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Captain Spongefoot Trading Company- Sriracha Table Sauce
Bottle Description: Embark on a far eastern adventure with the Captain’s “Z” sauce. Legendary flavor with the mystery of the orient for buffalo wings wit extra zip just fry or bake, add sauce and shake.
Ingredients: Sriracha peppers, chipotle peppers, water, vinegar, clarified butter, salt, sugar, garlic, natural flavors and spices.
Container: Classy. Very restaurant appropriate. Not a lot of graphics that invoke flames or death or thankfully…rectal pain.
Appearance: A very uniform red/orange that is occasionally spotted with seeds and bits of chile skins.
Smell: The distinctive smell of garlic is the first smell to hit you and later the peppers. Towards the end of the smell is a biting vinegar odor.
Consistency: No complaints. The flow you’d look for. Easy without killing your food.
Taste: The chile flavor is very hidden in this sauce. Most of the time all you can taste is vinegar and some garlic. I don’t like being mean but this sauce honestly tastes like pickle juice, brine. I’m not sure what about the combination of peppers and garlic with vinegar can make this sauce very briney but it’ll make your mouth pucker. Straight from the bottle this sauce can be…umm not charming.
Heat: (4.2/10) A very light sauce when it comes to the heat. Softball. It is however a table sauce, so take that into account. You aren’t gonna load popular restaurant tables with Blair’s.
Field Test: The sauce fairs a lot better on food. The flavor of the peppers is drawn out a bit more with saltier foods and the brine flavor is not as overwhelming when you mix it with other flavors. I would recommend going to a fast food Chinese restaurant with this sauce. Splash this on your chowmein.
Final Word: This isn’t a delicious sauce and I’m not too sure what Captain Spongefoot is trying to do. I’m assuming they are trying to corner a market in fancy-ish table sauces, which is fine. However if they are trying to corner a market based on flavor they will be destroyed by Huy Fong Food Inc.’s Sriracha sauce which, is the mother of all Asian hot sauces. Huy Fong Food Inc.’s sauce tastes better is cheap. For flavor sake, there is absolutely no reason to switch to Captain Spongefoot’s sauce.
Overall: 4.0/10.
Captain Spongefoot Sauces
2222 County RD 57
Granby, CO 80446
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Posted by: clint - Categories: Hot Sauce Reviews
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On one hand you say it is delicious and on the other you say they will be destroyed by Huy Fong Foods and there is no reason to switch to this. And you only give it a 4.0/10. If it is delicious, than why the low marks and negative comments?
I haven’t had Spongefoot’s version, but I love Sriracha sauce. Rooster sauce is bad ass and you can’t beat the Cock!
Soon I’m going to have to break out the deep fryer, make up some wings to test out all 3 of these at once. I do think that it’s odd they would label this sauce as a table sauce when it has butter in there. Every sauce that I have seen that has butter, is primarily a wing sauce. Although I’ve been wrong before.
I really like Huy Fong Food Inc. Sriracha. My only bitch with it is the sodium benzoate that’s added! YUCK! But it does do wonders for Asian foods. Not so much Thai in my opinion, but greasy fast-food style Chinese, it’s right at home.
Haven’t tried it on any Korean food. -Lars-
Agree, Huy Fong rules. Sriracha is great with an equal part of Hoisin to flavor your Pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup) - about a tablespoon of each per bowl. Then, for extra heat, just hold the bottle in one hand while you eat the soup with the other hand and speckle individual spoonfuls of the soup before they go in your mouth. Also, their other product, the Sambal Oelek, when mixed with an equal portion of Hellman’s Mayo, makes a great sauce for your seared Tuna. SM
Lars on 11/5/2007 at 6:21 pm said:
Soon I’m going to have to break out the deep fryer, make up some wings to test out all 3 of these at once. I do think that it’s odd they would label this sauce as a table sauce when it has butter in there. Every sauce that I have seen that has butter, is primarily a wing sauce. Although I’ve been wrong before.
I really like Huy Fong Food Inc. Sriracha. My only bitch with it is the sodium benzoate that’s added! YUCK! But it does do wonders for Asian foods. Not so much Thai in my opinion, but greasy fast-food style Chinese, it’s right at home.
Haven’t tried it on any Korean food. -Lars-
Agreed. Their label even states “Embark on a far eastern adventure with the Captain’s “Z” sauce. Legendary flavor with the mystery of the orient for buffalo wings wit extra zip just fry or bake, add sauce and shake.” Why not just call it a wing sauce? I’m confused.
Gildo on 11/5/2007 at 10:56 am said:
On one hand you say it is delicious and on the other you say they will be destroyed by Huy Fong Foods and there is no reason to switch to this. And you only give it a 4.0/10. If it is delicious, than why the low marks and negative comments?
I dont think it tastes bad, but its not good. It’s just that this sauce is pointless when you have a cheaper more delicious alternative. It low rating is reflected upon the fact that this sauce is useless.
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“However if they are trying to corner a market based on flavor they will be destroyed by Huy Fong Food Inc.’s Sriracha sauce which, is the mother of all Asian hot sauces.”
I’ve used this sauce for 20+ years now. Boy, you got that right!