Month: August 2022

Sauce: Marie Sharp’s Green Habanero Pepper Sauce

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From the bottle: “Marie Sharp’s Habanero Pepper Sauce is the finest product of its kind. This unique cactus-based blend achieves the perfect balance between flavour and heat.”


Cactus for the win! Compared to most sauces I’ve tried, this one is certainly a little unusual. Many sauces use content such as tomato or carrot as a base. Here, nopal is used. The taste is fresh and light, with a bit of sourness from lime. At first taste it doesn’t seem all that hot, but then there’s the distinctive habanero after-burn, though not overwhelming.


I’ve used this on salads and sandwiches predominantly, adding a bit of fresh zing and subtle heat.


7/10 – Yay for cactus

Sauce:Bath Ales and Upton Cheyney Chilli Co. Brimstone

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From the bottle: “Smokey steak sauce made with Gem. Smoking red ripe Jalapeño farmed in Upton Cheyney for 18 hours to make delicious Chipotle and mixed with Bath Ales Gem, this sauce is a steak lover’s dream come true.”


Separately, I’m a big fan of Chipotle and Gem, so I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunately I found it a bit of a dissapointment; the flavour is predominantly tomato (1st listed ingredient) and not enough Chipotle (last ingredient bar salt). I’ve previously reviewed some intensely smokey sauces & I can appreciate that not everyone wants something with such a dominant flavour, however for me, this sauce just didn’t deliver on the promise.


4/10 – It’s not bad, but it’s not good.

Sauce:Red’s Tripple 6 Hot Sauce

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From the bottle: “Red’s authentic BBQ flavour. Taste and be saved. To worship: Dip anything that needs heat, use it in your cooking, add to chilli, or fish tacos. Even top your popcorn, if you dare. Amen.”


First off I have a bone to pick with this one. I really like the idea of the squeezy bottle with the twist-up lid – in theory is reduces the potential for sticky, messy, gunked-on sauce around the neck of the bottle. However this sauce is relatively thick and the small nozzle which is exposed doesn’t make it eazy to squeeze out. The problem gets worse as you go down the bottle as the thinner part of the sauce (which can escape) is reduced and the remaining liquid gets thicker. Anyway, problem solved by simply removing the top and pouring..


So, having ranted about the bottle, what about the sauce? Well, it’s boring to be honest. For my taste it’s not at all hot and tastes mainly of pineapple, which isn’t really a surprise considering the the 3rd and 4th listed ingredients are pineapple in syrup and concentrated pineapple juice (relegating habanero chilli puree to number 5).


3/10 – Nah.

Sauce:Extreme Karma

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From the bottle, “Extreme Karma is the perfect hot sauce for fire-tongued daredevils that want to enjoy their food. The world’s hottest peppers are rounded out with butternut squash for everyday enjoyment”


Quite a feisty sauce as you’d expect from something comprised of bhut jolokia and scorpion peppers. The starting flavours are mainly from the butternut squash and cider vinegar with a following touch of sweetness from the honey & then giving way to the pepper burn and tingling tongue.


It’s not something I’d use too liberally, given the heat level, but neither is it something that is too scary.


6/10 – I like it, but it doesn’t speak to my soul.