Butterfly Bakery Honey Field Habanero Hot Sauce Review

Butterfly Bakery Honey Field Habanero

I’m tempted to make this a relative rarity for this blog and do a fairly short review, as I don’t really have a lot to say about this sauce. It all comes down really to how much, or if, you like the flavor of orange Habaneros. Are the ones from Honey Field better than the ones I can put my grubby mitts out and grab from the grocery store shelf nearest to me? I’m willing to concede the point and the design of this sauce, with those Habs front and center as the first ingredient, is very much focused on representing that pod...but it is not a pod I view particularly fondly, nor have I ever. I do think this is about as good as a sauce can be where this is the intent and it has a very nice mouth feel, but I don’t love the flavor of orange Habs. 

I do wish I would have thought to hold out some of the Vermont Habs sauce I did earlier in the year to compare and contrast, as both sauces really do well to highlight the differences between the red and orange Habanero, especially in terms of flavor. I don’t dislike the flavor here and will definitely empty out the bottle, probably mostly where I would use a Louisiana-style, as I think it works in those settings best. It does bring a nice warm heat with it, but this is not something to which I’ll be returning. 

Bottom line: This is one of those sauces that just winds up not resonant to my particular palate, but it is otherwise a fine sauce, particularly if one enjoys the flavor of orange Habs.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 2
            Flavor: 6
            Flexibility: 3
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 5

Overall: 6