Cholula (McCormick & Company)
Cholula Original Hot Sauce
Mexican hot sauce
arbol, piquin
Medium (maker's heat-level graphic)
McIlhenny Company
TABASCO Brand Original Red Sauce
TABASCO Original Red is a three-ingredient sauce of aged red peppers, salt from Avery Island, Louisiana, and distilled vinegar, from the recipe Edmund McIlhenny created in 1868. The maker says its pepper mash is aged in white oak barrels for up to three years. Peppers are hand-picked and compared against a wooden dowel, "le petit bâton rouge", for ripeness.
Spec sheet
- Maker
- McIlhenny Company
- Origin
- Avery Island, Louisiana, USA
- Style
- Aged pepper-mash and vinegar sauce
- Chile
- tabasco pepper
- Heat
- 2,500–5,000 SHU (maker's Scoville rating) (tabasco.com)
Ingredients
As listed by the source, in order.
- red peppers
- salt
- distilled vinegar
Put it on
- jambalaya
- Bloody Mary
- oysters on the half shell
- guacamole
Read next
Sources
- Maker product page (tabasco.com)
- Wikipedia: Tabasco sauce (en.wikipedia.org)
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