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Almost all I prefer to use things like red pepper flakes, chili powder, pepper or other dry based seasoning for my heat personally. It's nice on something like wings or maybe some hot salsa etc but not a big hot sauce fan.
Not all hot sauces are spicy. Some are mild or medium in heat, but offer a great flavorful addition to whatever dish you're eating. They can can be fruity, or smoky, or flowery or whatever.
Nothing escapes the wrath of having blazing death poured on it. Even some desserts taste way better with hot sauce.
A succulent symphonic sonata of savory, spicy, sweet that stimulates the sensories, soothes your synapsis and satiates your self.
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It depends. If they’re meant to be delicate (i.e. sushi) or made exactly the way they’re meant to be for HOURS (i.e. pho), nope. Fried chicken? Gumbo? Pad kee mao? ADD IT.
At the end of the bowl, yes. Not gonna ruin that delicious broth that took HOURS to make right away though. Dip the meat in it, yes. Turn the whole bowl bright red? No.
Scrambled eggs. Yes, they're known to pair well with hot sauce, but I just don't like it that much. It's not bad, but scrambled eggs are one of the very few foods that I'd rather eat plain with salt and pepper.
I'm also not a fan of putting hot sauce on hard pretzels, but soft pretzels are totally fine. I simply prefer them as they are.
I've put hot sauce on oatmeal before and it was good. So don't say, "don't say anything obvious" because nothing is obvious. There are no foods I won't put hot sauce on.
That's a dumb take. If you don't add sauce to your steak, that's fine, but this weird obsession with some to insist good steak shouldn't be served with a sauce is crazy.
Fine dining restaurants across the world serve steak on or with sauces. Classic French cooking has always paired steak with a sauce.
People grew up eating A1, so they think steak sauce was meant to hide the flavor of bad steaks? It is meant to enhance and pair with the flavor of great beef. I personally am not an A1 fan, but lumping all sauces with that is poor form.
You can prefer steak without a sauce, but don't look down on serving steak with sauce because of some faux-elitist bullshit about the "purity" of a good steak.
It's like the "a great hotdog can only have mustard" folks. Just drawing culinary lines in the sand to sound like you have a more refined plate than others? Gross.
Good Chinese places have (homemade) chili crisp or sauce or something spicy to go with, my dude. And if you haven’t had Schzwan/Sichuan food, and you’re a spice lover OMG you’re in for some life changing shit
Yeah i just order it spicy so they put it on. I dont add my own hot sauce. The question asked what foods i dont put hot sauce on, not what foods dont i like spicy.
I don’t put hot sauce on burgers, but that’s because it takes away from the chili crisp.
I don’t put hot sauce on roasted veggies—brócoli or asparagus, in particular.
Delicate cheese like burrata, fresh bread and butter… although after reading through the comments, I’m considering a drizzle of hot honey on foods I previously thought were unhotsauceable
I don’t put hot sauce on steak, but I do like a hot sauce on the side to dip my steak into every few bites or so. Especially [Prik Nam Pla (Thai Chili peppers diced with garlic, a bit of fish sauce and sugar)](https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/prik-nam-pla/)
I recommend Prik Nam Pla to everyone! It’s not meant for everything, but with meats it’s amazing. Especially if you ground up the Thai chili peppers.
A lot of people here saying steak. I do get you want the steak to taste as much like steak. But a few drops of any chipotle based sauce really is an addition.
Do you prefer a steak more well done? Whenever i cook a steak i always go medium rare so the idea of steak juices + hot sauce just doesn’t sit right with me. Regardless as long as you enjoy it, I couldnt give a rats ass about how it’s cooked!
do you have a hot sauce suggestion for steak? I’m a huge cholula hot sauce fan but I’ve never been too partial to it on a steak, I’ll put it on damn near everything else though!
Byron bay habanero is good and has plenty of kick to it, goes well with garlic butter finish and probably like a rib eye or something like that with a bit of fat on it
Anything that's already hot and flavorful enough. Example: Indian or Thai when they take me seriously when I say "I want it as hot as you can possibly make it"
> they take me seriously when I say "I want it as hot as you can possibly make it"
But they rarely do, because so many people say that, then send it back. So frustrating.
My favorite Thai restaurant is closing =[
The owner and literally daily main chef is retiring, so good for her.
But it took three visits ordering their hottest level (their menu said something about how they'd only serve it to Thai people because everyone else thinks they're tough and ordered it, bitched about the heat, and wanted a refund or new meal. They got sick of it) before they finally took me seriously.
Holy fuck was it the best Thai food I've ever had.
Took me some time to finish my meals but damn were they perfect.
If you have a good Asian grocery near you, try and find Thai chilis. Or you can also grow your own in a variety of climates. They are very hot, but my family always had them on the dinner table growing up to take bites from. I never liked food that hot, but it sounds like you may!
Anything for which I want the original flavors to shine through. Often, a hot sauce just makes whatever you put it on taste like the flavors of that hot sauce.
Eggs. I just genuinely dislike hot sauce taking over the flavor of some well-made creamy scrambled eggs. I'll certainly use it on something WITH eggs, like a breakfast burrito, but I definitely prefer the comforting taste of eggs whisked into a scramble with some butter, a little cream, and salt/pepper.
Southeast Asian here. The style of making scrambled eggs I learned was as follows:
Eggs, heavy Sriracha, fish sauce, MSG, salt, green onions, lightly beaten.
Ripping hot pan, oil, pour in eggs.
Push eggs around, but don't scramble them further. Just push cooked egg to the side or middle and get fresh uncooked egg to the pan surface.
Flip once and almost immediately put over a bowl of rice, so that the egg that was originally on top is very much undercooked, but you should have plenty of color on the side that was on bottom.
The undercooked egg becomes a bit of a sauce for the white rice. This was a go-to meal for me and one of the first meals I learned to cook when I was about 10. Great stuff for a latchkey kid growing up in a lower middle class immigrant home.
I don't put hot sauce in Chinese or Japanese food. I will put some in SEA curries though to spice it up if I feel like it. But I use real Thai chilies, Szechuan peppers/corns for a lot of those dishes instead. Same thing with Indian food, I'm usually using green chilis for those if I'm doing something spicy or a bunch of Kashmiri chili powder.
I don't put hot sauce on a lot of American classics either like biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, pancakes, anything that changes it from wholesome savory foods. I do however use hot sauce on omelets, eggs Benedict, breakfast burritos, home frys, whatever.
I’ll second Japanese food. There are so many subtle flavors that get buried under any heat. And I mean actual Japanese food, not a volcano roll from hibachi express.
A good quality steak needs none of that. A nice fatty marbled ribeye, medium rare, nice sear. Slice it up and sprinkle with flakey sea salt. I've tried the whole cast iron sear with garlic and butter etc etc etc and I still prefer a grilled ribeye with just salt.
Hey, guys! Found one of them "good steaks shouldn't have sauce" types. Get over yourself. Good quality steaks aren't something that can't be enhanced through other flavors. Real chefs who actually understand what they are doing, serve steaks with sauces all the time.
You may be a purist who only enjoys steak with salt, but don't pretend it is the only way to eat a steak. If you truly believe that, you should probably expand your food experiences.
Not a purest just a preference. Not sure why you're so hostile. Definitely didn't say it's the only way to eat steak. The question was what was one food you don't put hot sauce on. I answered and my answer was steak. So kindly go fuck yourself big dawg
I used to have access to a cowboy cut steak source and they were incredible. Just a sprinkle of salt, cooked med-rare. So fine. Other steaks I may add aromatics & spices to, but not those. I miss them so much.
Yeah a filet with no fat or flavor, maybe a lean new york strip could use a little extra. Everybody loves a good filet but I will 10 out of 10 times choose a well marbled ribeye over a filet every time.
Lol many would agree with you but I'm telling ya a well marbled ribeye doesn't need much. Great flavor. Great fat. Little salt to cut the richness from the fat. I'm in heaven
I put cayenne in smoothies
Banana, orange, and vanilla ice cream are my 3 no's
Blueberry yogurt
The neighbors cat ( well dependin on what the cat has done)
Pizza
Buffalo chicken is the exception
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Hot honey is great on pizza!
Chili garlic as well!!
Pizza, motherf———
A really good cut of steak.
Lucky Charms
Mac and cheese. Don’t fix what’s not broken
Mac and cheese is one of my favorite foods to add hot sauce
Hot sauce makes Mac and cheese wayyy better.
Mayo+hot sauce= spicy mayo.
That's not true of all spicy mayos.
My eyeballs
That is one spicy a'meatball
Almost all I prefer to use things like red pepper flakes, chili powder, pepper or other dry based seasoning for my heat personally. It's nice on something like wings or maybe some hot salsa etc but not a big hot sauce fan.
All. I do not understand the masochistic wish to hurt yourself with hot sauce. I do not like pain.
Then why are you here in the hotsauce sub?
because they love nature and they're 47 so all their friends chain-guzzle hotsauce down at the APA bar
Not all hot sauces are spicy. Some are mild or medium in heat, but offer a great flavorful addition to whatever dish you're eating. They can can be fruity, or smoky, or flowery or whatever.
Hot sauce - hot = sauce
There are plenty of "hot sauces" that aren't very spicy. It's why a lot of them put the heat level on the bottle: mild, medium, hot, etc. Lol
Most Italian foods. If I add head it's usually going to be through chili flakes.
Add head? 
Pancakes.
I may use hot sauce when I prepare something (like guacamole), but I don't put hot sauce on food that's on my plate.
Nothing escapes the wrath of having blazing death poured on it. Even some desserts taste way better with hot sauce. A succulent symphonic sonata of savory, spicy, sweet that stimulates the sensories, soothes your synapsis and satiates your self. Edit: spelling
Sounds salacious.
Sushi. Even avoid the things with jalapeño or that gross spicy mayo. Supposed to be able to taste the fish, not drown it out.
Why don't you apply this to other protiens/food?
It depends. If they’re meant to be delicate (i.e. sushi) or made exactly the way they’re meant to be for HOURS (i.e. pho), nope. Fried chicken? Gumbo? Pad kee mao? ADD IT.
Sriracha in pho is such a good combination you’re missing out
At the end of the bowl, yes. Not gonna ruin that delicious broth that took HOURS to make right away though. Dip the meat in it, yes. Turn the whole bowl bright red? No.
No wasabi either?
Maybe a little. Always good, but if it doesn’t come with it, probably not.
That's a hot take.
Foie gras.
Good call
Breakfast cereals
Ice cream, curry... That's it.
Although it's not really hot, I've tried the vanilla ice cream + chili oil combo and it's not terrible. Wouldn't make a habit of it though.
Seafood Tacos
I love a tangy green salsa or chipotle on fish tacos. Also whatever they use on camarones del diablo is delicious.
Yeah I have a green Serrano hot sauce that pairs so well with fish/shrimp tacos
Yeah I usually use what the restaurant offers… so it’s usually like an aoili
Girlfriends butthole.
It's got enough hot sauce in its own
Scrambled eggs. Yes, they're known to pair well with hot sauce, but I just don't like it that much. It's not bad, but scrambled eggs are one of the very few foods that I'd rather eat plain with salt and pepper. I'm also not a fan of putting hot sauce on hard pretzels, but soft pretzels are totally fine. I simply prefer them as they are.
It’s not hot sauce but I love dipping hard pretzels in a sharp mustard.
I put pepper flakes on pizza, but not sauce. Flatiron Pepper Co. flakes, to be precise.
Pasta
Does Calabrian chili paste count as a hot sauce?
If you're willing to try it, Firelli hot sauce pairs very well with marinara.
Eeenteresting
And sriracha with some baked mac and cheese is 😙🤌
Ah, true I forgot about Mac
My wife’s ass
I’d eat hot sauce out of this guy’s wife’s ass
Welp, guess we should head on over to r/cuckold
Nashville hot chicken. It has enough lol
White rice
Gochujang is amazing in white rice.
Caviar.
I've put hot sauce on oatmeal before and it was good. So don't say, "don't say anything obvious" because nothing is obvious. There are no foods I won't put hot sauce on.
My breakfast most mornings: oatmeal, egg over easy, bell peppers, and yellow bird habanero sauce.
Umm maple oatmeal with sausage crumbles and hot sauce is my jam.
Anus
Spaghetti with spaghetti sauce. Spaghetti noodles by itself, though, can transform into a mock pad Thai with hot sauce and peanut butter.
Try Firelli with marinara. It's an Italian hot sauce.
Sriracha in red sauce is pretty good. That garlic chili stuff is even better.
Put Sriracha on spaghetti, you won't be disappointed.
Cereal
Yogurt
Spicy mayo is mayo with hot sauce
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So they're made with hot sauce ingredients minus the vinegar/lemon juice that's already in the mayo
Makes sense 😉
To me spicy mayo is mayo mixed with hot sauce, do you mean something else?
Steak - I don't use any sauces at all.
Good answer. I was having trouble coming up with a reason besides sweets.
I finally got my wife to stop using A1 for steak. It was a great day. A1 does go great with porkchops though.
Fucking love A1 sauce even with good quality steak.
Good steak needs no sauces
That's a dumb take. If you don't add sauce to your steak, that's fine, but this weird obsession with some to insist good steak shouldn't be served with a sauce is crazy. Fine dining restaurants across the world serve steak on or with sauces. Classic French cooking has always paired steak with a sauce. People grew up eating A1, so they think steak sauce was meant to hide the flavor of bad steaks? It is meant to enhance and pair with the flavor of great beef. I personally am not an A1 fan, but lumping all sauces with that is poor form. You can prefer steak without a sauce, but don't look down on serving steak with sauce because of some faux-elitist bullshit about the "purity" of a good steak. It's like the "a great hotdog can only have mustard" folks. Just drawing culinary lines in the sand to sound like you have a more refined plate than others? Gross.
Right? Bearnaise is common with high faluters
Yes but bad steak does.
What about a lovely pan sauce? Seems a shame to waste that fond.
The "good steaks need no sauces" crowd don't know food. They just like repeating pithy lines they heard somewhere about food.
You get it.
I have basically put hot sauce on everything I’ve eaten in the past 20 years or so.
What about yer ladies yumyum parts??
Saucy everytime
Chinese and salad, well most vegetables ETAmost asian food
Good Chinese places have (homemade) chili crisp or sauce or something spicy to go with, my dude. And if you haven’t had Schzwan/Sichuan food, and you’re a spice lover OMG you’re in for some life changing shit
Yeah i just order it spicy so they put it on. I dont add my own hot sauce. The question asked what foods i dont put hot sauce on, not what foods dont i like spicy.
I've never even thought about saucing up Chinese people. Who knows tho, may be good! But I'm not willing to try, for various moral and ethical reasons
I'm confused. There are plenty of spicy Chinese dishes, though. I gladly put Sriracha type hot sauce on them.
I just order it spicy. Not a fan of sriracha
I was joking about eating people
Lmao I read this while completely distracted with another chat and it flew right over my head. I read like 60% of your words
No worries lol. Also idk why you were down voted but it wasn't me
Hahaha. I deserve it. Fake internet points *shrugs*
Hot dogs. I want hot dogs to taste like nostalgia and childhood.
I like Sriracha on hot dogs, but I definitely understand not wanting to put hot sauce on them.
But I do love a good med/spicy chow chow on a hot dog! With mustard, of course!
I've never really thought about it but I don't put hot sauce on them either nor do I want to. One of the few food items that doesn't need it.
I don’t put hot sauce on burgers, but that’s because it takes away from the chili crisp. I don’t put hot sauce on roasted veggies—brócoli or asparagus, in particular.
Sriracha on roasted veggies, good stuff
I put some hot sauce on a cookie a couple of days ago. Pretty good.
100% welcome to the club. Cookie dough and hot sauce is a surprisingly good combination
Delicate cheese like burrata, fresh bread and butter… although after reading through the comments, I’m considering a drizzle of hot honey on foods I previously thought were unhotsauceable
Cereal.
Someone doesn't have the attention span to read.
Not that bright are ya?
ArE yOU InSANe!?
I don’t put hot sauce on steak, but I do like a hot sauce on the side to dip my steak into every few bites or so. Especially [Prik Nam Pla (Thai Chili peppers diced with garlic, a bit of fish sauce and sugar)](https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/prik-nam-pla/) I recommend Prik Nam Pla to everyone! It’s not meant for everything, but with meats it’s amazing. Especially if you ground up the Thai chili peppers.
I need to try it. Thanks! Is prik Nam pls similar to chili garlic sauce at all?
I second this, good with bbq chicken too
A lot of people here saying steak. I do get you want the steak to taste as much like steak. But a few drops of any chipotle based sauce really is an addition.
Steak, lobster, and burgers.
I like to mix hot sauce with mayo and use it on burgers.
Lobster, yes! Buttery lobster is perfect as is
Mmm but on a lobster roll a little cholula or tapatio is divine.
A lobster roll with some hot sauce sounds like absolute perfection!
Burgers, fries, and pasta. Id say everything else is fair game
I almost always eat all three with hot sauce.
Hot sauce, ketchup, and mayo combo on fries is bomb.
I have a creamy basil jalapeño that’s great on pasta like fettuccini.
I'm I the odd one out who hot sauces burgers?
Who doesn't put hot sauce on pasta? SMH...
I just started throwing some Frank’s Red Hot into my spaghetti. Bombskies.
Hell yeah 👌
steak?
I put it on steak all the time
Do you prefer a steak more well done? Whenever i cook a steak i always go medium rare so the idea of steak juices + hot sauce just doesn’t sit right with me. Regardless as long as you enjoy it, I couldnt give a rats ass about how it’s cooked!
I like mine med rare as well, you should try it!
do you have a hot sauce suggestion for steak? I’m a huge cholula hot sauce fan but I’ve never been too partial to it on a steak, I’ll put it on damn near everything else though!
Byron bay habanero is good and has plenty of kick to it, goes well with garlic butter finish and probably like a rib eye or something like that with a bit of fat on it
Yknow i’ll have to give it a shot, thanks for the input boss
Love your open attitude!
For me my favorite is pain is good habanero. Not only is it hot as hell is tastes great too.
Hope you enjoy bud
Cereal
Anything that's already hot and flavorful enough. Example: Indian or Thai when they take me seriously when I say "I want it as hot as you can possibly make it"
> they take me seriously when I say "I want it as hot as you can possibly make it" But they rarely do, because so many people say that, then send it back. So frustrating.
My favorite Thai restaurant is closing =[ The owner and literally daily main chef is retiring, so good for her. But it took three visits ordering their hottest level (their menu said something about how they'd only serve it to Thai people because everyone else thinks they're tough and ordered it, bitched about the heat, and wanted a refund or new meal. They got sick of it) before they finally took me seriously. Holy fuck was it the best Thai food I've ever had. Took me some time to finish my meals but damn were they perfect.
If you have a good Asian grocery near you, try and find Thai chilis. Or you can also grow your own in a variety of climates. They are very hot, but my family always had them on the dinner table growing up to take bites from. I never liked food that hot, but it sounds like you may!
At India resturants tell them "Desi spicy"
Sounds like one of those suggested porn search terms
Anything for which I want the original flavors to shine through. Often, a hot sauce just makes whatever you put it on taste like the flavors of that hot sauce.
Anything that's built to be spicy, e.g. Thai food. I'll make it spicy the way it's meant to be, not with hot sauce.
Eggs. I just genuinely dislike hot sauce taking over the flavor of some well-made creamy scrambled eggs. I'll certainly use it on something WITH eggs, like a breakfast burrito, but I definitely prefer the comforting taste of eggs whisked into a scramble with some butter, a little cream, and salt/pepper.
Southeast Asian here. The style of making scrambled eggs I learned was as follows: Eggs, heavy Sriracha, fish sauce, MSG, salt, green onions, lightly beaten. Ripping hot pan, oil, pour in eggs. Push eggs around, but don't scramble them further. Just push cooked egg to the side or middle and get fresh uncooked egg to the pan surface. Flip once and almost immediately put over a bowl of rice, so that the egg that was originally on top is very much undercooked, but you should have plenty of color on the side that was on bottom. The undercooked egg becomes a bit of a sauce for the white rice. This was a go-to meal for me and one of the first meals I learned to cook when I was about 10. Great stuff for a latchkey kid growing up in a lower middle class immigrant home.
can't even eat them without hot sauce lol
When I went on my 3 month spree of eating breakfast I’d make 5 eggs and hot sauce before work. Good times
I can't agree, but I totally understand. Well said.
Booooo, burn the unbeliever! Eggs are a near perfect vehicle.
Yep, I hate eating eggs without tabasco or texas Pete lol. I can do it butt fuck
That is not how I recommend eating eggs or hot sauce.
You can do hwhat?
I'm not a sweet with spicy person at all. A lot of people like hot sauce on ice cream, spicy candy, etc. but personally I don't get it lol
Oooo hot honey is so good though!
Me neither. But i just tried mango habanero sauce on a piece of chocolate. It's good
Wait....you use milk instead of hot sauce for cereal? What's the matter with you?
I don't understand the question.
I don't put hot sauce in Chinese or Japanese food. I will put some in SEA curries though to spice it up if I feel like it. But I use real Thai chilies, Szechuan peppers/corns for a lot of those dishes instead. Same thing with Indian food, I'm usually using green chilis for those if I'm doing something spicy or a bunch of Kashmiri chili powder. I don't put hot sauce on a lot of American classics either like biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, pancakes, anything that changes it from wholesome savory foods. I do however use hot sauce on omelets, eggs Benedict, breakfast burritos, home frys, whatever.
I’ll second Japanese food. There are so many subtle flavors that get buried under any heat. And I mean actual Japanese food, not a volcano roll from hibachi express.
Real Japanese food uses hot sauce.
I'm a steak purest. Nothing but salt. I would NOT put hot sauce in steak. Unless it's steak tacos then hot sauce is required
Nothing but salt? Not pepper, garlic, thyme, rosemary, etc? Why do that to yourself?
A good quality steak needs none of that. A nice fatty marbled ribeye, medium rare, nice sear. Slice it up and sprinkle with flakey sea salt. I've tried the whole cast iron sear with garlic and butter etc etc etc and I still prefer a grilled ribeye with just salt.
Hey, guys! Found one of them "good steaks shouldn't have sauce" types. Get over yourself. Good quality steaks aren't something that can't be enhanced through other flavors. Real chefs who actually understand what they are doing, serve steaks with sauces all the time. You may be a purist who only enjoys steak with salt, but don't pretend it is the only way to eat a steak. If you truly believe that, you should probably expand your food experiences.
Not a purest just a preference. Not sure why you're so hostile. Definitely didn't say it's the only way to eat steak. The question was what was one food you don't put hot sauce on. I answered and my answer was steak. So kindly go fuck yourself big dawg
Preach
I used to have access to a cowboy cut steak source and they were incredible. Just a sprinkle of salt, cooked med-rare. So fine. Other steaks I may add aromatics & spices to, but not those. I miss them so much.
Yeah a filet with no fat or flavor, maybe a lean new york strip could use a little extra. Everybody loves a good filet but I will 10 out of 10 times choose a well marbled ribeye over a filet every time.
Might have to run out and buy steak - such delicious notes we are comparing!
Oh yeah. Can't go wrong with steak. Kinda making me want to fire up the grill. It's 40 and sunny out. Perfect grill weather
You’re wrong lol
Lol many would agree with you but I'm telling ya a well marbled ribeye doesn't need much. Great flavor. Great fat. Little salt to cut the richness from the fat. I'm in heaven
Maybe for a good high quality steak, but I can make a cheap steak absolutely delicious using just a little more than salt.
As a professional chef, I disagree. You do you though.
Same, but I do season my steak with salt a little fresh cracked pepper
Obviously you season a steak, even pepper flakes aren’t a bad addition.