I’ve recently rediscovered my taste for hot sauces and hot foods. 10 to 15 years ago we had hot sauces. We had chilies of all shapes and sizes, good ones too. But we didn’t have the huge volume of really cool hot sauces being created by the masses. That’s right, there’s more to life than Tobasco, Crystal & El Yucateco.

Since I’m enjoying these new sauces and this is my web site, you’ll be inflicted directly. These small reviews are not meant to be comprehensive or fair. If you’d like to read well put together and comprehensive reviews, please check out Nick Lindauer of Hot Sauce Blog. He’s the one that reignited my interest. You see, he offered to trade me some hot sauces for some photography, neat eh? I ended up with a handful of tasty goodies to get me on my way. Well, those sauces are mostly gone now and I need to replace their voids in the fridge.
That’s the explanation, here’s why there’s that image at the beginning of the post.
Last week I noticed Nick’s review of Blair’s reconditioned Q Heat Wasabi Ginger Hot Sauce. It wasn’t out yet and I couldn’t wait so I purchased the old one.
Yeah, I dunno man. Okay, well. Uh, it’s mayonaise man. See, a week ago while at Trader Joes I picked up a jar of Wasabi Mayonaise and have been chowing down on that. So, I have an excellent idea as to what Wasabi Mayonaise tastes like and brother, or sister, this is it.
Even though there’s no egg in this “mayo”, it tastes like mayo.
And as you can see from the picture, it’s stiff stuff. The only way I could get it out was to use a butter knife. Yeah, yeah I know, that way is used for ketchup too. But even after pulling some out I could not get ONE drop out. And it hung on the knife like glue. I stuck some in my mouth using the butter knife, OoOoo danger. Creamy, rich (just like mayo), with a tad of wasabi, maybe the jalapeno. No, more like a combination of both. Approximately 1/4 the heat of Trader Joes version, which cleared your sinuses nicely.
To sum it all up, for what this sauce is, I suppose it’s okay if you have something light to do with it. It’d be lost on a sammich, heck it was lost on a water cracker. I’d wait on this one and see what Version 2 comes out like.
To reclaim the bulk of the stuff in the jar, I think I’m going to try and pour in some pickled jalapeno juice and see if I can’t loosen some up. Because as far as I know, I’m done. I can’t get any more out. Picture a 225 lb red bearded axe murder shaking this bottle hard enough to snap your bones, no luck. Dumb “sauce”, I’ll kick it’s ASS.
Biggles