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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 [tag]Hot Sauce[/tag]… 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
Chilehead Comments: 10 Comments
Posted by: Bill - Categories: Uncategorized
Permalink: Review: Original Pit Bull Hot Sauce
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10 Comments
Yeah, it’s not a super spicy sauce… just nicely warming. They evidently make hotter versions of Pit Bull. I wonder if the flavor is the same…
I also think it tops out Sriachi rooster sauce.
Your review is spot on. Sriachi rooster kicked with a bit of sweetness and some floating seeds. I agree that it tops Sriachi sauce by just a tiny bit, but could easily pass for it.
My wife and I both love this sauce to. We add it to a very generic BBQ sauce like Sue Bee and use it on grilled items. Kari can’t take to much heat so this is something we can both enjoy. I think he has a hotter version as well.
You should try the hotter flavors “revenge” and “renegade” Same great flavor with some more burn…
And for the flavored sauces they now have a Jalapeño Peach sauce and the outrageous Jalapeño Pineapple sauce…
I have tried them all ( the local deli sells it) and all I can say is I am hooked !!!!!
I haven’t tried the original but the Renegade is awesome. Great flavor as well as heat, that’s what they focused on. I got a bottle of this at a fair (local brand).
A good sauce but the true king of hot sauce HAS to be Manny’s piri-piri sauce found in Johannesburg, South Africa. I think it must be the grape vinigar which gives it that distinct flavour. However, Pit Bull is easier to obtain and I am sold on it.
This is great sauce…your review is right on the money. I actually got my first bottle directly from Manny….I’ve met him a few times through work and he randomly produces a bottle of this hot sauce for me to try. I was sold from the first taste. I love this stuff.
LOL! Yeah boys, I am a proud South African and manny’s is kind of a benchmark here but only in Seafood circles. We as South Africans are rather fussy when it comes to our pepper/chilli sauces and dishes. A great one is the Banditos habanero range. it friggin’ smokes! Manny’s is good with prawns, try it out. Comes in a big ol’ J & B bottle.
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Good review. These guys are located about 10 minutes from – i’ve been using it for a while. Not as hot as I like, but nice and flavorful.