I was really exited about reviewing this sauce. I have only had a few sauces with nagas in them and they haven’t seemed that hot to me, I figured it was because of a small amount of nagas. This sauce says on the label “the extractaceous period is over welcome to the jolokiazoic” so I really expected great things! I know the nagas are around 1mill shu and I don’t figure the sauce will be that hot because there are other ingredients, but I was hoping for about ½ mill or so. And it’s definitely not that hot. I opened it up and smelled it and it smelled like canned tomato juice. (the kind you would use for galosh or chili.) I poured a little on a chip and got the same thing from the taste of it. it reminded me of something my grandma used to make called macaroni and tomato juice, which only has 2 ingredients and the title pretty much covers it. I didn’t taste vinegar or garlic, or really anything except tomatoes, and a little bit of the peppers. The tomatoes are definitely the dominant flavor. There can be a lot of different flavors that are described by tomatoes; fresh tomatoes taste completely different than canned tomato juice, or cooked tomatoes, which are more of a marinara flavor. This sauce tasted like tomato juice to me. The burn does not hit you until you eat a little more of it, and it starts to build. After a half bottle of sauce on my chicken I was a little disappointed with the heat level. It’s not that it isn’t hot, but to me it didn’t seem a whole lot hotter than some of the red savina sauces I have had. After a few more meals with this sauce, (pizza, and nachos) I realized that the true power of the nagas is in how long the burn lasts.
this sauce went great on everything I tried it on, the pictures show chicken and pizza, but I also had it on potatoes, eggs, and nachos.
Flavor: 9.5/10 it’s a very simple flavor which is why it would go good on so many different types of food, yet it is also very delicious. I will definitely buy more of this one and it may even end up being a regular in my fridge.
Heat: I was disappointed with the heat, but I was also expecting extract levels of heat. It is not an extract sauce and im rating it as a non extract sauce when I give it a 8.5/10. I personally haven’t found any naga sauces to be all that they where hyped up to be, it could just be me and my taste buds, but I give it credit for the long lasting burn. One other thing I need to mention is that the burn from the half bottle and the burn from a tablespoon didn’t seem to be much apart for me, the first just seemed to last longer.
Label: I don’t always rate the label just because it’s the stuff on the inside that counts, the only time I do this is if the label really stands out to me and I have something to say about it. When I do rate it the rating will have nothing to do with the overall rating, because overall I’m just rating the sauce. That said I love this label! If you didn’t notice the teeth, tongue, and claws are peppers. Both the novelty soreass version (what I got) and the saurus are great looking labels.
Smell: the flavor and the smell are the same, nothing stands out more in one than in the other. 9.5/10
Overall: 9.6/10 I highly recommend it!
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Written by Justin
Nick Lindauer founded Hot Sauce Blog in 2004, making it one of the internet's very first hot sauce review sites. After 20+ years of tasting, reviewing, and attending every major fiery foods event in the country, he's back behind the keyboard covering the hot sauce world he helped build.
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11 responses to “Review: Nagasoreass Hot Sauce”
Best name for a hot sauce EVER!
Where’s the dinosaur bottle collectors edition?
Ingredients?
Yes, there are ingredients. 😉
Ingredients:
Red Savina® Habanero
Chiles, Vinegar, Onion,
Tomatoes, Naga Jolokia
Chiles.Lemon Juice, Garlic,
Salt
Nice review Justin. Like gildo, not listing the ingredients would be my nitpick too. I can’t wait to try this sauce. I love tomato based sauces. If the heat level is anywhere like “10” or above it, then it’ll surely become my favorite non-extract superhot.
I love this label!!! I’ve been wanting to buy this, but I have so many sauce to eat and CaJohn’s “10” series is so good I’ll just have to wait for awhile.
CaJohn is now my favorite tasty sauce makings manufacturer. His extensive quality product offering is next to none at this point.
I would like to see an easier website from him, for ordering and finding sauces….
Ingredients:
Chiles (Red Savina, Naga, Jolokia), Vinegar, Onion, Tomatoes, Lemon Juice, Garlic, Salt, Spices
thats exactly how it says it on the label, sorry for missing this from the review.
It is a groovy label! The lingering burn of the Naga is definitely what sets it apart from some other hab types. At least in the sauces and the fresh chilies I have tried.
I have CaJohn’s 10 and I use it frequently, it’s definitely hot! So is this as hot or not as hot as 10?!?
this is one sauce on my have to try list. Nice review Justin.
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any ideas what you would do to make it a collectors edition? maybe dip it in resin and put a little figure of a rex on top.
i also agree, one of the top 3 hot sauce names of all time. (or at least the ones i have heard of)
Dead on Justin, The flavor of tomatoes and the lemon juice are dominant. The heat takes a little while to build, the burn lasts a long time. This is a perfect sauce for cooking. I made Naga Sore Ass pizza last night. Look for an upcoming recipe!