What makes Louisiana Hot Sauce different?

Louisiana-style hot sauce is more acidic
Tabasco is a Louisiana-style hot sauce, which means that it — along with cousins like Crystal, Frank's Red Hot, and the aptly named Louisiana — is made up primarily of chilies, vinegar, and salt.
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How is Louisiana Hot Sauce different?

Since 1928 our Hot Sauce has built a reputation for quality and perfection by using only the best carefully selected aged peppers. Our hot sauce continues to be made in New Iberia, Louisiana, the original Louisiana way, where peppers are combined with vinegar and salt, and then left to ferment during the aging process.
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What is a Louisiana-style hot sauce?

Louisiana-style hot sauce contains red chili peppers (tabasco and/or cayenne are the most popular), vinegar and salt. Occasionally xanthan gum or other thickeners are used. Louisiana Hot Sauce Introduced in 1928, A cayenne pepper based hot sauce produced by Southeastern Mills, Inc., in New Iberia, Louisiana.
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Why is Louisiana Hot Sauce so hot?

It's not too spicy, but after it's cooked, you can taste the kick a little more. The sauce is red in color and has a runny thin texture, so be sure to shake before using. The heat comes from the aged peppers, but is nothing too intense at all. The sauce has very few ingredients, so there isn't too much depth of flavor.
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Is Louisiana Hot Sauce the hottest?

Louisiana hot sauce is not hotter than Texas Pete. Texas Pete has 747 Scoville heat units, while Louisiana hot sauce is 450 on the Scoville scale. Texas Pete is 297 units hotter than Louisiana hot sauce. To put these ratings in context, habanero peppers, one of the hottest in the world, is 100,000 – 350,000 SHU!
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What's the number 1 hot sauce in America?

America has decided that Sriracha takes home the honors as it is the most popular in 31 of 50 states, including California, according to Instacart. In Instacart's survey the year before, Tapatio was the most popular hot sauce in California.
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Is Frank's Red Hot Louisiana style?

Frank's Redhot originated in 1920 in Louisiana, but it's probably best known as the base of the original Buffalo wings recipe from the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. It has a stronger vinegar kick than Louisiana, and seems slightly milder even though several websites claim that the Scoville rating is about the same.
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Why is it called Louisiana Hot Sauce?

It started off as a family company, in which the sauce was prepared in the kitchen of a home and sold to neighbors. Louisiana Hot Sauce was the first sauce brand marketed using the state of Louisiana's name. The brand's slogan is "not too hot, not too mild."
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Is Louisiana Hot Sauce the same as Crystal?

Crystal Hot Sauce is a brand of Louisiana-style hot sauce produced by family-owned Baumer Foods since 1923. 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) of Crystal Hot Sauce are shipped per year to 75 countries.
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What's better crystal or Louisiana Hot Sauce?

If you're looking for the sine qua non of classic Louisiana hot sauces, Crystal is ultimately the one to beat.
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Is Louisiana Hot Sauce like Sriracha?

#5.

Louisiana hot sauce is a lot like Tabasco, but slightly milder. Just one drop is enough to spice up the portion of food you add it to. It has a bright peppery taste that resembles that of sriracha. It's a very spicy ingredient so remember to use it sparingly and only add more after tasting.
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What is the Scoville level of Louisiana Hot Sauce?

Louisiana Hot Sauce claims only 450 Scoville Heat Units. For reference, a jalapeño pepper has 3,500 to 10,000 SHU.
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Does Louisiana Hot Sauce have capsaicin in it?

Louisiana, the U.S. capital of hot sauces, has exported its culinary obsession for the capsaicin-laden condiment to consumers throughout the country.
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What can I substitute for Louisiana Hot Sauce?

The 5 Best Substitutes for Louisiana Hot Sauce
  • 1 – Huy Fong Sriracha. If you're a fan of Asian food, you've likely heard of Huy Fong. ...
  • 2 – Crystal Hot Sauce. Crystal is a hot sauce popular in the south and was first produced commercially in Louisiana. ...
  • 3 – Tabasco. ...
  • 4 – Frank's RedHot. ...
  • 5 – Texas Pete.
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Which is hotter crystal or Tabasco?

So, it's no surprise that Crystal's heat profile (2,000 to 4,000 SHU) is comparable to what you get from the O.G. Tabasco (2,500 to 5,000 SHU). Though, it is a bit of a surprise that it's slightly lower, given the cayennes come first on the ingredient list.
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Why is Crystal Hot Sauce so good?

The main flavor is vinegar and peppers, so it's very simple with no major depth of flavor. Louisiana's Pure Crystal Hot Sauce has a very small number of ingredients- Aged Red Cayenne Peppers, Vinegar, and Salt. This mix of ingredients really creates a simple but tasty sauce you can use in a multitude of recipes.
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What is the most popular Louisiana Hot Sauce?

Crystal is the top-selling hot sauce in Louisiana and ranks ninth in market share for the United States.
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Should you refrigerate Louisiana Hot Sauce?

It is not necessary to refrigerate Louisiana Hot Sauce. It is simply just a personal preference.
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Which came first Louisiana Hot Sauce or Tabasco?

You may have known America's oldest and most popular hot sauce – Tabasco brand – originates in Louisiana, but did you know there's an island where the peppers are grown and the sauce is made? Yep, and you can visit it.
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What is the hottest hot sauce in the world?

1) Mad Dog 375 Plutonium No.

The hottest hot sauce in the world is called Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9 and comes in at 9 million Scoville Hotness Units (SHUs). This pepper extract is one of the hottest and purest in the entire world.
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What's the difference between Tabasco and Louisiana hot sauce?

Secondary Ingredients

Besides peppers, Tabasco sauce contains only vinegar and salt. Its intense vinegar flavor is typical of all hot sauces that aficionados refer to as Louisiana-style hot sauce.
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Which is hotter Texas Pete or Franks?

All 10 types of hot sauce evaluated are available in supermarkets nationwide. In order from highest to lowest score achieved, they are: Frank's Red Hot, Crystal, Cholula, Texas Pete, Sriracha, Valentina, Red Devil, Tabasco, Louisiana, and Tapatío.
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Why is Cholula so good?

Because green pepper Cholula provides an ideal amount of heat to most any finished dish and it adds good nuanced flavor while doing it. That nuanced flavor comes from a mix of two green chiles: jalapeños and poblanos. (Most run of the mill green hot sauces are made only with jalapeños.)
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Which state eats the most hot sauce?

According to Instacart, North Dakota consumes the most amount of hot sauce, averaging 5.4 ounces per consumer. New Mexico ranks second at 4.4 ounces per person, and Colorado ranks third, coming in at 4.0 ounces of hot sauce per person.
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