Silk City Jezebel Hot Sauce Review

Silk City Jezebel

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The historical story of Jezebel is a fascinating one, particularly how the name transmutated over the years to eventually get to a description of a "morally unrestrained woman," but how any of the varied meanings translate to a hot sauce is a curious one to me. This is yet another hallmark of Silk City, I think. In addition to excellent sauces, there is the naming convention for the sauces, which is always a point of interest for me.

Here we have another flask, of course. If Ram Skull (reviewed elsewhere here) was the blueberry-strawberry hot sauce, this one is the raspberry. I also think this sauce is a bit more successful in that regard as the raspberry notes here are a lot more deliciously prominent than were either the blueberry or the strawberry in the Ram Skull. This sauce is not quite as watery, which is probably helping things, but the apples and Habanero again show up. The apple-Habanero combination is an excellent one and is a nice base for the Silk City fruit-forward sauces, I think, though I definitely prefer the less watery versions. This one is still quite runny, however. That runniness impacts somewhat negatively the flexibility, as the more watery fruit-based sweet hots get, the more likely they are to run off the food entirely. This presents a significant problem for sauces of this type, as one of the more primary uses for this style is as a dipping sauce. If a sauce is sweet enough (this one is not), it can also work well as a grilling sauce...but not if overly watery. Indeed, both this and the Ram Skull seem a lot to me to be closer to the vein of elixirs than actual sauces...

Heat-wise, again with Habanero, this is quite moderate. It can serve as a good introduction to the vast and varied world of hot sauces, and some alternative uses, such as mixing into beverages. That may have been the intent, a sort of best of both worlds vibe. 

Bottom line: If you are prone to raspberries in your hot sauce, this is definitely one to take a swing at. Overall, a very accessible and quite tasty sauce.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 9
            Flexibility: 4
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 7

Overall: 5