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First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!! My first review and post for 2007. Believe me, this one is not a harbinger of things to come. In fact it could be a warning for your taste buds to start the New Year right and avoid this sauce. So let’s get to it!
I was a little weary of this at first. This being my second foray into “True” Mexican hot sauces. El Yucateco was my first of these experiences and I devoured their series of bottles over the course of a few meals. So I was thinking, will I get lucky twice? This sauce isn’t available in Canada outside of some niche market and Latin food stores. So excuse my ignorance if everyone of you have already tried this sauce.
This is a hefty 13.8oz bottle. And what scares me is the price point on it (I found it on-line for about $3.00 on average). I wish some of my favourite sauces came in a bottle this size and cost so little. It is nice to see that many makers are now addressing this and making different sized bottles. Anyways, back to the sauce.
At first glance this is a very smooth orangey red sauce that makes no bones about its watery vinegar base. And that is about all the nice things I can say about it. Plain and simple it wasn’t very good. It had some kind of pepper flavour and the claim on the bottle that this is “very hot” is laughable.
Ingredients: Water, Distilled Vinegar, Chile Peppers, Sugar, Xanthan Gum, Spices, 1/20 of 1% Sodium Benzoate (as a preservative), FD&C Yellow and 1/20 of 1% Sodium Sorbate (as a preservative).
I thought wings would be a good starter for this. Ugh was I wrong. I was able to choke down two wings before I had to call in the old faithfuls. I came back to this sauce a few hours later and gave it another test straight out of the bottle. And ya, the stuff was pretty awful. There is something in here that I can’t put my finger on that makes the taste so awkward. Like something just isn’t right in there. Also, forget about the claim of this being very hot. That little statement made on the bottle seems embarrassing coming from a Mexican hot sauce.
Packaging 5/10 – Not bad not great
Aroma 3/10 – I think it is vinegar
Appearance 8/10 – The only good thing going on for this sauce
Taste 2/10 – It gets the two points for being just plain odd tasting
Heat 2/10 – They mentioned peppers – someone somewhere may find this mild
Overall 2.7/10 – Mass produced commercial sauce that even lacks taste in comparison to its brethren
Bufalo Picante Especial
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Posted by: Anthony - Categories: Hot Sauce Reviews, Hot Sauce Stuff
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Just wait until I send you some of the $0.65 hot sauces I’ve found here in southern CA! 
Good review Anthony…what a shame, that is 2 wings you will never get back.
Nick Lindauer on 1/2/2007 at 12:34 pm said:
Just wait until I send you some of the $0.65 hot sauces I’ve found here in southern CA!
Good thing we have free Health Care up here Nick!
Big Dawg on 1/2/2007 at 12:41 pm said:
Good review Anthony…what a shame, that is 2 wings you will never get back.
I think of it as two wings or a slice pizza saved for everyone else.
Anthony on 1/2/2007 at 12:47 pm said:
I think of it as two wings or a slice pizza saved for everyone else.
Thanks Anthony, I’d hate to ruin a good slice of pizza 
Big Dawg on 1/2/2007 at 12:41 pm said:
Good review Anthony…what a shame, that is 2 wings you will never get back.
Destroying a wing is considered sacriledge around here. LOL!
Mexico’s #1 hotsauce for 60 years?
No wonder they are all comming over here, they want a decent hot sauce!!
Nick Lindauer on 1/2/2007 at 12:34 pm said:
Just wait until I send you some of the $0.65 hot sauces I’ve found here in southern CA!
How about the one we had a ZF? That was HORRIBLE!! I bet the roach tasted better.
eman on 1/2/2007 at 4:51 pm said:
Mexico’s #1 hotsauce for 60 years?
No wonder they are all comming over here, they want a decent hot sauce!!
LMAO eman,
Our fav Mexican sauce here at home is Tapatio. Valentina is also excellent, and both come in the big huge bottles for dirt cheap. I tend to make myself a 10 oz special bottle by adding some hab mash ( hate extract ) to get the heat up a bit.
Arizona Jack on 1/2/2007 at 8:17 pm said:
LMAO eman,
Our fav Mexican sauce here at home is Tapatio. Valentina is also excellent, and both come in the big huge bottles for dirt cheap. I tend to make myself a 10 oz special bottle by adding some hab mash ( hate extract ) to get the heat up a bit.
El Yucateco, Tapatio. Valentina. Nice sauces. Valentina 32oz $1.99, 16oz .99 at JJ’s come and get it.
Bret on 1/2/2007 at 9:21 pm said:
El Yucateco, Tapatio. Valentina. Nice sauces. Valentina 32oz $1.99, 16oz .99 at JJ’s come and get it.
They have those on the tables of most of the Mexican restaurants here. As many times as i have tried them, I still don’t like them.
eman on 1/2/2007 at 11:19 pm said:
They have those on the tables of most of the Mexican restaurants here. As many times as i have tried them, I still don’t like them.
Drink more beer !!!
eman on 1/2/2007 at 4:58 pm said:
How about the one we had a ZF? That was HORRIBLE!! I bet the roach tasted better.
It cannot get any worse than the drain cleaner hot sauce! Man that was bad but Nick made the roach look tasty!
Aaron on 1/3/2007 at 3:25 am said:
It cannot get any worse than the drain cleaner hot sauce! Man that was bad but Nick made the roach look tasty!
But how does it compare to the Crapalacky??
You shouild try the Bufalo Chipotle sauce. it’s much better- thick and has a nice smokiness…
locolunabrian on 1/3/2007 at 9:35 am said:
But how does it compare to the Crapalacky??
Nothing is worse than crapalacky
this Bufalo sauce may actually make crapalacky taste good
Funny thing is, Im 2 hours from Mexico and have never seen this sauce in stores here in Mesa AZ. What’s up?
I got ahold of some of that Bufalo Crap. I thought it was spoilled but I was told that is the way it tastes!?!?!
#1 tapatio ,#2 valentina ,#3 chalula only because it is over priced !
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Another great review. Preach on bro!