Freddy vs. Jason Hot Sauce Set (FYE Exclusive) Mini-Review(s)

Freddy vs. Jason Hot Sauce Set

Fire Scorch (Freddy Krueger)
Deadly Duel
Camp Fire (Jason Voorhees)

Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PKs4HBlSM

So now we get more into what I had anticipated from FYE novelty/branded sauces, namely relabels where the tie-in was more important than the product. This (and the Dungeons & Dragons Dragon's Breath, which I did a full review on - check TOC at right, if you want to check that out) originate from Southwest Specialty, famous for their Desert Creatures, From Hell, Whoop Ass, and perhaps most famous of all, Ass-Kickin' product lines.

We'll start with the mildest, which is the Fire Scorch sauce. The main pepper here is the Jalapeno, probably red Jalapeno at that. This one, unless I miss my guess, is from the Desert Creatures line and is probably the Coyote's Howl sauce. I could be wrong, as I've not tried that specific sauce, but the ingredients line up pretty closely. This is perhaps the prettiest sauce, a very deep, rich red, in addition to the lowest heat (as in there is really none to be found), but the more memorable thing, besides Krueger on the label, is this rather odd off-taste that's in the sauce. It tastes almost like dust or dirt, which is rather strange. Even stranger, it seems almost random. I'm noting this at room temp, but will test it again after it's had time to chill. The flavor, when that presence is not there, is overall pretty good and probably the best of the lot solo. 

With food, however, it's another story. Here, with the Deadly Duel, we have a sauce I wasn't able to match specifically to ingredient panels as closely (this may be the Lazy Ass Habanero - again, not had that one, so not sure specifically). This sauce, with the Habanero as the main pepper, is a much paler orange and visually...not super appetizing, if I'm being honest. It is also the thinnest of the 3 sauces. It did work the best of the three on food and seemed to meld a lot better than the others, but part of this is due to the weird off-flavor of the Fire Scorch. Heat-wise, it varies between a 2 pushing 3 and has a certain degree of bitterness to it. This combination, I suspect, would put this more applicably into chilehead only territory. 

Last, and maybe somewhat least, is the Camp Fire. This one, featuring the mighty Carolina Reaper, is back towards the red hue, though more of a red-brown tone. This is the one I'm more sure about regarding the SSF lineup as the only other sauce I could find with Reapers and fresh garlic was the Ass Kickin' Carolina Reaper, a sauce I think I may have tried, but don't remember specifically. It is much thicker than the others as well as being much, much hotter, an easy 4, which puts it well out of range for normies. Even if they were daring, I doubt they would enjoy it much as this has a ton of superhot bitterness and is a generally unpleasant flavor experience. Indeed, this sauce is a good example of the concept of "hot for the sake of being hot."

Overall, I didn't really have a lot of expectations for this, other than that the Reaper sauce would probably be hot. It was $10 for the set and I'm largely expecting to run out the Deadly Duel, may try to tinker around with the Fire Scorch a bit, but am going to try the Camp Fire chilled (if there is any difference to any of these refrigerated rather than room temp, I will update this) again, probably once, and then bin the entire thing. I don't anticipate finishing the Fire Scorch, either, so as it shakes out, one sauce for $9.99, which isn't out of line, generally, though it probably is for the SSF lineup, and a cool shelf display for my son, that last being at least a major part of my motivation to get this set in the first place.