Talk:Chili sauce and paste

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

A fact from Chili sauce and paste appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 August 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that chili sauce is sometimes used in the preparation of sushi?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/August.

Wikipedia

Tomatoes?

The lede text says "Chili sauce is a condiment prepared with chili peppers and red tomato as primary ingredients" but all the examples in the article don't contain tomatoes. This article seems thrown together, trying to posit that there is a significant difference between "chili sauce" and "hot sauce". I suggest that any unique content should be merged with hot sauce, and with chili sauce changed into a redirect to that article. - Takeaway (talk) 16:33, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not all "chili sauce" has chilies in it.

I have a bottle of store brand "chili sauce" that does not list chili peppers as an ingredient and looking up Heinz Chili Sauce, I see it also does not include chili peppers either. The Heinz-style chili sauce (and it's copycats) more like a ketchup but without the sugar and with more spices, among other differences. The intro needs to be updated to be clear that some bottles of "chili sauce" are just a more similar to ketchup rather a chili pepper sauce. The section on commercial varieties should also be updated to explain that what is called "Chili sauce" may not necessarily have chili peppers in it. Also the intro states that chili sauce is either hot or sweet or a combination of both but The Heinz style chili sauce is more vinegary & sour rather then sweet and completely mild. This should be fixed too. The problem with this article is that the term "Chili sauce" can be used either to refer to Chili pepper-based sauces, especially non-hot varieties or to a less sweet mild tomato based sauce (such as Heinz Chili sauce). If where going to include both kinds of chili sauces then we need to be clear that some "Chili sauces" don't use chili peppers as he main ingredient, if at all. --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 19:42, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The chili in Heinz chili sauce falls under the generic "spices" ingredient on the list. Which goes to show that it's really just spicy ketchup. oknazevad (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]