I happened to be doing a touch of housecleaning in the fridge today when I noticed this thing in there. As I've said numerous times in the past, sweet hot is one of my very favorite flavor combinations and over the years, I've spent a great deal of time with Asian cuisine, so sweet chili sauce is something I'm intimately familiar with, nearly as ubiquitous as soy sauce or sesame oil. In particular, I've been trying to find the sauce I've long forgotten the name of and have tried for years to locate. It was a sweet chili and easily one of the best sauces I've had in my entire life.This shit, however, ain't it. If there is one sauce that I thought it would be nearly impossible to fuck up, it would be this style. Even the cheap slop they have at the malls, while not exactly good, is edible and sometimes even palatable. This, sad to say, is neither. I can't quite place what exactly is making this derail, but it's almost like they used rotten something in there along the way. It lists pickled chilis as part of the recipe and if they were going for something along the lines of kimchi, they missed horribly. This stuff not only smells gut-wrenchingly awful, it tastes that way as well.
While this may not be the worst sauce I've ever had, it was far and away the worst last year, even of the pathetic sauce packets mislabeled as hot by your favorite chain "sorta" Mexican food purveyor. I don't eat those anymore, but I'd rather have those every day of the week and twice on Sunday, even on Asian food, than to have this again. This literally wrecks everything it touches and is a noxious mess. It also has no real heat to speak of, though it still wouldn't be worth slugging through its putridity, even if it did.
Bottom line: I'd rather have the bottle in my ass then the sauce in my mouth. A total waste of money. It also "earns" my first negative rating.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 0
Flavor: -4
Flexibility: 0
Enjoyment to dollar factor: -4
Overall: -2
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