Hot Sauces: First Ingredient Is Everything

Professional hot sauce maker Smokin’ Ed Currie, the founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, returns to Epicurious to demystify hot sauce labels.



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[hbgriss]

There is was and never will be anything bad about Tabasco. Especially the original. Always a staple.

[ChrisControversial]

I mean Tabasco has heat. It might not be ghost pepper level, but it's a hot sauce

[netteswain]

I've never tasted a not hot Tabasco sauce

[elyssatruman]

Well yeah, when you burn off half your capsaicin receptors eating ghost pepper sauces of course tobasco ain’t gonna be hot anymore

[videokalidon]

This guy has an addiction. It’s an alien

[forsland]

It's not just hot sauces. it's everything you buy. Its in order, the last ingredient is the least.

[jameslopez]

Thanks for sharing this information Brother 😎

[mountainbikerdave]

Tabasco is to vinegary never liked the taste

[williammckelvey]

Tabasco def has some spice lol but I can see why someone more well versed on the subject would say so

[Intrusionstm]

The only Tabasco I like is the scorpion pepper sauce

[keys]

Pepper x is the first ingredient in that hot sauce?! I had near pure ghost pepper sauce and that was pretty insane. Inedible to most… pepper x sauce must be nuclear ☢️.

[thomashealy]

On the same note if ANYTHINGs first ingredient is any kind of corn syrup DO NOT CONSUME

[gershonodze]

Amazing how tabasco is so popular, despite the ingredients

[garybullio]

This is the food evaluative equivalent of graffiti. Pure opinion.

[douglaspanhandle]

Tabasco for the WIN! Sorry not a hot sauce SNOB!