Torchbearer Sauces – Garlic Reaper

On certain online forums, especially the Reddit Hot Sauce and Spicy subreddits, this is a legendary sauce. Torchbearer themselves mention that it’s one of their best sellers. With a cute yet foreboding logo, an appealing orange color, and the promise of both one of the most fiery peppers ever grown plus the delicious flavor of garlic it’s no surprise why chile heads flock to this sauce.

There is prodigious heat and plenty of garlic on the nose when you open the bottle, and due to canola oil being the third ingredient this sauce does have a creamy emulsified very smooth texture. Speaking of the ingredient list, the first two, Carolina Reapers and Garlic, tell you everything you need to know about the flavor profile of this sauce. It’s fiery hot with that characteristic extreme brightness and and slight bitterness of the Carolina Reaper, but that fresh biting garlic taste is equally as present.

I’ve seen many sauces labeled as ‘garlic’ sauces where the garlic wasn’t present until near the bottom of the ingredient list. Torchbearer doesn’t play that game, giving that garlic a co-starring role with that Carolina Reaper. The overall blend makes this a truly brutal sauce, with quite a bit of harshness from the reaper and the garlic flavors together, but it’s a delicious type of harsh brutality that keeps you coming back for more and more.

I also appreciate Torchbearer’s commitment to all-natural ingredients. You won’t see extracts, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, or artificial thickening agents in any of their sauces.

With the nice smooth consistency this pairs well with a great number of foods. Chicken wings are of course a given, but it’s also great on pizza, in chili, mixed into some fettuccini alfredo, on sandwiches, in tuna melts, in mac and cheese, or anywhere else you can appreciate some extreme heat and great fresh garlic flavor.

If you’re looking to expand your horizons to the super-hot world, or if you’re already there and you just love garlic, this is a great sauce to pick up.

Ingredients: Carolina Reaper Pepper, Garlic, Canola Oil, Water, Distilled White Vinegar, Lime Juice, Granulated Garlic, Mustard Powder, Chili Powder, Salt, and Black Pepper

Heat Level: 9/10. This is a delicious sauce but an extremely hot one. Use caution if you’re not experience with super-hot sauces.