Where I work, there’s a halal cart around the corner that makes great platters, but guaranteed, 2hrs later, I’m spending the rest of the afternoon in the can. Nice guy, but I swear, sometimes it seems he just wants to hurt me. 
I could hear the rumbling, and yep, sure enough, Mount St Naz erupts.
The saying goes, “…because every now and then, everyone needs a good colon-blow!”.
So let’s just say I can absolutely understand the marketting behind this one…
I’m not a fan of crazy hot sauces, but for flavor:
I like the Chipotle Cholula a lot, mild heat, but good smoky flavor:
To kick the smokiness and heat up a bit, the El Yucateco Black sauce is also very good:
This is getting up into the big boys of hot sauces, but the Mad Dog 357 Reaper Sriracha is tasty, but high heat:
I tend to value good overall taste more than pure spiciness. There’s a good one that I get that is mildly spicy and mixed with passion fruit, very nice combination. I also adore chipotle sauces.
As for the Pace / Old El Paso / Chi Chi’s type of salsas, if you make your own just once you’ll never go back to the packaged stuff:
Marie sharpes habanero sauce is a nice one for heat/flavour balance. A favourite for scrambled eggs.
My brother-in-law is into the crazy hot sauces, the Blair’s Death, Magma, etc., The million Scoville type stuff. I don’t really care for those.
Of course, Juan only has one thing to say:
In reality the Mexican food snob around here is probably me. 
I hand make my own flour tortillas and corn tortillas that are good enough to make an Aztec blush. In the case of the corn ones, I actually follow the traditional nixtamalization process of soaking dried white corn in a lime (as in calcium oxide) solution for three days and then running it through a hand mill. Fried in pork lard with refried beans (also hand made) and shredded chicken or pork with the salsa I posted earlier here… shockingly delicious.
Picked up the chipotle salt and a couple of dried Reapers from them the other day, the salt is fantastic, wonderfully smoky…and I’m not sure what to do with the Reapers yet…
I tried their Reaper sauce too, nowhere near as hot as I was expecting.
cholula
rooster sriracha huy fong
This is the super hot one, looks scary!
Regret
The other sauces they produce really do offer a nice taste, I’ve tried some other brands but usually I find a lot are just heat without any real flavour although I am partial to the habanero jam that Tesco sell.
Well, I ended up buying Trader Joe’s Green Dragon, mainly because of the ingredients:
To quote Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music:
These are a few of my favorite things!
(And yes, I like musicals.) 
The Green Dragon smells good, and I tasted some of it by itself.
It tastes great.
I can really taste the jalapeños, cilantro, and garlic.
Tomorrow I'll try it on some bland-tasting taquitos. 
Interesting topic. I have been trying to source some Carolina Reaper seeds but without success. I am reading that some of you guys are already growing it. Maybe someone can kindly help me out with some seeds . Many thanks.
Never been a fan of the ones based on capsaicin extract, I find it’s just lots of heat very little taste. At least with the super hot chillies they have a characteristic flavour to go with the heat.
Sounds delicious! 
I'm learning that just about every food is better if it's homemade.
Too bad my cooking repertoire only involves heating up pre-made food. 
This is the type of food I usually go for...
Hello David here Google Pepper Joe. He developed the variety and has a very interesting website. I have personally bought seeds of many varieties from him and have had excellent germination rates. The super hots can be finicky to germinate.
“dave’s insanity hot sauce” is what I recommend to everyone who likes hot and hasn’t quite got enough out of the average store bought sauce. It’s about as hot as a sauce can be while still being usable.
have u guys tried Scotch Bonnet peppers?
it has a heat rating of 100,000–350,000 Scoville units.
i usually just chop some up and put it in my food. i soak the left over in olive oil for later.
Texas Petes, sriracha, and Franks Red Hot are my 3 typical go to hot sauces. A lot of the others I have tried I like at first, but end up getting an after taste of something I do not like.
I swear by Jim Duffy at Refining Fire Chiles for seeds and plants. I usually buy live plants from his site in season, but I have purchased seeds as well, and his stuff is top notch.
Reaper seeds and other superhot variants are a lot like flashlights - there are all kinds of vendors offering what they claim are Reaper seeds, and I’d guess half or more send random chile seeds and laugh their way to the bank, so cheaper isn’t always the way to go. Refining Fire is as solid as they get.
