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Benito’s Hot Sauce Review: Meem’s mango, Old Bricktucky Cayenne, Joes #1 Jalapa
| Benito’s Meme’s Mango Habanero, Joe’s #1 Jalapa, and Old Bricktucky Cayenne Hot Sauces
In this review I’ll try out three more of Benito’s colorful, organic hot sauces – the green Joe’s #1 Jalapa, the yellow Meem’s Mango Habanero, and the orange Old Bricktucky Cayenne. Because of the high marks I had previously given to the Naranja Organic Hot Sauce, I had lofty expectations for these other offerings. Ingredients: Joe’s #1 Jalapa – Jalapeno Peppers, *Habanero Seeds, Cubanelle Peppers, *Garlic, *Carrots, Cilantro, Lime Juice, Distilled White Vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Spring Water. *Organic Meem’s Mango Habanero – Organic Habanero Peppers, Mangos, Organic Garlic, Organic Yellow Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Organic Lime Juice, Distilled White Vinegar, Onions, Extra Virgin Olive Oil Aroma: Appearance and Texture: Taste Straight Up: 4 out of 5. Meem’s Mango Habanero is much different than any other mango habanero sauce I’ve ever tried. This is like a fresh tropical garden in your mouth with fire to spare. It’s bright, tart, sweet, and slightly vinegary. In my mind, this may not be as versatile as Joe’s #1 Jalapa, but fish and pork could benefit from Meem’s. 5 out of 5. Old Bricktucky possessed an odd sweet taste. At first, I couldn’t put my finger on it. Was it pumpkin spice? Nutmeg? I looked at the label again. Ah, it was cinnamon! It’s a unique taste that quickly grows on you after a few licks, and is nearly additive. Old Bricktucky has all the other attributes of other Benito’s sauces: a veggie-dominated taste, with hints of tomatoes, garlic and vinegar. This had the least amount of heat of the three, and was probably my favorite. It would go well with pizza, meat, and maybe even popcorn. One note I must add is that all of these (just like the <a href=”http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/Review-Benitos-Naranja-Organic-Hot-Sauce”>Naranja Organic Hot Sauce</a>) have a complete lack of any salty taste. This may be jarring to some who have a preconceived notion that hot sauces should be salt n’ vinegar fests, and may taste too “plain” for them. Nonsense, I say; the vegetables uses in making these sauces are more than adequate for flavoring them up. Taste on Food:
First I poured Meem’s and Joe’s on the naked wings and the Bricktucky and Frank’s Red Hot (as a “control”) on the breaded pieces, and later switched the type of chicken for the sauces to give each one a fair chance. The flavor was great on the buffalo wings, but the watery/mashy consistency permeated and softened the breading instead of “sticking” to it, so I would have to knock off a point for this. I thought all three sauces were terrific on the fried naked wings, although I was thinking deep down (even though it was a small gripe) that “something” was missing – along the lines of a creamier, thicker wing sauce would have been a little more ideal. Was there something that these would even go better on?
Heat: Label:3 out of 5. All of Benito’s products have labels covered with photographs and a cacophonous splattering of fonts (that makes most text difficult to read). While this does make these hard to miss if I was searching for them on a store shelf, in my humble opinion it comes across as slightly amateurish. Oh, and what’s the deal with the shirtless guys on the Old Bricktucky label? Overall:I don’t know how much research, trial, error and elbow grease went into finding the formulas for Benito’s hot sauces, but they should be applauded for their work. Every sauce is top-notch and worthy of being in your refrigerator, whether you use it as an “everyday” condiment or as something you just use to spice up your meals every now and then. All sauces come in 5 ounce bottle and are available at http://www.benitoshotsauce.com for $5.00 plus shipping. |
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Hot Sauce Daily – Review of Benito’s White Hot, Joe’s # 1 Jalapa, and Benito’s Original Naranja
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Benito’s Naranja -
Jalapa -
White Hot
by Brian.844 views
Benito’s Organic Hot Sauces are made with all natural and organic ingredients.Benito’s Hot Sauce sent us 3 samples of their 5 organic products for review.
- Joe’s #1 Jalapa – A vibrant organic experience made from fresh jumbo and early jalapenos. It’s a smooth citrus blend.
- Benito’s Naranja – A 100% organic blend made from cayennes and habaneros. Only for the serious hot sauce enthusiast.
- Benito’s White Hot – A fresh taste that packs extreme heat!
All of these 3 sauces had a very fresh, natural taste – our first impressions were:
Joe’s #1 Jalapa : Fresh taste and heavy on lime (not a bad thing), this jalapeno sauce had more heat than most on the market we’ve tried.
I thought this was one of the *best* jalapeno based green sauces I’ve ever tried. It was great on our simple nachos we threw together.
ingredients: jalapeno peppers, organic habanero seeds, cubanelle peppers, organic garlic, organic onions, cilantro, organic lime juice, organic distilled white vinegar
Benito’s Naranja : Very light bodied, very thin; this sauce had a lingering, searing heat – a real long “front of the tongue” burn. Yum!
This sauce had a great flavor, enhanced by the organic cayenne peppers and carrots.
ingredients: organic cayenne peppers, organic habanero peppers, organic onions, organic carrots, organic garlic, organic distilled white vinegar, organic lime juice
Benito’s White Hot : While this was the hottest of the 3 we tasted, it was a thin sauce, with LOTS of heat and burn. Awesome for sweating and cooling off the head!
Here’s pure heat, to sting your tongue, make you sweat, and kick up your food to a natural, organic heat level to burn your buds.
ingredients: organic habanero peppers, organic onions, organic lime juice, organic distilled white vinegar
These hand-crafted sauces, from all natural organic ingredients will appeal to those that like to know they are eating all-natural products.
While these sauces had plenty of heat, and natural ingredients, we missed the salt and any thickening agents that would make them thicker and bolder.
From Benito’s web site:
“At Benito’s Hot Sauce we use a recipe that ensures a fresh taste in every drop without the use of any preservatives, pesticides, or fertilizers!
All peppers are grown using only sunlight, water, and soil at Central Farms in Caldwell, NJ. During the off season, organic habanero peppers are flown in from the American southwest. All sauces are made with care in small batches.”
Finally, Wifey prefers the Benito’s Naranja, while I prefer the Joe’s #1 Jalapa. And I look forward to trying the Ol’ Bricktucky Cayenne.
Their other 2 sauces that we haven’t tried yet are:
* Meems’ Mango Habanero – A 100% all natural Summer blend with organic ingredients
A sensational blend of sweet and heat, just like the pistol herself
* Ol’ Bricktucky Cayenne A 100% all natural anytime sauce
A rustic cayenne cinnamon blend straight from the Watchung Valley great on everything from slow roasted pork shanks to grilled Tofu…even great with bubbling crab dip (Here’s one I’m looking forward to trying!)
Benito’s also offers a Gift Pack of their 5 sauces.
Visit http://benitoshotsauce.com
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This image is reduced by 32%, click it to view full size.  Benito’s NaranjaIngredients: Organic cayenne peppers Organic habanero peppers Organic onions Organic carrots Organic garlic Organic distilled white vinegar Organic lime juice(Organic Love) Ok this sauce well words cannot describe the party in my mouth when I tried this sauce. This sauce was so good I tossed the bottle of my own sauce in the trash so I could focus on this one. The heat level is perfect and this sauce seems to pair well with everything. I have had it on pizza, spaghetti, grilled cheese, taco’s, mac and cheese, and a few others till the bottle went dry 6 days after I got it. The smell of this sauce is beautiful and strangely I find myself opening it just to take a sniff every time I walk by it. The sauce is thin enough to pour out and thick enough to stick to what you poured it on. As silly as it sounds a better sauce I have never had. My hats of to these guys as they make the best sauce I have ever had. I was even lucky enough to have a surprise bag of orange habanero flakes in the box (wish I had asked what they were first) they have a great flavor and the heat level of a M1A2 Abrams tank. Thats were the wished I asked first part came from. I have been sprinkling these on everything even goes great on oatmeal who would have thunked.
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Jersey Boyz Jerky- Review of Joe’s #1 Jalapa and Old Bricktucky Cayenne
BENITO’S HOT SAUCE
By Jerseyboyzjerky
OLD BRICKTUCKY CHYENNE PEPPER SAUCE
Ingredients…Roma Tomatoes,Garlic,Onions,Lime Juice,White Vinegar,Chyenne Peppers,Cimamon.Paprika
This was my favorite of the two. As you can see from the picture, the fresh Roma Tomatoes Followed by the Vinegar and the lime juice was a winning combo.This sauce has a very strong vinegar taste that leaves you mouth wanting more.The Tomatoes and the Vinegar combined with the lime juice make the sauce very very Runny.We were having Ribs done in a slow cooker for dinner so i was interested in seeing how this sauce does over ribs and rice.This sauce added just the righ amount of vinegar and flavoring to these ribs.Although you can taste the Chyenne pepper there is not much heat in this sauce at all.
*********Mixed well wih the rice***************
JOE’S #1 JALAPA
Ingredients…Jalapeno Peppers,Habanero seed,Cubanelle Peppersgarlic,Carrots,Cilantro.Lime Juice,Vinegar,EVOO(Extra Virgin Olive Oil).Spring Water.
As like the first sauce, there is alot of vinegar in this one.You can taste the Jalapenos and the lime juice but the strong taste of vinegar hits you right away.There are little shredds of Peppers in there to add a nice burn to the sauce.I need another bowl of ribs and rice like i needed a hole in my head but i had to take one for the team.This sauce poured out much slower than the first…I feel that this sauce had much more of a vinegar taste to it than the first but when all is said and done this sauce added the the flavor of the ribs and rice.
Labels….I have to say the Guys at Benitos have there own idea of how a hot sauce label should look.The graphics alone are enough to makes you want to pick these bottles up.
These
Jersey
Boys make one hell of an organic sauce.If you enjoy a vinegar base sauce with some real citus taste,you will like these Overall i liked the flavor that it added to my food.
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Scott Roberts – Review of Benito’s Original Naranja Habanero Hot Sauce
Review –
Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot
Sauce
Scott Roberts December 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm food
Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a sucker for vegetable and carrot-based hot sauces. You give me a good one and I’ll keep coming back like a sad little puppy dog begging for more. Now up at bat is Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce, a tasty-looking concoction that uses fresh organic and all-natural ingredients.
Ingredients: Onions, Tomatoes, Carrots, Garlic, Vinegar, Lime Juice, Cayenne, Jalapeno, Habanero, Serrano, and Thai Peppers
Aroma: 4.5 out of 5. Very fresh and light. I sensed hints of vinegar and garlic, blending in with a pleasing vegetable aroma. I’m not joking; after a few sniffs of Naranja, my mouth started to water.
Texture and Appearance: 4 out of 5. Naranja is a bright orange (of course, naranja is Spanish for the color orange), probably due to the presence of carrots. The sauce in my bottle contained very, very few minuscule dark specs amongst the pure orange mix. It’s consistency is a ground-up, mashed fusion of veggies, peppers, and watery liquid. It’s simultaneously runny, clumpy, and pasty. My review bottled came with an optional plastic dropper piece to fit on the top of the bottle. I didn’t use it for my review, as I wanted to get a sizable dose of the sauce on my food; but for proceeding uses, the dropper was fine, for the sauce is thin enough to allow enough to be dispensed with each shake.
Taste Straight Up: 5 out of 5. I poured a small puddle of Naranja on my plate and fingered some into my mouth. Immediately there was a blast of some of the freshest, strongest, tangiest vegetable flavors I’d ever had the pleasure of placing on my tongue. If I hadn’t known any better, I could have sworn someone had just picked some produce straight from the garden and made a nice picante salsa.
I noticed there was a complete lack of a saltiness (I guess some sauce makers rely on the white stuff in their condiments that my mouth was expecting it) and it made Naranja taste relatively bland by comparison. A moment later, though, unexpected high notes slowly materialized: the tartness of the vinegar and lime juice, small peeks of onion and garlic, and the slight searing sting of peppers. It seemed bizarre that these flavors didn’t come out for the first few split-seconds of time. It’s akin to a gorgeous swimsuit model being in a darkened room. First, you would shine a flashlight on her wonderfully tanned and toned stomach. Attractive, but incomplete. Then, someone would turn up a dimmer switch for a ceiling light to full brightness to reveal of of the most beautiful sights your little eyes have ever seen. In Naranja’s case, it’s your taste buds drinking in all that delightfulness.
Taste With Food: I shook generous amounts of Naranja on a flatbread wrap with grilled chicken breast chunks and melted monterey jack cheese. Good God, was it good!
Ever since I acquired my bottle, I’ve been dousing this sauce on just about everything I’ve consumed, save for my morning coffee. I can’t get enough of it!
Serving Suggestions: I could think of a hundred great culinary applications for Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce, but why don’t you grab a bottle and see for yourself?
Heat: 2 out of 5. It’s got medium-level heat. I was expecting a bit more fire because of the habs and thai peppers, but since the sauce tastes so great it’s certainly not a letdown. The heat hit the front of my tongue and lingered for a while after eating.
Label: 2 out of 5. It shows a peaceful outdoor scene, and on the back a photo of a man (Benito?) lazily sitting by a river. For some reason, it really doesn’t represent contents of the bottle.
Overall: Like the label states, Benito’s Naranja Organic Hot Sauce is “A Delectable Addiction”.Benito has really hit on something special here. Again, I love carrot-based hot sauces – in particular, Tabasco’s Tabanero, but this may be the best of it’s kind I’ve ever eaten.
You can get the goods at http://www.benitoshotsauce.com/
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