I haven't done a double review in quite some time, but these sauces are respectively not worth separate reviews. I stumbled across these in a grocery store and I think they were something like $1.50/bottle. The bottles are a bit small, but not excessively so. For both sauces, they are very well-blended. No complaints at all there. Sauce is pretty smooth coming out and with the restrictor cap and softer plastic bottle, you can control the flow very easily.
Neither one of them is particularly hot, though there is enough to notice. As with most Habanero sauces, the heat tends to progress and build, though it never gets to particularly high levels. The Rojo "Red" sauce is a bit of a misnomer, as the sauce itself is very orange. I'm guessing there are minimal actual red Habaneros in it but more likely orange, which are not at all among my favorite variety. The green definitely tastes of green Habanero, so that one is on the money.
If you're not familiar with Habanero sauces and are thinking of taking the plunge and grabbing a bottle of this for your first, don't. These are two of the worst examples of that type of sauce. Find the El Yucateco version of either first. Both of those sauces are worlds better. These, to varying extents on both are highly astringent, with all the grace of high citric acid and vinegar, as the more forward flavors. This is probably due to them using acetic acid rather than vinegar. Also, the red/orange is slightly more salty than the green.
Though the price is mostly in the same range as the El Yucateco, these taste rather cheap, tending towards the noxious side, so much as to be largely inedible. The taste is probably best described as harsh and abrasive. The red/orange one is a bit better in that it occasionally cooperates with what you put it on, but it is by no means a good-tasting sauce, certainly no comparison for El Yucateco...both of these do a nice job, in fact, of wrecking or significantly degrading whatever you use them on. I'd guess they might work better blended with something, in cooking, possibly, but the potential is there for it as easily to ruin that as well.
Bottom line: Don't let this be your first encounter with a Habanero sauce. If you absolutely have to have something in a pinch, go with the green, but neither are particularly worthy.
Breakdown:
Green
Heat level: 2
Flavor: 0
Flexibility: 0
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0
Overall: 0
Breakdown:
Red
Heat level: 2
Flavor: 3
Flexibility: 1
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0
Overall: 1
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