Ranking Hot Sauces | Bless Your Rank

Y'all pray for Matt's tongue as he tries and ranks the most popular hot sauces including Tabasco, Crystal, Louisiana, Frank's, Texas Pete, Tapatio, and more!

[hueowen]

Someone from up North once asked my dad if he was one of those Southerners that carried hot sauce in their pockets whenever they went to a restaurant like Beyonce and Hillary claim to. My dad just looked at him and said "No. I'm one of those Southerners that would never step foot inside a restaurant that didn't serve hot sauce".

[scottsaylors]

Cholula actually answering with a real person is seriously impressive

[TheNoladrummer]

Louisianan, here, and Crystal is my favorite. It’s the best for adding heat to a recipe without overpowering the other flavors like Tabasco does. We have Tabasco for red beans, oysters, and sunny side-up eggs; Cholula for Mexican food; and Frank’s for wing sauce. We like our variety!

[patbak]

If you drink a beer with your breakfast at 10 am you're an alcoholic. If you drink a mimosa with your brunch at 10 am you're classy.

[azilbean]

Can we please get a petition going for getting Matt onto, "Hot Ones"?!! How great would that be??

[firesoulrocker]

Just to let you know, my Phil loves you. Hes 10 and yesterday was his birthday. His fave "Bless Your Rank" are the Candy Bars. He was quoting your comments whenever he got a Twix bar, Almond Joy or Milky Way while Trick or Treating tonight. Lol

[izzieluv]

Imagine working for Cholula customer service and some guy just calls and confirms the pronunciation of the sauce 😅 and then confesses his love for you.

[stephanviator]

As a proud Louisianian, I am humbled and honored that the top three sauces came from my state. Even better is that Frank's and Tabasco were invented within minutes of where I grew up. And to top it all off, I am related to one of the descendants of the man who invented Frank's. God bless you, Matt. You're a good man and you're welcome in Louisiana should you ever choose to visit us.

[Xano]

"They don't mess around with garlic sauce in Louisiana."

As someone who lives in Louisiana, garlic hot sauce is still fairly popular. Crystal, Tabasco, and Louisiana Hot Sauce company all have garlic variants, and they go incredibly well with many of the dishes down here. (I'm partial to Louisiana Hot Sauce company, just because New Iberia is right up the road)

[virginiaw]

Crystal Hot Sauce was the only one we ever had growing up. My mom ate it on everything. Cheap Mac and cheese with Crystal on it, is amazing 😘 When your poor but love flavor, Crystal is the way to go 🤣

[leewoodruff]

I’ve lived in several states and visited many countries as a veteran. One consistent thing a military person could count on when eating “meals refusing to exit” was the bottle of Tabasco. I’m not saying it’s the best, but it did liven up the blandness. After a couple of tours, I ended up in Arizona where my love of spice took off. Many foods are complimentary of certain hot sauces, for example a vinegar base goes well with eggs and taters all rotten. Sriracha on the other hand goes well with Asian foods like Pho and stir fries.

[coyotelong]

Tapatio is wonderful stuff. A simple breakfast burrito with Tapatio and some cool sour cream is bliss

Plus I love the Tapatio Doritos

[justinolivieri]

My wife’s favorite is Texas Pete. I’m definitely rewatching this when she’s in the room. 😝

[jokerproduction]

Matt is just the vibe I need right now.

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[anonymousm]

I'm a Crystal guy, but for Mexican food I prefer El Yucateca habanero sauce or Valentina Mexican hot sauce. My roots are on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Delmarva is a unique blend of Southern and Northern culture--I grew up eating both pigs feet and scrapple), so I have a special place in my heart for Old Bay seasoning, but their hot sauce just doesn't do it. When we moved back to Louisiana last month, two almost full bottles went in the trash.

I'm slowly rebuilding the hot sauce and seasoning stashes. Fortunately, every store around South Louisiana offers about 600 varieties of hot sauce and 1300+ Cajun and Creole seasoning.

When I served as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Benning, I amassed quite a bit of Texas Pete and Tabasco sauce. We usually got a bottle or two with field chow, so I'd bring a bottle home instead of it going in the trash with everything else. Tabasco has a different flavor than most hot sauces and is good on a lot of stuff (the military put it in MREs for years for a reason), while I ended up tossing 2-3 unopened bottles of expired Texas Pete over the past couple of years.

Frank's is, well, Frank's. Perfect for wings, but I'll stick to Crystal for daily use.

[raksrulesaks]

As an Indian American who spent some of my formative years in the south (resulting in the most confusing accent you’ll hear cause it’s a mix of New York and south…. Try imagining that) this video made me both happy and sad. Happy to see hot sauces, and reminisce when hot sauce was easily available in a restaurant. And sad because in the north people consider chili flakes spicy… resulting in us just eating at home with excessive amounts of hot sauce… side note the best hot sauce I ever got I sourced it from this little shop in Costs Rica- they’d infuse em with some fresh fruits and the HOTTEST peppers and it would just have THE BEST FLAVOR! I’m hoping my life takes me back to the south again because lord I miss the good hot sauce

[mattlacasse]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Crystal actually makes an “Extra Hot” version that has a red top. Just like Matt said, original Crystal just doesn’t have quite enough heat but this version rectifies that and maintains the flavor. Good stuff, I put it on almost everything.

[jboyd]

Matt - "Flavor is the most important thing!"

/Tries Tapatio

Also Matt - "There is just too much flavor!"

[vagabondwastrel]

Texas Pete is something I use like a ketchup for meats. I have tried most of the mass produced hot sauces and pete is the best. I don't really want my hot sauce to do much more than add a little bit of heat and vinegar. If you want more depth in the flavor then mix in a compound butter with the pete.

[theaverageDon]

Frank's and Cholula are my top 2, with an honorable mention to Tiger Sauce
What makes Cholula so good is the fact it's nit initially hot but very flavorful. It makes you use it more and the more you use the hotter it gets