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Hot or not, hot sauce version x Old Enough mash up:
Southeast Asian children from ages 5 to 7 try different American hot sauces and say if they’re hot or not.
Spoiler: it’s all Not Hot at all.
I remember the first time I had Tabasco as a 5 year old. “Is this.. hot??”
And my lifelong dislike of vinegar-dominant hot sauce began.
@skinnylatte t is certainly nothing compared to the ghost pepper; chocolate scorpion; reaper heavy sauces I use these days. My kids are used to spice more so than some, but even they avoid “dad's ketchup” :-)
@Fridley I don’t know that I like those either. The reaper style hot sauces feel gimmicky to me, they don’t really taste of much and they’re still ultimately kind of vinegary. I suppose I despise all vinegar based hot sauces.
I much prefer Thai or Vietnamese or Indonesian sauces where capsaicin is dominant, but tasty. But what passes for sambal in America is also vinegary, which it’s not supposed to be. Ditto for sriracha.
@skinnylatte I've been pretty lucky. While there are a few of the vinegar type in my collection, they are full flavoured and generous with the capsaicin. My preference is all about flavour, while still being hot enough to feel it. Haven't tried making sambal. My wife use to get some homemade sambal from her workmate's mum. Might need to try making my own.
@Fridley this is a good reference sambal that should be exported many places. Try each type to see what it’s supposed to taste like; each has different uses. Terasi and Matah are the basic ones that go with everything
@skinnylatte I think that we were very spoiled. Hard to beat “mum's homemade” sambal :-) Will check it out. Cheers
@Fridley for sure. As someone who lived with an auntie who made dozens of fresh sambals daily, I miss it. Unfortunately I can’t bring her with me around the world.