Bitter: 🟡🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡🟡○ Sweet: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Heat: 🟡🟡○○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Sour, fruity, umami Recommended: Yes Texture: Semi-crunchy semi-chewy jelly Ingredients: Water, Konjac Powder, Tomato Ketchup (Tomato Paste, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Vinegar, Salt, Food Starch-modified, Xanthan Gum, Artificial Flavor, Onion Powder, Spices), Tapioca Starch, Passion Fruit Jam (Passion Fruit Pulp,…
Bitter: 🟡🟡○○○ Salty: 🟡🟡○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Sweet: 🟡🟡○○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Heat: 🟡🟡🟡○○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Lemongrass, Bright, Sour Recommended: Yes Texture: Medium-thin and mostly smooth Ingredients: Thai Chiles, Red Jalapenos, Rice Vinegar, Lemongrass, Lime Peel, Bocquerones, Organic Cane Sugar, Xanthan Gum (E415) O’Malley’s Hot Sauce is a new hot sauce company based out of Dallas, TX….
Bitter: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Salty: 🟡🟡○○○ Sour/Tangy:🟡🟡🟡○○ Sweet: 🟡🟡🟡○○ Umami: 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 Heat: 🟡🟡🟡🟡○○○○○○ Quick Flavor Notes: Umami, sweet, savory, balanced Recommended: Yes Texture: Medium-thick with some seeds and small bits Ingredients: Red Bell Peppers, Distilled Vinegar, Water, Chili Pepper Blend (Habanero, Thai Chili, Chocolate Moruga Scorpion, Death Spiral, Bird’s Eye, Carolina Reaper, 7 Pot Douglah Pepper), Palm…
Bitter: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sour/Tangy: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Chile, savory, porky, sour/fermented Recommended: Yes Texture: Crispy chiles with both soft fatty and crispy pork bits Ingredients: Dried chili (45%), pork crackling (31.67%), fried garlic (6.2%), fried shallots (6.1%), vegetable oil (3.3%), crispy flour (2.67%), white sesame (1.77%), cayenne…
Bitter: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sour/Tangy: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Heat: ⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Fishy, sweet, umami Recommended: Conditional Texture: Soft and chewy Ingredients: Fish meat 62.5%, sugar 10.7%, tapioca starch 9.2%, hot chili 4.9%, wheat flour 3.9%, iodized salt 2.1%, flavor enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate and Disodium 5′-ribonucleotides) Taro is a Thai brand focusing…
Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sour/Tangy: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Heat: ⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Sweet, fish sauce, umami Recommended: Yes Texture: Crispy and crunchy Ingredients: What flour, Sugar, Tapioca starch, Palm oil, Fish sauce (Anchovy Fish, salt, sugar, Iodine), Iodized salt, Monosodium glutamate, Garlic, Calcium carbonate, Ammonium bicarbonate, Chili powder, Pepper, Baking powder (Sodium…
Bitter: ⭐⭐✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Sour: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Sweet: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰ Heat: ⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Lime, Cilantro, Sweet, Sour, Chile Texture: Medium and semi-coarse Recommended: Yes Ingredients: Vinegar, Thai Bird’s Eye Pepper, Coconut Palm Sugar, Cilantro, Garlic, Lime Powder (Organic Lime, Organic Maltodextrin), Salt, MSG, Citric Acid, Rice Bran Oil, White Pepper, Xanthan Gum Bottle-Fed…
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…
There are a few sauce makers who I’ve sampled multiple sauces from and all of them have been above average to excellent. Seed Ranch is one of those makers. Their Hot Thai Green Hot Sauce is, according to them, their hottest sauce, and features Carolina Reaper peppers, though fairly far down in the ingredients list….
Chili Crisp is rapidly becoming a very trendy spicy condiment these days. While I discovered it for myself with the ubiquitous Lao Gan Ma version when on a “grab some stuff that looks interesting” trip to the local Asian grocery store, there have been a huge number of artisanal and celebrity-chef backed offerings in the…