Review: Ass Murdering Hot Sauce
I like the label of this sauce, I think its funny and even though I do get tired of all the ass and butt and fart novelty labels. I don’t really hate them; I’m just not impressed with them either. This label is very colorful and I like the flask bottles so all in all its not to bad. If I had seen it in a store there’s no way I would of bought it though because I make it a point to avoid novelty labels unless someone tells me they are good. I might buy one for my collection shelf it I really like it but I have found through experience that a lot of the novelty labels aren’t really that good of sauces and they depend on a funny label to sell.
This sauce however did actually taste pretty good, it had an original flavor to it and I’m glad I tried it. I would put it more in the mustard category than a hot sauce, but its not like every other mustard out there either. The first flavor I recognized when trying it was lime, you might not think that lime and mustard sound good but it really worked. It almost has a bit of a curry flavor. This sauce pours easily from the bottle and has a lot of pepper bits and small chunks in it, I’m guessing some of the chunks may also be fresh garlic. I can taste the jalapenos and Serrano peppers in it but not the habanero’s, they do make there presence know after eating a bit though.
I used this sauce the same way I would use mustard, I had it on sandwiches, brats and hot dogs, sandwich wraps, chicken, burgers, and anything else I could think of that I normally put mustard on. The one meal in particular that I really enjoyed this sauce with was the brats, I had sauerkraut and pita pockets with beer brats and it was great. I even took some great pictures but unfortunately I didn’t realize my memory card wasn’t in the camera and they where saved to the camera itself with no way to send them in, so sorry for the lack of pictures on food.
The heat level of this sauce wasn’t extremely hot, it’s about what you would expect from your average spicy mustard. I would love to try a hotter version as long as it didn’t take away from the flavor of the sauce itself. That don’t mean that this one wasn’t hot enough for me though, it’s a really good sauce and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Its not really that impressive to say that I finished a bottle of hot sauce within a weak, because I do it all the time and often finish them within the day or even hour of opening them, but to finish a mustard this quickly is unusual for me. While I had this bottle open I was constantly looking for something to put it on.
Taste: 7/10 if you’re looking for a sauce that’s really more of a condiment to be used like ketchup and mustard but are bored with all the rest of the spicy mustards out there I recommend giving this one a try.
Value: I thought this bottle had a website on it that I could find out the price of a bottle and tell you if it was a value or not, but apon further inspection it just says combisummo. Combisummo. Combisummo. Combisummo”¦”¦. Repeatedly around the entire border, I tried combisumo.com and even did a search for combisummo and got nothing. I was a little puzzled by it, and what it means if it isn’t a website. Since that didn’t work I searched for the hot sauce but all I got was a bunch of sites with references to hot sauces that would hurt your ass, no ass murdering hot sauce. There isn’t any other info on the bottle other than the address, which starts out Bisummo, llc. That’s when I realized that the label don’t say combisummo. Combisumo. Combisumo. It actually was a website all along Im just not supposed to read between the dots like I was, it starts with the b and ends with the m. once I figured that out I found the site and the price for one bottle is 5.95 or you can get 48 bottles for only $168.00 I liked this sauce but I probably wont buy it again anytime soon for $6.00, for the difference in price I will stick to my regular mustard.
Overall 7/10
Contact:
Bisummo, L.L.C.
2146 E. Old Mill Dr.
Deltona, FL 32725
(407)592-3902
bisummo.com
deja voodoo
Nice review Justin, I can’t wait to try some 😉
Justin: Thanks for taking the time to put together a very thorough and insightful review of my Family’s Ass Murdering Hot Sauce. You made a very astute observation about our URL being encrypted in the label so we’ll have to correct that on our next run of labels.
Brendan’s earlier review of our sauce (actually the comments that followed) stirred up a lot of controversy that mainly revolved around the label with some occasional bacon boy slurs tossed about. In the end, I think everyone came to peace with the label controversy and took something away from the er, um colorful discussion so I would like to take a moment to pose a couple of questions about the actual sauce. Both you and Brendan mentioned that Ass Murdering Hot Sauce was not very hot but a majority of my local customers (mere mortals) think that the heat is perfect and some think it’s verging on too hot. I cringe, to some extent, whenever potential customers ask me how hot my sauce really is because it’s truly relative to one’s perspective or, more precisely in this case, heat tolerance. Now I know there’s the Scoville scale of heat that can quantify a heat rating but again, this means nothing to a person that considers Tabasco as unbearably hot. For me, the heat of our sauce is perfect but as I stated earlier, there have been many people that make a B-Line for the water jug after a small sample of our sauce and then there are the Hot Sauce Gladiators that sneer at the thought of eating anything less than 1.5 million Scovilles. I think I’ll just provide a pepper spray chaser with the purchase of every bottle of Ass Murdering Hot Sauce so every one is happy (I can just imagine Uncle Big’s creative wheels spinning at full throttle with that one…yeah, a mace chaser….SWEET!). But I digress. The real questions that I would like to pose to the HSB regular gang of misfits of which I hope to be inducted into soon is:
1. From a manufacturer’s prospective, what is the target Scoville rating that will produce the largest share of purchases from hot sauce consumers?
2. Should reviews rank the heat of sauces in a 3 tiered rating system (e.g. – Sissy scale, Joe Average scale, Asphalt Tongue scale)
Turk,
The first thing you have to come to grips with is that everyone’s heat level is different. I made a salsa for a party and I got different reactions from the party-goers. If you ask the Chileheads from any “hot” sauce website, you will get most asking for you to kick it up until their ears bleed. The most important thing for me is the flavor, then let the fire give me an accpetable burn. Yet my tolerance has gone up over the year, so I don’t know if your sauce will give me a sweat or not. If the heat is adjustable, then make 3 levels, mild, medium, and Chilehead.
Two of my favorite products are award winning mild hot sauces, THT Cry Baby and Cape Fear Smolderin’ Chipotle Hot Sauce because their flavor kicks butt. Ring of Fire makes awesome multiple heat level hot sauces that I absolutely love. They are a company I would follow with heat scale because if my Dad likes it then it must be good.
1. From a manufacturer’s prospective, what is the target Scoville rating that will produce the largest share of purchases from hot sauce consumers?
for the masses this sauce would probbly do nicely. its slightly hotter than most store bought sauces so for someone who is used to those and looking to go a step further this would be a good choice. i said in the review that its about what you would expect from a spicy mustard and i think its about the average heat level for what it is. i personally would like to try a hotter version but i know that most people cant handle the type of sauces that i eat on a daily bassis. im not saying that the sauce needs to be hotter, i really enjoyed it for what it is but being the chilli head that i am would definitly go for a more extreme sauce also.
2. Should reviews rank the heat of sauces in a 3 tiered rating system (e.g. – Sissy scale, Joe Average scale, Asphalt Tongue scale)
i used to do 1-10 with 10 being the perfect heat level for the product being reviewed and 1 being the heat level is way off weather it be way to hot or not nearly hot enough. people confused that with 10 being the hottest you can get and one being bell pepper mash. the reason i dont do a scale like that with 1 being not hot and 10 being extremely hot is that there is such a big diffrence in sauces when you start doing extracts. if 10 is the hottest it has to be 16 million right? well that would put mega death (500,000) at what like a 3 or 4? it dont give alot of room to rate non extract sauces under it. for a while i did extracts and non extracts on a difrent scale but that only confused people more (why is montys death lizard getting the same rating as ass murdering hot sauce?) i debated the perfect way to rate the heat level off a sauce for a while but like you said it all depends on your personall opinion. so now i dont rate it at all, i try to give a good description of how hot it is with words instead of numbers and compare it to a few more popular sauces. i like that none of the reviewers are told how they have to rate sauces and that everyone does it diffrently, after reading someones reviews for a while you learn how they are rating it and what heat level they are compared to you and can figure out how hot a sauce is based on there methode whatever it may be. i like that everyone does it there own way. (exept for the gold silver and bronze scale, i dont remember who did that but i think they gave it up.) nothing against that person but it just wasnt my favorite.
ok, if your still reading this and not bored by my ramblings yet, welcome to the blog. my suggestion about the controversy off the label is maybe do something like cajohn did with soreass label and make a novelty and a regular, that way you would have something for everyone.
Lime and mustard……..HUM………………
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Excellent comment Justin. I totally agree with your assesment of the heat rating thing. Perfect explanation.
And also I agree on the alternate label statement. With Naga SoreAss, it’s the same label, just different wording. On the Ass Murdering label you could make a very small change by removing the fire from the ass of the ass and you have a PC version of the label. I don’t think it’s really necessasry though. Guess which version of the Naga SoreAss sells more? 😉 And remember, SoreAss wasn’t the intended label. It was only done because I was playing a little prank on CaJohn and he actually liked it and wanted to do both. LOL!
Also, nice review. Two great reviews on this sauce, I gotta get me some! 😀
If DK stands for Doug King then a bottle is being sent out for your review as we speak by my wonderful wife Wendy. Thank you for the interest.
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Make sure you get his correcct address. He has moved to SAyville, NY. I have it if you need it 😉
So he’s going to be a neighbor of yours FKS? Whoops…bam! bang! Sorry about that….I just fell off the turnip truck. 😳
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Damn… foiled again.
Maybe we can work something out FKS. Do you sell other hot sauces through your web store?
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Who’s Doug King? 😉
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See, I told you that you sent it to the wrong guy. Ship it to Sayville, and I’ll make sure the right person gets it 😉
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thats what i thought, but its actually really good.
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“other hot sauces”????? Just the ones we make……
Salsa coming soon as well.
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That was a great review. Your reviews are always detailed and precise. Have you tried the Mad Dog 357 silver edition? If you did, could you give a review on that?
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Wow Wes…. I’m still alive after being threatened that the Mafia would be in touch. Maybe they have a hit list backlog.
In the meantime how about sending me those Defcon certificates you promised you’d send me after buying you out.
I knew you wouldn’t make good on that 4AM.
How’s your 5.5 Million dollar restaurant going anyway?
Your Pal Parker
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My son. YOU CRACK ME UP
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I think it’s just a tune. Or his mouth is full.
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OUCH! Love the habanero pickles Wes! Did you send Parker a jar?
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Once we establish ourselves as a company, we probably will expand our product offerings with multiple heat levels of the same product. We are, however, extremely happy with the current heat level for now because, as you stated earlier, “for the masses this sauce would probbly do nicely”. It would be pretty cool to develop a dual canister bottle that separates the heat source from the regular ingredients and allows the user to dispense the quantity of heat that they deem appropriate. I know, expensive but a cool idea never-the-less.
I see your point about how defining heat levels in reviews could be somewhat of challenge.
Hey listen, thanks again for taking the time to evaluate our hot sauce and provide some good advice in your follow-up comments.
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I’m sure he won’t post, but I did get a jar. They were OK, but I make my own with Bubbies pickles and Jim’s Red Savina mash. Way Better 😉
It ain’t rocket science.
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daves has a sauce that is like that and you can adjust the heat level. iv never tried it though because i would just eat all the extract and then throw it away.
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I’d like to try them, and no it’s not rocket science. I do jalapenos en escabeche with carrots, onions and garlic. The hardest part is keeping everything crisp through the canning process. One of my new sauces uses red savina mash that I used to get from my old contract packager. Since we no longer do business together, I recently asked Jim to send me a sample of his. Still haven’t gotten around to using it, but it smells awesome and the price is certainly right. Thanks Jim!
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Jim is the Godfather of peppers and the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet. 😉
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Your exactly right, and for everyone who missed out. Jim sells a Qt. jar once a year of pure RS mash for only $25.00. The stuff is awesome.
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i somehow missed this comment earlyer. i have had the 600,000 but not the new 700,000. im looking forward to trying it and i will definitly do a review when i get around to buying a bottle possible during my trip to Jungle Jims next weak.