UPDATE: Video support available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXGbtjR6VSM
Much like the Lola's sauces, I get the impression we're dealing here with another base sauce, that then has whatever other pepper added to it. In some respects, it's not altogether a bad idea. You come up with a solid base sauce and then modify it with various super hots to get different flavor profiles. However, like as in many, many other areas of life, the theory is better than the reality. Execution is really what is going to make or break this concept and with both of the sauces, this and the Lola's, it is broken by poor execution. I get that you need to have a recipe that can be scaled up to fit into a heavy production setting and, unquestionably, it is harder to do that than maybe any other aspect, which is why we see so few national commercial (i.e. grocery stores, Wal-Mart, etc.) hot sauces of merit.
For this one, having a base sauce is fine. It is the same one as the Jalapeno styling from this company I reviewed earlier and either it hits or doesn't. It did not, at all, resonate with me, but generally, with the base sauce, you have your spice load in place and then just add a single different component. What happened here is that they added the single component, which was itself a product of multiple components, meaning the Scorpion pepper mash, which was the Scorps + salt, etc. The result was an acceleration of salt, to the point where this sauce immediately oversalts whatever one puts it on. This effect is slightly less noticeable on Mexican style food and pizzas, but in any instance where there are not other flavors for it to meld with (or to make that aspect somewhat), it's immediately noticeable and has the effect of diminishing returns.
Honestly, it's a bit of a shame, as adding the Scorpion element improved this sauce notably. With a relatively tame sauce like this, one can taste the somewhat flowery notes of the Scorpion readily, without needing to worry about excessive mouth burn. Not really useful for myself and other chileheads, but for "normals", this is a good way to experience the flavor profile and a small modicum of the attendant heat, which shows up here mostly in shadow form. However, with it wrecking half of the food it is used on and not, overall, being an especially wonderful-tasting sauce, the oversalty aspect is one I can't ignore and this is another that will be binned immediately after the video support is filmed.
Bottom line: If you have a fondness for salty sauces and want to get a good read on the flavor (without much of the heat) of Scorpion peppers (or want to introduce a non-chilehead to that profile), worth considering.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 2
Flavor: 3
Flexibility: 2
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 1
Overall: 2
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