Amazon Chipotle Hot Sauce Review

Amazon Chipotle Hot Sauce

This is the third entry in an Amazon hot sauce 4 pack I got a while back from putting together a free shipping order. The other two entries (both reviewed elsewhere here) went 1 - 1, with the Mango being wretched and the Green sauce being somewhat interesting, enough so that it's one that I consider worthwhile. With the score tied overall for the box, it's now on to the Chipotle.

I actually opened this one before the Green sauce from last week, but the Green sauce was something I could pick up on right away and wanted to review that right away. For this one, despite it's apparent simplicity (sort of a liquified version of McCormick's Chipotle powder), I wanted to kick it around a bit more first.

There are no hidden subtleties or complexities here. This is more or less chipotle flavoring in a liquid form. It has the attendant degree of spiciness (as in not much) for that type of pepper and even though it's based in vinegar, by far the dominant characteristic is that smoke. So, a little goes a long way, but unlike the liquified adobo sauce from Wicked Cactus put out (Smoking Gun, I think? It's reviewed elsewhere here), this one has no additional anything other than the taste of chipotle.

Bottom line: There's not a great deal to say about this. It's liquified chipotle and a fairly strong taste at that, so a little goes a long way. It doesn't add a great degree of heat and it would be overpowering with the smokiness long before you got there. I guess you could use this as an additive, like that McCormick's dry chipotle powder, but it functions not particularly well on it's own as a sauce. I'm going to be generous and call this a hit, but just barely, raising the box record to 2 - 1, with one more left to go.

Breakdown:

          Heat level: 2
          Flavor: 5
          Flexibility: 4
          Enjoyment to dollar factor: 6

Overall: 4