Review: Lottie’s Original Barbados
Background Information: LOTTIE’S” Hot Sauces were first made in Barbados, West Indies in 1985. They have been available in the United States for some time but now through are now available in many countries worldwide.
“ORIGINAL” Hot Pepper Sauce is made with Scotch Bonnet peppers, vinegar, onions, salt and garlic. The redder the peppers are at the time of cooking, the redder the sauce becomes. It might be considered to be a bit hotter than Lottie’s “TRADITIONAL” sauce. Some say that a little drop of this “ORIGINAL” flavour in your Bloody Mary makes that drink even more fun to enjoy!
Measures “8″ on the Heat Index (30,000 to 49,999 Scoville Units). Made in St. Michael, Barbados.
Label: Lottie’s comes in the standard 5 oz. hot sauce bottle. The label is white and the text consists of white and black font. The font is overpressed on a green figure that I am unable to make out what it is. Their quote is, “Add just a little of this international award-winning gourmet red pepper sauce and all of your dishes and recipes will explode with flavors.”
Ingredients:Scotch Bonnet peppers,vinegar, onions, salt and garlic.
Appearance: The sauce is not too thin nor too thick. The color is vibrant red with both seeds and pepper flesh visible. These are the characteristics of sauces that I like best, of those that are of the old school. Some spices are visible as well such as the garlic and onion.
Odor: After opening the cap the 1st thing I smell is scotch bonnets. The smell isn’t overbearing as other sauces with habanero’s such as the fatalli, orange hab, chocolate habanero. The main difference is that the Red Scotch Bonnets don’t give off as much of an acidic odor. Also, there is little aroma of any vinegar as well, which also contributes to the drop in strong scent. However, the garlic and onion do shine here when putting your nose close to the bottle.
Regular cheese pizza slice with a good amount of Lottie’s.
Taste: It was back to the pizza tonight which is one of my favorite uses for red sauces from the islands. As usual I went heavy with it. After trying the 1st bite I knew this would be in my top 20 hot sauces. The combinations of the garlic, onions, with the flavor of the red scotch bonnets blended great with the cheese, tomato sauce and bread of the pizza. The heat wasn’t overbearing at all which reserved all the flavors of the pizza as well as the hot sauce. My only one complaint was that it was slightly thinner than I would have liked. The heat wasn’t there for me so I did the whole bottle but it is hot enough for the general masses.
Final Thoughts: Lottie’s Original Barbados is definitely in my top 20 for a reason. It is one of the greatest natural sauces out there on the market. The heat is there and this sauce is great for either a direct additive or a cooking ingredient since it is as natural as you can get. My only one complaint is that I have tried the Lottie’s in the 6.75 FL oz. bottle and that sauce seemed to be slightly hotter to me as well as being thicker. I am thinking maybe Lottie’s has possibly changed their original recipe or maybe 2 different recipes exist for the 2 different bottles. I will have to try the 6.75 oz. bottle again and get back to everyone. Regardless though of the bottle, this sauce should be tried by every hot sauce fan.
Packaging 9.5/10
Aroma 10/10
Taste 10/10
Appearance 10/10
Heat 8/10
Overall 9.5
Lottie’s Island Flavours
(866) 246-5685 or (713) 866-8816
contact@lottiesislandflavours.com
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Posted by: GoonieNick - Categories: Hot Sauce Reviews, Reviews
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Straw??? never mind the straw go right for the IV…!!!!!!
Wow, look at that pizza, you are a freak of nature !!! You scare me, Creator, I don’t want to sit next to him at the Deathmatch, LOL.
Arizona Jack on 4/22/2007 at 12:38 pm said:
Wow, look at that pizza, you are a freak of nature !!! You scare me, Creator, I don’t want to sit next to him at the Deathmatch, LOL.
Don’t worry Jack….He scares all of us
parker394 on 4/22/2007 at 2:13 pm said:
Don’t worry Jack….He scares all of us
Indeed I do.. Brother and Sister had your Beef Jerky last night and they liked it alot!! I am scaring myself… Others in the industry try toothpicks of some extract stuff and say its insane and here I am using it straight on food.. I love the pain though, lol..
Nah, a 5 ouncer normally can go for 3-4 slices or 4-5 tacos… Depends on the consistency.
GoonieNick on 4/22/2007 at 3:52 pm said:
Indeed I do.. Brother and Sister had your Beef Jerky last night and they liked it alot!! I am scaring myself… Others in the industry try toothpicks of some extract stuff and say its insane and here I am using it straight on food.. I love the pain though, lol..
They liked it alot? That makes me think I need to send you a batch of my INSANE DITD jerky !!
GoonieNick,
On a slightly more serious note, has your heat tolerance always been this high? Did you notice your tolerance increase when you started using a particular type or brand of hot sauce?
I’ve been enthusiastically eating hot sauce since I was a child and I am amazed by the pictures of the way you use hot sauce.
I think it is cool that you can do that and I am genuinely curious.
Dave
David on 4/22/2007 at 5:06 pm said:
GoonieNick,
On a slightly more serious note, has your heat tolerance always been this high? Did you notice your tolerance increase when you started using a particular type or brand of hot sauce?
I’ve been enthusiastically eating hot sauce since I was a child and I am amazed by the pictures of the way you use hot sauce.
I think it is cool that you can do that and I am genuinely curious.
Dave
It definitely hasn’t been this high ever. I remember when it all started. Tabasco did it for me, then it was more tabasco then I went straight to habanero sauces and they worked for a while, but now its just that they don’t do a thing really anymore. Maybe some of CaJohns stuff can get me high but it would have to be about at least one bottle of his strong stuff such as Sauce 10, Hab. Select, and that is for one meal. I doubt a bottle of his Ace would get me going. So basically no natural sauces do it anymore.
So then I started messing with extracts. They really got me going good for a while. Mostly Blair’s and Daves and the Mad Dog I was using. A little would do me good. People are amazed how I can do 50 wings with Dave’s Insanity on it without a drink. The Megadeath, and Uncle Big’s Killer which rate around 550,000 do it for me but I would have to use alot. Uncle Big’s is really good tasting, but I now I am using something even better.
The thing is that I don’t like to get “high” every night. I still want a burn though. I can do so much natural sauce that it doesn’t burn me. I am at the point now of basically having to use extract sauces to get the burn. I figure since I am using them and I have the burn why not go all the way?
I am hoping that the Naga Snakebite from Mark will give me my burn, without the high. That would be a nice intermediate.
Otherwise I am unsure as to what I am going to do.
Jolokia Flakes or Red Savina’s don’t do it at all. I dump them in my soup and its good but not super hot as I would like.
I am hoping to win the next Defcon Day
Thanks for sharing that Nick. It makes me wonder if there are other folks in the HSB community that can chow down on 500,000 scoville unit sauces without flinching.
I was the hot sauce ‘badass’ in college. I was the last man standing whenever there was semi-competitive hot sauce eating going on with my friends (not to mention alcohol, but that is a whole other thread for sure 
That said, it looks like I am a chump in the big scheme of things hot-sauce eating-wise.
The only time I got what I would call a ‘high’ off of eating hot sauce was after spiking a bottle of Frank’s Red Hot with 12 dropper fulls (not drops) of Pure Cap. I got a really good, clean burn and a sort of light-headedness that lasted about 10 mins.
The appeal for me of the burn is somehow the sweating and eyes and nose watering that happen. Its kind of hard to put a finger on.
I am planning on hitting the next Defcon day in NJ. Maybe we can talk a little bit more about this then if you are there.
Re: Extracts
I myself can’t stand the way they taste, I never eat them except as an ingredient. I will eat and love any straight pepper sauce or mash. Red Savina ™ was my first experience with the superhots and I fell in love.
I make 2 extract sauces ( I think they are both nasty ) and they sell, but for me, just a good straight pepper is the best.
All I got to say is you guys are all nuts. I found me a place to buy the Lotte’s hot sauce, but I fear that I won’t be reporting back on my findings. I thought my nose was bleeding when I was doing the Defcon 1 Wing sauce last night, I can only imagine how much hotter it can get for some of you.
Defcon Wings 1 are really really great!! Defcon 1 Wings is a revolutionary break through in the industry, in my opinion. They are just really really good and they have heat, well not for me, but for the masses they sure do.
I think it is time for a hot sauce intervention.
Anthony on 4/22/2007 at 8:26 pm said:
I think it is time for a hot sauce intervention.
LMAO
Hey all, I just noticed that Blair’s website (www.extremefood.com) is now selling their 4 Beyond Death hot sauces with blue wax on top but no gold skull for sale. The set of 4 is selling for $54 + about $7 shipping. Get em while they last……..
Steve C on 4/22/2007 at 10:12 pm said:
Hey all, I just noticed that Blair’s website (www.extremefood.com) is now selling their 4 Beyond Death hot sauces with blue wax on top but no gold skull for sale. The set of 4 is selling for $54 + about $7 shipping. Get em while they last……..
oh boy
the truth on 4/23/2007 at 5:14 am said:
oh boy
Sorry Steve truth was standing inline waiting for his for about 3 weeks know.
The green thing on the label is a map of Barbados. Been there, got the t-shirt.
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Another good review Nick.
I had a couple of bottles of the Lotties mustard sauce (traditional I think they call it and really like it.
If you are at the point where you are consuming a whole bottle of hot sauce on one slice of pizza, I’d say lose the pizza. Its just slowing things down. You might want to consider using a straw instead.