Savir Foods Churro Ancho Dessert Hot Sauce Review

Savir Foods Churro Ancho

Note: This sauce was provided for purposes of review by Roger Damptz of Burn Your Tongue. Check him out on Facebook & Instagram.

This is a sauce I was not expecting to like and wasn’t aware it existed until very recently. I’d seen other Savir Foods hot sauces here and there, but I noted their lineup seemed a bit light and a lot of them had onions, which was kind of the end of things...or so I thought. I really like this idea of dessert sauces, which is a relatively new kind of thing or direction, if you like, for the hot sauce world. Certainly, I have covered a few others on this blog, but most hot sauces are not really intended for that and usage there winds up being more incidental than anything else. 

The main reason I didn’t expect to like this was the idea of the cinnamon. I’m not a huge fan of that and a little goes a long, long way for me. I’m not a fan of cinnamon things, particularly, and find that cinnamon gets used as a hammer too frequently for my taste. I don’t keep any cinnamon powders or sticks at all at hand and if I come across them in a recipe, will usually just delete that part. When checking this one out, I noted it also had Ghosties, Cayenne, and dates, the last of which is fairly unusual for sauces, though I’ve run into it twice already this year (the other one being the Seed Ranch Smoky Ghost hot sauce, which may or may not be posted by the time you read this - check TOC at right). This is not a particularly hot sauce, though, just has a nice comforting bit of warmth in the velvety mouth feel it delivers. 

This sauce uses the dates better. The label describes the cinnamon as a warm cinnamon and I have no idea what that means, but it does seem gentler than in other things I’ve had it in. I think the cinnamon is used very nicely here and it melds with the the sugar and fruit and the avocado oil and possibly the nutritional yeast in a very lovely and smooth way. I found this, to my great surprise, quite enjoyable and tried it on a number of pastries. I also tried it on ice cream, which was a bust, but if you stick to using it anywhere you might normally use or want cinnamon, this should work the trick quite nicely indeed. Obviously, this precludes savory foods, but by calling this as a dessert hot sauce out of the gate, a reduced flexibility comes more or less built in.

Bottom line: This is an amazingly lovely dessert sauce, in addition to being one of the happier surprises I’ve come across in recent memory. If you like or love cinnamon, you will probably get more out of this sauce, but I did find it astonishingly pleasant.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 9
            Flexibility: 3
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 6