Two Heads Peach Peri-Peri Hot Sauce Review

Two Heads Peach Peri-Peri

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Peri-Peri (or Bird's Eye) is one of those very small and thin-walled chiles that I think tends to work best in things, such as in powder form and mixed into the batter of a fish fry, for instance, or maybe sprinkled in while greens cook down, or perhaps in a nice chili, so that it can impart the heat while the flavors meld and mesh. Making it the main flavor star of the sauce is a pretty bold move and I'm not there are a lot of sauces where I think it's worked well. This sauce is definitely not the exception to that.

My interest in this was more towards the first word in the name, which is peach. I love me a good peach fruit-based sweet hot and I had high hopes this would be one of those, even if the color of the sauce was "wrong" for that kind of thing. The thinness of the sauce concerned me a bit as well, but nothing ventured, nothing gained and so on, so I opened the bottle and then it sat for quite a while in my fridge door as I tried to come to terms with it. The smokiness of the smoked Reapers is nice and complements the flavor of the peri-peri well, or at least as well as anything can in that setting, but the peach flavor was decidedly absent, aside from a very vague sort of subtle sweet note I caught here and there.

More than anything, I'd put this, as far as usage, definitely not in terms of flavor, more towards a Louisiana-style cayenne or Cajun, as to application. It's fine on creamier dishes and fried foods. I think it would do very nicely indeed in a ramen as well and it does mesh pretty well with food when used. Flexibility is quite pronounced here and there are quite a few places it would do very nicely. When it comes to the flavor of the sauce being front and center, for me it's a bit of diminishing returns, as I don't find the flavor of this sauce solo to be too wonderful, but that's not really how we use sauce most of the time, I'd imagine. Heat-wise, it has enough of a punch that I don't see non-chileheads enjoying this much, so I'd say it's best reserved for chileheads, but definitely, the more complex flavors you can pair it with, the better the end result.

Bottom line: This is a sauce I find to be bold, adventurous, and interesting a bit more than good, but in the right setting, it can definitely contribute well to the increased enjoyment of quite a few and varied foods.

Breakdown:

           Heat level: 3
           Flavor: 3
           Flexibility: 9
           Enjoyment to dollar factor: 5

Overall: 5