The General's Shock & Awe Hot Sauce
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The questions I have about this sauce company continue with this one. The good news is that the weird aftertaste of the Dead Red, reviewed elsewhere here and which covers quite a bit of that commentary, is to less effect here, but the less good news is that the sauce overall has a large funkiness and unpleasantness. I'm more convinced that the oddness of flavor has to do with the garlic addition with this sauce, but overall, the blend is such that this is an incredibly hard to use sauce, one that tends to foul the flavor of everything it's on.
Here, we have a slogan devised relative to General Colin Powell's strategy during the first Gulf War, presumably designed to infer a high heat content, but there is not a great deal of heat here. Definitely a heat reflective of the Habaneros, but not a particularly strong degree of it. The color is more or less what you'd expect from orange Habaneros making up the vast majority of this sauce. It is not one I find particularly appetizing, though. The consistency is quite smooth, though the foolish plastic simulation of a grenade handle had some sort of issue with the foam cap padding inside and it doesn't fit entirely correctly on my bottle, which is probably more nuisance than anything..
This is the second of the Heatseeker box I wound up getting and it is one that I will attempt to use as part of a recipe, but that is really the last ditch hope for this. It is highly unappealing when it overpowers food, which doesn't take a lot, unfortunately, and unless it is wildly successful in the cooking application, it will not go beyond that application.
Bottom line: The strongest indicator yet that the company behind it is more focused on marketing than on flavorful sauces. This is not a good sauce.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 2
Flavor: 0
Flexibility: 0
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 0
Overall: 1
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