The Green Hornet, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow were all crime fighters. But they won’t be the only ones going after Green Bandit Cilantro Habanero Hot Sauce. This mild pepper concoction will win fans easily with its good taste, even if a bandit is traditionally a bad guy.

Though Green Bandit hot sauce features the habanero pepper, its primary ingredient after filtered water is cilantro. This accounts for the sauce’s dark green color. In addition, I wonder if green habaneros are used – not only are they milder than ripe red and orange habaneros, but they also would blend into the primary color scheme of the sauce. Apple cider vinegar and lemon juice concentrate add sour notes, while ginger and garlic powder are responsible for the touch of spice. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1 small onion, chopped
• 7 cloves garlic
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
• 2 tablespoons Dijon-style prepared mustard
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 (2 pound) tri-tip steak Continue Reading
  

When I look at the label of Old Grand Paw’s Bootlegger’s BBQ and Tonic, there’s Old Grand Paw, wearing a brown hat that looks like it’s seen better days and clenching a pipe through what’s left of his smiling teeth. Under his picture, we see that he is “Company Founder, President & Head of Research and Development.”

Sounds like Old Grand Paw is highly qualified. A quote by his picture reads, “I personally sample each batch!” At the bottom of the label, this claims to be “14 ounces of the best darn sauce ever!” The bottle is unique in that it is shaped like an old liquor or, perhaps, tonic bottle—sort of flat, with only about an inch of depth from front to back label. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• Vegetable, Canola, or Peanut Oil for frying
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup Tapatio Hot Sauce or Pit Bull Hot Sauce
• 1/8 tsp. pepper
• 1/8 tsp. garlic powder
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp. paprika
• 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper Continue Reading
  

Some sauces aim to cause pain, others diarrhea, Cajohn’s Liquid Stoopid Hot Sauce has loftier goals: to turn us all into blithering idiots.

As a journalist I’ve always valued intelligence. I spent 18 years and $100,000 on school to escape the gnarly claws of ignorance. Now I’m faced with a sauce that promises a single drop will unravel all my hard work.

They say this stuff could turn Plato into Paris Hilton, and Einstein into Elmer Fudd.  They say that a single drop could render me dumb as a tabloid reporter.

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