Silk City Mudshark Madness
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I must admit to no small amount of excitement for this one, as I always love a good fruit-based sweet hot and especially love pineapple. This one combined pineapple and mango, two of fruits paired frequently with Habanero, with Habanero in this sauce also and I figured the sauce would be a victory lap. It took me a bit to figure out what was wrong with it, because the sauce I had here feel a bit below my expectation for the tried and true familiar taste profile, but I noticed that the last ingredient was a general "spices," which is probably the issue.
Certainly not roasted red peppers nor sugar nor salt nor white vinegar, which are the other components, but something in there was giving an off-flavor I just couldn't put my finger on exactly. I figure it was maybe a garlic or onion powder or something along those lines, and I suggest those two because there was an Adoboloco sauce that had similar ingredients that it also wrecked a bit by adding too many flavors, but, like that one, it's a shame, as it mars what is otherwise a quite vibrant and lovely, if slightly runnier than I'd like, sauce.
Heat-wise, it's Habanero, so we're on the pretty low end of things, but that off-flavor, along with the runniness, sort of dampened any hope I had for it on pizza, which I was greatly hoping for. It does nicely on fried meats, but I really prefer it almost exclusively on chicken, where the combination of stuff seems to work best. On fish and shrimp, it's more just on the okayish side. It's by no means a bad sauce, but I wind up thinking what a shame it is that the great sauce that's hinted at in here is somewhat diluted by other elements.
Bottom line: In a way this is kind of a lesson, where one can take a great idea (combining two of the more common tropical fruits with Habanero) and wind up with diminishing results by getting a bit too fancy.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 1
Flavor: 7
Flexibility: 3
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 6
Overall: 4
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