/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Valentina. Chalula green pepper variant. Marie Sharp's mild. Crystal as other people have said. You should try Tabasco if you've never had it. It's very distinct but personally I don't eat it regularly. Frank's is middling and is basically the ketchup of hot sauces.

If you're willing to step up to something spicy I recommend El Yucateco. It's very good for a mass produced sauce. I've made Habanero sauce from my garden and El Yucateco is just as good. Dave's Ghost Pepper sauce is good as well but extremely spicy.

Avoid: Tapatio (inferior Valentina) , Secret Aardvark (tastes like mild taco bell sauce) Texas Pete (strangely sweet tasting), La Botanera (vile Mexican sewer water)

Wild card: Blis hot sauce. They age it in barrels that formerly held bourbon so it has a very faint but pleasant oaked flavor.

Obviously there are hundreds of indie hot sauces that ive never tried but I eat hot sauce daily and these are the ones that I've kept around for the last decade.