Motley Crue The Most Notorious Hot Sauce Review

Motley Crue The Most Notorious Hot Sauce

Vanity products are always kind of fun, but also always, a mixed bag. So, too, with this one, which is collectively the band sauce. Initially part of a 5 sauce set that also featured a nifty box and 4 other sauces for each individual band member, these have since been broken out and sold individually, which is nice, as this was the only one that did not have onions. My suspicion is this is probably something from the CaJohn’s line, as United is having it produced for them. It reminds me of the CaJohn’s NOLA, also reviewed elsewhere here, just nowhere near as black peppery, much more bitter, and notably hotter. For having Habanero as the hottest pepper, this is a fairly punchy sauce, surprisingly so, and it will probably push non-chileheads a bit.

Where this sort of falls down is in the flavor department. This, as mentioned, is a fairly bitter sauce, somewhat unpleasantly so. The addition of lemon extract reads a lot more forward than I wish it did, but unless there is something unlabeled, the culprit is probably the Habanero powder. Habanero is not particularly present as a flavor, which is also kind of odd. There is sometimes a back end note of garlic, but the overall tone is abrasive and unpolished. Perhaps that is intentional.

I find it closest to a Cajun sauce, which is where I’ve been mostly using it, but admittedly, this is more a sauce I’m trying to get through rather than enjoying much. It’s not bad enough to toss, but it also isn’t an experience I readily relish. It is, more or less, my current entry in the Lousiana-style family category, and while certainly far from great, it is mostly fine enough to continue with it, particularly since there is that nice bit of a heat push as well.

As is often the case with many vanity/novelty products, the goal is not necessarily to make a high quality end result, but rather that of marketing and for interested people to collect. Sometimes the product will also be good, but this is definitely one that I think is more to sell the band’s name on the label than anything else.

Bottom line: An ok at best Cajun sauce, albeit a rather bitter and somewhat hotter one.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 2
            Flavor: 4
            Flexibility: 3
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 3