/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20393504
You're not going to like the answer...

>>19970253
How much ginger did you use, anon? Is there enough ginger to be... SPICY?

>>19924850
Threadly reminder that what distinguishes a reddit "collector" from a Chad Hot Sauce Enjoyer are the seals on the bottles. I have quite the Sauce Vault myself (tips fedora) but all of the bottles are in various stages of consumption (oxidation). And no, I don't buy dupes to keep NIB in my sauce humidor... unless by "sauce humidor" you mean by gigantic obese asshole.

>>19571509
>limited run thing
One of the other threads we had about this said their website sold out almost immediately. Expect the value to skyrocket, only serious collectors/speculators need apply. The rest of us just need to get excited for next thing.

>>19104497
That's a fairly small amount of hot sauce for an average-tolerance person, I'd say?

>>18739713
>why did it become such a meme?
It became a mild hipster thing because it was the default cheap table sauce at "alternative" Asian restaurants (Viet/Thai) in urban areas. Eventually marketers seized on it and suddenly "sriracha" was everywhere, just like "black angus beef" or the current ridiculous "wagyu" fetish. So naturally hipsters like you had to move on to something else. There's nothing amazing about sriracha. But there's nothing wrong with it either, it's just a relatively mild all-purpose chili sauce, thicker than Tabasco (so better for wings, etc), and a more interesting flavor than Frank's. Also Huy Fong Sriracha is an American company which should be worth something.

>its flavour is pretty fucking bland.
Name a popular sauce that isn't "bland" by your r/HotOnes standards, oh master of heat tolerance with a Collection of over 9,000 unopened sauces in your RGB-lit plexiglass display case.

>>18105079
>hot pepper in vinegar
>>18105107
>Wrong

No, he's not wrong. There are a lot of nice suggestions in this thread but fuck the gatekeeping, my first homemade sauce was home-grown jalapenos and serranos with the stems cut off, whole otherwise, pureed in a blender with white vinegar and salt, and that was it. And it was delicious. (The only "issue" was that it was pretty thick because I didn't want to add too much vinegar, but even a lot of popular sauces are quite vinegary.) You can move on to more advanced techniques from there, but why discourage people when "peppers, vinegar, salt" really are the basic ingredients.

>>18106111
>No these dudes buy their hot sauces
Not only do they buy them, but they don't eat them, they "collect" them and put them on display like Funkopops. But hey... what's wrong with that? Wanna come down to the basement and survey the Sauce Vault, m'lady?

>>18005776
Liking hot sauce is fine, but making it your personality is cringe, gay, reddit, and soy.

>>17271291
If you really don't know, the meme's basis is Redditors who started "collecting" hot sauce like Funkopop dolls, and of course posting staged photos for internet points. Pic related. (A key distinction, which a lot of people miss, is that most of those bottles are clearly unopened. Having a dozen sauces in your pantry, even "artisanal" sauces ordered online, is not cringe if you actually use them.)

Starting a hot sauce collection, what should be my first bottle?

>>15701729
Hot sauce is fine, it's the collecting that's soy

Rate my hot sauce collection

Hot sauce thread. Post your collections and favourites. Pic related is mine.