Blogging Ottinger (tim)Tropical Pepper Co XXTra Hot Habenero
It’s a chunky, orange-red sauce with a toucan on the label. What’s not to like?
It has some heat. I wouldn’t consider it to be two-x hot, compared to other habenero sauces. I think that it’s maybe 1/2-x hot compared to a lot of habenero sauces, but the flavor is soooo very nice. I think that they’re comparing it to a non-habenero sauce maybe. That’s the trouble with hot sauces, if they don’t list scoville units you don’t really have a clue what their scale is. This wouldn’t be “warmish” compared to the Blair’s line of sauces, but it is extra hot compared to a lot of the popular vinegar-and-red-pepper sauces. I shouldn’t have compared it to Crystal, Louisana, Tabasco, or Frank’s. It’s not really fair. But you don’t have to take my word for it. I’ve recently found that maybe I’m not a real chili head. I didn’t even know there was a mailing list.
I tend to like tropical sauces anyway, and my favorite for some time has been the Walker’s Woods scotch bonnet sauce. I can’t say whether I which I would pass up for the other.
So far I’ve only had it as the “tip of the finger” test and on a sandwich-wrap-thing (roasted pepper hummas and spinach rolled up in a tortilla). I like very much. I’m going to have to try it on some other foods before I give it the final vote, but I think that it’s well worth a try. I picked it up at a grocery store in Malvern, PA. I am looking forward to trying it on a burger or dog, and then maybe on a pork roast later on. And maybe with fritos. Maybe on eggs. Or coffee cake. Or toast. Or to drink.
