This recipe will work with any hot sauce. The most commonly used hot sauce brands are Tabasco and Frank's Hot Sauce. While I don't see any ingredients in either brand that would cause trouble, I prefer to stay away from mass produced brands. You can make your own hot sauce, but again, I don't tolerate it well, so I avoid it. Totally up to you. There are a lot of local and smaller brands of hot sauce that are processed in a small batch way with clean ingredients.