Ergonomically designed to fit snug against the body, the hip flask allows its wearer to surreptitiously imbibe at a moment of absolute need. In the 1920’s it helped thirsty Americans stave off sobriety during prohibition. Its contents became happiness during the depression, anesthetic in war, and courage in peace. So in many ways its perfectly appropriate that this vessel of vice be re-purposed to help fuel another mind altering addiction: hot sauce.

Pain 100% comes packaged in just such a flask. An elegant glass bottle filled with a thick concoction as dangerous, and euphoric as the liquor it once held. Pain 100% is a hot sauce that boasts no pretense. The premise of Pain hot sauces is simple: the higher the percentage of pain a bottle contains, the less flavor it has. Followed to its logical conclusion this is a sauce with little emphasis on taste but a hell of a lot of emphasis on heat.

When the goals is pain, and pain alone, the formula is simple. Peppers for heat, more peppers for more heat, and pepper flavor for… more heat. Pain 100% Hot Sauce consists mainly of Habenero Peppers, followed by water, natural pepper flavoring (not sure if this is pepper extract), vinegar, and spices.

Suspended in the brick-red liquid are countless white seeds ready to rip your intestines to shreds as they wreak havoc on your internal systems. These guys mean business. If you’ve ever smelled a freshly blended Habenero pepper you will instantly recognize the way this sauce smells Pure unadulterated pepper, the smell of fear wafting gleefully into your nostrils.

The first taste is like losing my hot pepper virginity all over again. I’m immediately transported back to the first time I tasted a fresh Habenero. Instantly hot, the sauce it fills my throat with slightly salty, incredibly potent heat. The roof of my mouth begins to hurt,  before the heat travels into my stomach where a small storm of dissent is brewing in my digestive system.

As promised the flavor is lacking. It tastes like biting into a raw vegetable which makes perfect sense. Pain 100% Hot Sauce claims to be all natural which allows the real flavor of the ingredients to shine through. The lack of preservatives further clears the sauce of all contamination.

I found that when Pain 100% was used on other dishes, pain tended to takeover rather then complement the dish. However if viewed as a Habenero supplement it worked better. I mixed it into tomato sauce and made a dangerous bowl of pasta. It was also pretty tasty with chunks of mango on pork. You might try it in chili to cleanly boost its heat. I’m not sure I would exactly call Pain 100% a sauce, in the end its really more of an ingredient. For the record I mean that as a complement.

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