I was really impressed when this hot sauce appeared on amazon. It is sort of remarkably rare; even the store nearby to my house that specializes in hot sauce and has an entire aisle filled with it doesn't carry it. I don't know if I've ever even seen it outside of Louisiana. But here it is, thanks to the magic of the Internet.
There are a lot of hot sauces out there, to the point of being pretty ridiculous. I usually have four or five different ones for different applications; some I like to put on certain foods, some for others. After a point the hot sauce market seems to completely run out of ideas and instead just try to make the most stupidly hot stuff imaginable, which not only straight up ruins the food you put it on, but is just an all-around poor business model. Nothing tells me "we can't come up with something that tastes good, so we'll just destroy your sense of taste altogether" like 800,000 Scoville hot sauce. Gimmicky, nothing else.
However, this one is based on flavor. I'd say its closest analogue is straight up, run-of-the mill Tabasco sauce. It's from Louisiana, it's made with Tabasco peppers, the ingredients are simply "peppers, vinegar, salt." But the quality of the ingredients really show through on this one like they don't in the more heavily mass-produced Tabasco. I find myself just eating it plain, without even putting it on anything, because it is so delicious. You can taste how fresh and ripe the peppers are in the sauce, the vinegar has no cloying or off flavors, and it has just enough salt to make it savory and not overdone. It adds just enough spiciness to liven up dishes, without overdoing it or ending up being too limp. It's also not too vinegary to add to more delicate foods like fried eggs or rice that all of a sudden the vinegar is all you end up tasting.
7 dollars may seem like a lot to pay for a tiny bottle of hot sauce, but it's honestly worth it. The trouble with it being an add-on item is that I will be constantly trying to come up with ways to make a $25 order so I can add another bottle of this on to it and end up having to pay $32 instead. If you're a heat seeker, you might be disappointed since this is just about as hot as Tabasco. But if you actually want something that tastes good and improves the flavor of whatever you're putting it on, I think you'll be impressed.
Red Peppers, Tabasco Peppers, Spirit Vinegar and Salt
