Hot Sauce

In Rochester, hot sauce most commonly refers to a greasy spiced sauce containing bits of meat. This type of sauce is used to top Garbage Plates, as well as burgers at Bill Grays. One of the lesser known ingredients in the sauce is actually cinnamon.¹

Other local sauces with a spicy kick include Boss Sauce, Country Sweet and PaPa Al's Hot Sauce, all of which are both excellent cooking sauces.

Rochester style meat hot sauce is sold by the bottle at Wegmans - look for Coach Tony's Gourmet Hot Sauce.

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2006-05-17 16:09:49   Rochester "Hot Sauce" is nothing more than grill scrapings, a mixture of grease and meat particles. If you're not from here, it'll catch you off guard every time, when you're expecting Tabasco and you get this goop of utility meat. That may sound gross, but it's really quite charming. —TobinFricke

2007-02-08 11:22:30   It is not really grill scrapings. Actual ground beef goes into the recipe, as well as spices and brown sugar. —BadFish

2007-02-09 11:13:27   Check out Cosmo's Limitless Sauce a locally created newcomer. —ThomasMyers

2007-03-19 15:00:05   does anyone have a basic reciepe for it? I've always wanted to try to make it myself, but didn't know where to start. —JohnJoseph

2007-06-05 23:58:34   It's a little more than a basic recipe, but here's what I've come up with over the years: Nate's Plate Hot Sauce —NathanHenderson

2007-07-25 22:40:49   Cool, thats what I'm looking for. I just wanted something with atleast a rough list of the spices they put in there. I'm really bad at tasting something to figure out whats in it, a starting point to start experimenting from. Thanks —JohnJoseph

2009-07-19   What you guys call "Hot Sauce" is strikingly like Cincinnati_chili, a delicious concoction which includes, among other things, a bit of chocolate. *drools* —PaulFisher

2009-09-15 11:12:41   TobinFricke couldn't be more wrong. I worked at Nick Tahou Hots and the hot sauce is not grill scrapings or "utility meat." It is a lard-based sauce, cooked with a bunch of regular ground beef, onions, and chili spices. —AlexDouglas