Bigfat's 6o8 Pineapple Habanero Hot Sauce
Bigfat's was one of the bigger names back when I initially started the blog and I always sort of had them in the back of mind to get one of their sauces, but most of the sauces seemed to contain onions, the presence of which immediately ends any interest for me in a sauce. Of the ones I was curious about, I didn't often run across the sauce line in general and when I did, something else always seemed more interesting, so they got endlessly backburnered. Sadly, they also became one of the companies who wound up as casualties of 2020 and this will likely be both my first and last sampling of their wares. They were a large presence in this world I wound up spending a lot of time in and I do wish I had gotten to their stuff much sooner. There is a story floating around about their naming convention, which I do not now recall, but it is an "o" (letter o), not a zero in the name. I suppose the point is largely academic now, however.
That aside, what we have here is a very curious sauce. Normally, when I see these ingredients, I think it is wanting al pastor tacos or maybe carnitas, something Mexican-y along those lines, but no, this one has a target more in mind of Hawaiian food, given the creation of its formation in Hawaii. Indeed, the sauce oddly conflicts with cheese, which I don't remember seeing ever in Hawaiian food, so unless you eat tacos or carnitas without some sort of cheese presence, this sauce is not a great choice there. Given that it is meant for Hawaiian food, in my view, that also means it should do well on Asian dishes and it is nice there. If you do have it with carnitas, definitely the less items you have with the meat and sauce, the better.
There is a nice degree of heat here as well. It is perhaps on the mid to upper side for Habaneros, which I somehow forget a lot when eating it and am thus constantly pleasantly surprised. It's made also with pineapple juice, as opposed to pineapples proper, so it is a very loose and runny sauce. It occupies overall this sort of weird zone where I don't mind having it at hand for things like notching into Asian food, as it meshes nicely there, but I don't really eat Hawaiian food enough nor Mexican pork dishes. I probably would not have ultimately kept it on hand, but it does help me to understand why the company was such a big deal for so long.
Bottom line: One of the more curious fruit-based sauces I've had, from a now-defunct company. If you can find a bottle of it and you like the foods I mentioned here, definitely worth a pick up.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 3
Flavor: 7
Flexibility: 4
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 8
Overall: 5
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