So, you love slathering hot sauce on your favorite foods, but you're concerned about too much salt in your diet? Well, get to slatherin' because we've pulled together a list of our favorite no-sodium (and some low-sodium) sauces.
Ever since Dave's Insanity hit the market in the early 1990s, many hot sauce manufacturers have jumped into a hot sauce weapons race reminiscent of the nuclear stockpiling and development programs of the Cold War.
Hot sauce is a versatile way to add more flavor and kick to everyday foods. Because of this, it's pretty commonly used to add spice to everything from eggs, to tacos, to pizza. But what about other foods?
If you're a hot sauce fan, odds are you've experienced an unexpected dose of hot sauce or surprisingly spicy food that was just a bit (or a lot) hotter than you expected.
We love hot sauce. The heat, the flavor, the euphoric feeling you get when you get a dose of some really, really hot food. However, there's a real downside to handling peppers, hot sauces, and spicy food. We call it "the burn": the unintentional burn you get to, well, to very sensitive areas when you forget to wash your hands or didn't wash them well enough.
A lot of hot sauces claim to be "the hottest", and there is always a lot of publicity about the next "hottest pepper in the world". But what does that mean from a practical perspective? How hot is a sauce when it says that it's hot, or when it has a certain type of pepper?
