Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another hot sauce review here on the site. Despite the quarantine going on, I’ve still got sauces to try. This time around, it’s because of the good graces of a couple friends of mine. Yes, like Haico’s Hot Sauces and (semi-famously) the first bottle of sauce I ever had from Marie Sharp’s, this sauce (and more to come) were given to me as a gift. This was given to me by Kelly and Kim, two amazing friends who I desperately miss since they moved away. But we still keep in touch and I can’t wait to get to hang out with them again. Kelly actually was the one that gave me the Tiger Hot Sauce that I tried as well. Man, that seems so long ago now. But today I am trying the first from The General’s Hot Sauces. Let’s get to it.
Actually, before I get to it, I wanted to show off something else that they got me:
It’s a kitchen towel with all sorts of hot sauce bottles and stuff on it. I think, besides some stickers, it’s my first real piece of hot sauce swag. I’ll have to find a place to display it in my kitchen.
Anyway, The General’s Sauces.
I know I’ve had people share images of these bottles with me before. Let’s face it, my empties table is filled with damn-near identical 5oz bottles with only the labels changed to protect the innocent. Having a bottle that’s shaped like a fragmentary grenade is certainly unique. I have to admit, I’d looked at the bottles, but always figured that the sauces inside would be fake and overly-hot. Was I right in my assessment?
Well, as usual, let’s take a look at the ingredients and see what I might be in for. I’m very happy to see a very short list and only things I entirely recognize. We start out with Louisiana Cayenne Peppers, move to distilled vinegar, continue to salt, and finish with garlic. Yeah, 4 ingredients. And the peppers are only cayenne. It’s hard to see, but on the front of the label, just under the name, there’s 5 stars. Here, the first 2.5 are filled in. So, the bottle says that it’s medium heat. All of these things obviously took me a bit by surprise. As I said above, I was expecting a lot of various whatnots in there and like all Reapers and Ghost Peppers inside. The little dog tag says that the bottle contains 86% peppers. I definitely have to respect that. Like, if I get a potato salad, I want the majority of what I eat to be potatoes, augmented by the other ingredients. That’s what we’ve got here. The peppers will do the talking with some back-up singers in the form of the other 3 ingredients.
Having such a high percentage of peppers, it’s no surprise this sauce is a little thick. It’s not hard to pour or anything like that. It comes out easily, but it’s got the consistency of loose apple sauce. So, there’s definitely pulp in this sauce. The smell is also bright and a bit grassy (which I chalk up to the peppers being green when they’re picked) without a real hint of the vinegar in there. If the peppers are such a high percentage, that means the vinegar is, at most, something like 13% of what’s in the bottle (assuming the salt and garlic, together, make roughly 1%). Apparently, that’s low enough for me to not get the overpowering smell of vinegar.
One small aside: I have to say, that the bottle isn’t the -easiest- to open, since the spoon (the technical term for that flat part hanging down on the cap) keeps getting in the way as you spin the cap to open. But waddyagonnado?
The sauce tastes just like it smells. There’s a light, bright “pop” of flavor and just the littlest bit of heat from it. There’s those expected “grassy notes” of the green peppers. I don’t really get any sour/bitter vinegar bite at all (obviously a plus, to me). It’s not overly complex. This is definitely one of the more straightforward sauces. Of course, as I’ve mentioned before, there’s times that’s good, so don’t take “straightforward” as a downside in any way. That means the sauce can potentially go on a lot of different things.
Overall, this sauce really surprised me in several ways. I expected lots of ingredients. I got 4. I expected ridiculo-hot. I got actually rather mild (I might put the sauce at 1.5 stars out of 5 instead of 2.5, but there we are. I have no real lingering heat and I feel the vast majority of people could handle this sauce just fine). I expected lots of vinegar flavor. I got none. I am but a bear, so while I say, “I go into these sauces without any preconceived notions,” we all know that’s not 100% possible. It’s not possible to be 100% objective, though I do at least lean that way as much as possible.
I have to say, this is a really good start to these sauces. I’ve got 2 more to try on my windowsill in the kitchen.
Suggested dishes: The nuggets were good. I probably could’ve used more sauce on each, to be honest. I could see this being really good on eggs as well, in particular. Though, anything you’d put a straightforward pepper sauce on would be good. This is like those, but with those grassy notes from the green peppers that I dig.
If you’re looking to get some for yourself, you can find the sauce on The General’s Hot Sauce website. It looks like they don’t sell individually, but there’s a couple packs that have this one in there: https://www.generalshotsauce.com/collections/all
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