Porcus: Infernum Hot Sauce Review

Voodoo Chile Procus: Infernum Hot Sauce

Lots of fun verbiage on the label touting this or that, mostly references to the underworld, which I'll let you read at your disposal, if you're so moved and can find a bottle. The picture of the Hellpig on the label is pretty cool, though. I can't quite tell if the sauce is bad in ideal or execution, perhaps a bit of both. It's take me this long to get to a bacon-flavored anything that's not bacon and if this is indeed, as the label claims, the best that bacon hot sauce has to offer, it will be a good long while before I get to it again.

Many, many ingredients precede anything that says "chile" or "pepper" and when it does, it is some nebulous and mysterious "blend". Lots of flavors going on here and with the inclusion of apple cider vinegar, the first ingredient, in fact, we wind up with something that tastes slightly rancid and very sou
r and it goes downhill from there. Nothing like a sauce that makes you gag with every bite...

There is a slight bacon-ish flavor there, but it is far too muted to do any good. I think the conception here is questionable, too. Ok, I get it, because bacon, right, but with hot sauce, I think it's more that you can put the sauce in or on the meat, but not put the meat (or meat flavoring) in the sauce itself. There is also little to no heat here. That this was a more expensive sauce is just rubbing salt in the wound and friends, I got fleeced on this one, taken for a ride big time.

Bottom line: This is a gross sauce, one of the worst I've run across, that I have no idea where you'd ever use as it wrecks everything you put it on.

Breakdown:

   Heat level: 0
   Flavor: -40
   Flexibility: 0
   Enjoyment to dollar factor: -28

Overall: 0