Bottle Description: We roast the garlic and habaneros together and the end result is a rich earthy taste with concentrated heat.

Ingredients: Vinegar, onions, habanero peppers, garlic, salt, basil.

It was hard to get these ingredients b/c the Scovie winner award seal was right over the English ingredients list. And since I cant read French I had to search the net. And the first site to pop up was Ron Levi’s review of this same sauce.

Container: I think the design of the bottle is a crate of some kind. Which, I guess you can store dangerous goods in. Comment if you know how to store dangerous goods.

Appearance: A chunky puree with natural colors. You can almost see every ingredient from the seeds of the peppers to the bits roasted peppers.

Smell: I think earthy is a great way to describe this sauce, that’s a pretty dead-on way to describe the smell. Deep aroma of roasted peppers and onion, garlic and basil. There’s no tart vinegar smell to the sauce which is a nice bonus.

Taste: While eating a meal I thought to myself “this sauce is mediocre at best, Scovie award my ass”. At this point in time I then realized that I had finished 80% of the bottle in one sitting on one entrée. Truth is that this sauce is so good that you take it for granted. It certainly isn’t something you’ve never tasted before ingredients-wise but the way everything comes together is damn good. It’s like the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction, that’s a damn good song but you’ve heard it so many times that you take it for granted.

The peppers, garlic and onions really carry the sauce. The richness of the roasted peppers is warm and sweet as the garlic and onions add their flavors to bolster the “earthy-ness” of the sauce. The vinegar comes in a twinge to strong for my taste in the end but I’m pretty picky about my vinegar content.

Heat: (7.8/10) I was surprised at the heat in this sauce. Usually I don’t come across a lot of sauces that make me grab a bit of water after a couple bites but Dangerous Goods can be quite dangerous for newbies.

Field Test: This is a pretty all around sauce and it goes great with almost anything. But since it was a salsa-like consistency I would recommend it with Mexican food. This stuff even works on tofu.

Final Word: A good sauce. Worth getting. Great taste even if it’s not a new taste.

Overall: 8.5/1

Denzel’s Gourmet Foods Ltd.
Box 398
Enderby, BC
V0E 1V0
Meet Your Maker: Denzel

Conquering Lion- Hickory-Smoked Hot Sauce

Bottle Description: Conquering Lion Hickory Smoke XXX hot Sauce is handcrafted in small batches using locally grown tomatoes grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The peppers and tomatoes are picked at peak ripeness and then smoked using 100% Appalachian Hickory grown on our farm. The resulting sauce is full of flavor not just heat. It is naturally hot and contains no pepper extracts, GMOs, or any artificial ingredients. XXX is not for the weak of heart

Ingredients: Smoked Tomatoes, smoked habanero peppers, smoked cayenne peppers, water, lime juice, cane vinegar spices and sea salt.

Appearance: Red and brown almost like a BBQ sauce with specks of pepper in it.

Smell: Smells almost precisely like BBQ sauce. Every component of this sauce’s aroma is light and faint. You almost have to sniff pretty hard to get that BBQ smell. There is no smell that indicates that other ingredients such as peppers or even vinegar are present.

Taste: There are two tastes here. 1)Vinegar 2) Hickory smoked…something. I’ve been holding off this review because I don’t dislike the taste of this sauce and I certainly am not fond of it. The taste of peppers is almost untraceable and all you really have is watered down BBQ and vinegar. Even with those glaring errors, this sauce isn’t bad.

Heat: (7/10) Tingles the tongue but burns the lips.

Field Test: Here’s where the sauce fares much better. Because of its characteristic of having such a light flavor this sauce shines on food. While other sauces become overbearing and try to dominate your palette, this Conquering Lion sauce blends in nicely and ADDS to the flavor of your food. I doused some on a rice dish I had heated up and it worked out nicely. This sauce is pretty good on anything that needs a little bit of BBQ flavor.

Final Word: If I were to judge this taste alone it would be abysmal but it gets points for being such an excellent complement to almost any dish.

Overall: 6.8/10.

RickDaddy’s – Smokin’ Marlin (Gourmet Hot Sauce) Smokey Sauce

Bottle Description: While fishing off the coast of Key West near Cuba, we accidentally spiled some of our homemade hot sauce on the lures. When we looked behind the boat the Marlin were on top of the water and their tails were smoking! Try a couple of drops of Rick Daddy’s on your food and your tail might be smikin’ too!

Ingredients: Fresh carrots, water, smoked habanero peppers, onions, cane sugar, distilled vinegar, kosher salt, pineapple juice, garlic, xantham gum and natural spices

Container: To be honest when I first looked at the sauce I barely paid attention to it. I didn’t even know the sauce was by Rick Daddy’s until recently. Nothing stands out too much about the bottle.

Appearance: Brown and thick with tons of specks of pepper.

Smell: Smokey and BBQ-esque with a twinge of sweetness and peppers.

Taste: Heavy BBQ and smokey taste, which is preceded by the sweetness of the cane sugar and pineapple juice, like maple syrup. The pineapple juice is especially good. All that flavor is then followed by a slightly vinegary peppery flavor ultimately ending in a mellow smokey-ness.

Heat: 7.8/10. Relatively hot but not overbearingly so. Noobies have complained about this sauce but us veterans will find it to be a stiff warm breeze on our tongues.

Field Test: Specific application sauce. Don’t be putting this sauce on chili, eggs or Chinese food because on account of the sweetness. This sauce works just like a BBQ sauce but with a broader use. I’ve used this sauce on Mexican food and it works pretty well. The sauce really shines on food that has not already been seasoned because of the strength of the flavor of this sauce.

Final Word: Specific application. If you can find the perfect food to go with this sauce you’re going to make that food even better. I love that pineapple juice. I was surprised by the great taste of this sauce just because the packaging is so unassuming.

Overall: 8.0/10

RickDaddy’s Foods
Toll Free 1-877-268-6328
sales@rickdaddys.com

Winston’s-Gourmet Jamaican Hot Pepper Sauce (Hot and Mild)

“We sell flavor”

Bottle Description: Created up in the mountains of St. Mary’s Parish, Jamaica. Look no further, you’ve found it. The sauce that makes every dish taste special!

Ingredients: Mangoes, honey, tomatoes, apple cider vinegar, red and yellow bell peppers, peanut oil, habanero peppers, spices, onion powder, sea alt, chili powser, cayenne pepper, dill weed, tamarind.

Container: I like this label a lot. National colors and a flame spewing lion? Cool. Great example of a sauce that doesn’t need to brag about heat. Did I mention the lion spewing flames?

Appearance: Darker brown sauce with seeds and brown flecks of what I believe is pepper skins.

Smell: The mangoes are very noticeable and the sauce has a primarily fruity aroma. There’s no common vinegar smell or even much of a chili pepper smell. Very sweet and fruity.

Taste: This is where things get interesting. Winston’s Gourmet Jamaican Hot Pepper Sauce is unlike any sauce I’ve ever tried. At first I was taken aback by the use of such a strange mix of flavors because it didn’t suit my usual hot sauce palate. Upon further tastings I discovered that the use of honey, mango and tomatoes in addition to apple cider vinegar, peppers and a slew of spices gives this sauce a very complex taste. The sauce starts with a sweet mango island flavor and proceeds to a biting peppery flavor and ends with a large kick of spices.

Heat: (7.0/10) It has a kick but nothing that will knock out your tongue.

Field Test: I can recommend that this sauce go on pretty much everything but it works well of foods that do not contain lots of salt. You should be applying this sauce to rather neutral tasting foods. I’ve had 3 great meals where I have dumped this sauce of salmon and have almost finished the bottle. Think of this sauce in terms of the cranberry sauce you use during Thanksgiving, if you can use cranberry sauce on it definitely apply this stuff.

Final Word: Get this sauce. It is a must have in terms of a fruit based sauce. The best I’ve tasted in its genre.

Overall: 9.6/10.

In 1998, we were awarded the People’s Choice Award for the best tasting hot sauce from the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. In the August 27, 2004 edition of the Austin Chronicle, we were interviewed before the festival due to our outstanding product and history of multiple awards in the commercial bottle category of the festival. Now, we’d like to introduce ourselves to you with excerpts from that article.

The story of Winston’s Hot Pepper Sauce is a familiar one. Although they both were born and raised in Jamaica, Winston Thorpe and Orville Failey Sr. met in Austin .Thorpe was, and still is, the caterer for all Jamaican bands that play at Flamingo Cantina Night Club in Austin, TX. His hot sauce comes from a recipe given to him by his grandmother back in St. Mary’s Parish in Jamaica and was a hit with everyone who tried it. Thorpe approached his friend Orville to join forces and start up a business bottling the sauce. they first entered the Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest, where they won first prize in the People’s Choice Award In 1998.with Orville at the helm as CEO and manager, Thorpe set out to bottle and sell his sauce in stores confident that the people of Austin had approved of his creation.

The sauce is indeed delicious, a flavor bomb made of mangos and Chile habanero, spiced with thyme and a hint of ginger. Although it is hot, it is designed “to enhance the flavor of foods, not to take it away,” Failey explains. It is made of all natural ingredients.

The Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival has had a great impact on Winston’s products. “When we do the Hot Sauce Festival, we are putting a face to the product,” Failey says. “We are proud to be a local product while bringing a Jamaican flavor to the festival. It is a great festival, a cross-cultural experience that helps bring together the different faces of Texas.” The sauce has also garnered awards at the Houston Hot Sauce Festival for three consecutive years, as well as at the Texas Fiery Foods Show. They have participated in the Chronicle’s Hot Sauce Festival every year since 1998, often placing in the top three for the People’s Choice Award. “We are trying to override people’s idea of what a hot sauce should taste like,” Failey says. “We try to re-educate them. They are used to something plain, like the average pepper, vinegar, and water sauces. Our customers call it ‘liquid spice’ because it tastes so good. We make a product that makes people go ‘wow.

This sauce is not only a great table sauce, but it is excellent for cooking, too. They receive e-mails from many happy customers to tell them the many ways in which they use it. Some mix it with ketchup or mustard to dress hot dogs and burgers, add it to barbecue sauces and marinades, and use it right out of the bottle on pizza. I think it’s incredible on pork, especially if it’s barbecued or smoked, and it is also great on seafood. In the case of Winston’s Hot Pepper Sauce, “We sell flavor” is more than just a motto.

– Claudia Alarcón, Austin Chronicle

Jackson’s Signature Sauces – Death in the Desert (Habanero Hot Sauce)

Bottle Description: Jackson’s Death in the Desert is an awesome blend of fiery habanero and other all-natural, preservatives free ingredients and Spices. Recommended for a wonderful heat and awesome flavor on steaks, chicken, pork, fish and soups!

Ingredients: Carrots, peppers, spices, vinegar, salt.

Container: Regular graphics, unsuspecting bottle.

Appearance: A standard red-brownish sauce, with seeds etc.

Smell: Vinegary? This sauce has all the makings of a regular old vinegars and peppers sauce but the smell is mellower. More inviting. That’s probably because of the carrot aroma which lightens the mood.

Taste: A no nonsense sauce that you’ve had many many times before. However the harsher aspects of those sauces have been dulled. You may be used to tartness from vinegar but Death in the Desert is more carroty, playing against the vinegar. The sauce then is miler in terms of tartness, almost like a tart fruit.

Heat: (7.0/10) The sauce leaves a tad bit of warmth on your tongue.

Field Test: This sauce goes pretty well with everything if you wanna add bit of heat to any dish. An all around sauce that excels on breakfast foods.

Final Word: Pick up a bottle. It won’t change your life but it’s good to get back to basics every once in a while.

Overall: 7.2/10

Penrod Pepper Products &
Super Spicy.com
Mesa, Arizona

Danny Cash’s Renegade Habanero Ranch

Bottle Description: Nothing hidden about this ranch! Habanero and garlic combine for a burning ranch! Heat 6/10

Ingredients: Habanero and Serrano chile peppers, buttermilk, garlic, soybean oil, sugar, dried parsley, lemon, lime, vinegar and salt.

Container: I’m no cycle fan so I can’t comment on the label. I will tell you this about the container though. The pour is excellent.

Appearance: If you didn’t know that it looks like ranch then I can’t help you.

Smell: Unsurprisingly this [tag]ranch[/tag] smells like of course ranch. However, there’s a hint of acidity from the vinegar, salt and peppers. Ranch smell with a tiny bit of bite.

Taste: Well damn. Of course first you get the familiar flavor of ranch but afterwards you get a tiny bit of sourness that lets out the pepper flavor. The peppers are faint but add to the good overall flavor of the sauce. Renegade Habanero Ranch tastes nothing like Hidden Valley Ranch which I assume is old fat-free milk and bird crap.

Heat: 5.0/10. Well at least Danny Cash was honest about the heat. If it were another company they’d probably be bragging about their non-existent [tag]habanero[/tag] content. I salute you Danny Cash for being honest.

God-like on friesField Test: For ranch this stuff works surprisingly well with lots of stuff. I added it to chicken and rice, Mexican food and vegetables and they were all good. This stuff is god-like on fries. Don’t be afraid to stray from your usual ranch routine.

Final Word: Not bad, it’s better then you expect. I really had no expectations for this stuff and I figured that hot sauce makers should stick to hot sauce but it’s really good. Usually when some hot sauce makers decide to stray from what made them popular in the sauce industry they try to expand to something else with mixed results. This sauce is good stuff.

Overall: 7.8/10

Danny Cash Unlimited
2936 S. Zuni Street, Unit A
Englewood, CO 80110
USA, EARTH
(888) 3-hotsauce
www.dannycash.com

Baby That’s Hot – Lagrimas Del Diablo

Ingredients: Red wine vinegar, peppers, garlic, salt, spices.

Description: Spanish for “Tears of the Devil”. Almost every ingredient in it is naturally red. The result is a rich, traditional hot sauce with a hint of sweet. Great on Mexican, eggs, and beef.

Container: Baby food container is a plus!

Smell: The peppers and garlic are here. They’re here! I think they’re here. I can’t tell with the overwhelming vinegar smell.

Consistency: Watery. This sauce could use a bit of starch to give it more viscosity. It the kind of sauce that gets all over the place.

Taste: The taste fares a little better than the smell. The vinegar is still pretty egregious and wraps its sour mitts on the pepper and spice flavors. The taste is there but the vinegar can be like a big roadblock to deliciousness.

Heat: (7.2/10) A tad bit on the tongue. A more throaty burn.

Field Test: Follow the description on the jar, follow the theme of the sauce name. Go Mexican all the way. I couldn’t find any meat it was good with but it worked pretty well on a big chicken burrito. It’s also good with Wheat Thins.

Final Word: A sour red sauce with hidden potential.

Overall: 6.4/10

Other Baby That’s Hot Reviews:
Review: Me So Hot Hot Sauce
Review: Triple Dog Dare Hot Sauce

Baby That’s Hot!
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P.O. Box 35103
Philadelphia, PA 19128

Baby That’s Hot- Triple Dog Dare

Bottle Description: Triple Dog Dare is made with sautéed tomatillos to give a green spin on your standard hot sauce. Hotter than most, it lives up to the rather imposing name.

Ingredients: Vinegar, tomatillos, peppers, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, spices.

Packaging: Ha! A baby food jar, that’s pretty original. I really like the design on it. Cut but deadly! The only potential problem with the container is that it would be hard to pick up women when it looks like you’re eating baby food.

Appearance: Looks like a common green sauce with seeds.

Smell: I love the smell of this sauce. I think tomatillos and garlic is a potent aromatic combination. It’s warm and familiar.

Taste: A big plus to the boatload of peppers used in this sauce. The lemon and vinegar gives it a bit of tang that is entirely acceptable. The garlic and spices give the sauce a nice body.

Heat: (7.7/10) You have had green sauces before but Triple Dog Dare brings some decent heat.

Field Test: Mexican food. It works fantastically with Mexican food. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

Final Word: Maybe it’s because this sauce takes me back to every Mexican restaurant I’ve ever been to or maybe it’s the taste, but this sauce is good. It’s a good variation of the green sauce theme. It’s kind of like a Lynrd Skynard cover band. They all play Freebird but some cover bands play it better than others. Triple Dog Dare is that great cover band.

Overall: 8.7/10.

Other Baby That’s Hot Reviews:
Review: Me So Hot Hot Sauce

Baby That’s Hot!
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P.O. Box 35103
Philadelphia, PA 19128

Revenge Pit Bull Hot Sauce
Because Revenge is so Sweet

Bottle Description: For those of you who said the Original Pit Bull Hot Sauce wasn’t hot Enough – Revenge is the Heat you’ve been asking for! Like our Original Recipe, Revenge starts out with Great Flavor and then Bites Back with Extreme Heat! one taste and you will agree. Revenge Pit Bull Hot Sauce is the Hot Sauce that Bites you Back!!!

Ingredients: Chili peppers, water, sugar, garlic, salt, distilled vinegar, honey, red Tabasco peppers, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfate as preservatives and xanthan gum

Container: Wait. Is this hot sauce for your dog? What is this? I’m not a fan of the packaging really. It reminds me of the WWF in the early 1990′s for some reason. Could be the audacious PIT BULL on the scratched up background. If I saw it on the shelf I would pass it up.

Appearance: A rather concentrated red but if you look closely you can see the pepper skins in the sauce.

Smell: Sriracha? You know that smell right? Delicious! Well Pit Bull smells like Sriracha, except that it has more of an onion aroma to it while the Sriracha has a more garlicky nose to it.

Consistency: It’s got some run to it but it won’t get everywhere, it can hold its own on your sandwich or eggs without it running into your pancakes. However, the only problem is that this sauce tends to gunk up in the neck of the bottle (see picture). Makes the sauce look like a clogged artery impeding flow. So sometimes you gotta shake the hell out of the bottle to get your sauce going. Minor complaint but it can get annoying when you want your sauce FAST in some kind of life or death situation. I should note that if you are having a life or death situation with [tag]hot sauce[/tag] you might be addicted.

Taste: Quick Review: Sriracha +some garlic, +some onions.
the Tad Bit Longer Review: Sweet then garlicky mostly which tapers off with a bit of Tabasco pepper flavor. Good stuff.

Heat: (6.0/10) False advertising alert WeeeOhhhh WeeeOooh WeeeOooh. Don’t get me wrong, this stuff is damn good but it won’t set of the heat alarms in your mouth (which go AoooooGAH!). I don’t know what is being Revenged really. I can’t imagine the regular sauce could be any less hot.

Field Test: This is a sauce, which you can add to almost everything. Think of your favorite meal. BAM you can add this sauce to it. Will it be good on ice cream? I can tell you this. yes.

Final Word: This is an unassuming sauce. If it weren’t for Nick I would have never tried it because well its not visually appealing. But it tastes really good. I gotta be honest with you though, I wouldn’t throw out the Sriracha for the Revenge Pit Bull.

Overall: 8.4/10.0 Honestly you can stick to Sriracha if you want but still, this sauce is damn good.

Pit Bull Hot Sauces
Bay Shore, LI, N.Y.
Established in 2002.
Owned and operated by Manny Ortiz, Lisa Anziano, Harlee and Syd the Pit Bull
Telephone 631-666-7462 – FAX 631-666-7462

Ingredients: Water, habanero peppers, vinegar, carrots, salt, xantham gum, garlic and spices

Container: I personally don’t know much about Texas aside from the fact that the SXSW festival is out there, George W. is from there and a prominent ranger named Walker protects and serves the fine state. The label also informs me that there are cowboys, missions and oil. It’s nice to have a sauce that doesn’t brag about its heat levels or taste.

Appearance: This is a red sauce with little evidence of what was put into it. There are some skins and seeds but mostly this sauce is thick and red (xanthum gum I presume).

Smell: The smell has a strong bite to it. The spices really work their aromas. Hints of vinegar and finally habanero are abound.

Consistency: Relatively thick [tag]hot sauce[/tag]. I suggest taking off the stopper because it’s so hard to get this sauce out with the stopper in.

Taste: The first wave of flavor belongs purely to the salt and spices. The habaneros travel via second wave but only after you’ve got past the saltiness. On first taste I hated this sauce because it was like a shot of soy sauce. Pure sodium flavor. The nutritional facts list this as a sauce with equal the amount of sodium as other sauces so something foul was at foot. The remaining flavors of the sauce are not bad. The habanero works well enough and the vinegar is very minor.

Heat: (6.7/10) The hottest sauce I’d ever had that didn’t brag about being hot. Definitely not that hot though.

Field Test: If you’re eating anything that’s already got high amount of sodium like Chinese take out I would avoid this sauce. A mouth full of NaCl is the perfect way to destroy a meal. It works wonders on unsalted fries. Find something relatively bland and spice it up.

Final Word: If it weren’t so salty, this sauce wouldn’t be half bad.

Overall: 5.5/10 Not recommended.