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Tahiti Joe- Ahi of Kahuna XX Hot Sauce with cheese
Bottle Description: One day while Tahiti Joe was cooling under a coconut palm, he heard voices in his head: his tastebuds were talking to him. They wanted him to make a sauce so “hot†and flavorful, it would please any chilihead’s addiction for heat, and the tastebuds wanted it with cheese. So Tahiti Joe asked the great Polynesian Fire God for help, and at the urging of Tahiti Joe’s kahine (sister) Kimblalayawanalaya, Tahiti Joe gives you “Ahi of Kahuna XX Hot Sauce with Cheese†(her favorite sauce). Warning! 4 out of 5 proctologists recommend not to use this sauce. The 5th is a chilihead!
Ingredients: Aged red peppers, red wine vinegar, concentrated vegetables juices, Worcestershire, Honey, Key Lime Juice, clam juice, parmesan cheese, romano cheese, fresh carrots, fresh garlic in water, fresh habaneros, fresh onions, spices
Container: Sticks to the Tahiti motif, the character on the label has a chin that could crush a Buick.
Appearance: Amber brown with a lot of chunks. Pepper skins, seeds, cheese and a whole lot of other solids. A chunky chunky sauce.
Smell: This sauce smells exactly like a pizza with hot sauce on it. The pizza part must be from the cheese and the hot sauce scent is comprised of predominantly habanero and peppers aromas. Vinegar is NOT a major issue with this sauce and the other spices come out very nicely.
Taste: The beginning of the flavors is a habanero strong hot sauce flavor that is quite delicious. Imagine your average habanero sauce then up the habanero and keep the vinegar down. There’s a hint of sweetness after the habanero flavor. This alone would have been a fantastic sauce but in addition you get a delicious cheese flavor. This adds a lot of the saltiness of the sauce and gives the sauce a really fat flavorful ending. You can differentiate the two phases of the sauce but if you try hard enough but they blend together well. The spices are in their right places and they help to add to the flavor, neither distracting from the cheese nor the habanero. Imagine a roller coaster where there is no going up part and all you get is the thrill of the freefall.
Heat: (8.0/10) You’d think a sauce with cheese in it would be mild but no this sauce is quite hot. I usually test hot sauces by swigging them out of a bottle. I had to do this very carefully with this sauce, tipping it very slowly. Not for noobies.
Field Test: This is an all purpose sauce of the best variety. It goes well on pretty much everything. That being said, this sauce is very flavor heavy and if you are trying to preserve the taste of a delicate food then this sauce would completely dominate it. However if your aim is to enhance your food then this sauce is utterly fantastic. OR, crack this baby open and just swig it, it’s still delicious.
Final Word: It has got to be the cheese but this sauce is one of the few sauces that has really really caught my attention in the last couple of months. Go buy it now.
Overall: 10/10
Tahiti’s Hot Sauces
Joe & Charlotte Turner
(561) 439 - 7832
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West Palm Beach, FL 33406
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Sounds kinda “cheesy” to me. 
DK, looks like you guy’s starterd sumthin. Cheese in the sauce, i bet Blane buys this stuff by the case. ROLF!!
good revue clint.
That sauce looks great. I love TJ’s Analize This hot sauce for it’s great combo of garlic and heat. I’ll have to get this one in Texas for sure.
10/10 and no comments from Blane?
I want to eat that.
Hay guy’s I have to say great write up!!!#10 and no comment from blane………….gee I thought no sauce was worth a # 10……Blane caused 30 cancellations of my # 10 paradise Mango….guess Jim Campbell is gtoining to get a lot of bottles..for his Charities
Sorry Wes, hang in there. Don’t let the little things in life get you down. Stay above the fray and keep on being yourself. I will call ya later for my order.
wesley h zebzda on 7/29/2007 at 7:44 am said:
Hay guy’s I have to say great write up!!!#10 and no comment from blane………….gee I thought no sauce was worth a # 10……Blane caused 30 cancellations of my # 10 paradise Mango….guess Jim Campbell is gtoining to get a lot of bottles..for his Charities
Hey Wes, check your facts before making accusations. I know for a fact Blane didn’t cause at least 5 of those cancellations. I cancelled mine because of your rude comments and attitude towards anyone that disagrees with you. The other 4 were for the same reasons.
Crying in public because you messed up and blaming it on someone else is just wrong man. Nobody at fault here except you man. Only thing I’m guilty of is caring enough about my friends to have the balls to say something to you. Just take a chill pill dude. And What Buddah said, but I ain’t callin’ you for an order.
Have a nice day Wes.
Joe & Charlotte are two great people and have been around way longer than me in this hot sauce community. Charlotte is facing an illness that could take her from us. I don’t think this thread is the place to carry on this pettyness. Why don’t the two of you take this out behind the barn and spare us the drama.
That being said, Joe & Charlotte make some great sauces! They were to be at Jungle Jim’s this coming weekend, but with Charlotte’s condition, they had to cancel. Why don’t you all join me in wishing the two of them all the best and remember them in your thoughts and prayers! (Hang Loose Sign) We love you Joe & Charlotte!
Sorry, that last post was mine, Leroy’s been on my laptop again.
WEll …It Is What It is……I did not think I did no harm…Just my 2 cents
Where is Blane…to rip the meat off the bones
Blane has done enough damage…why bnot put the icing on the cake
Joe & Charlotte best of luck, hang in there our prayers are with you…
CaJohn on 7/29/2007 at 8:54 am said:
Joe & Charlotte are two great people and have been around way longer than me in this hot sauce community. Charlotte is facing an illness that could take her from us. I don’t think this thread is the place to carry on this pettyness. Why don’t the two of you take this out behind the barn and spare us the drama.
That being said, Joe & Charlotte make some great sauces! They were to be at Jungle Jim’s this coming weekend, but with Charlotte’s condition, they had to cancel. Why don’t you all join me in wishing the two of them all the best and remember them in your thoughts and prayers! (Hang Loose Sign) We love you Joe & Charlotte!
Good Morning CaJohn, your right man. This definately isn’t the place for that. That was the main reason for my post. I’m fairly reserved most of the time, but what was said had to be corrected.
As for Joe and Charlotte, I’ve never tried their sauces but I do hear good things about them and their products and did not mean to slight them in the least with my comment to Wes. I am sorry to hear that they will not be at JJ’s and the reason was completely unknown to me. Joe and Charlotte will definately be in my thoughts and prayers.
(Hang Loose Sign) We love you Joe & Charlotte! Ditto.
Thanks for the post CaJohn.
Your in our prayers Charlotte and Joe!
I am so sorry about Charlotte, and eventhough I do not know them. I am going to support them and go buy some hot sauce on their site. Best of health to you Charlotte.
BLANE on 7/29/2007 at 9:09 am said:
Joe & Charlotte best of luck, hang in there our prayers are with you…
Great job Blaine!!!! Dont let the bast@rds wear you down!!!
As for not being the right place!!! IS it ever the right time or place?
God we need to hear from the old timers!!!!
the truth on 7/29/2007 at 9:30 am said:
Great job Blaine!!!! Dont let the bast@rds wear you down!!!
As for not being the right place!!! IS it ever the right time or place?
God we need to hear from the old timers!!!!
Speakin’ of old timers.
Good Morning truth! 
Good morning DK hows things? Its been a long time!!!To long…Time to come back!! lets hqave some fun shall we? ttys
CaJohn on 7/29/2007 at 8:54 am said:
Joe & Charlotte are two great people and have been around way longer than me in this hot sauce community. Charlotte is facing an illness that could take her from us. I don’t think this thread is the place to carry on this pettyness. Why don’t the two of you take this out behind the barn and spare us the drama.
That being said, Joe & Charlotte make some great sauces! They were to be at Jungle Jim’s this coming weekend, but with Charlotte’s condition, they had to cancel. Why don’t you all join me in wishing the two of them all the best and remember them in your thoughts and prayers! (Hang Loose Sign) We love you Joe & Charlotte!
Thanks for the info John, my prayers are with them.
Joe is selling Charlotte’s Relief Fund Hot Sauce on his site to help with the Medical expenses.
Sounds like a REALLY GREAT time to try his sauce out! I am!
Hay Guys…..haven’t been sleeping well. well lately…..BRANT called me a few hours ago…….it was all positive….we agreed to disagree…opinions of each other….the Bolg is the Blog….you state your mind….,.its not a state of mind…..so we are O.K. ,as long as he doesn’t make fun of my spelling…..lol…lol..hhhahhhahhahha…back to normal
Brant I hope you accept my apology..(sp?)
HAY JOHN…..I LIT A CANDLE IN CHURCH FOR CHARLOTTE ….AND JOE
…….MAY GOD BLESS
Welcome back Wes. 
Perhaps now is an opportune time to put all of the negatives of the past behind us and move forward in a more positive manner? One of the things I like about the blog is the feeling of family and comradery. That unfortunately gets lost in the frequent fights that break out here. We are all here basically for the same reasons and we should do more to support each other in this industry or hobby or business or whatever it is to you. The jokes and ribbing and all that is amusing and more than appropriate, lets just try to keep the negativeness and nastiness off this blog. Enough said. My best to Joe and Charlotte.
DK i’m not back…I’m selling out of the Biz……Just wanted eyery one to know I left on a positive note with Brant……So why don’t every one go and light a candle for Chaloette……IN CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My prayers are sent !
Good news brant and wes….
wesley h zebzda on 7/29/2007 at 12:13 pm said:
Hay Guys…..haven’t been sleeping well. well lately…..BRANT called me a few hours ago…….it was all positive….we agreed to disagree…opinions of each other….the Bolg is the Blog….you state your mind….,.its not a state of mind…..so we are O.K. ,as long as he doesn’t make fun of my spelling…..lol…lol..hhhahhhahhahha…back to normal
Brant I hope you accept my apology..(sp?)
Wes, thank’s for taking my call today…. I’m glad we agreed to disagree. Remember it’s just a opinion and I’m the worst at remembering that.
I mean now harm and if you took offense to my opinion I apolgize for it.
Good luck in all you do and I do mean that, just be yourself..
Gildo…….. Shut-up
Gildo Shut Up……..Thanks Blane I always like to leave on a Positive Note.
…………..My Corgie said he will stop ripping up your photos I took from the blog…lol…lol…hahahhhahahahahhhahaahahhh
you guys are gonna miss me…..!!!!!!!!
wesley h zebzda on 7/29/2007 at 2:45 pm said:
you guys are gonna miss me…..!!!!!!!!
Yeah, but I think I saw a couple of folks practicing their aim 
I can honestly say ‘check is in the mail’ Wes & thanks again for all your support! Best of luck to whatever you turn your hand to next.
Jim- StepUpForCharity.org on 7/29/2007 at 5:51 pm said:
Yeah, but I think I saw a couple of folks practicing their aim
I can honestly say ‘check is in the mail’ Wes & thanks again for all your support! Best of luck to whatever you turn your hand to next.
I keep telling him…. this is one big disfunctional family, and to keep posting… hopefully he will.
He has been a TREMENDOUS help to me.
Aloha Everyone,
First of all, I want to thank hotsauce blog for the great review of our AHI of KAHUNA sauce.
And also a big MAHALO for CaJohn for his kind words and enlighting everyone about our sitituation with my vahine, Charlotte, aka, MRS. TAHITI JOE. Thank you everyone else for sending yout prayer and blessings for Charlotte.
It is really hard for me to say this, but Charlotte’s time is very very near.
Hang loose everyone, TAHITI JOE
To those of you who are sending your thoughts, your best wishes and your prayers … I truly thank you. It means so much to ‘all’ of us. My mom has had a wonderful life and has been fortunate to have had someone like ‘Tahiti Joe’ to love and adore her as much as he did!! She has had the support and care of his loving family … with open arms and doors, especially his mom, her ‘Angel of Mercy’. Please always keep her in your thoughts when you’re at those hot sauce shows … remembering her beautiful smiling face that could lite up any room that she entered. Now as we prepare to move on, I know we will all have a piece of heart with us … always. Her daughter Karen
Hey Joe, please know the three of us at Three Hot Tamales wish you both the best and we will keep you in our prayers.
Joe, Karen, my heartfelt good wishes goes out to your family in this time of sorrow. I can only wish my best to Charlotte and pray that no matter what, her journey rides along a happy road.
Buddah on 8/2/2007 at 5:38 pm said:
Joe, Karen, my heartfelt good wishes goes out to your family in this time of sorrow. I can only wish my best to Charlotte and pray that no matter what, her journey rides along a happy road.
Likewise from the FKS family. Our prayers are with you.
Hard to remember through your pain,
but your loss is Heavens’ gain.
CaJohn on 7/29/2007 at 8:54 am said:
Joe & Charlotte are two great people and have been around way longer than me in this hot sauce community. Charlotte is facing an illness that could take her from us. I don’t think this thread is the place to carry on this pettyness. Why don’t the two of you take this out behind the barn and spare us the drama.
That being said, Joe & Charlotte make some great sauces! They were to be at Jungle Jim’s this coming weekend, but with Charlotte’s condition, they had to cancel. Why don’t you all join me in wishing the two of them all the best and remember them in your thoughts and prayers! (Hang Loose Sign) We love you Joe & Charlotte!
Agree… Could not have said it better. Our prayers are with you also Joe and Charlotte, we had a close call our selfs this last cpl weeks. Live every moment and make it count.
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Hey Clint, nice review. I really got caught up in your enthusiasm as you described the sauce. It makes me want to try it right now. Good job.