Ingredients: Chili Peppers, water, sugar, garlic, salt distilled vinegar, sugar, garlic, honey, red tabasco peppers, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfate (as preservatives.)

Packaging: Original Pit Bull comes in the standard 5 oz bottle with a black and white label with red accents.

Back Label: “Get bitten by the Pit Bull Hot Sauce!!! It’s all about Flavor…and not just Burn! It starts out sweet…and then…Bites back Hot. Add a delicious Bite to ALL your favorite Recipes. One taste and you will agree… Original Pit Bull Hot Sauce… the Sweet Sauce that BITES YOU BACK!”

Color: Red, with a few visible pepper seeds.

Smell: Taking my first whiff of Pit Bull (…that doesn’t sound right…) gave me the impression of a rich, garlicky Buffalo-Wing sauce. Nice vinegar bite - very appealing.

Consistency/Texture: This is a finely pureed sauce, very smooth but not at all runny.

Taste: My first thought as I tasted a spoonful of this sauce was… “I recognize this flavor… I’ve tasted this somewhere before.” It took me a while to place, but eventually I remembered the name… “Sriracha“. It’s a little sweeter than the popular Thai delicacy, and I actually found myself enjoying the texture much more. To me, Sriracha seems a bit grainy, whereas Pit Bull is pureed so smoothly that it goes down more like ketchup.

Heat: Taken alone, Pit Bull delivers a decent bite. The heat doesn’t linger for long though, and when eaten with food the spiciness tends to fade into the background a bit. I rate Pit Bull at 4 on a heat scale of 1 to 10.

Overall Impressions: I’m going to come right out and say it… I loved this sauce. My wife also really liked it, and she can be a bit picky when it comes to spicy food. We found that it went well with hamburgers, chicken, and Bratwurst…adding a pleasant garlicky-hot punch without overpowering the food. It was so good and versitile, I mopped up every last bit with my french fries. This one gets an instant promotion to my stable of regular sauces.

Pit Bull Hot Sauces
Bay Shore, LI, N.Y.
Established in 2002.
Owned and operated by Manny Ortiz, Lisa Anziano, Harlee and Syd the Pit Bull
Telephone 631-666-7462 - FAX 631-666-7462