Is Worcestershire sauce a fish sauce?

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Considering most of its flavor comes from anchovies, is it a fish sauce or a different category?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Wikipedia has it in the fish sauce category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fish_sauces

But isn't the amount of anchovy very low compared to the other ingredients? Leading to vegan knockoffs.

 

[Sugriva]

the main flavor comes from fermented fish, so yeah.

 

[BradeRunna]

It's basically rotten fish juice. It's why the very few rare times I have cooked anything that had it in the ingredients list I just left it out. I don't want rotten fish juice in my food.

 

[Mound Dweller]

It's the closest modern thing to Roman Garum so I'm told.

 

[User names must be unique]

nah too many other flavours going on. It is a sauce made with fish sauce but not a fish sauce itself.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Worcestershire sauce is a psyop by big fish to MK Ultra Green Peace whale watchers into global warming hoax conspiracy theories and CIA mind control condiment based warfare on the Jewish Zionist state. Obviously. Read a book.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

A lot of people don’t know that it contains fish and that’s what makes it taste so good

So please keep this thread hidden. People should enjoy things in ignorance I believe

 

[Requiem for a Ween]

Yes, by wikipedo standards. In my opinion, all of these kind of products are actually just vinegar variants. Do a Pepsi challenge with it and any other decent brand of fermented mystery tonic and I'd be hard pressed to tell which is which.

 

[ethicsincheesepizza2]

Fish is definitely the most interesting ingredient in there, which gives its primary character.

To argue otherwise would be like saying vodka is water because it is 60% water.

 

[SmokelessFire]

Since Worcestshire sauce is fermented with Anchovies as opposed to simply having fermented anchovies/fish sauce added to the mix, I'd say it's a fish sauce. Though it's weird fish sauce is called a "sauce" considering it's really a condiment, though I guess the same could be said of soy sauce.

 

[Slav Power]

All that I know is that a language where a word "Worecestershire" is meant to be read as "woos-ter-sher" is retarded.

 

[888Flux]

All that I know is that a language where a word "Worecestershire" is meant to be read as "woos-ter-sher" is retarded.

t. Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

your language looks like someone had a brain aneurysm at a keyboard

 

[Dysnomia]

Wasn't it based on Asian fish sauce?

 

[Maraschino]

To answer your question, you have to be more specific: Is a fish sauce defined as a sauce you make with fish (fish is an ingredient), or is fish sauce a sauce you put onto fish (like a condiment)?

Because if it's the former, it's a yes (because it's made with anchovies), if the latter, probably not, although it could be--at least, I've never seen anyone eat fish with Worcestershire sauce.

 

[Super Guido]

Since Worcestshire sauce is fermented with Anchovies as opposed to simply having fermented anchovies/fish sauce added to the mix, I'd say it's a fish sauce. Though it's weird fish sauce is called a "sauce" considering it's really a condiment, though I guess the same could be said of soy sauce.

Fish sauce can be used as a condiment. Some of them are used as dipping sauces, or an ingredient in a larger recipe; I think Red Boat's pretty decent for that.

I voted that it's similar, but not a fish sauce, because I think my definition of fish sauce was a bit narrow before reading the topic. It's definitely a fish sauce, but it's not used the same way Megachef, Red Boat, or Three Crabs would be used.

That reminds me - I wanna try the Italian equivalent.

 

[PositiveMonk]

Whole foods makes a Worcestershire sauce without fish. That's what I use, so I'm going to say no.

 

[JuanLee]

Any of you people in the UK who are fans, should try this, cos it's excellent.

https://www.mrvikkis.co.uk/product/the-lurch/

His brown sauce is also way better than anything else I tried.

 

[There She Glows]

Whole foods makes a Worcestershire sauce without fish. That's what I use, so I'm going to say no.

There are quite a few brands of worcestershire with no anchovies. Annie's Worcestershire Sauce is pretty good, it uses tamarind paste as the primary ingredient substitute.