Hello my fellow Hot sauce connoisseurs!
Yesterday I was able to get out to Avery Island and take the 10 stop Tabasco Tour and I wanted to share it with the people who I think will value it as much as I did. The tour showed you every step of the process to make the classic Tabasco flavor from picking the Tobacco pepper, creating the pepper mash and storing it, the mixing phase, and the bottling line.
They also have a museum that tells you about the origins and impact of Tabasco on the world.
The end of the tour is the Tabasco Store and the Tabasco restaurant called 1868. I did not get good pictures of outside the restaurant and store because the signs were not on display in front of the buildings, so they just look like plain buildings. I assume this is because we are in hurricane season and they do not want them to get destroyed but it could be for other reasons.
The meal I had was the Bayou Crab Cake and Crawfish Etouffee as the picture before it shows. I have lived in New Orleans for a year and a half and it was one of the best dishes I have had so far. 10/10 hands down.
I highly recommend adding this to your bucket list if you are a Tabasco or even just hot sauce fan. The tour lasted about 2.5 to 3 hours including sitting down at the restaurant and browsing the store. I also did not include contents of the store and other parts of the tour on purpose so it does not spoil everything before someone has a chance to see it for themselves.
I hope you enjoy these photos and it entices you to go and visit Avery Island. It was a 10/10 experience!
P.S.- I swear if I trigger the Tabasco bot, I'm going to riot.
by tinysc137
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So awesome. As a long time craft hot sauce hobbyist, I have the greatest respect for Tabasco and often find that nothing hits quite like it at times. I’d love to take that tour one day but it’s just so far from anything lol. But major kudos on ordering the special – I was really hoping you’d get that, and it looks fantastic. And the bloody! I would have ordered the same exact thing