Chilli sauce reviews

Farmerj said:
Hi fellow chillie lovers. Glad to have found this post. I have just started out with growing them with the intention of making hot sauce.

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Awesome! I've never had luck with growing, but don't really have ground available to do so and they don't seem to like window boxes much. I'm keen on looking at some sort of home made hydroponics set up, must just get off my butt and investigate properly.

What and how are you growing?
 
I was just thinking outside hydroponics to, for herbs and leafy greens. I have been collecting chilli seeds for a longtime and grown them over several years, on and off. This year I am thinking of growing alot, about 200, 10 different varieties. Have not decided on what to grow yet, but thinking sweet peppers too.
 
So they’ve finally started bringing in scorpion Tabasco. Was surprised that it has a pretty decent bite.
 

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We were lucky enough to win a set of Picante chilli sauces which was delivered to us today :giggle:

Their range currently is a Garlic and Mint, Mild, Hot, Extra Hot and Reaper sauce.

The garlic and mint is pretty much mint sauce on chilli and garlic crack. A good hit of that vinegary mint sauce taste followed by a heavy hit of garlic, and a pretty mild heat. Though we always tend to think of lamb when mint is involved, this sauce would be excellent on chicken or as a prego sauce with a twist. Aside from garlic, mint and vinegar, it also has Serrano, Habanero and tomato paste.

Both the Mild and Hot sauces have exactly the same listed ingredients (Serrano, Habanero, garlic, lemon, tomato paste, vinegar etc), but their flavor profiles are quite different. The Mild is far more vinegary, and, as stated, mild in terms of heat. The Hot tickled our fancy more out of the two as the Habanero announces itself quite proudly at the first taste.

The Extra Hot for us is where Picante shines. It has an initially slightly sweet fruity hit before the combination of Serrano, Habanero, Ghost, Carolina Reaper and Peri Peri peppers hit you with their heat and complex flavour variants. A great sauce if you're not afraid of a bit of heat.

There's not too much to be said about the Reaper, but that isn't a bad thing. It's definitively Reaper in taste, and had the expected heat that comes with that. A good reaper sauce that balances the flavour and extra heat quite well, but stay away if your idea of hot is the Extra Hot.

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PoppieChoffel said:
We were lucky enough to win a set of Picante chilli sauces which was delivered to us today :giggle:

Their range currently is a Garlic and Mint, Mild, Hot, Extra Hot and Reaper sauce.

The garlic and mint is pretty much mint sauce on chilli and garlic crack. A good hit of that vinegary mint sauce taste followed by a heavy hit of garlic, and a pretty mild heat. Though we always tend to think of lamb when mint is involved, this sauce would be excellent on chicken or as a prego sauce with a twist. Aside from garlic, mint and vinegar, it also has Serrano, Habanero and tomato paste.

Both the Mild and Hot sauces have exactly the same listed ingredients (Serrano, Habanero, garlic, lemon, tomato paste, vinegar etc), but their flavor profiles are quite different. The Mild is far more vinegary, and, as stated, mild in terms of heat. The Hot tickled our fancy more out of the two as the Habanero announces itself quite proudly at the first taste.

The Extra Hot for us is where Picante shines. It has an initially slightly sweet fruity hit before the combination of Serrano, Habanero, Ghost, Carolina Reaper and Peri Peri peppers hit you with their heat and complex flavour variants. A great sauce if you're not afraid of a bit of heat.

There's not too much to be said about the Reaper, but that isn't a bad thing. It's definitively Reaper in taste, and had the expected heat that comes with that. A good reaper sauce that balances the flavour and extra heat quite well, but stay away if your idea of hot is the Extra Hot.

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Nice review.
/heads off to place an order.
(https://thesauceshop.co.za/brand/picante-chilli/)
 
PoppieChoffel said:
Ah yes, forgot to link to Sauce Shop, fanks! Let me know which one(s) you order and what you think of it (them) :)
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How hot is the reaper if you've tried it yet? Most reapers I've had are watered down and don't make me ask for forgiveness.
 
semaphore said:
How hot is the reaper if you've tried it yet? Most reapers I've had are watered down and don't make me ask for forgiveness.
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It's hot to me. If you're after a good tasty reaper sauce, I quite like the Wushini one. While the Picante is decidedly reaper, it's a bit low on any other flavour profiles.
 
Matt91 said:
What shop did you buy this at? I haven't seen it yet and I'm super keen to try it.
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I found them at broadacres spar in jhb, apparently, they're in Cape Town as well. You're from nip city which I have no clue what that is :P
 
semaphore said:
I found them at broadacres spar in jhb, apparently, they're in Cape Town as well. You're from nip city which I have no clue what that is :p
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Debben ;)

I'll have a look around my local SuperSpar. Very keen to give this a go, what would you compare or estimate the heat level to be comparable to? I'm guessing its hotter than regular red Tobasco.
 
Matt91 said:
Debben ;)

I'll have a look around my local SuperSpar. Very keen to give this a go, what would you compare or estimate the heat level to be comparable to? I'm guessing its hotter than regular red Tobasco.
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If you can't find it, let me know I can postnet a bottle to you, it's definitely hotter than the standard and even that habanero stuff. I would not call it nuclear, but then again I most likely don't have any taste buds left.
 
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