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?
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.
Mayo mixed with a spicy chili sauce.
Sriracha Mayo.
Yes or any kind of curry powder, the looks you get are part of the experience.
Mayonnaise
Yeah it tastes good and also works as a zesty lube too.
Hellman’s for the win.
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I am disgusted it was not included. I am an utter mayo monster.
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?
No. It’s incredibly common in the UK. Used on burgers and sandwiches. Not sure about other meals/foods.
It’s the most common sauce in Europe.
It is one of the mother sauces.
It’s good for you.
I don’t know what brown sauce is but of the other two definitely mustard. Can we add chilli sauce to the list though? That’s what I put on everything.
It’s basically ketchup, except it has dates and tamarind in addition to tomato
It depends on the kind. Pretty sure there are chili sauces without tomato.
My description is what brown sauce is
Nvm, I can’t read
Also from the UK and I am, apparently, a normie, basic guy - ketchup all the way.
What kind of ketchup? Tomato, banana, mushroom?
Rock ketchup, obviously
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.
I don’t think Germany has this, usually.
For us the three big ones would be Mayo / Ketchup / Mustard I imagine. Of which personally, spiced Mayo always wins out (Miracle Whip). Just too used to it from my childhood. 😅
Yes, I see it similar. But miracle whip is not mayo and does not count
I respect you as a human and your unique existence… Miracle Whip is ass.
You monster, what about curryketchup? (I think that’s the English word for it?)
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Out of the ones on your list, I’d probably go with Ketchup.
Outside of the list, BBQ sauce is my go to. I put that stuff on everything. Favorite is R&R’s sauce and then Kinders after that.
“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 is pretty overpowered for anything but the blandest foods. I like mustard and/or mayo in most cases
if I have to stick with one, it’s going to be ketchup, but ketchup slaps just right when it’s got a dash of mustard in it. My favorite though is ketchup with Frank’s Red Hot in it for fries
Where I live, the big 3 are mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise.
If I had to limit it to the “big 3” you listed, I would have to go for mustard. There are so many different types and of the options listed, mustard is easily the healthiest (or can be the healthiest) since a basic mustard is going to be low in sodium, sugar, and fat while also containing healthy phytonutrients.
Mustard is also much more versatile than folks in my part of the world give it credit for. It seems like a cultural thing / learned behavior rather than based on actual taste preferences. For instance, a fairly bland yellow mustard actually goes well with french fries. A spicy mustard (the types that are almost like horseradish) goes well with a variety of roasted veggies like broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower. Honey mustard works well with chicken in various forms. Lots of cheeses pair well with different types of mustard. I could go on, but I’ll stop here.
Since the majority of folks are discussing condiments that aren’t in your “big 3”, I would say that my actual favorite condiment is hot sauce. I’m not a connoisseur by any means and I don’t have refined tastes. I don’t even like super spicy hot sauces. But I do use hot sauce of some type with almost every meal and I go through a lot more of that than mustard or ketchup. Granted, hot sauces tend to be high in sodium, so I try not to go overboard.
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.
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.
