Radical Heat Hot Sauce Review

Danny Cash's Radical Heat Red Habanero Hot Sauce

As I mentioned last week, this section of the hot sauce offerings is one I find very interesting and very tasty. My introduction to it came via Blair's, though it wasn't quite "right". Most of this is details in the Hog's Ass Sauce review (http://d-dubisyourhero.blogspot.com/2013/02/hogs-ass-hot-sauce-review.html), which was the best I had.

As was moving down the sauce line-up, trying to fill spots in my door and in the back of the fridge (that area is still waiting, currently), I was looking for a sauce for some chicken dish and the Hellacious sauce wasn't quite what I had in mind. The other sauces in the door weren't cutting it either, so I hit the shelf in search of something that would give the chicken sort of casserole thing a much needed boost. I found it with the Radical Heat, which was not what I was expecting. It was, however, a very happy surprise.

Not only is this the best ratio of Garlic to Habanero, but Danny Cash has taken it a step further and crossed that whole thing with a Louisiana-style sauce. This now covers multiple categories and extends the usefulness a bit further, as if the fantastic taste alone wasn't enough. My only gripes are low in number. I think that it could be a lot hotter. This is, again, checking in at the lower end of the scale (maybe 5K). The second problem I have is that sometimes the runniness precludes me from being able to use it. It is much more like a Louisiana-style sauce in consistency and some of the stuff I would normally look to the Garlic-Habanero sauce to use would be served a lot better with a thicker sauce, but thin sauce does come with the territory with Louisiana-styles, so the second one is very minor.

Bottom line: When the most you can bitch about is what I just outlined above, you have a sauce that approaches world-beater status. Again, I could use it much hotter and a bit thicker, along the lines of Hellacious, for instance, but the pros outweigh the cons to the point that this is my new standard for Garlic-Habanero sauces. It's not a perfect sauce, but it's the best out there that I've found...so far. It is not a lock, though.

Breakdown:

      Heat level: 4
      Flavor: 9
      Flexibility: 8
      Enjoyment to dollar factor: 9
 
Overall: 8