/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's bland and boring like most people

>>16958639
really simple logo.

>>16958639
Probably was because they've been around the world inside of american military food rations.

>>16958639
it's pure vinegar, that's all you really need to become addictive

It just has that special flavor that can't be copied.

>>16958652
>can't taste the unique spice profile

>>16958639
>>16958652

Eternal OP/fpbp combo

Take a bow, gents.

>>16958639
Can anyone post recipes if their own hot sauce? Pls corporate shill go away.

It's like the first hot sauce or commercial one. It's also not too spicy.

>>16958666
Ok satan

>>16958747
>Vinegar + chile
The end.

>>16958747
1. just toast a bunch of dried peppers
2. in a pot boil water, add onion, garlic, tomatoes, salt and the peppers
3. leave it boiling 10 minutes or until the toasted peppers get soft
4. throw all that shit in a blender and add a splash of apple cider vinegar (not too much)
5. let it cool
that's it, it's like beaners make their salsas

>>16958639
>why is tabasco the universal hot sauce?

pushed it in the 80s when "cajun" food was the fad and people like chef paul prudhomme had a show.

>>16958666
Hm good point. Vinegar or acid is as important as salt or pepper in seasoning but isnt nearly as popular.

>>16958652
>Tabasco
>bland
Anon plz.

It IS the McDonald of hot sauces. Generic, cheap, ubiquitous and not challenging in the least.

>>16960000
>I hate popular thing

>>16960000
Trash post about a trash topic. Perfect for a /ck/ get

>>16960008
Eh. I just know much better things. Tobasco is just totally overrated.

>>16958747
Vinegar, salt, peppers. Onions+carrot for sweetness

It has the comfortable spot of not even being seen as a hotsauce by the average person but more as a staple like Maggi

What are some alternatives in Europe if I don’t want to sponsor big Tabasco?

>>16960106
Just go to your store and look at the 5 different non tabasco hot sauces that are placed next to it for a cheaper price.
For me it's lousianna hot sauce, since its pretty much the same, and I only use it in instant nudles "broth"

>>16960106
You aren’t going to find an equivalent in terms of flavor unless you know of another sauce that does the barrel-aging thing. That’s basically what makes it unique.

>>16960106
Look online for an online hot sauce shop in your country. They are usually more expensive than tobasco... per bottle. But since Tobasco is very mild comparing to most, the bottle will last you a dozen bottles of tobasco.

Personally, I bought Nothing Beyond from ostrakuchnia.pl a couple years ago. Still have half the flask, it's tasty and pretty middling regarding hotness, a good starter for anyone trying to get into hot sauces, but make your choice on your own.

Note: Da Bomb is a meme and not worth it. Yes, it's spicy as fuck. It also stinks. You can get as spicy sauces that don't suck for same price.

Personally,

>>16958639
Tabasco sauce became available to buy pizza in 1868. All other cayenne pepper sauces that came afterwards are imitators

>>16958639
Tabasco sauce became available to buy in 1868. All other cayenne pepper sauces that came afterwards are imitators

>>16960106
I guess you can find Cholula and Franks everywhere too but that would be like going to Burgerking instead of McDs

>>16960141
Maybe I need to do a side by side comparison, but without being told I would never have thought they did anything but add salt and vinegar to some mashed peppers. Now that I'm really thinking about it, I guess it has less of the bright vegetal aroma you get from literally slicing chilli into vinegar.

>>16960310
Nah, Tobasco does have a unique flavor.

It's just that a lot of sauces have their own unique flavors. And Tobasco's isn't all that great.

>>16958639
too expensive in my country
homemade hot sauces that taste roughly the same go for 2 dollars a liter

>>16960373
Sounds reasonable. What sauces, what country?

>>16958639
Same reason why SPAM and "American Cheese Product" is everywhere. America was the only major industrialized nation still standing after WW2.

you white guys still eat hot sauce?

*ahem*
FUCK thick hot sauces

>>16960000
>and not challenging in the least

>>16958747
>Anon asks for recipes
>2/3 of the replies are just listing ingredients
>third reply is a recipe for salsa and not hot sauce (inb4 LELOMG SALSA IS JUST ESPANA FOR SAUCE LOLOMG!) Hot suace is traditionally considered liquid, while salsa is considered chunky.

Really a bellwether for society.

>>16960000
> Generic
The chillies are mashed and matured in barrels of salt for like a year, there's nothing generic about it at all as far as hotsauce production goes.
They can afford to do that because they sell so much.

>>16960046
>I know much better things
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves

Easy hot sauce rule: No habanero, no buy.

>>16960357
>Tobasco
Is this a lot on here.
Is it a regional spelling?

>>16960620
that's fucking disgusting, never buying Tabasco again

>>16961205
>barrel-aging is disgusting
Okay then.

>>16961210
not that, retard

>>16958795
The '84 World's Fair created a big national cajun food craze and Tabasco was ubiquitous there so it rode that wave
Desert Storm also helped, because Tabasco made mini bottles and gave them to soldiers stationed overseas to make their food better and the media picked up on it

>>16958912
He should have something like Secret Aadvark at least, Tabasco is normie tier, they have it at almost every restaurant.

It's universal among lazy people.

>>16958671
alcohol vinegar+bird's eye chili.

>>16958794
is dead wrong

>>16960620
you believe in fairytales. "Aging for up to 3 years" is American dialect for "3 days".

There's no way you're going to age something for 3 years and then add distilled vinegar to it. That's like mixing home made stock with Pepsi.

>>16961312
>muh fairytale american corporate lies reeee
>There's no way you're going to age something for 3 years and then add distilled vinegar to it
Except that’s exactly what they do.
You can also buy a version that’s been aged longer and mixed with wine vinegar if you want to pay more.
You’re free to hate on <popular thing> all you want but at least don’t be schizo about it.

>>16960594
>Hot suace is traditionally considered liquid
retard

>>16961312
>There's no way you're going to age something for 3 years and then add distilled vinegar to it.
Why? The vinegar acts as both a flavoring and preserving agent. They aren't going to sell the fermented mash as is, it has to be diluted.

I like Tabasco sauce because it was the ubiquitous hot sauce in my house while growing up and it is good. It has certainly been surpassed several times over by many modern sauces but that doesn't mean it has gotten worse. We now have an unprecedented diversity of hot sauces available and while Tabasco isn't in my top 5 used hot sauces anymore there is a time and a place for it.

My favorite use for it is chicken pot pie and frittatas/quiche. The dominant vinegar taste and subtle fermented flavor and heat just go perfectly with these items to me.

>>16961205
>>16961210
He is referring to the negroe gentleman holding the scoop.

>>16961218
>>16961205
>>16961482
kek

>>16961343
>[up to]

>>16962192
Are you purposely being obtuse?
It isn’t “single barrel” hot sauce. It’s a blended product. Which means barrels are mixed when they’re ready, as determined by tasting and lab tests. not when they hit an exact number of days in the barrel.
The same thing applies to many blended spirits.
But of course it’s evil corporation, yeah? Fucking retarded ass zoomers I swear.

For me It's tobasco, the best hot pepper saucy sauce

>>16962222
Meanwhile that retard is addicted to Reddit, Google, FB, Apple and Amazon yet here he is complaining about muh evil tabasco multinational conglomerate.

Military rations

I love the stuff but it's so god damn expensive for what it is

>>16962222
>>16962422
Where the fuck are you getting "evil" from? It's just not that special.

>>16958639
>what did they do right that gave them global presence?
Got a contract with Uncle Sam to include their product in field rations.

>>16961312
What a dumb fucking post.

>>16958662
>>16962441
>>16962572
Yes. Tabasco only became globally popular after 1990, when it began to be included in US military rations.

>>16960720
no it's just a misspelling. its tabasco.

>>16961266
>they have it at almost every restaurant
that's what's crazy to me. it's almost on the level of salt and pepper. it's just on the table at restaurants.

>>16963057
HE FELL FOR IT

>>16958639
not even the best hot sauce from Louisiana