Ingredients: Cayenne, scotch bonnet and thai peppers with vinegar, spices and salt.

Purgatory Out of Body Experience is NOT a very hot sauce. I think my husband could eat it! It is very sort of Tex Mex in flavour. Excellent to top pizza, fajitas, tacos. I liked it on a plain tortilla chip but it is too mild for flavoured chips.

The initial smell is a mix of cumin and tomato sauce…. No vinegar, not much pepper. The taste is the same… a small hit of heat, with a strong cumin flavour. The ingredients list just mentions cayenne, scotch bonnet, and Thai peppers, pureed with vinegar and spices and salt. It’s not overly salty…. or overly hot. The Scotch Bonnets must be minimal. But it is very tasty ….

I loved it on pizza. Definitely not for the heat seekers, but a nice sauce that really adds a lot of flavour on food, and includes a recipe for wings on the side, with an offer to write for more recipes.

I would buy it again.

This is a great-tasting relish!

Granite Bay Farms Hot Pepper Relish has a terrific flavour! Not very hot, but I would buy it just for its relish flavour!

This relish achieved the 1st Place “Golden Chile” award winner at the 2005 10th Anniversary Fiery Food Challenge!

Ingredients are green and red bell peppers, onions, jalapenos, pineapple juice, vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce. It’s a bit sweet, obviously, but piquant and flavourful. There is a strong hint of pickling spice at first smell…. it’s a happy smell, reminds me of being at home as a child while my mom made pickles. The bit of a heat taste is nice… could be more heat, but I liked it a lot nonetheless. Excellent product!

Suggested recipe: (More available here.)
Spicy Chicken Salad with a Twist
For a change from boring to bold, try this chicken salad with a twist. It will be an awakening for your taste buds!
2 cups cooked chicken breast – cubed
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Granite Bay Farms Hot Pepper Relish
˝ cup red seedless grapes - halved
1 tablespoon pine nuts
Salt/Pepper to taste

Mix cooked chicken with mayonnaise until blended. Stir in Granite Bay Farms Hot Pepper Relish. Add grapes and pine nuts and toss well. Season with salt and pepper. Enjoy!

Granite Bay Farms Specialty Foods LLC
P.O. Box 2173
Granite Bay, CA 95746-2173
916-791-7423 or 800-854-2767

Ok… I have to admit… I didn’t like this sauce very much. I am used to habanero sauces, and I shake them onto pizza etc like some folks use ketchup. But this one…. this stuff is beyond HOT and really doesn’t taste all that good.

My first plan was to try it on a plate of pasta. It smells great. I took out a great spoonful and topped off one part of a plate of pasta with it. I expected to take half and half tomato sauce and Torchbearer, and mix the two together if need be.

Need be a whole lot more pasta… say enough to fill the bathtub, and I bet it would have still made you tear up.

I added parmesan to the half-and-half pasta but wasn’t able to eat it. Too hot!

Then I tried one drop (teeny) on two large pasta noodles. Wowsers! When you first open your mouth and taste it, you get a slightly bitter taste… some of the seasoning in the sauce is a bit overpowering for my tastebuds. The ingredients list habanero peppers, carrots, onions, mandarin oranges, tomato concentrate,(with another whole list of what makes tomato concentrate), garlic, salt, chili powder, black pepper. There is no taste hint of the oranges or tomato that I could discern, but something tastes bitter. Then the hab taste…. and I think, man, this is good, this is hot, and ………..pass the yogurt!!! I had a couple of spoonfuls of yogurt and some cheese and it was still some time before I could taste anything again.

If you are using this as an additive sauce, go gently. If you like it hot and you don’t mind a bit of a bitterness before the heat, go gently still, because it’s so thick, it tends to come out of the jar in a dollop.

If this is #37, I wouldn’t want to try #40.

HSB Readers - Welcome Linda, our newest reviewer, all the way from Canada!

I am a mom of 2, grandmother of 5. My first foray into the world of hot food was wings, I suppose like many people. They were never hot enough.

Then one day my husband and I went into a new place and I orderd hot wings. “Are you sure” asked the waiter? “um, yeah….” “May I recommend mild to start?”

We settled on the medium and my husband sat, amused, and watched me struggle to eat the first one. I made it. And finished the order, although I think I had about 3 cokes too.

My family thinks I am adopted. My husband sighs when I order hot sauce online. The dog won’t eat my food.

My son and son-in-law have recently switched sides and are starting to agree with me though, NEEDS MORE HOT SAUCE!!!

It was 1990 before I found out why food always lacked something, to me. Now I have it figured out, blah food is blah.

I have over 100 hot sauces and similar items in my cupboard.

My favourite hot sauce is still Melinda’s 4***Reserve, love the flavour and the heat. It’s not full of spices or other ingredients. My friend Bill told me that the best part of a new bottle of hot sauce is to be savoured: opening it carefully and inhaling that habanero aroma! MMM!

Bill, I understand now.

Now I understand!

Note: The following story really happened, and I’m usually not allowed to tell it because it paints my husband in a less than flattering light. So, I want to preface this by saying that my husband is the nicest sweetest man on the planet. Ok, now lets get on with the story.

Some time ago my husband bought some hot sauce for me. He knew I liked REALLY hot stuff, so my darling ordered a bottle of Blair’s Jersey Death Sauce. To put the rest of this story in perspective, here is Nick’s review of Blair’s Jersey Death Sauce. I think the most important sentence in that review is that this sauce should not be used without dilution.

Anyway, my husband didn’t read that bit on the bottle, and decided to surprise me by making me a snack incorporating his new find. He made me a grilled cheese sandwich liberally doused in Blair’s Jersey Death Sauce. We’re talking globs, here.

I ate about half the sandwich, and my face started tingling, my ears were ringing, and well, loathe as I am to admit it, the sauce was too hot for me. I put the sandwich down, and went off to pour a glass of milk. My husband comes around, and we have the following conversation:

(Keep in mind that at this point I do not know what hot sauce is on my sandwich, and why it is burning me up so bad.)

Him: What’s wrong with the sandwich?
Me: I’m not sure I’m loving the new hot sauce - it’s a tad too hot for me.
Him: What? What are you talking about? There’s no such thing as a sauce too hot for you. It’s perfect! Finish the sandwich!
Me: I’m telling you, I’m not finishing that sandwich. It’s inedible!
Him: Oh puh-lease, I had the same sandwich and I was fine with it. How could you not handle the heat?

(This went on for a few minutes, and then inspiration struck.)

Me: Okay, tell you what. You eat a bite of this sandwich, and if you tell me that it’s fine, I’ll eat the rest of it.
Him: No!
Me: I’m not eating this sandwich unless you take a bite. Unless you know, you’re admitting that you had a considerably less hot sandwich

(The women in the crowd will recognize this as the oldest lie exposure gambit in the book. Being male, he cannot now find a manly way to back out of the pain he knows awaits him if he takes a bite. On the other hand, he definitely cannot admit that I’m right.)

He took a bite.

I’ve promised not to reveal what happened next in the interest of staying married, but let’s just say that several gallons of milk and a big honking can of I-told-you-so may have been involved.