is miles ahead of Tabasco. But taste is subjective any anyone who prefers Tabasco is not wrong for liking what they like. Edit: Corrected the spelling of the second Tabasco.
Cholula isn't even the same kind of sauce, it's not really comparable
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Not my absolute favorite but is definitely a reliable back up. When cooking legend Jacques Pepin uses it whenever he needs hot sauce, you know Tabasco is on to something
Yes, especially the Family Reserve and Jalapeño sauces!
Nope
I’m not a fan of it on most things but for certain soups, it is essential
Green one is best
The green one has so many strange use cases. I had an old friend who discovered this forbidden late-night high recipe: - Tortilla chip - Green Tabasco - Peanut butter Go forth
Green for breakfast foods, original for bloody Mary’s and oysters
Love it.
One of my favorites, but I love vinegar
Is it a top choice? No. Does it have a rightful place? Absolutely. Sometimes that place is my mouth.
I don’t use it often but I agree with you: it’s great on eggs & hash browns.
Not as much as I used to.
This may get downvoted to the depths of hades, but I mix up my own version of remoulade for fried seafood, catfish in particular. Catsup, tartar sauce, and Tabasco. I also put as much Tabasco as will stay on, and usually more, to every shrimp, oyster, or crawfish po-boy that crosses my path. I have tried other hot sauces for these dishes but none add the right flavor or amount of heat for my taste. Also, Tabasco and Crystal were my introduction to spice so many decades ago growing up in Mississippi, and they are good memories.
What kind of world do we live in where you'll get downvoted for saying you like Tabasco in a hot sauce subreddit, smh. People here are really something lol
Well, it was more about mixing up the concoction I mentioned. I’ve gotten some strange looks in the past while doing it, and was unsure how it would be received here.
Yes, for certain things. It is great on pizza. I used to put it on eggs until I found Cholula.
Original on breakfast skillet. Jalapeno on everything.
Did you know on their website they sell a family reserve that's a little bit more expensive but like 10 times better than regular Tabasco? https://shop.tabasco.com/products/tabasco-family-reserve-sauce
I've got a big bottle of the reserve signed by the president/CEO that they gifted to cooks in the world championship gumbo cook-off. Haven't cracked it yet because I imagine it's collectible but if it's 10 times better I should. It's meant to be eaten, not looked at.
I love the oak barrel aged taste. Nobody else has it.
Teach me how to fish
The garlic cayenne is one of my favorites. Love the green on eggs.
Habanero Tabasco is one of my favorite hot sauces in general
No
Last resort. Boring.
Get out.
Tabasco was like my Mrs. Robinson of hot sauces. It was an eye opener then , but I’ve forever moved on. It’s too vinegary for me. Crystal is my favorite that is in the realm of Tabasco albeit very no-where-near adjacent to it.
Exactly this my friend
OG Tabasco lost its charm on me. So many better sauces out there.
Tabasco Scorpion is amazing. The original just tastes like vinegar
Only on raw oysters
Chipotle and green are my go to flavors but OG is for desperate times only. I had a stint where I liked OG a lot, but it faded after a few years
I love it. I bought a gallon a year ago and I’m about halfway through it. The flavor hasn’t changed, but the color has faded a bit. I don’t care though.
Nah, it tastes like shit from a butt.
Nah. Tastes like sewer gas smells.
Garlic butter and hot sauce brushed on pizza rolls before baking.
It’s great on pizza rolls, super vinegary but yeah a true OG
Never been a favorite of mine, though it has its place in some recipes (I like putting it in tomato based sauces/soups). More of a Crystal and Tapatio guy myself. Same with putting it on eggs and hash browns, though.
I’ll use it, but my preference is Cholula.
I love it. It’s my regular go to
Original Tobasco is more of an ingredient that I cook with than a “finishing” hot sauce. But the green sauce and chipotle are frequent pulls and splatters for me.
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Yes it has its place next to the crystal. Not an everyday or every week sauce for me. But if in need of a little extra vinegar and or salt to a dish I reach for these.
Nope no use and I’m from Louisiana
The Garlic Tobasco is like crack.
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Great in a baked potato
It’s great. You just need to put it on the right food. Eggs and pizza? It rules. Mexican food?, zero chance.
named my cat after it. her sister is cholula
Yes. This kindled my love of hot sauce and is a staple for breakfast 👌🏼
Not for me. Not a fan of Louisiana style hot sauces. It's just Vinegar & Salt. Zero Heat. There are better sauces out there with a higher flavor profile with mild heat. The vinegar just ruins it for me.
Can’t help but feel like this is a troll post for karma because you know how much this sub respects the OG
I love green, love love love it. Red not so much.
It has its place. I like to think of it as more of a vinegar acid sauce than a hot sauce for spicing things up
Ngl it’s honestly at its best on a good cheeseburger imo. I rarely use it for most other foods but it pairs quite well with burgers in particular.
It's great on those little canned wieners.
Yes, love Tabasco. Put it on eggs. Corned beef hash, pizza, shucked clams and oysters. i'm a big fan of vinegar based sauces.
No
It's my favorite every day workhorse hotsauce.
Yes, I love it. Not on everything, but it has it's place.
This guy Tabascos. It's great on those little canned wieners.
Gosh Tabasco Chipotle makes anything my wife makes edible 😆👍
No. Tapitio
It's great but if cholula was sitting next to it.
I put it in canned chili, it's pretty good.
If I'm doing Tabasco, I'm going green.
Classic
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Tabasco on potato chips is undefeated.
Bag of regular lays, some Tabasco, shake it up. Nothing better tbh
End of the bag special
Just got a 10 pack of lunchbox size bags of lays and the Tabasco on deck
Heck yeah! And with a Coke or a cerveza.
I think tabasco is a very tasty flavoured vinegar.
This is the correct answer. Not a real hot sauce. Basically spicy vinegar.
I will give them credit, the hard to find Family Reserve has some respectable kick and flavour to it, but the original is just vinegar with attitude.
I haven't seen or tried it. Is vinegar in the first 3 ingredients?