Tabasco Sauce

Garron · Post by **Garron** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:45 pm

After using the small bottle of tabasco sauce, i'm hooked, its great stuff.

Example, made a Cheese Toasty (grilled cheese sandwich in the US) put some tabasco in and cooked, it was great. Best one I have ever made.

I don't think many Brits are fans of it, I can't remember selling more then 5 bottles when i worked in a store. But hey i'm loving it.

any other fans?

Garron

RoastBeastFan · Post by **RoastBeastFan** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:05 pm

"Cheese Toasty", that's funny. I think I'll start calling them that.

There's a lot of Tabasco fans here in the states.

You might enjoy my "Spring Is Here" thread from a few weeks ago on this forum. It shows that the Tabasco bottles look like before they're harvested.

Incidentally, Tabasco sauce is named after the tabasco pepper, which is in turn named after the Tabasco state in Mexico.

Post by **kman** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:52 pm

RoastBeastFan wrote:the Tabasco state in Mexico.

Ah...the fabled Mexican Tobasco state. I can see it now...miles and miles of fields of little tobasco bottles, all waiting to be harvested and dropped into MRE bags or onto the shelves of your local grocer!

Post by **MCIera** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:06 pm

Mexican? I thought the Tobasco brand was a home grown product of the Bayou?

kman wrote: Ah...the fabled Mexican Tobasco state.

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:23 pm

If you like tobasco, you'll love cholula. At least I do. It's close to the same thing with a little more mexicany flavor and less vinegar. I use it as part of a marinade I do w/ ribs or any meat really, it comes out hot as hell and tasty as all get out. Make you slap yo' mama!

Post by **kman** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:29 pm

I do like Cholula. It's a thicker sauce and maybe isn't as sharp as Tobasco - but I think it has a deeper flavor to it. But it's also not cheap and comes in a small bottle. So as much as I like Cholula, I still find myself buying the HUGE bottle of Texas Pete and just using that for my basic hot-sauce flavoring.

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:46 pm

There was a bottle of cholula sauce on the table where I had lunch today, a 'Cajun' cafe... I picked up the bottle, popped the top and gave it a sniff, then replaced the top and put it back

Too hot for me !

Most of the other versions of hot sauce have way too much vinegar (and too hot peppers) for me.

However, I dearly love the Chipotle sauce from Tabasco.

Mmmmm, good !

Baldy · Post by **Baldy** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:44 pm

Tabasco is one of the pillars of a civilized society. I have Original, Chipotle and Green in my cupboard.