Curt’s Special Recipe Salsa Extra Hot

Anytime I get a salsa in a box to review it will most likely be the first bottle opened, I absolutely love it and was excited to see this in my newest package from nick. The label is nothing fancy, just extra hot special recipe curts salsa on a white label, but still I like it though. I shook it around and the consistency is about the same as a store bought bottle of tostino’s salsa which is thick and chunky but with enough juice in it to easily slosh around in the bottle. I take a closer look and see good size chunks of tomato, medium chunks of onion small chunks of green peppers and lots of seeds.

My favorite way to eat salsa is just on some corn chips, it’s a great snack and works good for a review because I don’t really have any other flavors from the food to interfere with the product being reviewed. I poured some into a bowl to dip my chips better and it smelled and tasted great, it reminded me of the fresh salsa that is often served at Mexican restaurants as an appetizer and made me miss chi chi’s. the spice mix in it is also similar to the Tostitos brand salsa that I used to love but this one has something that Tostitos didn’t, the reason I quit eating Tostitos because it didn’t have and that’s the fresh flavor of it.

It really tastes more like a fresh made salsa than a canned one. The chunks of tomato in this salsa seam to just be filled with juice that bursts open in your mouth when you chomp on them. I finished the jar up quick and was sad when it was gone. I looked up the website and they don’t sell it from the website there is just a list of stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin that sell it, but they do have an email address to contact if you want to buy or sell it yourself. I also didn’t see any info about there other products but I see a bottle of salsa labeled hot on the main page so I know they have at least 2 different salsas. I was kind of hoping for a black bean and corn.

Ingredients: tomatoes, onions, peppers, vinegar, habanero peppers, water, salt, spices, phosphoric acid, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulfite (preservative), yellow #5.

Email: info@curtssalsa.com
www.curtssalsa.com
distributed by Montero distributing inc Stillwater, mn 55082

Flavor: 9/10 I really liked the fresh taste of this salsa, and would recommend it.

Heat: I was a little disappointed in the heat level but it was still a great product. I know that if my wife eats it with me that its not hot and she loved this stuff.

Thickness/ consistency: just right

Overall: 9/10

Dumb and Dumber hot sauce

First impressions: My first impression of this sauce from looking at the sauce, looking at the label, and looking at the ingredients was that it was just another generic cayenne type sauce with way to much vinegar in it because the manufacturer wants to make more sauce for cheaper. I don’t have a problem with these types of sauces because I do really like vinegary sauce if I’m in the mood for it, the only problem is there are so many that are all the same thing all made as cheap as possible so they can try to sell them with a novelty label. The sauce itself is light red and basically looks like a watered down version of a cayenne sauce, where you would normally find a brief description of the sauce trying to convince you that its something you will like this bottle instead has a brief description for the novelty label. the only positive that I got in the first impression is that the first ingredient is habanero peppers rather than cayenne peppers.

First taste: I opened it up and was pleasantly surprised by the smell, garlic and vinegar. I meant to take a small swig from the bottle but underestimated how watery this stuff is and got a mouthful. Same as the smell garlic first then vinegar and with so much of it in my mouth at once I can say it was a little too salty but latter when I put it on my food that wasn’t an issue. this sauce was basically what I was expecting except for the garlic, yea I read it in the ingredients but was still surprised by how garlicky it was and how there was actually enough garlic in it to stand its ground next to the vinegar. I love garlic and it really makes the difference that turns an otherwise generic vinegar type of sauce into something wonderful and unique. Time to make dinner.

Dinner: as I was taking that first sip that turned into a mouthful and savoring the flavor trying to analyze every ingredient in this simple sauce my wife was making a snack, English muffin cut in half with a slice of tomato, fresh green and purple basil from my aero garden, and a slice of pepper jack cheese toasted in the toaster oven. I told her I didn’t want any but as it was toasting and the fresh basil hit my nose I couldn’t help but think how great this sauce would be on it. I made some up and it was fantastic, garlic and basil and cheese with a vinegary tanginess, damn it was good. and even with all the other great meals I made with this sauce it was definitely the best use of it, unfortunately I didn’t take pictures so I got some hungry howys thin crust mushroom pizza for the actual review pictures and if you prefer vinegar based sauces on your pizza this is about as good as your going to find. It’s not my favorite sauce for pizza but it could be my favorite sauce of this type for pizza. All in all I was really impressed with it.

Ingredients: habanero peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, salt, and vegetable gum.

Distributed by www.risquehotsauce.com (that’s it for manufacturer info on the bottle) and if you go to the site like I tried to do for research you will see that it has nothing. It must of closed down or something. I did a quick search for dumb and dumber hot sauce and found nothing, just a few links to pages that have something to do with the movie and a link to a youtube video of someone putting hot sauce in his eye. Good luck finding this stuff, but if you do pick a bottle up because its worth trying.

Appearance/marketing: 2/10 I never would of bought this stuff in the store unless it was on a clearance rack or something. I think that if the same sauce was sold with a little more serious approach it would do better, even if it’s the same label but just has a description of the sauce on it instead of the explanation of the label. I don’t think anyone would expect the garlic level in this sauce and just mentioning that would let me know that its got something to make it stand out from the category of sauce that it is in.

Taste: 7.9/10 the vinegar, garlic and habanero’s where all balanced perfectly. I really enjoyed this sauce.

Heat level: mild. It does build a little more than I expected because of the habenero’s, but for a habanero sauce its really not that hot.

Overall: 7.5/10

Doctor Craigs Cajun Hot Sauce

Ingredients: Rice vinegar, Habanero pepper, Pineapple, onion, Garlic, Natural liquid smoke flavor, Brown sugar, Cornstarch, Cayenne pepper, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate to extend freshness.

Smell: smells like a Cajun sauce, but with a twist. I can definitely smell the natural liquid smoke flavoring, and the pineapple. That give it that twist.

Taste: the main flavors in this sauce are the smoke flavoring and the pineapple, with the Cajun as a background flavor. By Cajun I mean the little bit of vinegar and the cayenne peppers that make the traditional Cajun sauce. This sauce also has habanero’s and they give it an extra kick. It is defiantly not your average Cajun sauce; in fact the differences are almost enough to not even consider it a Cajun sauce at all. It is really good though. Even though it is really sweet and I don’t like sweet I loved this sauce.

Meal: the first thing I tried this on was an egg and it was a great match, I fried it so that there was just a few drops of runny yolk left and then let the sauce mix with the yolk while I was eating it. the first thing I noticed was the smoked flavor and then the little bit of sweetness, with a little bit of heat that didn’t really build enough to notice until I was taking the last few bites. Because of the liquid smoke flavor to it I decided to try it on a burger. Liquid smoke is something I haven’t used in a while but my father used to put it on burgers and jerky so that’s why I thought the sauce would be a good match on a burger plus I had been day dreaming about a burger with chopped scotch bonnets and bacon in it for a while.

The first picture there shows 10 good sized, fresh from my garden scotch bonnet peppers, bacon in the middle, and a pound of hamburger. The second picture shows everything mixed together and made into 2 burgers, the larger of the two is the one I am using this sauce on, the other ended up being a hell no burger. After mixing everything together I cooked the burgers on the grill. I had my hart set on a onion bun that I purchased a package of the night before, but when I went to get it out I noticed they where moldy, and not just a little bit either I don’t know how I missed it when I bought them but I wasn’t going to have one. Instead I took two pieces of bread, and buttered and garlic salted one side of each the way I would make garlic bread. I cooked the one side the same way I do garlic bread also which is just on a pan until it starts to brown. Putting the garlic sides in the middle so my hands where touching the regular side I constructed my burger with a piece of cheese and some doctor craigs Cajun xtra hot sauce. I almost forgot the picture but remembered after a couple bites.

This picture is just to show how thick this burger is, it really was a large burger. The bacon and scotch bonnets gave it a really good flavor and added a good amount of heat to it on top of the sauce, I ate the rest of the bottle of sauce before writing this though so that I can accurately describe the flavor and heat level of it.

Buying info:
MFD. By Bobbees bottling
Louisburg, NC. 27549
www.doctorcraigs.com

Flavor: 8/10

Heat: 2.9/10 its not really hot, but its hotter than most Cajun sauces you just have to let it build a little.

Smell: 8/10 there is nothing that really stood out more in the smell or taste of this sauce.

Price: The website is still under a lot of construction, but they do have it set up to buy some sauce, the price is decent and includes shipping in it, but the only thing is you have to buy 2 bottles in order to place an order. I see why they do that, the price of shipping is included and it’s cheaper per bottle to ship two.
I always buy a couple bottles to make the most of shipping myself, but overall I think it might hurt there sales. If it’s a sauce you have never tried why buy 2 bottles? They do have another type of sauce also so you can get one of each but id recommend getting 2 of these if though.

Overall: 9/10

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

This seasoning packet came to me in a small plastic bag, on the bag it says controllable heat, great flavor. And I read on there web site that its basically the same flavor as there hot sauce but not as spicy. I took a pinch of it and the sauce must be pretty hot because it left a nice burning in my entire mouth, the best thing about the flavor of this is that it is not salty. Sodium is listed as the second to last ingredient but unlike a lot of spices that are out there I can barely taste any saltiness. Habanero’s are the biggest flavor here and also the first flavor for to hit your taste buds, in the aftertaste the onion (tastes like onion powder) and garlic are a little more powerful. The seasoning is fairly good sized flakes with a good amount of seed bits in it. one interesting ingredient in this seasoning is tomato paste, I don’t really buy a lot of seasoning just because I make my own every year so it might not mean anything that I have never seen it before but I thought that it was an odd ingredient for a dry seasoning. I think it’s the reason that the seasoning seemed to dissolve as soon as it hit my tongue. For a meal with it I decided to go with the basic chicken breast. I put a good amount of seasoning on it because I like it hot, and then baked it. the end results where great, the flavor went really good with the chicken and it left a nice long lasting burn on my lips and in my through.

Ingredients: hot peppers (mostly habanero’s) spices, tomato paste, onions, garlic, vinegar, sodium, lemon juice.

Contact info: packed in Anderson, Indiana. Comments or questions email hot doc at hotdoc@hotdocs-hotsauce.com (I tried to contact him with a question for my review at that email address and it didn’t work, I am listing it anyway because its on the package and who knows maybe it will be in service by the time you read this. I also have the website address that I found in a search if you scroll down the the price portion of this review.

Flavor: 8/10 it was unique from most seasoning that I have tried, I think because of the tomato paste, I’m not sure how that works in a dry seasoning but I liked it.
Heat: its not insanely hot like I like my sauces but for a dry seasoning it has a really good amount of heat and leaves a long lasting burn after the meal is finished.
Price: there is no website on the package but I did the research and found this site http://hotdocs-hotsauce.com/Products.aspx on this site it lists the 2.5 tbls of seasoning for $3.50
Overall: 8.5/10 I enjoyed this product and would recommend it.

Extract sauces have always been my favorite, but I do enjoy something else every once in a while, and lately I have been in the mood for non extract sauces. in the last month I have eaten every non extract sauce in the house, which was quite a few bottles and other than my occasional toothpick in the 5 mill or da bomb tfa I haven’t had any extracts. I started getting the craving for a real burn at lunchtime today at work so when I got home I grabbed this from the fridge. It has a nice looking label, and a dark red sauce inside, I took a quick look at the label and ingredients and decided it should be just what I was looking for. I first tried a teaspoon of it, and it wasn’t very tasty. I actually like the flavor of some extract sauces, but I have found that tomato based sauces with extracts I don’t like at all, if it’s a pepper and vinager base I usually don’t mind the extract flavor. This one is a tomato base though and it tastes like all other tomato based extract sauces. it is hot though and that makes it worth eating, im just going to have to find the right way to eat it is all. Usually with a sauce like this I either put it in chili, or mix it with something that will overpower the extract flavor a little. Refried beans is great to mix with this type of sauce and since im looking for something quick so I can get to bed, I decided to make nachos. There was also about a cup of refried beans left in the fridge from taco’s the other day so I mixed a tablespoon of sauce into it and evenly distributed it onto a plate of chips then added nacho cheese, tomato’s and shredded cheese and micro waved it. the end result wasn’t what I was hoping for but it was good, the beans did a great job at killing the extract flavor, but unfortunately they also killed the heat. I still got sweaty and red faced and open sinuses that super hot sauces give you but I had very little burn in my mouth. My second taste test was in a batch of buffalo chicken dip, and it was the perfect sauce for it, usually I use blair’s sudden death or maddog 357. this sauce is similar to sudden death and worked nicely in the recipe, which I will include below this review.

All in all it’s a decent sauce for cooking but it really doesn’t stand out from the rest.

Ingredients: Chile peppers(may contain habanero peppers, jalapeno peppers, red savina habanero peppers, red peppers), onion, vinegar, lime juice, tomato paste, garlic and spices, chile extract.
All un-natural ingredient’s no preservatives.

Manufactured for Monty’s Gourmet Foods L.L.C
1006 South Elm Ottawa, KS 66067-3232
1-785-242-3353
www.montysgourmet.com
character artwork by Dave Kellett creator of the Sheldon comic strip www.sheldoncomics.com

Taste: 2/10

Smell: 3/10

Thickness/consistency: it’s a little thicker than I like but the consistence is good and its pour able. 6/10

Heat: I have decide to quit giving a # / # rating for heat because it just seems to confuse people. Some people do it with 10 being the hottest and 1 being not hot, and some people, like I have done in the past, would do it with 1 being the wrong heat level and 10 being the perfect heat level. I have decided instead to just talk about the heat level and try to describe it for this portion of the review. This sauce is not the hottest extract sauce that I have eaten but it is definitely hot enough to satisfy the most extreme chili head out there. In the right amount I can use it directly on my food at the table, but any non chili head probably wouldn’t be able to handle it and would be better off using it in cooking where it is extremely diluted. Hopefully this helps and gives you a good idea of the heat level of this sauce.

Overall: 5/10

Buffalo chicken dip
If your looking for the perfect super bowl snack this is it, I don’t think I have ever made this dip for a new group of people without having at least one person ask me for the recipe. Its fairly easy to make and takes about 45 minutes total with 30 of that being cook time.

Ingredients:
1. 3/4 cup celery (minced fine)
2. 16oz cream cheese
3. 4 oz franks red hot or similar sauce
4. 1 oz of your favorite tomato or vinegar based extract sauce, in this case monty’s death lizard.
5. a few splashes of a thinner sauce ex Tabasco, hazmat, crazy mother puckers liquid lava.
6. 2 13 oz cans of chicken drained
7. 1 cup ranch dressing
8. 1 ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese note: shot glasses are 2oz I use them to measure the hot sauce since I don’t have any oz sized measuring devices. Drain chicken and set it to the side mix celery, cream cheese, franks red hot and Monty’s death lizard in a large saucepan over low heat. Add chicken. Take off heat; add ranch dressing pour into small casserole pan.

Top with shredded cheddar cheese. bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. enjoy with tortilla chips or crackers! Note: if you want to make a milder version of this sauce for the whole family to enjoy use 5 oz of franks red hot and leave out the extract sauce, also use Tabasco on top instead of any of the extract sauces I recommended.

Clancy’s fancy (HOT)

First impression: Looking at the bottle I have no idea what to expect from this sauce, after reading the long list of ingredients, I still had no idea what to expect. There are some unique ingredients in there and I can’t even imagine what this sauce would taste like. I took a closer look at the bottle and even though it’s a dark bottle I could see separation going on with the thicker stuff on top and a darker thinner on bottom, (I don’t remember if this bottle was right side up in the fridge or laying down or what, but the point is that it separated.) It has an oriental type of pattern on the front, but it is distributed from Ann Arbor, MI.

First taste: The first taste was along the lines of what I expected from the oriental style label, like something I would put on an egg roll, but it was unlike anything I had ever had before. It’s got a good thickness to it, and even though its kind of a gritty texture, it is good. I can barely taste the vinegar at all even though it’s the very top ingredient. The side of the bottle offers a brief description and it says “ pungent savory, deliciously different. Enjoy it in soups, salads, marinades, pizza, seafood, eggs……. Any way you fancy!” I started this review over a month ago and I really don’t know what to add to that. I have had it on all those suggestions except salad just trying to figure out what to say about this sauce. I even took it to Thanksgiving dinner and had people tell me what they thought of it, all I got was “it’s different”. A lot of the ingredients I have never had, some I don’t even know what they are.

My first taste test was on a stir-fry with Chinese noodles and it didn’t really work for me, the pizza didn’t work either but other than that it went well on everything I tried including a ham and cheese hot pocket. One complaint I have about this sauce is that the top doesn’t unscrew and I hate trying to shake my sauces out of a tiny little hole. I usually use a lot of sauce on each meal and it also gets the top messy trying to shake it out. One of the ingredients that I do recognize is bouillon concentrate, which could be a reason the flavor of it went so well in soup. It gives the sauce a meaty hamburger type flavor that really sets it apart from other sauces. I went online to do a little research and found a few interesting facts. Like for example that this sauce is uncooked when bottled.

CLANCY’S FANCY HOT SAUCE
Bottle (3.75 oz), $5.50
From Ann Arbor, MI, Clancy’s Fancy was developed by Colleen Clancy as a mixture she would give to friends for their culinary delight. In 1979, the sauce was officially produced for the public and has grown into a hometown favorite. It’s entire preparation is hands-on and only uses the freshest, natural ingredients. Combining Michigan apple cider vinegar, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, Michigan wildflower honey, Hawaiian ginger, paprika, and cayenne peppers, it’s one of the few hot sauces in the world that remains uncooked. This allows the ingredients to mingle inside the bottle to create well-balanced sauce of fire and flavor.

I also found a recipe for chicken wings that sounded good on the site above, but unfortunately I’m out of sauce so you’ll have to try that one yourself.

Ingredients: We use all natural ingredients! Apple cider vinegar, first pressing raw green olive oil, cayenne and sweet peppers, organic wheat free tamari, (water, organic soybeans, salt, organic alcohol), bouillon concentrate (hydrolyzed soya protein, molasses, vinegar, water, potassium chloride, lemon and orange juice powders, dulse, dried peppermint leaves) raw Michigan honey, fresh garlic, and fresh ginger juice.

Taste: 6/10 at first I didn’t like it, but by the end of the bottle it got to the point I was imagining what I could put it on when I got home from work. It’s so different from anything I have ever had before that I liked it just for that reason alone. I probably will buy it again but only because it is sold locally, I most likely wouldn’t order it again. It is good though and it definitely deserves some points for being different.
Smell: same as the taste so 6/10
Heat: it has very little heat. 1/10
Overall: 6/10

Clancy’s Fancy Hot Sauce
410 West Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(734) 663-4338

Doctor Craig’s Say Ahhhh Caribbean Hot Sauce

First impression: I tend to really like sauces labeled Caribbean hot sauce, I have found most sauces labeled Caribbean have more of a fresh peppers taste to them, often scotch bonnets which I love, reading the ingredients I see one ingredient that would make me put it back on the shelf if I was in a store, pineapple. I don’t like sweet sauces and it’s a safe bet if it says pineapple it is going to be sweet. The consistency doesn’t look to bad, I like my sauces a little on the thin side, and the label is just a very simple one nothing special there. From the looks of the bottle and ingredients I probably wouldn’t of bought it myself.

First smell/taste: I opened it up and smelled it, and got a strong sweetness, I can already tell this is not going to be my favorite. The sweet smell is no doubt from the pineapple, and I also smelled a tough of vinegar and garlic. I decided to cook some chicken cordon bleu. When my meal came out of the oven I put a generous helping on it right down the middle and it spread across the chicken and dripped of the sides just enough that I had an even coating of sauce and a little extra to rub each bite in. I love chicken cordon bleu and despite my low first impression of the sauce I couldn’t wait to dig in! I cut off a piece, rubbed it through the extra sauce and it was sweet, that’s all I can really say. I’m sensitive to sweets, if I’m in the mood for something sweet I have a diet coke. The first half piece of chicken was ok and actually tasted decent, on top of the ingredients you get in the smell I also tasted the onion, allspice, and a pepper that must be the chili pepper because its not fruity enough to be habanero’s. By the time I finished my first piece of chicken the sweetness was to much for me, and I was craving some heat that this sauce don’t have. By the end of the second piece I a little overwhelmed from to much sweetness. Keep in mind that a candy bar will do the same thing to me I really don’t like sweets. I’m stressing how much I dislike sweets because although I’m sure this sauce will taste sweet to anyone, you might like it more than I did if you enjoy sweet sauces. this is one thing I’m very picky about.

Recommendations: although I didn’t like this sauce, I still have a recommendation for it. it reminded me of Blair’s sweet death. If you like Blair’s sweet death I recommend this one to you!

Taste: 4.9/10 that’s based on the first bite I took before the sweetness was to much for me, and I was focusing on the flavor instead of just focusing on the one thing I didn’t like. I also want to note that the sweetness to it, is kind of a syrupy sweetness.

Heat: 1.5/10 if there is any heat here it was overpowered by the sweetness and lost in the mix.

Smell: 2/10

Overall: 2/10 I wont finish this bottle and definitely wouldn’t buy it again. Keep watch for my review on Doctor Craig’s Cajun hot sauce though!

Contact:
MFD. by Bobbees Bottling
Louisburg, N.C. 27549
www.doctorcraigs.com

Defcon Creator’s Double Super Secret Experiment X-13

There is no ingredient list on this bottle, but it is basically habanero’s and horseradish, there is also no website or phone number, you can no longer buy this stuff anyway, but you can get Habby horse at http://www.defconsauces.com its $7.00 for an 8 ounce jar. I have never had Habby horse except for a small taste at jungle jims last year and I cant tell you how the heat of this one compares to the Habby horse, but it has a good heat level to it, its not insanely hot but its got a good kick. The horseradish hits you first, then the habanero. This stuff has an excellent flavor and I hope the Habby horse is really similar. I first tried it on a corn chip and I ended up eating half the jar this way, I just couldn’t stop. Every time I think about it my mouth will start salivating.

For my review I bought some Arby’s sandwiches to try it on because roast beef always go’s good with horseradish, and after eating so much plain I was surprised at how little heat it lost to the food, it had about the same burn on the sandwich as it did on the chips. The flavor does not overpower the food at all, I put a lot on my sandwiches and could still taste the roast beef. I also added a little of this to some homemade salsa and I have to say that was probably the best use of it so far, it improved the flavor by 80% and doubled the heat, (it was mild to begin with) and I only added a tablespoon to a full soup bowl of salsa. This is one of the best products I have had in a while and I will definitely be buying some Habby horse after I finish some of the many sauces I have now and have a little more loot to spend.

Heat: 6/10
Flavor: 10/10
Value: since it’s no longer sold I can’t really say, but if Habby horse is half as good as this it would receive a 9/10 for the price it is listed.
Overall: 10/10 this is the first product for me to give a 10/10 on for the overall, and its well deserved, it can be used on just about anything and I highly recommend it, I know you cant buy it but if you like horseradish pick up some Habby horse.

First impression/smell: The label on this one is kind of cool with a border around the top and bottom made out of peppers. It does say “sweet blend of Florida Datil & Jalapeno peppers” and has both sugar and brown sugar listed in the ingredients, as well as high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup. So I was expecting sweetness to this sauce. I opened it up and smelled it, and it smelled sweet. The strongest smell would be peppers, then the apple cider vinegar, and the tomato concentrate is almost a ketchup smell, but not quit.

Ingredients: Tomato concentrate made from red ripe tomatoes, fresh red and green tomatoes, sugar, fresh onions, distilled vinegar, green bell peppers, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, fresh datil and jalapeno peppers, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, garlic, salt, spice, black pepper, onion powder and natural flavorings.

First taste: I first tried this sauce on pizza, and it was not a good match. It has a strong pepper flavor to it, which is probably why it is labeled pepper sauce. I can taste the bell peppers really good, and I can taste the jalapeno peppers in the background. the vinegar barely makes its presence known, and although distilled vinegar is labeled above apple cider vinegar, it’s the apple cider vinegar that I can taste. After trying it and knowing what it tasted like I decided it would go good on fajitas.

Finished meal: I have precut and frozen peppers from my garden for fajitas, I got out some green bell peppers and a few red bell peppers and thawed out for this meal the night before. I got the skillet out and cut a chicken breast into strips and cooked them in the skillet, then I removed the chicken and cooked the peppers and onions in the skillet and when they where done I added the chicken back to it and cooked them all together enough to make sure the chicken was still warm. I used soft flour burrito shells for them, so I could only eat 2 because they are so big, I put my peppers and chicken on first, then my cracker house pepper sauce, then added tomatoes, lettuce, and shredded cheese. The finished product was good, it was definitely to sweet for my liking, but it went really well on fajitas. The taste of the peppers in this sauce was a great match. I saved enough of the peppers that I thawed out to cook fajitas again so I can get the hotter version of this sauce out and have it on the same thing, since the ingredient list is the same except for one thing I imagine it will also go good on fajitas. And this sauce didn’t have any heat to me, so I’m actually looking forward to trying and reviewing the fire.

Smell: 3/10 smells way too sweet to me.

Taste: 4/10 it also tastes way to sweet, but in the right amount on my fajitas it was pretty good. I cant really think of anything else that I would like to try it on though.

Heat: 1/10 its labeled pepper sauce not hot sauce, and I think there is a reason, it has a good pepper flavor (mostly the bell peppers) but there really isn’t much heat to it.

Overall: 4/10 not my favorite, I definitely wouldn’t buy it again, a lot of that has to do with it being really sweet and not hot at all. I am looking forward to trying the fire though.

Crackerhouse sauces, Inc.
PO Box 1066
Palatka Florida 321778
386-328-2780
crackerhousesauces.com