Welcome back, everyone! It’s time for another hot sauce review. A couple weeks ago, my boss was like, “Hey, what’s your address again?” and I was like, “if a box shows up, should I be concerned if it’s ticking or sounds like a horde of angry bees?” Well, what showed up instead was a sampler box from Melinda’s hot sauce. Now, I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about hot sauces and various brands. As such, seeing a brand I didn’t know, I looked into it. That was very easy since the box had a little booklet in it. And, dude, Melinda’s has literally Dozens of sauces! I was like, “Oh… how’ve I slept on this one?” Well, better late than never to find out about them, I suppose. I had several options for a “first taste” with them and decided that since I didn’t have their sort of “original recipe standard” sauce (I do have an extra-hot, but we’ll get there), I decided to go with the Garlic pepper sauce (only one of several from the company).
I told my boss that he didn’t give me a gift. He gave me a new obligation to review dozens of hot sauces. 😛
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Anyway, so, let’s get into it and see what Melinda’s sauce has to offer.
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What goes into one of Melinda’s sauce? Well, for this one, it’s: habanero pepper mash (water, habanero pepper), carrots, onion, vinegar, lime juice, garlic, salt, citric acid, and xanthan gum.
That all looks fairly familiar.
Taking off the cap and giving the sauce a sniff, it smells fairly familiar as well. I can certainly smell the habaneros and some of the vinegar. But in there as well is the distinct smell of garlic. I feel this is going to be pretty good.
The bottle has one of those plastic stoppers on it, but after a couple shakes, I removed it. The sauce has the consistency of a thick apple sauce and it would take me forever and maybe throw my shoulder out if I really wanted to get the sauce out through that tiny hole. As-is, I just gave it a pour (as usual, getting a whole ton on each of my chicken strips in the process since I’m very much out of practice adding sauce just to chicken strips).
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Giving the sauce a taste, I get exactly what I hoped for: bright, acidic flavor without the real vinegar sour/bitter sting. I get the flavor of the peppers. I get even a bit of the lemon in that acidic hit. I also definitely get the garlic, especially a little later on in the bites. This is definitely a high-flavor sauce, in a couple senses. High in that there’s a lot of flavor in the sauce. But also that it’s very bright and not deep, dark, and earthy. Sure, there’s carrots in there, but I can’t really say that I taste carrot. However, there is a very mild sweetness to the sauce underneath all the acid spikes. Definitely something to wake up the tongue.
As for heat, this sauce is rated 1 out of 5 by Melinda. And I would say that I agree with that. I had my blue cheese standing by, but was more eating with it out of simple enjoyment of the blue cheese as opposed to feeling like I needed it. Though, considering how much sauce was on each piece of chicken, the cumulative effect was starting to get to me at the end. However, I’ve not needed any milk or to go blow my nose or anything. It’s maybe a half-step higher than your average off-the-shelf sauce. But unless those test your limits, this one should be tolerable for you.
So, my first taste of the dozens of sauces available from Melinda’s. I gotta say, it was a good “first date.” I will definitely be asking for another and I hope she accepts. I’ve got 4 other sauces in-house and there’s easily 6-7 that I have wanted to try even before I gave this one a go from her website.
Speaking of, if you’re looking to give this one a try for yourself, you can find it over on the Melinda’s Craft Pepper Sauce website here: https://melindas.com/shop/melindas-garlic-habanero-hot-sauce-5oz/
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