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Bottle Description: A heavenly hot sauce designed to set your mouth and soul on fire! Done in the Island Style with an emphasis on a full habanero flavor with hints of onion and garlic. A habanero lover’s dream.
Ingredients: our hand selected habanero peppers, vinegar, onion, garlic, spices, herbs, salt.
Container: The label and sauce name is pretty innocent. Bright colors, a habanero with a halo, the name, all of it doesn’t prepare you for what’s in store for you. Mild to Wild has certainly bucked the trend of using badass iconography for sauces. This label totally contrasts a Blair’s sauce and its infamous cosmic skull.
Appearance: Puree looking. Looks a lot like deli mustard. (no picture because to be honest, I finished it all before I had the chance to take one)
Smell: The full body of the smell is habanero. Everything else smells like a warm Italian kitchen. I’ll have to attribute that to the garlic and spices.
Consistency: No complaints. The flow you’d look for.
Taste: The taste is like a habanero sandwich. Explained: the first thing you taste is the habanero and vinegar, then you get your garlic and spices and all of that is followed up by more habanero. I’m not quite sure how this is achieved and I assume it was just the course of the sauce over my tongue that made this happen.
Heat: (8.75/10) For such a heavenly sauce, Ralph’s Righteous Habanero Sauce can pack an evil punch. Straight off the spoon it is pretty darn hot.
Field Test: This sauce goes pretty well with anything. There isn’t enough spices and salt to put it in a cobb salad, for example, but from burritos to chicken it does a damn good job. My favorite two uses for this sauce are: 1) mix it in some ranch and devour your fries 2) a couple drops in a good bowl of soup is one of the most satisfying meals ever.
Final Word: Ralph’s Righteous Habanero Sauce has a lot of habanero flavor but with hints of complexity. For God’s sake try it some soup. Amen.
Overall: 8.8/10. My favorite puree-ey sauce.
Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Co
81 Martin Place
Franklin, IN 46131-1745
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Posted by: clint - Categories: Hot Sauce Reviews, Hot Sauce Stuff
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Thanks Cane! Thanks for the review also Clint. 20 or so comments were lost to the ‘red button’.
Ralph’s was the very first hot sauce I ever made. Named for the kindly old cook in the kitchen where I used to make it. Besides, “Ralph’s Righteous” has a better ring to it than “Jim’s Righteous” 
I met Jim at the Houston Hot Sauce Festival 2006 and bought a bottle of this sauce…it’s the best and so is Jim. He gave me a discount for being a frequent reader of this blog.
David Parker on 9/16/2006 at 5:27 pm said:
I met Jim at the Houston Hot Sauce Festival 2006 and bought a bottle of this sauce…it’s the best and so is Jim. He gave me a discount for being a frequent reader of this blog.
David,
Your in good company with JimC. He is rock star status but wont admit it, a true Icon of the industry, and a very personable guy. Glad to see you made the show !!
Im going to pull a Blane and talk to myself just because Im 3 hours behind everyone who is sleeping now, I just got home from an AZ Diamondbacks game.
Hello me, it’s me again ( Dave Mustaine…Megadeth song)
How is it that Jim gets a great review and only 3 comments besides me? Go figure? Without Jim, many of us would not be offering any Red Savina tm sauces right now.
Jim, I’ll never forget the couple that tried the Stoopid, and came back to the booth at ZF and declared, ” You should be arrested !!!” , Lol every time I think about it.
See ya buddy, and hope the truck holds up better on the way back than it did between Ft Worth and Houston.
Thanks AZ. There were many more comments here before Nick accidentally hit the ‘red button’ (22 if I recall correctly). Don’t sweat it.
Houston is rockin’!!! CaJohn is almost sold out of stuff (didn’t bring that much though) & I’m doing better than at ZF by far! They’re not intimidated by the fire gear down here 
A couple of bloggers (thanks Dave!) have come by and identified themselves and walked off with bargains.
One post, checking out, headed to the show & looking forward to a 18 hour drive home tonight
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This is some really good stuff!
I’ve only tried it once, when I met Jim and everyone else at the Indiana Hotluck, but I remember it well.
I didn’t get my own bottle that time, but that’s only due to the fact that I ran out of money due to his wares as well as others. Everything I’ve tried of yours though Jim has been fantastic. When Mandy and I got those bottles of Rookie Orientation and Pure Arson for her, I really intended to leave those to her. Unfortunately, it’s like trying to keep ones hands out of the cookie jar.
Hope all is well and my advice to those who haven’t tried this or any of Jim’s products, do so! Love his habanero powder….use it on just about everything!