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Hot sauce

Hot sauce is a sauce made from chili peppers that adds an extra amount of spice and heat to any meal.  Every possible combination of ingredients is available on the marketplace today.  Chili peppers are often the most common ingredient in these sauces; the difference comes is what’s used to infuse them.  Sauces are infused with anything from fruits to vinegar and everything in between.  Extra ingredients are added to increase the amount of heat in the sauce. 
One would think hot sauces from Mexico would be the hottest of them all, but this isn’t the case.  Mexican hot sauces are more flavorful than focuses on intense heat.  They look to focus more on the taste of the peppers in the sauce rather than knocking you over with astonishing heat.  But there are some sauces from Mexico that do have high vinegar content similar to Louisiana-style sauces from the United States.  Some hot sauces from Mexico are even sold internationally.  A few notable sauces from Mexico include El Yucateco, Valentina, Bufalo, El Pato, Cholula hot sauce, Pico Pica, and Chile de Arbol.
Vinegar, salt and chili peppers are the typical ingredients in a hot sauce from the United States.  The most common types of peppers used are cayenne, jalapeno, chipotles, and habaneros.  A process similar to the aging of wine is used in the aging of some hot sauces.  Fruit and vegetables are used to thicken the consistency of the sauce and mellow the heat of the chilis.  A few notable hot sauces from the United States include Crystal Hot Sauce, Bacon Hot Sauce, Texas Pete, Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce, Frank’s Red Hot, Louisiana Gold Hot Sauce, Sriracha Sauce, Tabasco Hot Sauce, and chili pepper water.