Humble House Guajillo & Red Jalapeno
Note: This sauce appears on Season 7 of The Hot Ones.
Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI9OfIuD-pU
When I first cracked open the seal on this, I knew immediately what I was in store for. The aroma was instantly familiar, as it will be for any and everyone else who has a lot of experience with sriracha. The combination of garlic and jalapenos wafts up immediately, a hallmark of that kind of sauce and yet...and yet, we see no reference at all to that name on this bottle. It's almost as if they're trying to pretend this something different on the label. Indeed, we have reference to Latin inspired, which one would be pretty hard-pressed to detect.
The Guajillos are a fairly mild pepper, both in terms of flavor and in heat, and there is indeed precious little heat to be had here. Instead, what we have is more or less a slightly runnier than normal sriracha, with very very subtle notes of the Guajillo here and there. Mostly it is the jalapenos and garlic, which are both higher in the ingredient list and far more dominant in this kind of sauce, whether they choose to call it sriracha or not.
As far as srirachas go, this one is fine. It is not the more solid paste that normal srirachas tend to be, and is perhaps a bit smoother in texture than those usually are, but the flavor is right in line with what you'd anticipate from a solid sriracha, which this sauce is.
Bottom line: A mostly well-done sriracha, though a bit looser than that style of sauce normally is.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 0
Flavor: 8
Flexibility: 6
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 3
Overall: 4
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