Redacted Wet Work Hot Sauce Review

Redacted Wet Work

I rather enjoyed the other sauce I had from Redacted and their sort of cloak and dagger skullduggery spycraft type motif and themes. Most of their sauces have onions and are thus not something of which I can partake, but this one happily does not...and I’m pleased that it doesn’t because it features Scotch Bonnet, one of my favorites, again paired with Habanero. While I would prefer it just be the Scotch Bonnet, the ultimate conclusion is what matters and here, it is quite tasty.

The sauce leans very heavily into the idea of a pepper forward sweet-hot, using guava and mango to give it a tropical fruity vibe, by way of a slight citrus underdone from the Key lime juice. I’m definitely very happy with what they did on the flavor side, as it goes a long way to advance the pepper flavor foremost, in that sort of sweet setting. The sort of gripe I have about this sauce is that it is overly loose for what I would like. A loose sauce is not the end of the world, but here, it intrudes a bit on flavor concentration and also limits a bit where one can easily use it, as it is quite runny...not quite watery, per se, but not especially distant, either.

I think with a lot of tweaking, such as reducing it further, maybe dumping the Key lime entirely, and go for some reduction, this would be a pretty fantastic more universal sauce, able to be used fairly ubiquitously. As it is, I find it pretty solid on fried foods, as long as there is enough breading there to absorb the liquid. I would not find this something I would consider using on pizza, for instance, as I don’t want my pizza to be wet, and having the sweet element is already going to kind of point the sauce in fairly specific directions. This one will take a bit of tinkering to find the right setting, but once you do, it is quite nice. Heat-wise, neither Scotch Bonnet nor Habaneros are particularly scorchers and this sauce is definitely more on the tame side.

Bottom line: A quite lovely tasting sauce that is somewhat marred by the consistency. I would still say it is well worth a go, particularly if you’re a fan of either Scotch Bonnets or Habaneros and like them in a fruity setting.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 8
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 8

Overall: 5