Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Lemon, bright, vegetal, garlic, sour Texture: Medium Thick and Chunky Ingredients: Distilled Vinegar, Serrano Peppers, Yellow Bell Peppers, Lemon, Garlic, Salt Recommended: Yes Website: https://www.fermfoundations.com/ This is the second sauce that I’ve tried from Ferm Foundations, a small hot sauce,…
Tajin seasoning, originally developed in 1985 in Guadalajara, Mexico was created as a dry seasoning version of the creator’s grandmother’s hot sauce recipe. By 1993 the seasoning was available in the USA and has grown to be one of the most popular Mexican seasonings on grocery store shelves, appropriate for anything from sandwiches to tacos…
Valentina Black Label is a sauce that’s been a staple in my refrigerator for at least the past fifteen years, though I’m sure I enjoyed it at restaurants even before then. Having never looked up the history of the sauce I just discovered that it’s been around since 1960 and is made in Guadalajara, Mexico….
This is yet another sauce that I brought back from a trip to Mexico last year (and with many more to go it’s no wonder my return bag was quite overweight). I’ve previously reviewed their Habanero Xtra Picante and didn’t walk away very impressed with it, finding that it had an overwhelming chemical flavor. This…
Alchemy Peppers traces its roots to a college student who’d become interested in molecular gastronomy while working in a bar with a machine that could make fogs and vapors from ingredients (and accidentally gassing out the bar when trying the machine with some peppers) and a self proclaimed “craft beer nerd” who he’d previous become…
Micheladas, essentially a Bloody Mary that substitutes beer for the vodka at their most basic level, are one of my favorite drinks. They’re typically spicy, sour, salty, umami-rich, and low enough in alcohol that you can enjoy several with lunch or dinner and leave with only a light buzz. Of course their flavor profiles also…
It’s not uncommon for me to order a sauce because at the time it looks like it will satisfy a certain craving for me at the time of ordering, or because I need to get my order total just a bit higher to get free shipping. By the time that sauce arrives sometimes I’m just…
Originally created to find a way to deal with an overgrowth of peppers in the firehouse garden after a long vacation firefighter Lee Taylor created the recipe for his original pepper sauce in just an hour and received rave reviews from his fellows at the firehouse. The sauce evolved as Taylor replaced a charitable biking…
The third and final of the new Hot Ones heat pack sauces I’ve reviewed, this one took my the longest to write up and figure out my thoughts on. Microsaucerie Piko Peppers’ Volkano was a straightforward (though absolutely delicious) habanero sauce and Queen Majesty’s Sicilian Scorpion was just brutal heat with a scorpion flavor that…
Sicilian Scorpion is the first hot sauce I’ve tried from Queens, NY’s Queen Majesty, a brand I’ve heard a lot about. Looking them up they’ve been operating since 2013, quite a while for a craft hot sauce brand, and pride themselves on making all natural sauces with no added sugar, preservatives, or xanthan gum, something…