Getting hot as the weather cools: Learn more about everyone’s favorite spicy condiment | Foodie

Found on shelves in the smallest bottles, hot sauce packs one of the biggest flavors you’ll find in any condiment on your table. If it’s used, it’s going to be noticed. Hot sauce has become a huge part of how we eat and a part of some people’s identity as food lovers. But there’s a lighter and local side to this condiment.

Sure, people are combining hot sauce with just about anything, but does it really taste okay when it’s front and center in ice cream? Maybe. The NYC Hot Sauce Expo in 2018 featured what they called the world’s spiciest ice cream. Event organizers advertised that it was so hot people would need to sign a death waiver. That’s not the only example. If you want to make it in your kitchen, Frank’s Red Hot publishes a recipe for it.

If you really want to go high-end there’s also hot sauce caviar. It’s not actually roe, it’s caviar-like…