What is your favourite sauce of the big three :
Ketchup - Arguably the most widespread and common sauce used for flavouring your burgers, BBQ and other dishes. Can be considered the normie basic-guy option from others opinions.
Mustard - The yin to Ketchups yang, also widespread in dishes previously mentioned in Ketchup section, either exclusively used or paired with Ketchup combining the flavouring.
Brown Sauce - HP, Daddies etc this sauce is pretty popular in the UK (Where I live) and goes great on chips/fries and prior dish mentioning.
It is also a cardinal rule to be put into bacon sandwiches among the brown sauce community.
What is your favourite sauce to use?
Mayonnaise
Not sure how you can talk about “the big three” of condiments and leave out mayo. Is it just non-existant outside of North America or something?
I’m from Germany and I have literally never heard of Brown Sauce as a condiment. Perhaps just as a sauce, but to top a dish?
I am disgusted it was not included. I am an utter mayo monster.
I hate ketchup as a sauce or spread, don’t mind it as an ingredient but it’s way too fucking sweet to put on anything.
Mayonnaise for sandwiches, with mustard or horseradish.
Hot sauce for eggs, beans or French fries (chips) . The salsa yucateca if I want hot without sour, Tabasco if I want sour; hot chili garlic paste if I want flavor bomb.
Of those particular 3…a good mustard I guess. I don’t really use any of them.
Soy sauce
Chilli oil
Tomato sauce (fish and chips)
How does tomato sauce differ from ketchup? Isn’t it the same thing with different names in different parts of the world?
It is quite different.
As least here in NZ, ketchup has a vinegary component to the taste, tomato sauce is more sweet.
Brown sauce? Please, that’s only a thing in Britain. The only sauce which defies national borders and cultures is mustard .
Ketchup is a western sauce. Mayo is an JP/K sauce. Hot sauce isn’t even mentioned but is more widespread than brown sauce.
Mayo is an JP/K sauce
Offended Dutch noises. (And most of western Europe).
What kind of ketchup? Tomato, banana, mushroom?
Actual barbecue sauce that isn’t a one-note, sweet sauce like I find in Asia but rather has tang, spiciness, & smokiness. I made some at home based on Gates sauce & gave some to locals who they were absolutely blown away that BBQ sauce can actually have a complex flavor flavor.
#2 would be sawmill gravy, #3 sweet chili, #4 jim jaew, #5 salsa verde, #6 tahini
Nowhere on my list & actually make me gag: ketchup, yellow mustard, brown sauce
“Brown sauce” isn’t a thing in America - sauce that is brown and has no name is just gravy.
Anyway I’ll stick with mustard mostly, paired with mayo on some subs.
A1 is my go to “cover up that awful shit so I can stomach eating it” sauce. Similarly good if somebody overcooks meat.
Marinara for dipping stuff into.
The only circumstances I’ll accept for ketchup is when it comes by default on a burger, in which case I can’t be bothered to care, paired with mayo at better burger joints.
Ketchup, I guess? It goes better with most things than mustard. But if I had to pick a sauce of my choice it’d probably be Tare sauce, I just really like the taste of it.
Brown sauce is not nearly as popular as hotsauce where I am. I always have a bottle of A1 and a bottle of catsup, but I typically have a half dozen each of mustards and hotsauces.
Editing to add I always have a jar of homemade chimichurri ready to go as well.
Tartar, béarnaise, aioli, mayo with harissa are my favorites. Can’t believe the top 3 didn’t include mayo.
