There’s some very decent vegetarian Worcestershire sauces out there you might try.
Although, personally, I’ve never heard of putting any sort of sauce at all on grilled cheese outside of, well, cheese. Maybe it’s an American thing? I’ve always known it as just melted cheese on buttery bread, served with tomato soup. Though my dad likes it with yellow mustard and Miracle Whip, which tastes vile to me.
Dude. Lighten up. It’s just cheese on toast. Do you really think I’m judging people who put anything other than my preferred options on theirs (esp when, as someone points out below, my own much-loved wife chooses something different for hers)? You go ahead and put what you like on that bad boy - I’ll do the same on mine - and we can all get along, instead of insisting that every internet comment is written in legalese.
I’m a sensitive soul and I try hard not to upset people - but I really didn’t think anyone could take offence at what I wrote about my (obviously personal) choice of condiments.
I’m still trying to find a good chilli sauce that doesn’t have sugar or
onion in it (Garlic is OK, it doesn’t make me ill for some reason), and
is easily available in the UK. If I get enough lemon drop chillies this
year I willl try to make my own sauce from them.
I’ve never worked with lemon drops, but I highly recommend the “do it yourself” approach if you want a good hot sauce. It doesn’t take very many ingredients. peppers, garlic, salt, vinegar. Maybe smoke a batch of the peppers and add them in with fresh ones, or try dried of various maturities. They all contribute different flavors. Possibly try one of the other polar solvents used in cooking in place of the vinegar, or use an oil.
I’m Not giving up any of my recipes here, but it’s a fun area of cooking to play with and properly canned / bottled hot sauces will last a long time.
I also realize the UK might not have the best climate for growing hot peppers, so you might have to import. I can’t say what kind of results you’d get with a hothouse there, but also maybe an option.
I agree, though haven’t tried that brand of hotsauce. So far my fav is dave’s gourmet scorpion pepper hot sauce… though the main reason is that it does not have the extract taste and it does not have heavy vinegar. Pretty much any sauce like that is good for me. I like to go from little spikes of hot, to ‘i just ate a bunch of nails and stuck my hand in that box of deathly pain in dune’ hot.