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

Quaker steak and lube atomic wing sauce

My first impression of this sauce from the bottle was that it was a novelty sauce and probably wouldn’t be that hot. it comes in a medicine bottle and the sauce itself has an eye dropper very similar to pur-cap. Pur-cap however is an extract and I can understand the eye dropper, this is a wing sauce what am I supposed to do put one drop of sauce onto my wings? Dilute it maybe? It also has a waver that I’m supposed to sign and mail to them before eating it. how am I supposed to take that seriously, if it truly needs a waver they had better have you sign it when they sell it or people just wont do it. I took a look at the ingredients and it gets even better, the number one top of the list ingredient is Tabasco sauce. It has a breakdown of what is in Tabasco sauce, spices and then another hot sauce with a breakdown of what is in it. vinegar, salt, garlic, and some preservatives. So it basically sounds like they mixed other people’s sauces together added a few things and sold it as there own. If that’s the case how did they not get sued by Tabasco who seems to sue anybody and everybody they can? I did some research and got this from their site. “The “cult” following of its wings, spurred by an imaginative promotional schedule, has made Quaker Steak and Lube immensely popular with families, couples and singles alike. Everyone from two to eighty-two loves The LUBE! Truckloads of chicken wings arrive daily from the nation’s top chicken processors, and Tabasco(R) and Frank’s RedHot(R) sauce are purchased in 55-gallon drums.” I don’t make hot sauce and I don’t know anything about the legal works of it so I’m just going to forget about it, what do I care anyway. I’m more concerned with the taste. It claims to be between 100,000-300,000 scoville heat units so maybe it wont be so bad after all. The second hot sauce listed in the ingredients does have pepper extract listed in the breakdown. I cracked it open and licked the side of the dropper. My first impression was that it was more of a steak sauce because it had a very bold flavor with just a little tanginess from the vinegar. It wasn’t that hot so I set the dropper aside and poured it over my wings in a bowl then shook them up and served them with blue cheese dressing. The smell of the sauce on the hot wings was a lot more vinegary than the taste. But even being warmed up the flavor of vinegar was never an issue while eating the wings. It had just the right amount of tanginess to it, and was actually pretty good. it is definitely different than most wing sauces I have had in the past, which is a good thing. Even though its not my favorite and does not have enough heat for my likings it is something different after eating the same old wing sauces all the time. It would probably go really good on a steak because the flavor of it reminds me of steak sauce, and it didnt have that really buttery flavor to it that most wing sauces have to really set them apart from hot sauces.

Ingredients: Tabasco sauce (vinegar, aged red pepper, salt) hot sauce (cayenne red peppers, vinegar, salt, and garlic), spices, hot sauce (tomato paste, water, pepper extract, vinegar, sugar, molasses, soy sauce) vinegar, xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate, less that 0.1% sodium benzoate added as a preservative, salt, and garlic.Note: I realize that there are some typing errors in the ingredient list, that is how the bottle is so I didn’t feel the need to change them.

Smell: 5/10

Taste: 7/10 I like that it is so different than all the other wing sauces out there, but it almost doesn’t seem like it should be put on wings its so different.

Heat: 5/10 the medicine bottle and eye dropper and waver that I never completed and sent in before eating are purely a novelty, the heat isn’t that bad. Price: the website has it listed for 5.99 and I would say that is a decent price for it

Overall: 5.7/10

Quaker Steak and Lube
101 Chestnut Street
Sharon, PA 16146
724-704-7115

Death Paste

This stuff smells good, very familiar but I can’t exactly place it. The ingredient list is short and simple but gives no help to what I smell. Ingredients: habanero mash (water, habanero peppers), spices, salt. It really bugged me that I couldn’t figure out what I smelled because it is such a familiar smell, so I asked a couple other people to smell it and tell me what they think. My wife suggested paprika, I got the bottle out and smelled it and I don’t think that’s it, but it is a possibility, my mother said cayenne and once again not what I’m looking for but it definitely could have some in it. It smells like it has some herbal seasoning in it, and also a little smokiness, not chipotle but more along the lines of hickory. Not ever having any kind of habanero paste before I wasn’t sure what to do with this stuff so for my first testing I spread it on a deli sandwich.

not a good choice, not because the flavor didn’t match but because the flavor was overpowering, it wouldn’t of mattered if it would have been ham, turkey, or salami sandwich because all I could taste was death paste. I still ate the entire sandwich trying to figure out what was in this stuff, and when eating it the habanero’s are a lot stronger, but I still couldn’t put my finger on what spices are used. After my first taste I decided that I definitely had to cook something with this one because of the strong flavor. I went with pork chops. I spread some death paste over the top of one and let it sit overnight. This stuff is the right thickness for a paste and it spread easy. The next day I wanted to do my pork chop on the grill, but was afraid the paste would get charred and burnt so I put it in the oven. While cooking the smell was potent, my wife came home and had to leave the house because it had such a strong smell she couldn’t handle it. it didn’t smell bad, just overpowering.

I pulled it out of the oven and sliced myself a piece, when I ate it my stomach almost couldn’t handle it, I waited for the meat to cool down and let my stomach settle before eating the rest, the flavor was the same as before but even more pungent when cooked. When I returned to the plate I scraped all that I could off the meat and ate it, and this time it was actually quit tasty. Even with scraping it all off the flavor was strong though.
Taste: good but strong, if I would of found the right recipe and the right amount of this it would have been really good. 5/10
Heat: by the end of the sandwich I ate it had decent heat, but the flavor is so overpowering that if you use the small amount of paste you would need to get the flavor you want, it would be such a small amount that you wouldn’t get that much heat. I’m going to give it a 4/10
Price: I couldn’t find this stuff, I looked up the website, (http://rickstestkitchen.com) but death paste isn’t even listed.

Overall: 4/10

Cracker House Hot Sauce Fire

I tried and wrote the review on the medium sauce before opining this one, and although it was good on fajitas it really wasn’t my favorite, and I wasn’t overly exited about opening this one. I did open it the next day and made more fajitas with it, and I remember thinking that it definitely had noticeably more heat. I didn’t Wright a review on it then, I ate about half the bottle sampling it on other foods and every combo I tried was a miss. Today I made more fajitas and broke it out, I already knew it was good on fajitas and I couldn’t go wrong. The first flavor you taste is the peppers, not hot peppers but bell or sweet peppers. I can taste the jalapenos and I can taste the brown sugar. The sweetness in it tastes more like a sweet pepper than sugar sweetness though because the dominant flavor is peppers. The vinegar is well hid in the background, and after eating my fill of fajitas with the sauce I had a slight tingling on my lips but not really enough to say it is that hot. Overall I liked it better than the medium, but probably wont ever buy it again. It was good on fajitas but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t find anything else to put it on that I liked. Some of my failures include eggs, pizza, mixed into a stir fry, and on a burger.

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 & jalapeno peppers, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, garlic, salt, spice, black pepper, onion powder, oleo resin capsicum, and natural flavorings.

Taste: 5/10 it would be more if I liked sweet peppers more.

Smell: 4/10 it smells just like it tastes but sweeter, when you eat it, it is still sweet but not as bad as it seems like it would be from the smell.

Value: like another sauce I recently reviewed there is a 2 bottle minimum order and the price is 2 Bottles of Sauce for $12.00* Case of 12 bottles for $38.00* shipping is included. 6 dollars is about the average and I wouldn’t say it’s a bad value, but the sauce wasn’t really my favorite anyway and its not such a great price that I will buy more. 5/10

Heat: 3/10

Overall: 5/10 I have already finished off this bottle and I eventually will finish the medium also but its not something I would buy again. It’s a little to sweet for me and that’s the biggest thing holding it back, if you enjoy sweeter sauces and want to try one with a fresh pepper (mostly bell and sweet peppers) taste to it I would recommend this one to you.

CrackerHouse Sauces Inc.
PO Box 1066
Palatka, Florida 32178
crackerhousesauces.com

Deviled Mamba eggs

Ingredients:
12 hard-boiled eggs
Approximately ½ cup mayonnaise
2 tsp prepared mustard
1 tsp black mamba hot sauce
¼ cup finely chopped jalapenos

*note I have also used wanza’s wicked, and z nothing beyond in place of the black mamba.

Instructions
1. remove shell from hard boiled eggs, cut in half lengthwise and put the yolk into a mixing bowl.
2. add mayonnaise until creamy
3. add mustard, jalapenos, and black mamba hot sauce and stir, add more mustard to taste.
4. fill the egg halves with the mixture and sprinkle with habanero powder. (I make my own hab powder by dehydrating and grinding it, if you cant find it I have also used death rain nitro and they turned out good.)
5. refrigerate until ready to eat.

This is a great recipe to take to pot lucks and family get togethers, its cheap and fairly easy to make. Just make sure to label them as hot and not let the kids get a hold of one. The creamy mix of yolk and mayo does a good job at killing some of the heat, but they will definitely make you sweat. You just don’t get as much of a burning in your mouth.

I’m not a huge blueberry fan, and I’m not a huge fan of mixing sweet and spicy foods together either, so its not really that I wasn’t expecting this sauce to be good, but I wasn’t expecting it to be something that I personally would enjoy. I wrote to Mike from www.hotternell.com with a question about his other sauce that I reviewed, and let him know that I was also reviewing this one. In his response he informed me that he uses the blueberry sauce on chicken, pork, samosas (Indian veggie pockets), pancakes, and ice cream to name a few.

I decided to go with the obvious choice and bought some vanilla ice cream on my way home from work. I almost went with pancakes though, because that is one food that I like blueberries with. I opened it and took a whiff, and it smelled slightly of red savinas, but mostly like fresh blueberries, not the artificial blueberry flavor you get with most store bought sauces, that everybody knows is blueberry but there’s a big difference between that and fresh. I poured it onto my ice cream and their where chunks of blueberries in it. I tried this sauce both on the ice cream, and also on a spoon to get a better taste of the sauce by itself. On the spoon you could taste the red savinas, but it is definitely sweeter than it is spicy, and on the ice cream the hotness of the peppers is there for only a second before it is smothered out by the ice cream. It really does enhance the flavor of the blueberries, the same way that some people put chili powder in there hot chocolate.

This sauce also has lemon and lime in it, and there flavor don’t really stand out, but like the peppers is just there to enhance the blueberries, between the lemon, lime, blueberries, and red Savina habanero peppers you have a sauce that hits on every taste bud and don’t leave you craving any other type of food afterwards to balance out the meal. I ate all the ice cream and absolutely loved it. I know that most people would mark this sauce down because it is a specific application sauce, but I don’t have a problem with that, if there is a sauce that is perfect for one certain food, I will buy it just for that food. I’m sure some of you buy hot chocolate for your ice cream, do you ever stop and think “well its great on ice cream, but it really wouldn’t go good with pizza or chicken”. No, you just buy it for what it is good with.

If it makes more sense, don’t consider it a hot sauce but an ice cream topping instead. That being said I don’t think this sauce is really that limited anyway, I am planning on buying more, and a few ideas I have for it are mixing it in a smoothie, on cheese cake, pancakes since that was my second choice, and on some angel food cake (probably with ice cream on the side and the whole plate covered in blueberry sauce). I’m also willing to try it on some pork, but I’m iffy about chicken though.

Buying info: www.hotternell.com

Ingredients: Red Savina habanero pepper, blueberries, sugar, lemon, lime, starch, guar gum, spices.

Smell: 8/10

Heat: 4.5/10, although the heat only lasts a second in each bite before the ice cream kills it, it leaves your lips burning a little after the bowl is empty.

Taste: 10/10 this stuff was delicious, I cant wait to try the raspberry.

Price: its definitely worth the 6.95 he sells it for.

Consistency/thickness: no complaints about this one, 10/10

Overall: 9.5/10 I really loved this stuff, and will be buying more soon.

I was really exited about reviewing this sauce. I have only had a few sauces with nagas in them and they haven’t seemed that hot to me, I figured it was because of a small amount of nagas. This sauce says on the label “the extractaceous period is over welcome to the jolokiazoic” so I really expected great things! I know the nagas are around 1mill shu and I don’t figure the sauce will be that hot because there are other ingredients, but I was hoping for about ½ mill or so. And it’s definitely not that hot. I opened it up and smelled it and it smelled like canned tomato juice. (the kind you would use for galosh or chili.) I poured a little on a chip and got the same thing from the taste of it. it reminded me of something my grandma used to make called macaroni and tomato juice, which only has 2 ingredients and the title pretty much covers it. I didn’t taste vinegar or garlic, or really anything except tomatoes, and a little bit of the peppers. The tomatoes are definitely the dominant flavor. There can be a lot of different flavors that are described by tomatoes; fresh tomatoes taste completely different than canned tomato juice, or cooked tomatoes, which are more of a marinara flavor. This sauce tasted like tomato juice to me. The burn does not hit you until you eat a little more of it, and it starts to build. After a half bottle of sauce on my chicken I was a little disappointed with the heat level. It’s not that it isn’t hot, but to me it didn’t seem a whole lot hotter than some of the red savina sauces I have had. After a few more meals with this sauce, (pizza, and nachos) I realized that the true power of the nagas is in how long the burn lasts.

this sauce went great on everything I tried it on, the pictures show chicken and pizza, but I also had it on potatoes, eggs, and nachos.

Flavor: 9.5/10 it’s a very simple flavor which is why it would go good on so many different types of food, yet it is also very delicious. I will definitely buy more of this one and it may even end up being a regular in my fridge.

Heat: I was disappointed with the heat, but I was also expecting extract levels of heat. It is not an extract sauce and im rating it as a non extract sauce when I give it a 8.5/10. I personally haven’t found any naga sauces to be all that they where hyped up to be, it could just be me and my taste buds, but I give it credit for the long lasting burn. One other thing I need to mention is that the burn from the half bottle and the burn from a tablespoon didn’t seem to be much apart for me, the first just seemed to last longer.

Label: I don’t always rate the label just because it’s the stuff on the inside that counts, the only time I do this is if the label really stands out to me and I have something to say about it. When I do rate it the rating will have nothing to do with the overall rating, because overall I’m just rating the sauce. That said I love this label! If you didn’t notice the teeth, tongue, and claws are peppers. Both the novelty soreass version (what I got) and the saurus are great looking labels.

Smell: the flavor and the smell are the same, nothing stands out more in one than in the other. 9.5/10

Overall: 9.6/10 I highly recommend it!

CaJohns Fiery Foods
Columbus, Ohio
888-703-FIRE

This sauce has a sweet and smoky barbecue smell to it, I put a little on a spoon, and the flavor reminded me of all the different sweet barbecue sauces that my parents used to buy. Reading the ingredients I see that the sweetness comes from brown sugar, I could also taste the chipotle peppers in this sauce, which give it a little bit of smokiness, and the garlic isn’t a really strong flavor but its there. I bought some chicken nuggets to dip this sauce in, and it made a great barbecue sauce. It was rich and tangy and although it wasn’t hot I could taste some of the peppers in it, mostly just the chipotle though. The consistency was a perfect 10, especially for dipping. There are tiny pieces of pepper flesh in it, but they are very little and evenly spread throughout the sauce (see the picture). This sauce is not really thick, but when something is dipped in it, it clings to your food. I ate a second plate of chicken just to see if the heat would build at all, and after a half a bottle I didn’t even have a burning on my lips. There are no traces of the habaneros in this sauce either in the flavor, or the heat.

Ingredients: tomato paste, red habanero peppers, jalapeno peppers, peri-peri peppers, chipotle peppers, vinegar, brown sugar, salt, spices, shallots, garlic, black pepper.

You can use this sauce on anything you would use barbecue sauce on; I am going to do grilled chicken and bacon sandwiches with what is left of my bottle.

Taste: 5/10, it’s a little too sweet for me, but as a BBQ sauce not bad.

Heat: 1/10

Label: I like the square bottles, and the picture on this one reminds me of an old computer game I used to play when I was little.

Price: The bottle doesn’t have a web site, but I recognized it from www.unclebig.com, and it is sold for $7.00 a bottle there. For a sauce that would be used as a BBQ sauce that’s quit a bit. It stands out from all the BBQ sauces that you buy at the grocery store, but unfortunately it is priced as a hot sauce, not a BBQ sauce.

Overall: 4.9/10 I will eat the whole bottle, but I wouldn’t buy it again.

Buying info: All the bottle gives you is this contact: Brander BBQ outfitters, Calgary, Alberta. No phone number or website or anything, but as I said above I recognized it from www.unclebig.com where you can get it for 7.00 a bottle.

Of all the sauces I received in my first box of items to review this is the one I most looked forward to trying. All I have had from Hotternell in the past is extracts, and I have wanted to try his sauces for a while now. The con Diablo is $16.95 on his website, and without trying it or even hearing about it, this was just too much for me to spend. I tried this sauce on a spoon first, and it was really hot, also very runny, but I liked that about it, a lot of sauces this hot are super thick, and I prefer thinner sauces. It smelled like extracts, but on the spoon and in my second tasting, which was on a taco shell with melted nacho and shredded cheese (a QUESADILLA), the taste of the red savinas was present along side the extracts. For how hot this sauce is, it had decent flavor. My third try of the sauce was on some nacho chips and the extract flavor was a little stronger, possibly because on the taco shell I mixed it in with the cheese, and on the nachos (all the same ingredients as the (QUESADILLAS), I didn’t mix it in.

The amount I ate is a large amount for this sauce. The spoon test, the QUESADILLA, and the nachos where all eaten in the same sitting, in that order. I contacted Mike from Hotternell, to ask about the scoville rating of the sauce, and also what extract he made it with, and he replied with this:

“The ConDiablo is a nasty concoction with a healthy dose of 1 million SHU Capsicum Oleoresin. There’s about an oz in it. It’s approximately 1/2 million shu all done. I could make it over the million mark, but then they really start to taste like crap. As it is, the ConDiablo is not very tasty, just freakin’ hot”.

Its definitly very hot, and has about the flavor you would expect from a sauce that’s ½ mill shu, the difference is that it tastes so much hotter than only ½ mill shu.I was reading an interview with him that you can check out here
and in the interview he is talking about having his extracts made somewhere else and the better quality that he gets, “These are exceptionally clean products with no residuals. They are pharmaceutical grade, which is much purer than food grade.” Perhaps this is why it seems so much hotter than it tastes. Between the 3 different ways I sampled this sauce I used about 1/3 of my 1oz bottle, and it’s a really great product, not recommended for unexperienced chili heads though. The stomach pains didn’t hit me untill almost 6 ½ hours latter, I finished my meal around 3am and was woke up this morning with razor blades in my stomach around 9:30am, I have never had a sauce take this long to hit me after eating it. it hit me hard but only lasted about 20 min. very hot, excellent product.

Buying info: the bottle I received has no info (it’s a one ounce sample bottle) but im familiar with his stuff, and actually have the website in my favorites. www.hotternell.com you should also keep watch on eBay for his stuff.

Ingredients: red Savina habanero pepper, vinegar, capsicum oleoresin.

Taste: 4.5/10. when smelling it all you get is the extracts, but the red savina’s flavor comes out a little when eating it, not enough to make it taste good, but it dose make it a little better.

Heat: 10/10 its not pure crystals or anything but in the everyday use category its 10/10. I was surprised that it was only ½ mill shu, because it tasted a lot hotter. This sauce really got my nose running, and my sweat flowing.

Smell: 1/10 it smells like extracts.

Consistency/thickness: 9.5/10 It’s thin but like I said above, for a sauce this hot that’s a good thing. (in my opinion) if you have to worry about it dripping off your food, you are probably using to much.

Value: This is the biggest thing hurting the overall rating. At 16.95 for 5oz it is a little more expensive than other sauces of the same heat level, I liked this sauce a lot better than most sauces on its level, just because of how much hotter it tastes, and how thin it is. There is a good chance of me buying this sauce again, but with cheaper one’s out there it wont be a regular in my fridge.

Overall/recommendation: 7/10 I really did enjoy this sauce, and it’s an excellent product, I would recommend it to all the true chili heads that love a good extreme sauce, I’m just not sure if its worth the difference in price between some of the other sauces out there, but it is definitely worth buying at least once to judge for yourself.

Hotternhell
www.hotternell.com

This sauce is not a sauce that was sent to me to review, and I’m going to explain why I wanted to review it here briefly before I get on with it. I read the review done on the Scoville Units Brand Jalapeño sauce, and because of it I decided not to waste my time on this brand name. Well at Jungle Jim’s last weekend they had a booth set up so I tried most of their sauces, with the exception of the jalapeño because I am not a big jalapeño sauce fan.

Everything I tried I was impressed with. I asked him about the misprinted label and he dug one out of a box in the back for me, (you never know it might be worth something) I bought this and also 2 bottles of the extra hot habanero, after I bought those he surprised me by giving me a bottle of the jalapeño for free so I would have one to eat. When I got home these where the first bottles I opened. If my opinion on the jalapeño sauce was different than what was already said I would review it, but it is not. I have a few tasting notes, just to throw in my 2 cents, but for the most part I feel the review was pretty accurate, you can check it out here. The reason I am reviewing one of his other sauces is for all the people out there like me that gave up on the brand name because of the jalapeños bad review.

Jalapeño sauce tasting notes: way to thin, way to vinegary, if you have ever had Tabasco brand jalapeño sauce and liked it, this one for you. I used to use Tabasco brand jalapeño sauce in my salsa, and that is what I will use the rest of this bottle for because it tastes about the same, and is also about the same thickness.

This sauce smells like vinegar and habaneros, I had tacos for lunch today, and I opened this bottle to use on them. I found it funny that the jalapeño sauce is like water and has no drip top, and this sauce I had to pop the drip top out because it is thick enough to pour. I coated my tacos with it like it was taco sauce, and dug in. this sauce does have a strong vinegar flavor, but not so bad that it ruins the overall flavor of the sauce. It tasted a lot like the chili beer brand sauce that I just finished my review on, only a lot hotter, and with vinegar. I checked the ingredients and the only difference was the vinegar, and instead of select peppers, this one is red habanero peppers. The carrots are barely present in the flavor of this sauce, and the onion, lime, and garlic where undetectable to me. The heat is a decent level for a non-extract sauce, but its not there hottest product either. It’s right in the middle for the type of sauce that it is. I used a half bottle of it on tacos, and later ate the second half with dinner, which were nachos that I made with the left over taco stuff. At first taste it is a medium hot sauce, but the heat never really built any the way I expected it to.

The aftertaste is no different than the flavor you get while eating it and it only hangs around for a short time after the food is gone. All in all I enjoyed this sauce, I only wish it was a little hotter, but I will have to buy the red savina sauce next time. I tried the red savina at Jungle Jim’s, and they both tasted about the same to me but with all the sauces I had eaten that day it was hard to judge anything and I wouldn’t want to make any comments about it unless I had a bottle in front of me. I am hoping that it is just a hotter version of this sauce though, because that’s all I would change. The flavor is one that would go well with a variety of foods including all he basics like pizza, chicken, Mexican, pork, etc…

Ingredients: red habanero peppers, carrots, onions, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, salt.

Smell: 6/10 it smelled good, but the vinegar in it was strong and made me think it would be like the jalapeno sauce, which was way too vinegary.

Taste: 8/10 unlike the smell, the vinegar was not to overpowering, it could be turned down a notch, but it wasn’t that bad, and I really liked the overall flavor that this sauce had.

Label: Very nice, even my wife commented on how cool the whole scoville unit scale was.

Price: I paid $5.00 for this sauce at Jungle Jim’s, and it was worth every cent, I looked on there web page to see if that was the regular price, or a special for the show, and it looks like everything they sell is through there ebay store. I checked it out and they only had a couple gift sets available.

Overall: 8/10, I am glad they had a booth at Jungle Jim’s because I probably never would of tried this stuff if it hadn’t been there.

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Erie, PA
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