Lola's Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce Review

Lola's Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce

I almost think that I might have a mislabeled bottle. The color, the flavor, the mostly absent heat-level, everything is nearly identical to the Original sauce. In fact, I strongly urge you to read that review first, as nearly everything in it applies here. We again have a hugely runny, rather constantly separating sauce, which requires endless agitation and is very garlic-forward, to the point where not much else reads through. Scorpions are one of the more flowery peppers and that flavor is often difficult to disguise. That is not a problem here, as it's mostly impossible to pick out any particular pepper flavor. There is a slight taste shift from the Original, as this one is somewhat more garlicky, but I suspect if you put them side by side, you'd be sorely pressed to correctly identify which was which. 

I did try this on a food I did not try the Original on, which was ramen noodles. Ramen is one of those things I keep at hand if there's not leftovers and I don't feel like cooking anything for lunch. It also tends to be a good way for me to use up stuff like Cajun sauces, which I don't normally use, but in which the greater complexity of ingredients seems to do well. It was tolerable there, but interestingly, it did not read as heat, particularly, but as garlic. Either something weird is going on or I got a mislabeled sauce, but I'm not impressed by this line enough to buy another bottle to try again and find out. Given that this one is not markedly different and is a near-clone of the Original (and I already have a backlog of FOH videos), I'm not going to be doing a video for this, either, but observe that the video for the Original sauce will suffice. Like the Original, it is doubtful I will be finishing this bottle, either.

Bottom line: Having eaten 3 of the 4 variations (Carolina Reaper is still left to do), I will say that if you're a chilehead, this can be safely avoided without missing anything. In terms of flavor, the only one worthwhile so far is the Ghost Pepper and there are a ton of much better Ghost Pepper sauces out there. This one is useful only for those who really like the concentrated garlic or like really garlic forward (and rather non-spicy) "hot" sauces.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 5
            Flexibility: 5
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 3