# The best hot sauces you can buy

Widely available hot sauces that chefs and blind taste tests (Uproxx, Paste, Saveur) rank highest. Mostly about flavour, not just heat.

- 46 votes · 13 items
- Jul 3, 2023 · snackattack_philly
- https://even.best/en/l/205/the-best-hot-sauces-you-can-buy

## Top 12

1. **Tabasco** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — McIlhenny's aged tabasco pepper sauce from Avery Island, Louisiana, since 1868.
2. **Valentina** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Mexican sauce with puya chillies, rich and mildly hot; chefs' top pick.
3. **Cholula** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Árbol and piquín chillies with a wooden cap, the most versatile.
4. **Crystal** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Cayenne-forward Louisiana sauce, less vinegary than Tabasco.
5. **Truff** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Hot sauce with black truffle, a gourmet favourite.
6. **Melinda's Original Habanero** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Carrot-based habanero sauce from Belize-inspired recipe.
7. **Lao Gan Ma Chili Crisp** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chinese crispy chilli oil with fermented soybeans, a cult condiment.
8. **Huy Fong Sriracha** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The rooster bottle created by David Tran in Los Angeles in 1980.
9. **Tapatío** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Los Angeles-made Mexican-style sauce with the sombrero man.
10. **El Yucateco Habanero** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fiery green or red habanero sauce from Yucatán.
11. **Marie Sharp's Fiery Hot** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Belizean habanero and carrot sauce.
12. **Frank's RedHot** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cayenne sauce that was used in the first Buffalo wings.
13. **Secret Aardvark Habanero** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Portland sauce with roasted tomatoes and habanero.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.