tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90864020392077484382024-03-05T19:17:41.229-08:00The Hot Sauce DiariesThis blog is dedicated to hot sauces and the hot sauce lovers out there.Verde Serranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11266459240519898616noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086402039207748438.post-12825163522337759892013-03-02T17:01:00.001-08:002013-03-02T17:01:03.042-08:00Texas Two-Step<div dir="ltr" id="internal-source-marker_0.04961400991279863" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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are long overdue for an update here at The Hot Sauce Diaries, so we are
giving you a two-for-one deal on hot sauces from Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Everything’s
bigger in Texas,” the motto says. I haven’t spent too much time in
Texas, but here are some things that I know to be bigger: 1) the DFW
airport (seriously, it’s huge, get stuck there for twelve hours someday
with constant gate changes and see what I mean); 2) thunderstorms (see
#1); 3) Houston (which takes approximately 17 hours to drive across); 4)
adventures had by Pee-Wee Herman. Texas is our second-largest state in
the USA (in both area and population) and it’s on the Mexican border, so
it’s not surprising that we’ve received multiple hot sauces from that
constantly-threatening-to-secede location from our colleagues to review.
This combo post will cover both August in Austin sauce from the Tears
of Joy Hot Sauce Shop in Austin, TX, as well as Truly Texas/Texas Fire
Water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Name: August in Austin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manufacturer: <a href="http://www.tearsofjoysauces.com/">Tears of Joy Hot Sauce Shop</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chili pepper: Habanero (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_chinense">Capsicum chinense</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Country of origin: United States of America </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rating: 8.0</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Name: Texas Fire Water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manufacturer: <a href="http://www.trulytexasfoods.com/">Truly Texas</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chile pepper: </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Habanero (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_chinense">Capsicum chinense</a>) and Cayenne (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum">Capsicum annuum</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rating: 3.0</span><br />
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is the bottled fury of our meanest month,” the bottle says. I don’t
think I’d want to be in Austin in August, in that case. The sauce is a
straightforward recipe containing habaneros, vinegar, a twist of lime, a
touch of garlic, and a hint of salt. This sauce makes you break a sweat
and feel the burn. If you are looking for some no-nonsense kick, this
would be a great sauce for you. Even our native Texan was feeling the
burn.</span></div>
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Texas makes a lot of claims on its label, including “Not suggested for
use by Yankees.” Now, two out of three of our reviewers count themselves
as both Yankees in the traditional sense of the term AND Yankees fans.
We disregarded this suggestion and went ahead, consuming the sauce
anyway. I wouldn’t say we were filled with regret or anything after that
decision, but we were not overwhelmed by delight. This is one of the
mildest hot sauces we’ve ever had, and possibly the mildest we’ve
reviewed. The bottle says that the sauce is not mild; that is because
the sauce has not even achieved a rating of mild. There was more water
than fire in our fire water. Now, that is not to say that this sauce
does not have any potential role in life--the people of Scotland might
want to use it to step their way towards real sauce. I think M and R
downed about half of it in just one lunch though. It is more of a
ketchup-like condiment--add some flavor, no tears--than a hot sauce. The
flavor you’re adding is more like mild pepper juice than anything else.</span></div>
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another of your fearless bloggers brought in his own home cooking. You
don't hear much from R because he manages the site rather than the
writing, but you should not doubt his devotion to the cause. As a Mexico
native, R is accustomed to food with a kick. After his last journey
home, he brought us <a href="http://thehotsaucediaries.blogspot.com/2012/05/mexico.html">Salsa Nortenia</a>. It was delicious, of course.
Today, however, we are going to talk about something that required an
even greater labor of love than importing a liquid via air travel: R
made us a sauce. </span></div>
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R's hometown, there are many places to buy tacos. All of those tacos
need salsas to top them. Although we are most familiar with red,
tomato-based salsas and mild guacamoles in the USA, these taco shops
have far more variety. The best of these sauces gain local fame. The
trouble with fame and taco trucks and stands, though, is that it can be
difficult to come up with a way to refer to a business that others will
understand. One stand became known in folklore as “Tacos de Transito”
(Transit Tacos) because it was located just outside the offices of the
Transit Police Department. For years, this place in Toluca, Mexico has
served some of the most delicious “tacos de carnitas” (pork tacos) known
to man. Part of the food magic in these legendary tacos is the hot
sauce served on top of them. Simply referred to as “verde” (green), by
the executioner manning the stand’s grill, the sauce is avocado based
and its precise recipe is really unknown to the public. Since his exile
from Mexico, R has been haunted by the memory of the sauce and out of
desperation tried to reverse engineer it. After several attempts he
thinks he came close enough to the real “Verde” flavor to be willing to
share his concoction with us.</span></div>
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the finely chopped ingredients to the mortar and use a pestle to crush,
grind, and mix the ingredients until the mixture becomes creamy and
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sauce is hot and fresh at the same time. It is great for tacos, steak,
chicken, you name it. The flavor is best when fresh, but it will keep
well in the fridge for a couple of days.</span>Verde Serranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11266459240519898616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086402039207748438.post-58436298677956502062012-12-13T16:41:00.002-08:002012-12-15T08:03:11.626-08:00Lord of the Hot Sauce<div style="text-align: justify;">
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honor of the Hobbit's upcoming release, we have some special hot sauce
from New Zealand. New Zealand is a place I have always wanted to visit,
especially after the LOTR series hit the US back in 2001. These movies
are good and of an epic stature, but they are just way too long. I
have a limit for how long I can sit in a chair without going insane,
which is about an hour and a half. Anything more and you've overstayed
your welcome. These movies weigh in at about 3 hrs apiece, for a total
of 9 hrs. Then there is the directors' cut version that goes even
longer. I'd rather use Gollum's toothbrush than sit on my ass for that
long. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
don't want to go to NZ because I am some dorky fan boy who wants to
dress up like a tool and parade around pretending to fight orcs. I want
to go because these movies were filmed on such beautiful landscapes of
all kinds: huge snowy mountains, lush green fields, and warm beaches
abound. New Zealand is kind of an end-of-the-earth place, really far
from the rest of the world (even from Australia, it is a 3hr flight). It
seems like the last bastion of simplicity, out of the grips of western
assholery, European Nihilism, Asian idiosyncratics, and mideast
craziness. Just beautiful earth, a lotta sheep and maybe some beers. I
guess that is why I can't go… because everywhere is corrupted in its
own way, and I'd rather think of it as a beautiful bubble that will be
void of the nuclear apocalypse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer:</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.kaitaiafire.com/">Kaitaia Fire</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Piri Piri (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_frutescens">Capsicum frutescens</a>)</span> ??<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of origin: New Zealand</span><br />
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many ways Kaitaia hot sauce is a classic hot sauce, not as distant or
exotic as the land it comes from. It is kind of the normal hot sauce
recipe: aged red chillies and a vinegar base. But it is done really well. I am a <a href="http://www.franksredhot.com/">Red Hot</a> kind of guy. Red Hot is not the best hot sauce but it
is widely available and pairs well with anything. Kaitaia is Red Hot
done well. It has more kick, the perfect amount of heat. You can use a
little, but a few too many splashes you will get a runny nose and some
hiccups. The flavor is quite good too, both peppery and salty, and
pairs well with most foods you will want to eat hot sauce with. The best
part is Kaitaia is readily available online </span><a href="http://www.kaitaiafire.com/product.pasp?categoryid=2&productid=2"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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knew? Our New Zealand lab member did not really remember a New Zealand
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But when Kaitaia found it's way into our hands from another kiwi-going
fellow, he said "Oh, of course, Kaitaia, everyone uses that.” And
they should, because it is delicious.</span></div>
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this post, we took it up a notch. In an unprecedented move, we bring
you... a sauce one of your fearless bloggers personally made!</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handful of Thai chilis</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 red bell peppers</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cayenne pepper</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Place in</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> foil with chilis and douse in olive oil, salt, and pepper. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then cover</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the bell peppers in oil, salt, and pepper, but do not wrap in foil.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cook for 1hr in the oven @ 350 degrees F.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let cool.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peel and seed the bell peppers, then place in a food processor.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Squeeze the garlic cloves out of the skin into the food processor and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> add the chilis after removing their stems.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Add a teaspoon of Cayenne powder.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As the processor is running, slowly add several tablespoons of vinegar.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Name: Mojo sauce</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: Homemade by M</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper:</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Piri Piri (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_frutescens">Capsicum frutescens</a>)</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Cayenne (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum">Capsicum annuum</a>)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of origin: USA</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rating: 9.5!!!!!</span><br />
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was universally regarded by the regular lunch crew as the best sauce
we've had yet, which suggests that homemade sauces might have
advantages. Because we, the bloggers, are obviously biased, we enlisted
our coworkers for opinions, in addition to noting that this was the
fastest sauce to vanish from the kitchen fridge. Enjoy these (slightly
edited for length) opinions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- reviewer (Mk) - a known heat pansy, Irish tongue, but super sensitive nose with an appreciation for aroma</span></div>
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dish - an otherwise unspiced or salsa'd chicken burrito bowl. Lettuce,
black beans, brown rice, plain corn, and mild guacamole</span></div>
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look and feel - a smooth, thick and happy autumnal hue with clear
interspersion of robust spices dancing through the tomato paste like
sauce. An intoxicating and rich smell, with complex layers of garlic,
onion, and peppers. Even cold, smells warm and like its bubbling on
the stove and filling the house with peppery ambiance. Its an alluring
anticipatory sort of scent.</span></div>
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taste. Reviewer unwisely chose a smallish blob of the viscous
concoction to start, mixed in with burrito bowl, and suffered the
consequences of a mouth full of raging fire ants. Pain however did not
linger, and was soon dissipated. MoJo is best enjoyed (by this tongue)
with just the tines of the fork dipped into the sauce, and then entree
onto fork. Diner is rewarded with no pain, and an almost sweet and
fruity earthiness that the MoJo imparted onto the salad. Corn in salad
seemed also way sweeter when paired with sauce drops.</span></div>
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Experience - oddly addictive, reviewer, normally a wellpaced and
leisurely diner, crammed bite after bite of fork tine dipped entree into
mouth to enjoy the layered flavours. Upon completion of dining, mild
tingling on tongue and inside cheeks, more of a full blown vibration on
inner lips, not painful, and mouth has a fruity after taste.</span></div>
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Review - When used with caution, or as to-taste for the diner, this is a
smashing offering. Robust and earthy, it feels crafted with care and
depth. Smooth and versatile, it might make a great bisque with a gallon
of creme added, a fine pairing for grilling as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- reviewer - spoonful sample, no entree or other distractions</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- look and feel - nice colour chipolte sensibility, smooth almost creamy texture with a smattering of spices.</span></div>
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taste - first thing that hits you is roasted red pepper flavouring, a
sweet and warm sensation quickly followed by bite of onion and garlic.
A warm and down to earth flavour, smooth on the palette. A slight
tingling on surface of tongue and back of throat. Flavor enhances
experience more than peppers, a mild hot sauce if to be categorized it.</span></div>
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Review- a tasty red pepper based hot sauce that would go well when
paired with strong grilled fish such as tunasteak salmon fillets,
swordfish or mahi mahi. Or any sort of hispanic grilled meat, steak,
pork, etc.</span></div>
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reviewer went in for a second taste! Slathering the MoJo all over
honey nut cheerios! Gave reviewer hiccups, he ate very fast. Made
his nose run. No change in review from just a spoonful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- spoonful, not with any entree.</span></div>
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Spiciness overshadows flavour, the sensation of tingle or burn causes
underlying flavours to be lost. Several tastes in it gets better, and
you can appreciate the subtle undertones.</span></div>
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Red pepper under tones taste was especially well appreciated. It was
easy on the eyes. The orange colour and black specks were visually
appealing. Minimal, but some nose running.</span><br />
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your fearless bloggers attended our local Highland Games. We saw
bagpipers, we saw large men throwing large objects, we saw dogs herding
sheep. These are [or might be] the traditions of my people. (Sorry, I
wasn’t patient enough to backtrack past 1650 on ancestry.com. I thought I
was Irish/English/Welsh/Scottish/French though. I am pale.) </span><br />
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we were surprised. All three of us have visited Scotland. While
Scotland does provide some culinary adventures (haggis, anyone?), it is
not known for its spicy food. (Things Scotland </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
known for include incomprehensible accents, periodic elections to
decide whether to divide from the UK even though everyone knows it
won’t, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Braveheart</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brave, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">men
in skirts, and incomprehensible accents.) Personally, I don’t even
remember hearing of a Scotch bonnet pepper before seeing this bottle,
and I’m not sure the makers had heard much about it either given that it
made up only 2% of the sauce. </span><br />
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(not to be confused with the Scotch bonnet mushroom or the Scotch
bonnet shell) is not from Scotland at all. This makes sense because I’m
pretty sure there aren’t many peppers out there that are built for cool,
grey weather and rain. Wikipedia informs me that Scotch bonnet peppers
are also known as Boabs bonnet, Scotty Bons (catchy!), Bonney peppers,
Ball of Fire (dangerous!), or Caribbean red peppers... because they are
actually from the Caribbean and just happen to look like the tam
o’shanter hat that gave them their name
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_bonnet_%28pepper%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_bonnet_(pepper)</a>). They were not
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: Scomac</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper: Scotch Bonnet</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_chinense" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Capsicum chinense</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of origin: Scotland</span><br />
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have found the reason that Scotland doesn’t have a lot of spicy food:
weak sauce. This was our least favorite sauce that we have tested so
far. First off, not that much kick. Second off, most of the flavor came
from malt vinegar and soy sauce, with a bit of molasses. It was a sweet
sauce more than a spicy sauce. You could save some money, buy some
Worchestershire, and be happier with that.</span><br />
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once had a layover in Minnesota. While I was there, an announcement
came over the PA system, “last call for flight 525 don’chya know”. That
was enough of Minnesota for me. I was on my way to Utah for the Sundance
Film Festival. That was a good time, but Utah has weirdo Mormon laws
for drinking, so a martini there is a joke. It is literally a shot and a
half of vodka; ergo, I could never live in Utah. But this post is not
about Utah; it is about Minnesota and ‘Famous Dave’s Pineapple RAGE Hot
Sauce’. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So I have no idea who Famous Dave is. Apparently there is a chain of restaurants throughout the states called “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Famous Dave's Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and the flagship of said restaurant is in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Minnesota would not strike me as a big BBQ state, at least
not in the way Texas would, but why not? This is the US and our pastime
is getting fat and our favorite way of doing that is the BBQ. I don’t
know if I have ever been to a BBQ that I didn’t enjoy. You could have
shitty food, shitty beer, shitty people, and shitty weather and it is
still a decent use of time to attend the BBQ.</span><br />
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begin, Pineapple Rage is creeping towards more of a BBQ sauce than an
actual hot sauce. The main ingredient is, of course, pineapple. The
pineapple is grilled, but rather than a fresh grill taste it adds a
smoky taste to the sauce. I would classify the smoky taste as not so
good, closer to carcinogen smoke than nice tasting grill smoke. This
could be attributed to the lengthy ingredient list. I have a general
rule in life, most items should have a short list of ingredients. Like,
if you buy bread, the ingredients should be water, flour, yeast, and not
much more. This rage sauce has a bunch of ingredients and I am not sure
what the heck they are, resulting in the not-so-fresh taste*. The chili
pepper in the sauce is our good friend the habanero, which as we have
mentioned before has a natural fruity flavor so the habanero makes an
obvious pairing with the pineapple flavors. The habanero brings good
heat but not too much. Too strong maybe for our Irish team member L but not for the rest of the team. All in all, what you get is a standard
chain sauce here not atypical to a ‘Friday’s’ quality preparation. It is
not bad, but I prefer something made with a little more heart and soul
and less of a chain feel. The sauce would make for really good wings,
but I have not been to Famous Dave’s and I am not planning to go anytime
soon.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4/10 - maybe add an extra point if you are at a bbq. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can buy it </span><a href="http://www.famousbbqstore.com/newfadapirah.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s
a tip, if you like that grilled taste, but it is the dead of winter,
use some smoked paprika in your cooking to add some good grill flavor. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<br />Verde Serranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11266459240519898616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086402039207748438.post-17312762948808329022012-08-26T10:50:00.002-07:002012-08-26T10:50:23.862-07:00Puerto Rico<span id="internal-source-marker_0.14718252598387327" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by M</span><br />
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rant on Puerto Rico; instead, we have a special guest. Please allow me
to introduce JJ, an authentic Puerto Rican who will be making an
authentic Puerto Rican spicy garlic sauce with authentic Puerto Rican
fried plantains. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For
those who don’t know, a plantain looks like a banana but kind of tastes
more like a potato and is starchy like a potato, too. Kinda like a
banana and potato fell in love and mated and out came the plantain... of
course, I guess they didn’t have to fall in love first. Maybe the
potato had a bit too much to drink and just got over its previous
relationship and was a bit vulnerable to banana’s unyielding charisma.
We’ve all been there, just ask </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Kirk Cameron</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and his friend. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It
is best to use green plantains because as plantains ripen they will
turn yellow, sweeter but mushier too. Removing the skin can be
difficult. A simple trick is to perforate the skin with a knife then
microwave the whole thing for 4 minutes. We used an authentic Puerto
Rican to operate our microwave. </span><br />
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flatten each section into a cylinder. Try to make them the same
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the meantime heat up an inch of canola oil or vegetable oil in a pan.
When the oil starts to make cool psychedelic patterns, it is hot
enough. Drop in each cylinder of plantain and fry for a minute or two
on each side or until golden brown. Remove and allow to cool on a paper
towel. Salt to taste.</span><br />
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the garlic sauce. Take a couple cloves of garlic and throw it in your
food processor or magic bullet or whatever you have, or just chop the
shit out of it until it is a pasty goo. Mix it well with a quarter cup
of olive oil.</span><br />
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recommend some chili oil in that too though; make it a hot sauce!
Drizzle over your plantains and enjoy.</span><br />
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<br />Verde Serranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11266459240519898616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086402039207748438.post-52105285455791589172012-08-20T07:20:00.001-07:002012-08-20T07:22:36.028-07:00Bizzaro Siracha<span id="internal-source-marker_0.7179732183780511" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by M</span><br />
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have reached a new level here at THSDs. While I have been overwhelmed
with life in general... up to my neck in work, not enough time in the
day, and too many freaking weddings to go to! … the THSDs has become
self aware. It’s alive, I tell you, it’s alive. Without any work,
petitioning, or Hot Sauce networking, we are getting new hot sauces left
and right. We can’t keep up, I’m getting ulcers, heartburn,
flatulence, high blood pressure, I’m sweating habanero, crying cayenne,
and man is it awesome. </span><br />
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sriracha from Hong Kong. At first taste, I described it as earthy,
then musky... yes, a muskier Sriracha. When you start to describe
something with terms like musky, you start walking a thin line. You
know the line when you smell someone cooking soup, and you’re like,
“Wow, that soup smells good; at least, I hope that is soup and not BO.”
Yeah, sometimes a good lentil soup or a minestrone can smell a bit like
BO. Or, when I take blue cheese out of the refrigerator and my wife
will be like, “Oh man, we need to take out the garbage”... no, that is
blue cheese (we both really like blue cheese). One time I had a salad
at a Thai restaurant with a “chili” dressing. It kind of tasted like an
anchovy ate nothing but onions for days and then went jogging. That
salad was not my kind of thing, though I am sure there are many that
might enjoy it. So after sensing this muskiness, I read the
ingredients. Sure enough, fish sauce is on the list. What the heck is
fish sauce? I mean, I know what it is, but why do they get away with
just calling it fish sauce? There are different kinds of Fish Sauce.
What kind of fish? What parts of the fish? How is it turned into a
sauce? I am going to invent Cow Sauce. Who knows what is in it, but it
will be cow made into sauce, Cow Sauce. Then on the ingredients of Hot
Dog packages, it will only have one ingredient: Cow Sauce. </span><br />
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.7179732183780511" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauce: Sriracha Chili Sauce</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: </span><a href="http://usa.lkk.com/Kitchen"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee Kum Kee</span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper: Red chili (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_frutescens"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Capsicum frutescens</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Hong Kong/China</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 6/10</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This Hong Kong Sriracha walks the line with success because it is pretty
good. It gives a much funkier taste then our normal Sriracha and is
different enough that if you are a die-hard Sriracha fan, you will want
both bottles in your refrigerator. Not as much heat as the normal
Sriracha, which is too bad, because with the stronger, funkier taste,
you may not want to apply as liberally or it will overtake your meal.</span><br />
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I returned to my hometown for some quality family time. As I’ve
mentioned before, I had not eaten a lot of hot sauce experience prior to
this blog. I come from a very large extended family that is very
dedicated to meat and potatoes... very lightly seasoned. Occasionally,
we spice things up with some freshly ground pepper! That’s about it. I
hail from Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. You may have heard of
Connecticut; you may even have heard of Fairfield. However, you have
probably not heard of it in association with spicy food.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
Fairfield known for? Being a large suburb of NYC, being burned down
during the Revolutionary War, being home to the headquarters of General
Electric and Bigelow Tea, being the setting for “Who’s the Boss?”, John
Mayer, James Blake, and Meg Ryan. Historically, it was also known for
exporting globe onions and carrots, but there aren’t many farms now.
What is Fairfield not known for? Hot sauce. Well, that’s going to change
with this hometown hot sauce review!</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But
first, the tale of hot sauce discovery: I went shopping for fresh
produce with my sister and her two small children in neighboring Easton,
CT. As I picked my way through the apples, my sister called me over to
look at something she had found. Bottles of hot sauce from Fairfield! A
local brew! She bought it for The Hot Sauce Diaries to try.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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Hannah’s website shows what a careful operation the sauce-makers run,
with pictures of beautiful peppers along with photos of the onions,
carrots, and garlic that make the base of the sauce. The ingredients are
habaneros, distilled vinegar, onions, carrots, garlic, fresh-squeezed
lime juice, and canola oil. These people are not messing around with
unnecessary additives and ingredients that don’t belong there. It’s
truly homemade style. As for the taste, it is delicious! The habaneros
pack a LOT of kick, so go gently at first, but you can still taste the
fruity sweetness of the peppers and the carrots and the citrus zing of
the lime juice. The carrots also lend a rich, orange color to the sauce,
along with a hometown farm touch. Remarkably, you can taste the
contributions of each ingredient, and the sauce adds up to more than
the sum of its parts. Our only complaint? A label typo: there’s no tilde
in habanero.</span><br />
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do not think of spicy food or hot sauce. In fact, when your esteemed
authors first queried the token Canadian of the lab, he said it would be
quite difficult to find Canadian hot sauce. Maple syrup? Easy.
Something with more kick? Not so easy. We were not optimistic about
trying to get a sauce from each homeland of all of our coworkers
covered, in part because of Canada.**</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But
then, a miracle happened. I received a phone call from my best friend,
who is familiar with our quest despite living four hours away. She was
just back from a business trip to Ottawa, she said. And she had found a
Canadian hot sauce.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was stunned. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A
few weeks later, I went to visit her and picked up the rare specimen.
Today, we introduce you to the little-known world of Canadian hot sauce,
which is apparently lovingly made by a gentleman named Dan.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*That weird spelling choice bothers your esteemed author.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**And Australia. And the UK.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauce: Dan T’s Inferno</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: </span><a href="http://www.dants.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan T's</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper: Cayenne (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Capsicum annuum</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of origin: Canada</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 8/10</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First, we checked the ingredients: no maple syrup. We weren’t sure whether to be </span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.09424598381173654" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">disappointed.
Then, we went for the taste test. It turns out that the reason there is
no syrup is because this sauce is serious about spice and spice only.
This bottle packs some significant kick. We warned our other lunch
companions to use it sparingly. (We usually don’t do this, not because
we’re mean--although we can’t pretend we wouldn’t find some
sauce-induced tears funny--but because usually it isn’t necessary.) I
can’t even recall much of a flavor to the sauce because any flavor there
might have been was overwhelmed by the burn. This was some very
impressive sauce, and would be particularly perfect for those occasions
when you really want to make sure your friends don’t want a bite of your
food, or an occasion where you are told you must jazz up your entire
meal with just half a teaspoon of sauce. </span><br />
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are back to Peru this quick post owing to a new sauce delivery--more
delicious flavors! We decided to open up some ají, another AlaCena
product in an envelope that looks like a Capri Sun juice pack.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauce: Ají</span> <span id="internal-source-marker_0.7897726027660349" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">molido</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: AlaCena</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chili pepper: Ají </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_baccatum">Capsicum baccatum</a>)</span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Peru</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: </span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7897726027660349" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9/10</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once
again, a hit for AlaCena. This sauce is a gorgeous yellow, a “really
high-vis yellow” in the words of M. The ají is complemented by onion and
salt, resulting in a very flavorful sauce with a lot of kick. Although
it is the same brand as our previous Peruvian sauce, the flavor is very
different due to the different pepper base (ají versus rocoto) in
addition to the extra heat. The "Hot Sauces From Around the World"
should take note that they are being seriously outclassed by hot sauces
from around Peru. AlaCena is definitely our new favorite brand. R says,
“This is the kind of sauce that gets spoiled by food.”</span><br />
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.35710514450961617" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mexico by M</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
love Mexican food. It is one of my favorite types of foods. Though I
will say there seems to be a lack of creativity in the mexican culinary
world. Someone, somewhere, sometime in history, in Mexico rolled out a
tortilla, put some stuff in it and the ‘taco’ was born and it was good.
But then they were like you know what would be really crazy, if we made
the tortilla soft instead of hard, and there you have a ‘soft taco’,
and it too was good. And that is where Mexican culinary creativity
peaked. Because then someone was like what if you wrap up the soft taco
instead of folding it, let’s call that a ‘burrito’. And then someone
was like, what if you serve the stuffing separately on the side, let's
call that a ‘fajita’. Or let’s take the ‘burrito’ and put some sauce on
it, now we have an ‘enchilada’. Or let’s take 2 tortillas and leave
them flat, we’ll call that one a damn ‘quesadilla’. Or let’s take the
‘taco’ and just throw it into a pile with the other stuff we like and
call it ‘nachos’, unless the portioning of lettuce is higher than the
other ingredients; that is a ‘taco salad’. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Note by R</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Media Relations Specialist and Mexican Citizen </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks
to the American assassination of Mexican food, there seems to be not
much creativity in “Mexican” cuisine served in the US. In reality
someone, probably in Texas, dreamed up that stuff without even realizing
that a hard shell taco belongs in Mexico as much as a whale belongs in
the Texan desert. After all, in Mexico, tortillas are nothing else than
the staple bread and therefore, tacos are just bread with fillings.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to M</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To
me, Mexican food is all good. It doesn’t hold back on hardiness or
flavor and it is best when spicy. What would Mexican food be without a
variety of hot sauces or salsas picantes? Salsa actually translates to
‘sauce’. Mexican Salsas are such great condiments and cooking
ingredients that people dance about them all the time. You don’t hear
about people taking ketchup lessons or going out for a night of soy
sauce, do you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: Cocina Mestiza</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Chipotle (smoked dried jalape</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ñ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">o) </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Capsicum annuum</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Mexico (Estado Unidos Mexicanos)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 8/10</span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.529708427786888" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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hot sauce we are reviewing today is Salsa Norte</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ñ</span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.529708427786888" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. Hot sauces like
this are the reason I got into this business. It is much different than
any hot sauce I have had in the states, and it feels closely related to
our </span><a href="http://thehotsaucediaries.blogspot.com/2012/04/peru.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Peru</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
review, which was really good too. If you remember, that sauce had a
great roasted red pepper flavor, where this one has a great chipotle
flavor to it. Ok, Chili lesson. What is a Chipotle? Besides a </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjZZX3PwH5o"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">McDonald’s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-owned food chain that shortens your life span. Chipotles are actually jalape</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ñ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">os that are smoked, often packaged in an adobo sauce, which is like a spicy bbq sauce. This gives the jalape</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ñ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">o
a really strong, unique, smoky flavor. See, there is some culinary
creativity. I had my Norte</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ñ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a sauce with a guacamole burger. This sauce
easily upgraded my burger to elite burger status, a ‘Burger Deity’ if
you will. The sauce has a ton of flavor but a smoothness to it from the
vegetable oil. It is pretty calm in terms of spice, which makes it
optimal for folks who like a lot of flavor but can’t handle the heat. </span><br />
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shout out to Adam “MCA” Yauch and Maurice Sendak, two great New
Yorkers, both inspirational figures to me and many others. We pour some
hot sauce out for our fallen homies.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ok, if you have never been to New York City, then you should feel shame. It is certainly not the prettiest city in the world, nor does it have the countless centuries of history many great cities do, but it may be the best city in the world. Now many people are getting offended, saying Paris or London or Djibouti or Mabooty or whatever is clearly the best city in the world. While other cities are very good at being other cities, New York takes the best the world has to offer and packs it all tightly into this little space, readily connected by a train ride or two. Not all restaurants, diners, food trucks, and food stands are good, but most of them are, and not just good, they are great. In NYC you can get the best $5.00 meal or $500.00 meal, depending on your choice, and anything in between. Now having said that, what does ‘best city in the world’ really mean? There is no way to actually quantify what makes a city great nor would that assessment translate from person to person. But, what I can say is that the Yankees are the best professional baseball team of all time. That is a measurable thing, and it is not even close, so suck it, Red Sox fans.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: NYC Hot Sauce Company</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Habanero (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_chinense"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Capsicum chinense</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: U.S.A.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 2/10</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I picked up some ‘</span><a href="http://nychotsauceco.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">NYC Hot Sauce</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">’ from the Chelsea Market. At $7.00 a bottle I was pretty stoked to try this stuff, hoping the steep price tag meant some quality hot sauce. On the bottle it says “hot sauce made in NYC, for NYC”. This should have been a warning sign. Like this hot sauce is somehow cool and you are cool for eating it? Kind of a hot sauce for hipsters. Let me eat this hot sauce while I listen to independent music and shop at Urban Outfitters. You know what </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">would</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> be cool? If this hot sauce had some flavor. It is a Habanero-based sauce and habaneros are known for their intense heat and fruit-like flavor. But somehow, this sauce just falls flat in both heat and flavor. In fact, go to Trader Joes and buy their Habanero hot sauce for $3.00 and get twice the flavor. Hot sauce by suckers, for suckers... do not recommend.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7605446518864483" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, we’re venturing into territory that may be more familiar to our readers than our typical fare: a hot sauce you can actually find in your average USA grocery store. In fact, this sauce is so popular, it was the “ingredient of the year” in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bon Appetit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine for 2010. It has been hailed as “the savior of cheap, crappy, Asian food” (</span><a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), which might mean that the foodies at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bon Appetit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> occasionally deign to consume cheap eats and therefore need this sauce a lot. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s...</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: </span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7605446518864483" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hoy Fong Foods</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: "Sun-ripened chilies"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Thailand</span><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7605446518864483" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The review: Well, obviously M likes it. We’re going to introduce a new method of rating here that includes the flavor-to-heat ratio. Rooster sauce is about a three for flavor, but a nine for heat (3:9). Probably the reasons that it has less flavor are because it’s not your regular habanero-based red sauce and because vinegar is pretty low on the ingredients list. Personally, I kind of like it that way; many of the common sauces add too much vinegar for my taste. The “less flavor” effect might also arise from the strength of the burn overwhelming any other impression of the sauce pretty quickly, at least if you eat it straight. (I did, but I was only brave enough for a drop. Do NOT do the cinnamon challenge with this.) This sauce is not messing around, and neither is Hoy Fong Foods. Wikipedia informs me that they haven’t changed their recipe of chili (red jalape</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ños)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, sugar, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite, and xanthan gum since 1983 (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_%28Huy_Fong_Foods%29"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). You don’t mess with what works, and it has to be working to be the staple sauce of Asian restaurants. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In case you don’t know what to do with your bottle of rooster sauce, they provide useful tips on the back of the bottle in English, French, and Spanish. “SRIRACHA, made from sun ripened chilies, is ready to use in soups, sauces, pasta, pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, chow mein, or anything to add a delicious, spicy taste.” It SPECIFICALLY says chow mein. They know they are “the savior of cheap, crappy Asian food.” They know.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For purchase: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Huy-Fong-Sriracha-Chili-Sauce/dp/B000LO40AG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335391034&sr=8-2"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.amazon.com/Huy-Fong-Sriracha-Chili-Sauce/dp/B000LO40AG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335391034&sr=8-2</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazon gives it 4.5 stars out of 5. It’s a great bargain at $5.95 for 28 oz. Cheap sauce for your cheap food. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our rating: 6.5/10: 9 for heat, 3 for flavor. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are not as easily impressed as Amazon reviewers. This Sriracha sauce gets the job done in terms of punch, but it really only adds kick. There’s nothing special here. </span></b>Verde Serranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11266459240519898616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086402039207748438.post-18458726647429997512012-04-22T23:24:00.003-07:002012-04-23T15:25:33.368-07:00Pakistan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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we have a mint chutney all the way from Pakistan. What can I say about
Pakistan? I really know nothing about Pakistan except that they don’t
particularly like their neighbor India, and India feels similarly about
Pakistan, oh and they are both nuclear nations. I don’t want to get
into politics, I just find it interesting that neighbors in general
often don’t get along well. Really, the interesting part about the
neighbor paradox is its infinite scalability. It can be two neighboring
countries--there are many cases like Pakistan or India--or you can
divide one country in half and feud between the north vs south, east vs
west (RIP Tupac and Biggie). Or you can have a feud between 2 states;
see North carolina vs. South Carolina... why can’t there be just one
Carolina or Dakota? Think of your neighboring cities, uncouth jerks,
right? Everyone in every high school loathes their neighboring high
school. And of course there is your neighbor, you know, the people who
live next to you... I of course love my neighbors, except for the ones
who live on the other side of my house... I don’t care for them. Even
as I write this, which is a left side of the brain activity, I can feel
the the right side of my brain becoming frustrated. And if you want to
scale in the other direction, what’s up with Europe? I am pretty sure
people subconsciously hate Mars and Venus, and don’t get me started on
the the Andromeda Galaxy. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basically
we can deduce that if you are not in, you’re out and we don’t care much
for you. The funny thing is, this mint chutney from Pakistan really
reminds me of mint chutneys I have had many times at Indian restaurants!
So there is another lesson we can deduce: when food is good, it’s
good... no matter what group you associate with.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Home made</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Green peppers (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum">Capsicum annuum)</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Pakistan (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 7/10</span><br />
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stuff is really good, actually. It has a nice freshness to it, so it
pairs especially well with fried foods. The freshness is due to the list
of fresh ingredients: no vinegars, extra acids, or slow roasting on
this one. We can also attribute the freshness to the the mint. Mint is
a strange ingredient because most of us associate mint with things like
toothpaste or fresh breath, and if you don’t, you should brush your
teeth more. But when used with the right ingredients mint can be very
diverse and add interesting notes to common flavors. </span><br />
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one you can easily make at home (which our coworker’s wife did for this
taste test). You’ll need one bunch of fresh mint leaves, a couple of
green chillies, a bit of coriander, salt, and a little bit of water.
Then, puree. You can kick up the heat by using as many chilies as you
want or use the old trick of leaving the ribbing and seeds out for less
heat.</span><br />
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week, we remember a friend who has left us. Don’t worry, he’s not dead,
he’s just on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, having gone back to
Japan at the end of his contract here. In parting, he left a number of
gifts behind for people in the lab: his old bike for M., nearly-new
running shoes for another friend (possibly a hint?), and a number of
treats. L. is now the proud owner of a high-quality rice cooker,
rice from his family farm, seasoning mixes, and Japanese hot sauce. This
was an incredible coincidence given that we didn’t have the blog idea
yet when he left. An incredible, delicious coincidence. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When
said associate came to the lab, like many foreigners he was not
thrilled with the local cuisine. So he set upon himself the challenge of
making his own food, the food he liked and grew up with. Like most
things, cooking is a skill that comes from practice and some trial and
error. Now for a story of error. One day I saw him preparing lunch for
himself. He got out a large bowl and took two bags from the freezer. He
then placed two raw frozen chicken breasts in the bowl and sprinkled an
array of frozen vegetables over the chicken. He then filled the bowl up
with water and added a ramen-like flavor packet. He then proceeded to
microwave the shit out of this bowl... like 15 minutes or so of
microwaving. When it was done cooking, he squirted mayonnaise from a
tube all over this now scalding hot concoction of frozen crap in water.
For those of you that don’t know, Japanese people love mayo, or at least
some do. They have special mayo bars in Tokyo where you can order mayo
margaritas and other strange mayo-based concoctions. As we sat down to
eat our lunch I said to him, “That can’t be good”, to which he replied,
“No, no it is very good”. So I asked, “On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being
really good and 0 being inedible, what would you give it?” to which he
replied, “It was a 1 before the mayo, but now it is a 1.5”. He then
proceeded to eat every last drop. I think hot sauce could have at least
taken this to a 2. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauce: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fundo Kin Liquid Chili Sauce (ekitai no yuzu kosho) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fundo Kin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Green peppers (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum">Capsicum annuum</a>) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Japan (Nippon)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 7.5/10</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve
eaten a lot of hot sauces in our time, and this hot sauce was like no
other. The English translation of the ingredients on the bottle say:
green peppers, salt, vinegar, citric acid. I don’t know what
kind of green peppers they meant, but this is really something special.
The sauce is pretty salty, so it tastes like the peppers were pickled
(maybe Peter Piper picked a peck of them?). This pickling gives it a
very funky unique taste. It is also moderately hot and lemony. Overall, this sauce is not
messing around: flavor AND kick. I can’t </span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.13841273120041475" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">imagine
an Asian-style stir fry or rice dish that couldn’t benefit from a
spoonful of this sauce. Good choice and great gift!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some recipes available on the product website. We enjoyed our Japanese-to-English Google translate experience:</span><br />
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<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“A little spicy chili oil is not hot so spicy”</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Plenty of vegetables along with the handy plump meatballs.” [Ed. note: I guess meatballs can come in handy sometimes.]</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And
a recipe: “1) A and put the ball ground pork mix dough. 2) is chopped
cabbage, carrots cut into strips. 3) plus 1 rounded into bite Nitate a B
in a pot. Please boiled while adding an appropriate amount of bean
sprouts and then 2.”</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think Google translate has a ways to go before it’s truly useful in this context, although I am intrigued.</span><br />
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we make 'aliyah’. If you don’t know that word, think ‘hajj’ and if
you don’t know ‘hajj’ or ‘aliyah’....then put your gun and New Testament
down for a sec and google it. Israel is a hot region with many hot
topics. I wrote that sentence to illustrate how ridiculous American
usage of the word ‘hot’ is. Paris Hilton did not help this situation
either with her catch phrase ‘That’s hot’. When you bite into a piece of
food, do you ever say, ‘That’s hot’? Then someone might ask you, ‘Spicy
hot or temperature hot... or Paris Hilton hot?’ Why not have different
words to describe these different feelings? </span><br />
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for a short language lesson. Get your mucous going like you’re ready to
hock a loogie and say ‘cham’ and ‘charif’. The Hebrew word cham means
temperature hot while charif means spicy hot. In spanish ‘calor’ is
temperature hot, ‘picante’ is spicy hot, and ‘caliente’ is Paris Hilton
hot. I don’t know what these words are in Italian, but it is probably
similar to the Spanish words with some gesticulation. Therefore, I
propose a new English word... get your mucous going again and say
‘chot’, which means spicy hot. Welcome to the Chot Sauce Diaries; today
we are going to Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauce: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S’chug Red</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: Sabra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Red hot peppers (Cayenne?) (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum">capsicum annuum</a>) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Israel (Medinat Yisrael or State of Israel)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 7/10 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
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around the lab have really been heeding our pleas for hot sauce! This
time, we are eating an Israeli-style hot sauce brought to you by our soon-to-be-Israeli
lab member. This Sabra S’chug Red “hot red pepper mix” is definitely
Kosher. (Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl agrees, which the internet tells
me is important.) It was an excellent day to have brought hummus for
lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlike
the hot sauces from “around the world”, this had some serious texture.
And by texture, I mean lots of pepper seeds. I might be new to the world
of hot sauces, but I knew that the seeds are the spiciest part of the
pepper. I went into this taste test with some trepidation: Would I burn
my mouth? (No.) Would I cry at our office lunch table? </span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2064445191529115" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Not quite.) Would I break a sweat? (A little.) </span><br />
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news, everyone: Sabra S’chug is delicious. You can really tell that the
peppers were roasted well for that fiery, but not burnt, flavor. It has
a lot of kick, but that doesn’t mean that all you taste is the kick.
Just don’t try to do the cinnamon challenge with this stuff or you’ll
find yourself reaching for a glass of milk. In addition to hummus, I
think S’chug would make most Mediterranean-style dishes more delicious.
Mazel tov, Sabra, this is some good hot sauce.</span><br />
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we visit Peru. I have always wanted to go to Peru for the sole purpose
of checking out Machu Picchu. There is a small hindrance to this idea
though... they eat guinea pigs there. I don’t care how much hot sauce
you put on it, I don’t eat guinea pigs. Not just because it is a
rodent, but guinea pigs have personality. I had a guinea pig once; his
name was Ned, ‘Lucky Ned Pepper’. He was a great guy and an important
member of my family for a good 5 years. When he was young, he nearly
died from an infection on his feet and a bad case of guinea pig mites.
My wife nursed him back to health by soaking his feet in a betadine
solution and scraping the scabs of his feet to drain the pus out. The
whole procedure took about 45 min and she did this every day for a month
and a half. He was eternally grateful and expressed his gratitude
after he was totally healed. Ned went on to live a long life filled
with organic parsley and dandelion greens, about $35/week of it. When he
died, I gave him a proper burial... I didn’t eat him. </span><br />
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way, I’d like to know if I can go to Machu Picchu without seeing
someone eat a guinea pig along the way. In the meantime, we have the
local hot sauce to tell you about.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturer: Alacasa</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile Pepper: Rocoto (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_pubescens">capsicum pubescens</a>) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of Origin: Peru (Republica del Peru)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Score: 8.5/10 </span><br />
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Rocoto sauce is simply delicious; we were all seriously impressed. The
packaging looks like a Capri Sun bag of juice, you know the ones that
were impossible to get the straw into? Rather than coming from a
Peruvian factory, one could be fooled to think that it was freshly made
by one’s grandmother (assuming one grew up in a hot sauce loving country
like Mexico like R and one’s grandmother had empty Capri Sun bags lying
around). It is a thicker sauce, similar to a marinara, and has a nice
layer of oil to it too. The flavor of the sauce is zesty, and the
ingredients appear to be carefully cooked because the sauce retains a
clear orange color and watery texture typical of fresh blended sauce.
It tastes like they roasted a red pepper long and slowly over a low
heat. </span><br />
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has a great zing to it and a vivid color. Non hot saucers will feel
the burn but won’t run away, while regulars will appreciate the
restrained warmth.</span><br />
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.04397326518292488" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Several
months ago, I received the best gift ever: a set of eight hot sauces
from around the world. I am the kind of person who puts hot sauce on
anything. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, any meal can be improved with a
little (or a lot of) kick! So I eagerly set out to explore the wide
world of hot sauces. For a few weeks, I peppered my food from different
bottles, and I started to notice something: all of the hot sauces tasted
more or less the same. I looked at the ingredients and, sure enough,
they were basically the same across all eight bottles. Then, I began to
look a little closer at the bottles. They had fake “imported” labels,
but really they were all made and bottled in St. Augustine, Florida. The
set wasn’t from all around the world, it was from all around one
factory! The name of the company, <a href="http://www.datldoit.com/">Dat'l Do-it, Inc.</a>, was already setting a
pretty low bar for itself, but Dat’l Definitely Not Do. </span><br />
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was deeply disappointed. My hot-sauce-induced depression went on for
weeks, putting a strain on my marriage first, then noticed by people at
work. When asked what was wrong, I told them about my disappointment in
the best gift ever. Then, like an apple falling on my head from a tree,
an idea struck. I work with people from all over the world: India,
Pakistan, Israel, Iran, the UK, Russia, Mexico, Romania, Puerto Rico,
Mexico, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Korea, and the
weirdest region of all, Texas. In an office of more than fifty people,
fewer than ten were born in the USA. I issued an edict: “Go to your
native lands or their local import stores. Give me your cayenne, your
jalapeno, your habanero yearning to be eaten. Search high and low and
far and wide, and share your hot sauces.”</span><br />
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blog is dedicated to hot sauces and the hot sauce lovers out there.
Each week, we will be covering a new hot sauce, ranging in source from
local to far, far away. My team and I will share our lunch break
experiences with you so that you, too, can learn about hot sauces from
around the world. Feel free to recommend your own favorite sauces in the
comments!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first taste test: The original hot sauces “from around the world”, remaining six of eight bottles.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Country of origin: United States of America</span><br />
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finished two of the eight bottles before having the idea strike for
this blog, so your fearless* testers will only be reporting on six
bottles. The bottles are pictured above and include:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Pharoah’s Revenge: We don’t know why there is Greek lettering on the bottle for this one.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Southwest Jalapeno</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Asian Soy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-West Indies Cayenne</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Amazon Hot Sauce with Spices</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Jamaican Habanero</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Normally,
we would give you a one at a time review of each hot sauce. However, as
we mentioned before, they all taste pretty much the same, and that
taste is a pretty bland, mildly spicy vinegar. I mean, no Jerk from
Jamaica! No Curry from the West Indies! WTF! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L
thought there was a tiny hint of soy in the Asian sauce, but we do not
leave out the possibility that she was influenced by color. R, our
official Mexican, did a blind taste test of the various sauces on pizza
crust and determined that only the jalapeno sauce tastes different from
the others. (More jalapeno-y!) Guessing which was which turned out to be
completely futile. We wondered at the fact that hot sauces from all
over the world all rely on a vinegar, pepper, and corn syrup (?!) base.
We are decidedly not impressed. Altogether, Dat’ll Don’t. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*L
would like you to know that she is not actually fearless and will
probably end up quite cowed by some future sauces once we get to some
that are actually spicy.</span><br />
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