Xtreme Hot Sauce Review

Xtreme Hot Sauce

So...this little *ahem* gem I came across one day when I was trying to track down sauces that started with letters of the alphabet I had not done yet. At the time that was U, X, Y (also, if anyone knows of any sauce companies that start with either "U" or "Y" that have sauces that do not contain onions of any kind and are also not novelty sauces, do let me know). Even though this is not strictly "X" in the name of the sauce company, I am a bit fast and loose with the rules (you can see this via the TOC), I bought it because I could not find the actual sauce company name (until it was too late) under the guise of filling the role of an "X" sauce and that is damn well what it is going to do. Also, that particular company name does not appear anywhere in the TOC, like a few others. 

That particular company is Spicin Foods and had I known that in advance, I probably would not have gotten this. As it was, I was pretty nervous as their tendency is to take otherwise ok-tasting sauces and spike them pointlessly with extract. Sure enough, looking at the ingredient panel, that is precisely what we had here. Still, I gave it a go.

Heat-wise, it is definitely on the lower end of the spectrum, probably coming in below Pain 100% (also reviewed here elsewhere). Flavor-wise, I'd put it below that. Ostensibly, the ingredient panel suggests a Habanero carrot sauce, but this reads more like a muted version of Beyond Insanity (also reviewed elsewhere here). It is not anywhere near like taking the mouthful of ashes that Beyond Insanity is, but that flavor note is definitely present, strongly present, in fact. Unlike the Pain, I did not get any kind of read of flavor on this, but just the disgusting notes of the extract. So, this is short, sweet, one and done, and my 2nd to last sauce ever from Spicin (I still need to do Da Bomb Evolution). 

Bottom line: Noxious garbage, sure to ruin any foods to which it is applied. Yet another that will not be getting any accompanying video as this one was bad enough to make me stop eating during the middle of testing and binning the sauce once the photo was taken.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 2
            Flavor: 0
            Flexibility: 0
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0

Overall: 0