Infinity Sauces Ghost Fuck Yourself Hot Sauce Review

Infinity Sauces Ghost Fuck Yourself

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Anyone who knows me know that there is no possibility I could resist a sauce with a name like this, at least to check it out. Obviously, I did and finding no onions, I picked up a bottle, to see what this was all about. Often, companies choosing risque or, in this case, perhaps outright profane, names can move things into more of a novelty vibe, but that is definitely not the case here. The name is intended as an homage/call back to some punk rock, which definitely fits, but looking around the site a bit, it seems this company is quite devoted to making high end, delicious, quality sauces.

This particular one is described as a stripped down version of their Ghost Monkey (which I have not had, as of the time of this posting - I don't know if I will get it or not, though, as this website irritatingly does not include ingredients of the various sauces), by which I'm taking it to mean that a lot of the components of the other sauce are absent here. This one seems to be higher in Ghosties, both fresh and dried, than the other. In terms of flavor, this definitely comes across as a sauce based on powder, or at least heavily predicated on it. I don't personally believe this to be a negative, as I think you can craft some fabulous stuff with that. My interest is nearly always in the end result and here, it's pretty excellent.

One of the better parts of using powders for flavoring is that there becomes a more general pepper sense to the sauce. While this might not always result in it being as heavily pepper-flavored as it could be, it nearly always tends to increase the flexibility, which is definitely the case here. This sauce is as at home on strips or pizza or breakfast burritos or burgers or mac & cheese or anywhere you might use a Louisiana-style sauce, for instance, as it is on Mexican food, an attribute that very few sauces can claim. The specific spices used in this are not delineated, but my impression was that they tended a bit more towards the Mexican-style side of things, which it works well on, even if a tad slightly vinegary. 

This is not to say it's a sauce that will demand it be the flavor focus. It definitely works much better accompanying things than being the star and given the heat, which I'd say belongs in the chilehead only rarified air, it's probably not something you'd necessarily want to oversauce with. It rather nicely ascends to a pretty solid heat level and hovers there, sustaining a very nice burn long after the eating is actually done. This is my first sauce from Infinity and I must say, it was quite an impressive debut.

Bottom line: While perhaps a touch too vinegary for a table sauce, and definitely too hot for non-chileheads, this is a very well-done and highly flexible sauce featuring the somewhat overlooked but still fantastic Ghost pepper.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 3
            Flavor: 8
            Flexibility: 10
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 8

Overall: 7