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Mad Dog 357 Ghost Hot Sauce Review

Tara — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:48:56 +0000

It’s hard to ignore a bottle of hot sauce with an intense hologram on its label. It’s even harder to over look it once your read the text (text that is set over silver, reflective skulls I might add) on the side of the bottle and its sweet nothings become imprinted in your brain: “Ever seen a ghost? One taste of Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce and you will – your own!” This ghost pepper edition boasts a full, hearty flavor that tastes of pine and has a sweet smell that doesn’t overpower your dining experience. After tentatively dousing a baked sweet potato in the thick, syrupy sauce, my first coated bite revealed a serving of heat that was both immediate and all encompassing in flavor. The sweet taste filled my mouth, and my dinner date deemed the sauce simply “physically hot” in its nature. The sauce itself is an opaque liquid that pours smoothly and would make a solid addition to any secret family chili recipe or mixed into the meat filling for a batch of Sloppy Joes.

Bottom line: Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce brings something to the table besides just spice. While I didn’t find this Mad Dog creation all that scary, you can bet that I’d be willing to come back from beyond the grave and haunt my own mother to satisfy my 357 fix.

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Checking out Heine Hurtin’ Hot Sauce

Chris — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:09:58 +0000

Have you heard about the Heine Hurtin’ Sweet n Hot Sauce? This is a cool twist on a traditional dipping sauce as it is similar to a spreadable jelly. Some people do not care for a BBQ type sauce with the tomato base. This sauce can be used in several different ways too and it is a pure and simple sauce that you may want to check out.

The Heine Hurtin’ Sweet n Hot Sauce is also known as Heine Hurtin’ Jelly or Heine Hurtin’ Hot Sauce, but whatever you call it, it comes in an 8oz jar that is simple to use. It really is a Jelly that is made for meat so the name is a misnomer. The taste is sweet with a mild Jalapeno heat.

A perfect way to use this sauce is to try it with mixed in with some softened cream cheese as an appetizing cheese ball or softened up as a cracker spread. You can also grab a cream cheese brick and pour the sauce over it and serve with crackers. Sounds like a delicious appetizer that will be gone in a minute. You can also use it as a dipping sauce for any meats and you can serve it on the side with chicken, pork, lamb or add it in with eggs for breakfast. If you are BBQing, then throw some on just before taking the meat off of the grill.

Heine Hurtin’ Sweet n Hot Sauce is made from the perfect blend of sugar, Jalapeno peppers and apple cider vinegar. It is a very unique recipe that was originally created by Carin Froehlich of Ingleby Farms in rural Bucks County, PA., but the recipe and name was sold to Chip Hearns back in 2002. It has received numerous awards and mentions over the years.

If you are looking for something unique and different to try, check out the Heine Hurtin’ Hot Sauce for a nice twist on hot sauce.

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Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot Sauce Review

Carl — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:26:37 +0000

Buddha Bill’s Tequila Lime Hot Sauce is a recent discovery and a favorite of mine. That’s why I was surprised and happy as hell to see Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot Sauce. I really love shaken’ those peaches, especially with my hot sauces, so I opened this one with a big grin on my face, ready to enjoy the fruit and heat combination. I didn’t expect the heat to be too intense, of course, since most of the peach and pepper combos I’ve had the pleasure of ingesting are usually quite mild. While Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot Sauce is by no means one of those sauces that will make you blow fire from the rear exit, it is quite a bit warmer than most other peach and pepper combinations I’ve had the pleasure of sampling. Peaches, orange habanero peppers, apple cider vinegar, orange juice, and brown sugar are the ingredients that come together in this beautifully crafted peach-colored sauce. Pour some on a spoon and take a taste to get the full effect before combining it with anything else. Let the mild peachy keen taste touch your tongue before the heat begins to settle in and make its through your chest and down into your belly. Not enough heat to have you reaching for something to cool you down, but enough to let you know that there are some hot peppers at work here. Both the peachy taste and the heat stick with you, linger like a wet dream, and then slowly dissipate, leaving you wanting more. There are plenty of pepper pieces and seeds in here to add some texture and visual appeal as well.

I deep fried some chicken wings and used this sauce as a dip. You could bake the wings in your oven and paint this stuff on for the last ten minutes just to get a nice coat for flavor. While the peach and pepper combo here is intense, nothing about this sauce will overpower your food. The balance is perfect and you’ll find that your Buddha Bill wings are some of the best you’ve ever had. If you enjoy fruity heat but like something that leans a little more toward the hot side of town, Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot sauce is a must-have on your shelf.

Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero Pepper Sauce Review

Carl — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:38:00 +0000

Two of my favorite combinations are sweet and heat.Honey is one of the finest ingredients you can combine with peppers to give you this exquisite combination. Short of walking into a hive full of bees, Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero Hot Sauce is one of the best ways to get the taste of honey with the bite of a habanero pepper. My first impulse when I twist the cap off this stuff is to pour it on a spoon and take it straight. In fact, this sauce is excellent (not kidding here) for someone who has a cold. Forget the cough syrup. Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero soothes the throat and helps open the sinus cavities and it tastes a lot better than cough syrup. I wouldn’t lie to you. This isn’t something I could make up. There’s another way I use this sauce. I started by accident. It makes a great pancake syrup. The honey provides the sweetness you expect from a pancake syrup and the habaneros give your cakes a nice little kick.

Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero is a thick sauce (though it still pours well) with a rich honey color and lots of slivers of bright orange habanero throughout. Onions, lemon juice, cayenne peppers, black pepper, and cane vinegar are also part of the cast of characters that makes this sauce work for its money. It clings nicely to whatever you pour it on, making it an ideal glaze, particularly for a holiday ham. It also makes a nice side dip. If you’re planning a party and want to introduce your guests to something with a bit of a kick while not overloading them with heat, Bee Sting is a good choice. All but the weakest of your guests will be able to handle this heat and the sweetness of the honey will work well with a variety of finger foods. Needless to say, painting it on your chicken wings is also a must. Grab a bottle and get stung.

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Baron Blazing Hot Pepper Sauce Review

Carl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:05:06 +0000

Baron Blazing Hot Pepper Sauce is a useful piquant sauce. The pungent aroma helps enhance the sharp tang and the slight burn of the scotch bonnet peppers used to craft this sauce. Besides the scotch bonnets, this sauce contains nothing but vinegar, some salt, and a few spices. Many of these piquant sauces are made using cayenne or similar peppers, so I was happy to taste the scotch bonnets here.

In my book, the use of the scotch bonnets is what sets this sauce apart from other similar sauces. They give it a little better kick than most of the piquant classified sauces I’ve tasted, and I absolutely love the flavor of the scotch bonnet, so I find myself using this sauce frequently when I eat anything of the Mexican persuasion. The rich red color of this sauce is appealing and the flavor is smooth, providing a perfect complement to these foods.

It’s also a great addition to a pot of chili and a nice side companion to guacamole dip. A generous amount of pepper seeds floating throughout this sauce gives it a good texture and adds to the overall presence of the heat. Pure, simple ingredients make this a perfect sauce for someone who wants to go traditional and doesn’t look for a lot of overkill in the hype department. There are no fancy packages or gimmicks. Baron Blazing Hot Sauce is simple sauce made hot.

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Bacon Hot Pepper Sauce Review

Chris — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:44:00 +0000

There’s nothing like waking up to the sizzle of bacon in the frying pan, the aroma of the bacon wafting through the ear, complemented by fresh coffee and a couple of eggs over easy. Nothing like it, that is, unless you’ve got a bottle of Bacon Hot Sauce sitting on your breakfast table you can use to augment your breakfast cuisine.

This is one of the most unique combinations I’ve tasted in a long time — hot sauce with the taste of bacon. The combination is something completely different and quite tasty.

This is a hot sauce first and foremost, made with the cayenne peppers and New Mexico chiles. The combination of these two peppers, balanced with sugar and bacon flavor that offers up a mild taste treat designed to complement whatever dish you use it with. Bacon hot sauce does not have a sever burn.

In fact, the heat level here is almost non-existent — just enough to let you know we’re talking about a hot sauce here, but with the focus on the flavor of the bacon and the underlying taste of the chiles. For anybody who likes bacon, this is a must-try sauce that will put a little sizzle in your breakfast menu or any other meal.

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Arrogant Bastard Ale Jalapeno Heat Hot Sauce Review

Carl — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:37:42 +0000

With a name like Arrogant Bastard Ale Jalapeno Heat, you know this sauce is going to be really tasty or simply overly bloated bravado in a bottle. The former is the case here. Arrogant Bastard Ale Jalapeno Heat is aptly named. This is a prime example of gourmet flavor in a bottle.

Go ahead, open yours, grab a spoon, and pour a liberal amount for sampling. You’ll find a mild burn backed by the smooth, delicious taste of the Arrogant Bastard Ale that plays such an important role in the flavor notes of this sauce. The smooth taste of the ale lingers on your tongue long after you’ve tasted the sauce.This is a thin, highly pourable sauce that is rounded out with tomato paste, vinegar, honey, lemon juice, evaporated cane juice, red peppers, jalapeno, some salt, and a little garlic.

These ingredients are well balanced, with the gentle sweetness of the honey and the mild warmth of the peppers and capsicum coming through as they key personality in addition to the Arrogant Bastard Ale. As delicious as this sauce is, you will find yourself going out of your way to find uses for it, and since it is such a versatile sauce, you’ll have no trouble.

It tastes great with Mexican foods, on just about any meat, or straight out of a bowl with chips. Hell, it’s so good, you’ll have to force yourself not to drink it from the bottle. This sauce has all the rich, bold flavor of the famous ale. I would go so far as to call it elegant in its beauty. Grab several bottles and keep them on your shelf. You won’t be disappointed.

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Deadman Hot Sauce Review

Jason — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:22:56 +0000

Back in the 1960s, Jan and Dean sang, “You won’t come back from deadman’s curve,” and it proved prescient when Jan was in a car accident on the same road mentioned in the song and suffered brain damage that lasted until he died a few years ago. Today, we have Deadman Hot Sauce, sporting a label that has the name of the sauce printed on yellow police tape and a chalk outline of a body with a bottle of the sauce lying nearby. Does this mean you won’t survive this sauce?

Well, there are no guarantees in life so who’s to say? But I will guarantee that you won’t find many classic red hot sauces that are hotter or more flavorful than Deadman. This is a sauce worth dying for because unlike most classic red hot sauces that are made with aged cayenne peppers, Deadman Hot Sauce is made with…er, aged red peppers.

But wait, that’s not all. The ingredients also include vinegar (standard), salt (standard), garlic (fairly standard these days), peri peri peppers (very unusual), chipotle peppers (not unheard of but still fairly uncommon), spices (standard), and xanthan gum (all too prevalent).

The addition of the peri peri (very hot) and chipotle (smoky and delicious) peppers makes all the difference in the world. The three-pepper blend offers exceptional heat that is wonderfully supported by the garlic. Hot and delicious, what more can you ask from a red hot sauce? Well, survivability, I guess, is one thing. So trust me, apply Deadman Hot Sauce to your favorite dishes and you will live to tell the tale. Not only that, you’ll be telling everyone you know that, while you won’t come back from deadman’s curve, you’ll always come back for more Deadman Hot Sauce.

Hot Pepper Sauce Review

Chris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:17:26 +0000

There are thousands and thousands of hot pepper sauce fans around the world and many of these hot pepper sauce fans will sample hundreds of sauces and then write reviews on what they thought about the sauce. You will find these hot sauce reviews published in newspapers, foodie and/or cooking magazines and on various web sites and right here on our blog.

It is important that when you are reading various hot pepper sauce reviews to remember that every taste tester has different taste buds and likes and dislikes. So just because one person likes such and such brand of hot pepper sauce doesn’t mean the next person will. Because of this, it is advised that you try out various hot pepper sauces yourself to find the one that best suits your individual taste buds.

While reviews are great to help you learn about individual brands of hot pepper sauce that is out there, they can also be detrimental in helping you choose the “right” one for you. If you are new to the hot pepper sauce world, the best way to find your favorite is to purchase several different brands and try them in various types of recipes before you make your final choice on which one is the best one for you.

The amount of flavor and heat combinations can make this a long process in the reviewing world. I think that is part of the fun of finding the perfect hot pepper sauce. Who’s to say what perfect is anyway? Stop by and check out the fabulous selection of hot pepper sauce we carry at InsaneChicken. I think we could get your process of finding the perfect sauce started in a fantastic way!

Buddha Bill’s Tequila Lime Hot Sauce

Chris — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 02:51:38 +0000

The Buddha Bill’s line of hot sauce all feature a happy cartoon Buddha holding the key ingredients of each individual sauce. With a giant lime half in one hand and a full bottle of gold tequila in the other, Buddha Bill seems especially happy with his Tequila Lime Hot Sauce – and well he should be.

When I first tasted this sauce, I was surprised at how thin it was in terms of viscosity. It was very liquid and pourable. After a day in the fridge, however, it became much more viscous, and the taste, thankfully, remained as excellent as before. For this reason, I might recommend that you refrigerate this sauce before using.

Tequila Lime Hot Sauce includes jalapeño peppers, vinegar, water, coconut, sugar, limes, tequila, cilantro, black pepper, and salt. Good, simple ingredients well mixed in a potent brew that is somehow hotter than you might expect from a sauce that features only the relatively mild jalapeño.

The flavor, however, really seals the deal. I won’t say that you get a strong tequila flavor, but you do get a very well-blended flavor that is fruity without being overly sweet. The nice green color is dotted by white, green, and black chunks of fresh ingredients, providing a comforting feeling of freshness and quality.

I’ve been finding this sauce goes very well with grilled fish, especially salmon, as well as pasta and pork. For something fairly bland like boneless, skinless chicken breasts, Tequila Lime Hot Sauce may be just what the doctor ordered. All in all, a versatile, flavorful, mildly hot sauce that could quickly become a habit.