Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Garlic, green onions, vegetal Texture: Medium with garlic and small pepper bits Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Red Bell Pepper, Distilled Vinegar, Water, Chili Pepper Blend (Carolina Reaper, Ghost, and Scorpion Peppers), Garlic, Habanero Pepper, Sea Salt, Organic Can Sugar, Green Onion,…
Bitter: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Cherries, reaper, scorpion, floral, garlic, fruity Texture: Thin with some small bits and pieces Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Apple Cider, Tart Cherry Juice, Scorpion Pepper, Onion, Red Wine Vinegar, Poblano Pepper, Pineapple, Water, Garlic, Beets, Carolina Reaper Pepper, Molasses, Avocado, Maple…
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…
While Torchbearer’s Garlic Reaper is a perennial favorite amongst hot sauce aficionados they actually make two other Reaper sauces – Reaper Evil (which I’ll eventually get around to reviewing) and Plum Reaper, the subject of this review. I was interested to see if this one would stack up against its more famous brother. Like most…
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I get a good childish chuckle out of Hot Monkey Nuts’ slogan every time I see it. Having previously reviewed their double-entendre laden Fromage a Trois peanuts and feeling as if they could have used quite a bit more flavor and heat I had high hopes for…
The second bottle from the 2024 Gindo’s Ghost of Christmas trio, Ghost of Christmas Present is described by the company as “a love letter to the bold flavors of today’s hot sauces”. Featuring a range of red heirloom and super hot varietals of peppers (as opposed to the peach and yellow varieties featured in the…
For the past ten years Gindo’s has been releasing special limited edition holiday hot sauces under the Ghost of Christmas series. Each year the sauces are different but embody tradition, current trends, and future looking flavors with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Future sauces respectively. While this…
Torchbearer isn’t new about doing sauce collaborations with various celebrities. They have have sauces with Danny Wood (of New Kids on the Block), Nekrogoblikon, and most recently the band Shinedown. I’d picked up several bottles of this TorchedStone Thai earlier in the year when Torchbearer had announced they were going on final clearance, and at…
While I’m not a lover of tropical fruit-based hot sauces, I do love coconut. My favorite candy bars are Mounds (Almond Joy would be great if they subbed in pecans instead of almonds, which I always find taste dusty, but I digress…), I love German Chocolate Cake for that golden coconut frosting, macaroons will forever…
Smokin’ Ed Currie, the inventory of the Carolina Reaper and the new record holder of hottest pepper in the world, Pepper X, has a huge variety of sauces available via his Puckerbutt Pepper Company store, from the sweet to the savory, with many creative flavor combinations, and many available in multiple heat levels. The one…