Deathnuts.com / Blazing Foods – Bacon Jalapeno Crack Balls
I’ve recently reviewed my favorite flavor of the Deathnuts / Blazing Foods Crack Balls, but when browsing the site for some other goodies I noticed that they had a new flavor I hadn’t seen before – Bacon Jalapeno. This is supposed to be one step up from their mildest flavor, Hatch Chile, but even their mild flavors I find to be extremely tasty so I had to give these a go.
Most of the other flavors in their lineup include some variation of ranch, which I can enjoy in a snack, but it’s always nice to try something new as well. This one is the only one with bacon, or any other meaty flavor for that matter, in the range. They’re a bit darker in color than some of the other Crack Balls as well.
First taste the smoky bacon flavor absolutely comes through. In fact I found that the bacon flavor pretty much dominated the entire flavor profile, making the cheese and jalapenos just small background players. I can enjoy a bacon-y snack, and you don’t often see bacon flavored cheese puffs, so these are unique in that regard, but I do with the jalapeno flavor were more prominent.
When it comes to heat level, while these are just only step above the extremely mild Hatch variant, they do have about as much heat as the “Flamin’ Hot” line of snack foods, so while low on the chile head scale, these would be quite spicy for most people if found on a grocery store shelf.
If you like smoky bacon flavors with a little spice I can recommend these. I still do wish they had more pepper flavor.
Ingredients: Cheese Balls (corn meal, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: cottonseed oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, canola oil), Whey, Maltodextrin, Cheese (Semisoft & Cheddar [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes]), Milkfat, Salt, Whey Protein Concentrate, Buttermilk Solids, Natural Flavor, Sodium Phosphate, Lactic Acid, Yellow #6, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Yellow #5, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Artificial Flavor), Red Jalapenos, Natural Hickory Flavor, Spices
Heat Level: 2/10. Not super hot but the spice does build as you eat more