Butterfly Bakery of Vermont – Trinidad Perfume Not So Hot Sauce

This is another unique single-varietal limited release sauce from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont. This features the Trinidad Perfume pepper, a variant of the Trinidad Scorpion pepper that has virtually no heat, but still retains the floral and fruity flavor associated with the Trinidad Scorpion.

According to BBoVT these peppers naturally start to become spicier through successive generations so this sauce is released as a limited microbatch when their affiliated farms can grow enough of the pepper with virtually no heat. The Trinidad Perfume should top out at about 500 Scoville Heat Units, which makes it one of the mildest peppers out there, even milder than the Poblano pepper from which most people detect no real heat.

The pepper received its name from how it perfumes the air with its aroma when used in cooking.

What this sauce offers instead of heat is tons of flavor. Being able to enjoy the flavor of the Trinidad Scorpion without the burn taking over is a new experience, and one that I found addicting. I started looking for anything I could put this sauce on to enjoy the tangy fruity floral flavor. You can taste the vinegar, but the piquant nature of this sauce is a perfect foil for the floral fruity peppers.

I found this is an amazing sauce for cheesesteaks and for other rich and fatty sandwiches. Since it’s so mild you can really slather it on, and in fact I went through the entire bottle in less than two days. This would also be a great sauce for those of you who have spouses or children who want to enjoy hot sauce with you, but who have extremely low heat tolerances. They’ll get to enjoy those flavors without the pain.

Of course like all Butterfly Bakery of Vermont sauces this sauce is all-natural with no artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, or thickeners.

I can easily recommend this sauce, and I’ll be buying several more bottles myself the next time it’s released.

Ingredients: Honey Field Farm “Trinidad Perfume” chili peppers, organic white vinegar, salt.

Heat Level: 1/10. If I had a half ranking I’d use that, this is milder even than Crystal or Frank’s, which is to say, virtually undetectable levels of heat.