Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce – Once you’ve sampled and reviewed enough different hot sauces, it can be easy to get a little jaded.You start doing hasty things, such as not bothering to use a food item to go along with the sauce, taking a swig of the sauce instead of tasting a drop off your finger tip or taking for granted the high-intensity rating on the label because the packaging has an uninteresting, generic flair to it.

Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce is a hideous permutation of Dave’s Insanity Sauce, which was supposedly too hot for the National Fiery Foods Show. Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce comes simply packed with the general Dave’s Gourmet label surrounded a crude cartoon of a smug pepper laying out in the sun. Continue Reading

Asbirin Hot Sauce – While sifting through a growing collection of hot sauce bottles, despite it’s quiet, unassuming, nature, it is hard not to notice Asbirin sitting in the back. Sure, the larger bottle-size may give it away, but what caught my eye was the fact that it was the only bottle among over a dozen that was not adorned with cartoons extolling the horror lurking within.

My gut instinct tells me that the name “Asbirin” probably has some sort of double-entendre to it, but frankly, I can’t come up with one that makes sense. Sure, there’s the obvious “ass” part of the name, but given the fact that there is no other reference to anything remotely resembling ass puns are jokes about butts on the label. Continue Reading

Mad Dog Teriyaki Hot Sauce – Mad Dog is a hot sauce company that seems to not be content with the general, table hot sauce varieties. Although they do have utility sauces, the company is not shy about producing niche flavors.

Mad Dog Teriyaki Hot Sauce is one of those niche sauces, adding an Asian tang with some smoky heat to light up any meal.

The flavor has a strong smokiness to it that masks the heat that slowly creeps into place as you eat it. There is also a tanginess to it that complements the burn. Although it is labeled as a teriyaki sauce, it definitely works better as an additive to another stir-fry sauce. Continue Reading

Grace Crushed Pepper Sauce – Dark red, medium pour, and full of crushed peppers, skins and seeds included. Those are the high points of this sauce. The taste is another factor to celebrate. While there are hints of preservatives in this one, that doesn’t really affect the taste in a negative way. There’s a rich hot pepper taste here that will compliment any Mexican dish, work well in chili, and find a home on any number of other dishes.

Peppers, cane vinegar, and cane sugar are just about the only ingredients holding Grace Crushed Pepper Sauce together. The crushed peppers, which provide an awesome texture and cling to the food you use this sauce on, are the starts of the show. Continue Reading

Melinda’s Red Savina Hot Sauce is kind of a conundrum in how it presents itself. The packaging depicts what seems to be a rather sweet-looking woman, who I am sure I can safely assume is Melinda.

Melinda is the image of a kind Hispanic mother, who keeps insisting that you have one more helping of the warm dinner she was only too happy to make for you. Only, what you thought was a delicious rice and beans mix was really just a vehicle for the heavy doses of sedative she’s slipped to you. Now you’ve woken two weeks later. You’re in some city you’ve never heard of before, you’re naked in a filthy alley way and you’re missing internal organs you didn’t even know existed. Continue Reading

Kiss Your Ass Goodbye Hot Sauce – The almost naked bottom of a blonde girl on the label (it’s a drawing, so relax) with a big set of red lips on one cheek is the visual hook for this sauce. When I saw it, I figured the sauce was going to be a weak attempt at greatness. The sauce itself is orange-red and very thin, which almost always means the sauce in question is going to be generic at best. “Kiss Your Ass Goodbye” really surprised me in that department. Although the sauce looks like it will be a passable sauce if you’re hard up and there’s nothing else, this one really delivers with good flavor.

Garlic, salt, vinegar, and the distinct habanero pepper are all there is to this beautiful sauce. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 4 cup ketchup
• 1 1/2 cup molasses
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 2 Tbsp Tabasco
• 3 Tbsp Worcestershire
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 3 cloves chopped garlic
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp cayenne — (1 to 3)
• 3 Tbsp dry mustard (or 1 Tbsp ginger)
• up to 2 cup water

Directions:

1. Mix everything in a large, heavy saucepan. Add water as needed to create a sauce with a cream-like texture.
2. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat, partially cover and simmer VERY GENTLY for 1 hour. Stir frequently.
3. Add water if it gets too thick.
4. This sauce freezes well in … Continue Reading
   

Baboon Ass Gone Rabid Hot Sauce -  I’m a huge fan of Baboon Ass Habanero Hot Sauce, so when I saw Baboon Ass Gone Rabid, I was expecting something great. I wasn’t disappointed even a little bit, but let me warn you: Baboon Ass Habanero wasn’t over-the-top hot; Gone Rabid is another story altogether.

The name of the sauce could not be more fitting. Don’t make the mistake of eating it in the same dose as you would the habanero version of the sauce. It will blow the top right off your head. The label claims this version is five times hotter than Baboon Ass Habanero, and I’m likely to believe that’s true. Continue Reading

Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce – This sauce has a lot going for it right out of the gate. First, there’s the naga jolokia pepper that gives it insane heat. One little bead of this sauce on the tip of your finger will have your lips and mouth burning like a match in dry brush. To augment that heat, there’s also the African peri-peri pepper, some fresh habanero, and chili extract. Are you starting to get the picture? This is a mouth blister waiting to happen, so be careful when you use it.

Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce lulls you into a sense of peace when you open it and take a whiff. The fruity fragrance leads you to believe that you’re in the company of a mild sauce. It’s a ghost pepper sauce, so you should know better, but there’s that sweet and fruity fragrance. Continue Reading

Pit Bull Renegade Hot Sauce – For every line of hot sauce, there is almost always at least one variety that is presented as the odd one out. While the majority of the sauce in that line, may promote themselves as exhibiting different levels of torture to your mouth, there is usually that one flavor that supposed to be a little different, without any indication as to whether that means more or less heat.

Pit Bull Renegade Hot Sauce is one of those sauces.

If the label is to be believed, Renegade is the rebel of the Pit Bull hot sauce family. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1/2 medium-sized banana, sliced
• 1 1/2 large carrots, diced small
• 1 medium onion, diced small
• 5 fresh picked orange habaneros, diced
• 10 fresh picked piquins, diced
• 5 fresh picked (smallish) cayennes, diced
• 1/2 fresh picked small green bell pepper, diced small
• 1 fresh picked hot banana pepper, diced
• 2 scallions (greens & all), sliced
• 5 small cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp. (approx.) Kosher salt
• Freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 1 Tbsp. dry mustard
• Water for blending only (approx. 1/2 cup)
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Venom Hot Sauce – The front label of Venom features a fiery-tongued snake wrapped around a pepper, drawn in the style of an airbrushed sleeveless t-shirt worn by a metal head with a mullet.

Just at face value, this sauce is really difficult to call. It seems like the sort of homemade low budget hot sauce that you might find on the nearly bare shelves of a truck stop run by My Name is Earl extras who are hooked on crystal meth. This means the sauce could either taste like ketchup, or make me want to kill myself just to make the hurting stop. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 15 habanero chillis -  chopped
• 1 ripe mango – peel, pit, mash
• 1 cup yellow prepared mustard
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon chilli powder
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Mix all the ingredients together and use a funnel to bottle the sauce

Melinda’s Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce - Who is this Melinda chick? She knows her sauces. I tried Melinda’s Coffee BBQ Sauce and found it to be an exceptional blend of flavors; I tried Melinda’s Naga Jolokia and absolutely fell in love with it. I’m not sure where the sauce artists that concoct these beauties comes from, but Melinda’s Scotch Bonnet his the third home run in a row.

The scotch bonnet is a very hot pepper in the same family as habaneros. It’s found primarily in the Caribbean. Although it’s hot, it has a subtle sweet undertone that makes it ideal for a number of foods and cooking applications. Continue Reading

Wanza’s Wicked Temptation is kind of a perplexing hot sauce. It begins with the label, which is adorned with a vague figure that has long hair and eyeliner, which pretty much means this hot sauce is either the product of a sly-eyed vixen or that of a hair-metal rocker. It’s not like Wanza is a masculine or feminine name.

Wanza’s Wicked Temptation Hot Sauce doesn’t have a label that compels you to take it seriously, yet it has the heat of a sauce that doesn’t screw around.

The list of ingredients is no less confusing. After Vinegar, the sauce has habanero peppers and oil of capcaisin in it. Continue Reading

Hot sauce heritage began with enterprising men inspired by the love of hot peppers and crafting them into gourmet hot sauces. Hot sauce history additionally chronicles their endeavors to produce innovative hot sauce variants that grace nearly all food in the world.

Sauce historians have collected data primarily from the labeling on the hot sauce bottles located in personal collections. Hot sauce marketing campaigns from area directories and papers are other sources. Data generally speaking is sparse, however exactly what can be found, points to a vibrant and diverse hot sauce history. Continue Reading

Sauce Bitch Hot Sauce – Pass the Sauce Bitch, I say to my wife. She, of course, tells me no. It’s her favorite sauce. Sauce Bitch Hot Sauce is a unique sauce among sauces, crafted with a blend of ingredients that come together in an exciting burst of flavor that really can’t be found anywhere else. It has tropical notes and a kick-in-the ass heat factor that is so well-balanced it’s uncanny.

Sauce Bitch is addicting. There’s no two ways about it. Mango, pineapple juice, raisins, oranges, sugar, salt, vinegar, and red habaneros are the ingredients that work together here to deliver a truly gourmet sauce.

What are the uses for Sauce Bitch Hot Sauce? Why limit yourself? Continue Reading

African Rhino Peri-Peri Pepper – Open this sauce and take a whiff straight from the bottle. You know by the pungent aroma that you’re in for a treat. The second indication of the pleasure in store for you is in the choice of peppers. The African Peri-Peri pepper is the star of this show. The Peri-Peri is not the hot property that the ghost pepper is, but it has a kick all its own, and the flavor notes of this pepper is out of this world. It shows in this beautifully executed sauce.

Cider vinegar, tomatoes, onion, lemon juice, sugar, roasted garlic, canola oil, and a few additional spices round out the rest of this sauce, all brought together to create a unique flavor. The word unique means, specifically, one of a kind. Continue Reading

Ingredients:
2/3 cup Frank’s Louisiana hot sauce
1 stick (1/2 cup) cold unsalted butter
1 1/2 tablespoons white vinegar
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or other hot sauce (Sriracha is awesome)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
salt to taste

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• 1/4 tsp hot paprika
• 1/2 tsp thyme
• 1/2 tsp basil
• 1/4 tsp oregano
• hot sauce to taste (habanero hot sauce prefered)
• 1 tbsp butter or oil
• 1 cup diced Andouille sausage Continue Reading
  

The powerful ingredients within hot sauce accomplish far more than add spicy flavors to your food. The power in hot chilli peppers may well impact your body in all sorts of positive ways from managing pain to the common cold.  Capsaicinoids have been thought to prevent colds, because they activate the immune system preventing most bacterial attacks.  Capsaicin stands out as the active ingredients in hot chilli peppers.

Capsaicin has been derived from from the genus Capsicum which is the common ingredient within not just hot peppers and medicines but also in police pepper spray! Hot sauces include this powerful ingredient that comes from the seeds in hot chillis. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1 (1 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
• 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 1 (16 ounce) jar salsa
• 1 large tomato, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 bunch chopped green onions
• 1 small head iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 1 (6 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
• 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
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Joe Perry’s Bone Yard Brew Hot Sauce – Aerosmith rocks, in part due to the blues rock fusion in Joe Perry’s searing guitar riffs and solos. Joe Perry, however, continues to rock after the amps have been turned off. Joe Perry’s Rock your World sauces are top of the line. His Peach Mango is one of the best sweet heat combos I’ve ever tried, so when I saw the Bone Yard Brew, I couldn’t wait to give it a try.

Joe Perry’s Bone Yard Brew Hot Sauce is 100 percent all natural and that’s a fact. You can taste the absence of no preservatives; you can taste the freshness in every single drop of this beautiful crafted hot sauce. And believe me, the sauce is beautifully crafted. It’s a work of art. Continue Reading

Pain is Good Garlic Hot Sauce – This sauce is made like fine beer in micro breweries. All of the Pain is Good varieties are made in numbered micro batches, using all-natural ingredients that show. The first thing about Pain is Good Garlic Style I noticed was the intense freshness of the sauce. No preservatives makes all the difference in the world, and when you’re using the kinds of ingredients this sauce uses, you’re getting a beautiful sauce in every aspect.

This one has a vivid bright orange color and it’s packed with seeds, garlic, onion, and pepper pieces. The pepper in residence here is the respectable habanero. Continue Reading

The Ghost Hot Sauce – Are you afraid of the ghost? That’s the question asked on the black label of this sauce. The black label features a ghoul that looks like Death himself paying a visit. The makers of the sauce warn you to be afraid of this ghost. I don’t know about all that, but I do know there’s heat hidden inside the bottle – serious heat. With the naga jolokia pepper as its base, that’s no surprise. In addition to that magical pepper, the ingredients include carrots, papaya, lime juice, passion fruit, salt, vinegar, onion, and garlic. Those flavors are layered and balanced beautifully, making a sauce that packs the heat wallop chili lovers crave and the flavor a gourmet palate demands.

A lot of the sauces made with the naga jolokia are not only hot, but they tend to be great additives to all sorts of food. Continue Reading