Mythical Meats Unicorn Magic
Note: It was pointed out to me, for which I'm grateful, that the MM website points this as relabels of Torchbearer sauces. I kind of figured it was a relabel, but seeing that makes a lot more sense. This particular one is the Torchbearer Headless Horseradish, which I reviewed here: https://d-dubtsaaf.blogspot.com/2021/11/torchbearer-headless-horseradish-hot.html nearly 4 years ago. This also raises the question of whether I should just leave that link and call it a review, but I think, for now, I will just leave both up as perhaps expanding on the original review.
Timing on this could not have been much better. Grill season kicked off for me more or less right on time in early April and in fairly short order, I was running out of the mustard (Captain Mowatt’s Sharkbite) I had at hand, mostly because it was quite tasty. So, I was in need and this happened to be on sale at a time when I was on Amazon and also needed some stuff for free shipping. The stars aligned very nicely and all, but if this is a mustard, then why is it on this blog?
Well, you see, Mythical Meats is calling it a hot sauce. It is not. It starts with horseradish, then tosses in some Ghosties, but then reverts back to Dijon mustard before adding in horseradish powder. I am not the biggest fan of horseradish, one might say charitably, and Dijon is not among my favorite mustards, but I was pleasantly surprised as I dug into this one. Heat is a bit punchy for a mustard, both because, one presumes, the horseradish, but also the Ghosties so far forward in the mix. This one can border on the bitter fairly readily, so getting a good ratio of food to condiment is definitely the good move.
Because it is a mustard and I don’t find those particularly flexible overall, this is getting dinged a bit accordingly there. I do like the flavor, but don’t love it, though I will certainly use up the bottle. Mystical Meats is a company better known for, as you might have surmised already, meats, so having sauces that would accompany meats, such as sausages, makes sense, but again, I think it’s fine to call a mustard a mustard and not try to refer to it as a hot sauce, which it isn’t.
Bottom line: Another mustard masquerading as a hot sauce, but if you like horseradish, Dijon mustard, or both, and wish you could have a hotter version, this one is very well done.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 2
Flavor: 4
Flexibility: 2
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 5
Overall: 3
Checking out their website it looks like all of the Mythical Meats hot sauces are relabels of Torchbearer sauces (they're pretty open about it even listing the Torchbearer sauce that each of them is).
ReplyDeleteLooks like Unicorn Magic is Torchbearer's Headless Horseradish.
I found the horseradish taste in that sauce was fairly subdued when I tried it, which could be a plus for you if you're not a big horseradish fan. I think it's one of those flavors that's hard to get to be prominent in a shelf-stable sauce since horseradish flavor degrades quickly once its been grated and can only be preserved for longer if it's kept refrigerated.
Good find! I didn't notice that when I was on their website and it took a bit of digging around to find that, but I saw what you meant. Will definitely be updating this review and the other ones coming from Mythical...
ReplyDeleteI am not a huge fan so much of horseradish, so I definitely was a fan of how they used it here. I also keep everything refrigerated, so all good there...