Uncle Chainsaw A Fuego Hot Sauce Review

Uncle Chainsaw A Fuego 

As a chile and garlic flavored vinegar, this one is pretty nice. The peppers show up a bit on the back end and the garlic has a nice subtlety to it, after you get past the belt of vinegar. This, however, is indicated as a hot sauce, though the website refers to it as a style called chili water. The predominant vinegar is intentional, as is the lack of suspension for the various particles. We are going to be considering and rating it here as a hot sauce, given that is the nomenclature on the bottle, which again has a lot of the heavy metal motifs that are one of my favorite things about this maker. 

One of the facets with this style is its extreme looseness and consistency, which is basically watery. The second is that it is more or less as I described as a chile and garlic flavored vinegar, but perhaps infused would be more accurate than flavored. You will wind up with a big old hit of vinegar, just a solid punchy belt right in the kisser of that pungency. There are shades of fresh garlic as well, though nowhere near as prominent and way in the back of all that is some slight heat and chile flavor. It definitely doesn’t taste bad...once the vinegar wanes a bit. 

For most of us, hot sauces are something we like to pair with various foods, but with this kind of product, it definitely needs to be incorporated as part of something else...unless that astringency slug is what you want. I think it will probably work very nicely in a dressing or for making refrigerator pickles, but that’s not really what I’m after in a hot sauce. If you want something as an ingredient to cook with, buying a hot sauce is a very expensive way of going about it. 

Taking this as a hot sauce, the issue of application is apparent. Trying to pour this frequently sees it running down the threads of the bottle and sometimes into the label. This is absolutely one in strong need of a restrictor cap, but even if it had one, I wouldn’t pair a more or less straight white vinegar with any of the foods I generally eat. I definitely have uses for this kind of thing and will use it, definitely, but as I described in the previous paragraph. 

Bottom line: Not really a hot sauce, much more a chile & garlic vinegar or “chili water” that has the wrong labeling. 

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 4
            Flexibility: 0
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 2