Sauce: Baron Blazing Hot Sauce


I was putting together an order from an online grocer & was idly browsing when I came across this and being a hot sauce that I had not tried before, the addition of a bottle to my cart was the automatic response.

Made in St. Lucia


This makes an excellent table sauce. It’s warming without blowing your mouth up, so can be applies liberally on a sandwich (great with a bit of cheese) . Bit of sharpness (probably from the lime, now I read the ingredients list!) on the up-front flavour giving way to a medium, mellow burn with a bit of garlic richness and a long tail on the palette.


8/10 – Have already bought again!

Sauce: The Red King


I think this might be another sauce picked up from Bristol. Certainly it gets good marks for bottle design in my opinion.

The Red King


Not strictly a hot sauce this one. There’s more roast garlic in it than cayenne chillis and that’s very much reflected in the taste. It has oodles of that wonderful rich roasted garlic flavour, with a bit of sharpness from the vinegar to back it up.


7/10 – Great flavour but I generally want a bit more hear from my sauces.