"Crystal" as referred to in the Margaritaville cookbook?

[buffettbride]

What's most important is that you eat your hot sauce with a spork while looking at boobies.

[ragtopW]

That's a major pet peeve of mine, when recipes refer to something by a regional brand name, instead of what the ingredient is. How tough would it be to say 1 T hot sauce (such as Crystal or ______)? A lot of "famous" chefs are guilty of this....grrrrrrrrrr.

Same with me, Kath.. That annoys the heck out of me. List 'substitutes' or such things.

BTW - this made me look up different hot sauces.. seems they all have ABOUT the same ingredients.

Crystal Hot Sauce:
The ingredient list on the product's packaging is: aged red cayenne peppers, distilled vinegar and salt.

Texas Pete® Hot Sauce is made from specially grown, select red cayenne peppers that are aged for two years. The aging process is important as it softens the skin and enhances the extraction of the natural capsicum from the pepper. The seeds and skin are removed and processed into a pure natural pulp. The pulp is placed in a vacuum tank where all impurities are removed. Then, the pure natural pepper pulp is specially blended with the rest of the ingredients under the watchful eye of quality assurance technicians. No artificial colors or ingredients are ever used in the manufacture of Texas Pete® Hot Sauce. Made of Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Xanthan Gum, and Benzoate of Soda (to Preserve Freshness and Flavor)

TABASCO® brand pepper sauce is made with three simple ingredients: fully-aged red pepper, high grain all-natural vinegar, and a small amount of salt mined right on Avery Island. It's pure pepper sauce—no additives whatsoever.

I prefer Bulliards

Crystal is great too.. BUT
I prefer Bulliards..