Hot sauce reviewer Jordan Lee is back with the twelfth episode of “The Heat Seat,” the Sweat ‘N Spice.com-sponsored vodcast. For his latest hot sauce review, Jordan tries Blairs Pure Death Hot Sauce Hot Sauce, a hot sauce that comes with its own heat rating.
See what Jordan thinks about the flavor of this four ingredient-hot sauce from Blair’s by watching the latest episode of “The Heat Seat” below.
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In an effort to provide its customers with more ways to spice up and experiment with its signature rotisserie chicken and other entrees, national restaurant chain Boston Market has launched a “Get It Saucy” promotion by adding a new line of five complimentary sauces.
To me, there’s nothing better than having multiple options to add flavor to your fare, and I took full advantage of the promotion.
I started out with the mild sauces and worked my way up the heat ladder.
First up was the “Island Mojo,” a Caribbean-inspired sauce with garlic, citrus and extra virgin olive oil. I love anything with garlic, and this sauce blended well with the chicken’s natural flavor. Being on the sweet side, the sauce was not desired in great quantity.
Next was the “Zesty Barbecue,” a mild barbecue sauce with molasses, brown sugar and pit spices mixed to balance sweet and spicy flavors. Just like most barbecue sauces, this concoction added some zing to the chicken without overpowering my taste buds. I even found it to be tasty on mashed potatoes.
Third on my list was the “Sweet Thai Chili Garlic,” a traditional and “medium hot” Thai dip with chilies, rice wine vinegar and sugar. For people looking to bump up their heat adventure, this sauce will satisfy your fiery journey. It was perfect on chicken and even supplied some zip to my creamed spinach.
For fans of cayenne pepper’s notorious kick, “Frank’s Sweet Heat,” the popular Red Hot wing sauce made with the famed pepper, red peppers, tomatoes, honey and molasses–will not disappoint. Although delicious on chicken, the sauce’s medium heat tested my heat tolerance. I used it sparingly, but still enjoyed its heat and sweet taste. Others, however, may want to pour on the sauce in amounts to challenge their tongues.
“The Honey Habañero,” a medium hot blend of one of world’s hottest peppers, honey and a Southwestern spice profile, was the most potent of the five sauces. Its heat didn’t stop me from sampling a tiny bit on my chicken, which definitely worked well with the poultry.
At the moment, the new sauces aren’t available for purchase at Boston Market. So you’ll just have to venture in and savor every moment you’re there.
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Hot sauce reviewer Jordan Lee is back with the eleventh episode of “The Heat Seat,” the Sweat ‘N Spice.com-sponsored vodcast. For his latest hot sauce review, Jordan tries Danny Cash’s Bottled Up Anger Hot Sauce, a hot sauce that comes with its own heat rating.
See what Jordan thinks about the flavor of this ominous-sounding hot sauce from Danny Cash by watching the latest episode of “The Heat Seat” below.
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Hot sauce reviewer Jordan Lee is back with the tenth episode of “The Heat Seat,” the Sweat ‘N Spice.com-sponsored vodcast. For his latest hot sauce review, Jordan tries Green Bandit Dill Hot Sauce, a different offering from the Green Bandit line of hot sauces.
See what Jordan thinks about the flavor and the uses of this herbalicious hot sauce from the Green Bandit by watching the latest episode of “The Heat Seat” below.
William Horton should have been a dry rub man.
After a burglary of cologne, sunglasses and a generator last week left a Memphis apartment ransacked with several broken hot sauce bottles, police scoured the neighborhoods looking for the thief.
They found Horton, at right, and arrested him because he was wearing clothes stained with hot sauce.
He faces charges of theft and aggravated burglary.
Hot sauce reviewer Jordan Lee is back with the ninth episode of “The Heat Seat,” the Sweat ‘N Spice.com-sponsored vodcast. For his latest hot sauce review, Jordan tries Wanza’s Wicked Temptation Hot Sauce, which has 2,000,000 Scoville Units.
See what Jordan thinks about the packaging, the functionality and the flavor of this super hot sauce by the CaJohn’s company by watching the latest episode of “The Heat Seat” below.
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Fans of hot sauce can only use their favorite sauces on wings, ribs, eggs, dips, etc. so many times before, well, they start getting a little bored.
Thankfully this recipe from the Baltimore Sun’s B’More Green blog gives hot sauce lovers a new, tasty alternative: Mushroom Pancake Salad.
It only requires a teaspoon of hot sauce, but the tastes of savory mushroom pancakes, fresh vegetables and the Greek yogurt makes a mouth water just by mention alone. We’re thinking a garlicky or herb-based sauce would be best as something very peppery might overpower the dish. Take a look at the Marie Sharp’s line or the herb-based Green Bandit sauces for inspiration.
Actress/TV talk show host Bonnie Hunt chugged a bottle of hot sauce to raise “a quick few hundred dollars” for a research hospital earlier this month, entertainment blog Aceshowbiz.com reported.
The actress, best known for roles in “Beethoven,” “Jumanji” and “Jerry Maguire,” was challenged by her staff and producer to first drink from and then finish the hot sauce, the brand name of which was not reported by the blog. Hunt accepted and completed the challenge to raise funds for Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center at Northwestern University just outside Chicago. She matched the amount raised by her staff, the blog reported.
While she also threw milk in her face to cool off afterward, Sweat ‘N Spice is thinking her sauce of choice was no stronger than two peppers (on the SNS Scale). If she tried three pepper hot sauce or four pepper hot sauce, ASB.com would be posting her obit.
Hot sauce reviewer Jordan Lee is back with the eighth episode of “The Heat Seat,” the Sweat ‘N Spice.com-sponsored vodcast. For his latest hot sauce review, Jordan downs some Red Bandit Red Bell Pepper Habanero Hot Sauce, which he finds to be a mouthful in more ways than one.
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(Editor’s Note: The following review comes courtesy of devout chilehead Scott Roberts.
Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce was concocted by Long Islanders Manny Ortiz and Lisa Anziano in their home kitchen (as many hot sauce makers do) for the benefit of friends. What subsequently unfolded fit the mold of the often-told story of family and colleagues encouraging the couple to sell the sauce at local New York festivals and fairs. Fast-forward nearly a decade later, and Manny and Lisa expended offerings to several products, including other sauces and spice rubs sold at over 150 regional brick-and-mortar locations, as well as on the interwebs.
But back to Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce. I had sampled the product a few years back, but had never given it a thorough run-through until now. Here are my findings and opinions…
Ingredients:
Chili pepper, water, sugar, garlic, salt, distilled vinegar, honey, red tabasco peppers, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfite as preservatives, and xanthan gum.
Aroma:
2.5 out of 5. Dang, is this stuff ever pungent. It’s got a very sharp, sour, bitter and edgy tone to it, but it’s not exactly what I call appetizing just by taking a whiff of it.
Appearance and Texture:
4 out of 5. Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce possesses a great, medium fluidic consistency. The bright scarlet color and smooth texture make this sauce pleasant to look at and, though it is a breeze to pour out of the bottle, it sticks wonderfully to food. No spices, large chile fragments or seeds are to be found.
Taste Straight Up:
4 out of 5. A quick lick from the crook of my hand revealed what I had forgotten long ago: this sauce, if classification was dutifully necessary, would fall in Thai-style territory when it comes to overall taste. Yes, in my estimation, it’s closely related to the Srirachas and Extra Pedases of the sauce world with it’s pungent flavor profile.
The first second Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce was on my tongue, it revealed an odd and heavy salt/garlic/vinegar amalgamation where the unified taste is strong, bitter and strangely horseradish-like…almost. I sensed this same bizarre sensation when I reviewed the popular Huy Fong Sriracha, only it’s subdued quite a bit here by comparison. A second or two later, a pleasant sweetness came to the forefront along with a bold peppery taste and heat. In the long stretch of an aftertaste, the flavors combined nicely into one big bitter, sweet and burning hot feeling.
Yet, after experiencing all of this, I came to a conclusion that this wasn’t a sauce I would care to come back to more than once in a blue moon. Pit Bull does this type of flavor with extreme virtuosity and perhaps is the best of its kind, but I simply am not a huge fan of this Thai-style of pungent condiments.
Taste on Food:
4 out of 5. I made a toasted sandwich with chicken breast pieces, monterey jack cheese, and grilled, green bell peppers and onions. While fine and respectable on its own, this lunch needed some zing to make it really memorable.
Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce certainly fulfilled this mission with ease. After an initial pouring on of the sauce on the toasted bread edges, I henceforth dipped the sandwich into a pool of Pit Bull on my plate. Bite after bite, I liked the sauce more. Hmmm, was this stuff growing on me? If anything, Pit Bull might have been turning me around to this style, slowly but surely.
Heat:
2.5 out of 5. It’s a middle of the road burn that chileheads would consider warm and comfy and mild mouths would find zesty and hot. You feel the heat a couple of seconds after ingesting it, then it builds to a medium fire and lingers for about one minute.
Label:
3.5 out of 5. Very clean and pristine in appearance. I think this is because of the white shrink wrap and the predominantly white label (at least on the front of it). It made me think more of fresh white gloves worn by a prom queen than some down n’ dirty, face-in-the-mud, rough and tumble pit bull dog.
It also has an eye-grabbing “Pride of New York” affixed to the bottle neck. The phrase “It’s All About Flavor! Not Just Burn!” sums up Pit Bull’s philosophy concisely, at least for this sauce.
Overall:
I might just be warming up to Pit Bull Original Hot Sauce. Who knows? A few more applications and I may be hooked.
If you don’t reside near one of the New York-area stores or restaurant that stocks Pit Bull, you can purchase a bottle on their website.
