Frank Spank

 

Ingredients: demerara sugar, paprika, sea salt, chili powder, black pepper, onion, vegetable oil, garlic, spices, and less than 1% silicon dioxide to prevent caking.

Marty Embry's Coney Spice

 

Ingredients: paprika, chili pepper, spices, salt.

Coney Mix from Fort Wayne

 

They have no picture on their website. I'll have to take my own picture some day, unfortunately this one isn't high on my list of things to buy. I'll get to it when I get to it.

Ingredients: light chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, salt, spices.

Cincinnati-Style Chili Signature Shakes

 

Hard Times Cincinnati Chili

 

Ingredients: chili powder, cumin, red pepper, garlic, oregano, allspice, cloves, cinnamon.

MP Coney Island Seasoning

 

MP Coney Island Hot Dog Chili Meat Sauce

 

Double Play Coney Island Sauce

 

The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili

 

My first non-food product featured on the blog. I thought it was unique. Contains 176 pages about Cincinnati Chili.

Malcom's Bonafide Chili Seasoning

 

Ingredients: salt, chili powder, sugar, cumin, garlic, ground mustard, onion, ground coriander, ground red pepper, onion flakes, lemon pepper, oregano, white pepper.

Mamma Mia Xtra Mild Chili

 

I threw this one on the list for people who need something mild. I've bought stuff from Chef Tom before. I don't know if you can really call this chili. Reading the back of the package there's no chili powder in it. this is indeed going to be mild. You combine it with meat, tomato, beans (if you want), and a cup of beer.

Ingredients: california garlic, onion, sea salt, tomato.

Seven Hills Spice Co. Cincinnati Chili

 

Ingredients: spices, chili powder, salt, onion powder, ground cinnamon, black pepper, cayenne pepper, cumin, allspice, ground bay leaf, garlic powder, apple cider vinegar powder.

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Ingredients: water, lentils, tomato paste, onion, textured pea and bean protein, golden sugar, gluten free beer (water, millet, corn, sugar, hops, yeast), mustard (water, vinegar, mustard seeds, salt, tumeric, paprika, sunflower oil, vinegar, sea salt, spices, garlic chia seeds, vegan worcestershire sauce (water, apple cider vinegar, molasses, soy sauce, cane sugar, tamarind paste, sea salt, cornstarch, garlic, onion, clove, chili pepper), onion powder, yeast extract, natural flavor, garlic powder.

New York Style Chili Dog Sauce

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Ingredients: dehydrated onion, tomato powder, beef base (salt, maltodextrin, dextrose, whey, HVP (corn gluten), carmel color, soybean oil, sugar, onion, natural flavors, sunflower oil (anti-caking agent), disodium insoniate, parsley, silicon dioxide, NO MEAT), salt, celery flakes and assorted spices. 

Frank's Sassy Meat Sauce

 

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Steve T Rochester's Original Meat Sauce

02/16/2025: Update. I should have mentioned previously, but this is the soupiest of all the sauces I've tried so far. Meat and onions are definitely visible. Anyway, I've got another jar of this. I am not sure if they changed the recipe a bit or what (I doubt it since they've been around since 1963), but there's an updated list of ingredients on the jar.. maybe due to regulations on what must be labeled? I guess this gives away part of the mystery of what's in it. See below.

Ingredients: ground beef, water, onions, lard (BHT & BHA for flavor), sodium acid sulfate, spices & other natural flavors, chili powder, curry powder, xanthan gum.

Originally reviewed on 04/20/2016: Out of all the meat sauces I've tried, this one is definitely the weirdest. At first it seems kind of dull and flavorless. You can really taste the meat, but it's not salty, it's bitter, and doesn't have a lot of the flavor profile I normally associate with a meat sauce. It does have a strong flavor of something like cloves or allspice, but a lot more of that than I normally taste in a meat sauce. As you keep eating it gets spicier.

Mustard complements the sauce nicely, but the funky flavor still comes through. The flavor definitely grew on me.

Ingredients: Ground beef, water, onions, lard, sodium acid sulfate, spices, xanthan gum.

Old-Fashioned Meat Sauce

 

Meaty. Not a lot of tomato flavor in this one. Just enough. Lots of spice in this one making it a little gritty. This has a bitter aftertaste, which I can only guess it because of the cloves. Less cloves, and maybe a touch of vinegar (or cayenne pepper hot sauce which a lot of these seem to use) would make this better.

Ingredients: beef, tomatoes (tomato concentrate (water, tomato paste), salt, citric acid), water, chili powder (chili peppers, paprika, garlic, oregano, cumin, salt, less than 2% silicon dioxide added to prevent caking), sodium acid sulfate, cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper, paprika, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, thyme.

Slow. Rochester Meat Sauce

Coach Tony used to produce his own meat sauce and eventually started Permac Enterprises, which produced the sauce and products for other small businesses. In 2020 the company was purchased and renamed Craft Cannery. They moved to a new 5,000 square foot facility. In additional to manufacturing their own line of marinara sauces, they still continue to manufacture meat based sauces for other companies. I believe this is Craft Cannery's own version of a meat hot sauce.

Interesting that the label has a linen texture. Maybe they're trying to give it a more elevated classy feel. The sauce itself is a thinner, oily consistency. It's flavor profile is beef and lots of tomato, on the sweet side and barely any heat despite the label saying spicy on it. A slight sweet tang to it. I like it, but I'd like it even better with more cayenne.

Ingredients: ground beef, water, onion, cayenne pepper sauce (aged cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, natural flavor, garlic), tomato paste, sugar, soybean oil, salt, sodium acid sulfate, chili powder (chili peppers, spices, salt, less than 2% silicon dioxide to prevent caking), paprika, black pepper, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, xanthan gum, cayenne pepper.

PS - Shout out to Flower City Flavor where I purchased the sauce. It arrived super quick and well packaged.

Dawson's Hot Dog Hot Sauce

Ingredients: onion, vinegar, garlic, canola oil, dates, habanero  mash (habanero, vinegar), sugar (cane sugar), sea salt.

Suave Sauce - Mild Meat Hot Sauce

 

I had tried the Sweet Meat Hot Sauce first. They're got a very similar ingredient list. In this one I notice there's a different color in the pickle juice. The other one uses mustard, where this one just says ground mustard.

The comments on the other sauce apply here, but this one is definitely spicier than the other one, but also has a strong tangy kind if sour flavor that makes me pucker and my eyes squint with every bite. I taste too much Italian seasoning and I'm not a fan of it. If you're a fan of Don's Original you will love this.

I do think these are quality sauces otherwise and the people who run the business are top notch. I received a broken jar in the mail even though they were well packaged. I sent them pictures. I threw both bottles away because the second one, while not broke, was covered in sauce. They replaced it no questions asked.

Ingredients: Ground beef, cayenne pepper sauce (aged red cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, natural flavor, garlic), pickle juice (water, vinegar, salt, natural flavoring, polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate, fd&c yellow#5, fd&c blue#1), water, soybean oil, sugar, tomato paste, onions, cumin, chili powder, ground chipotle pepper, salt, worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses, water, corn syrup, salt, caramel color, sugar spices, anchovy natural flavor, tamarind extract, soy lechithin), apple cider vinegar, garlic, granulated garlic, granulated onion, cinnamon, ground mustard, black pepper, cayenne pepper, white distilled vinegar, Italian seasoning (marjoram, basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano, savory, sage), paprika, sodium acid sulfate, molasses.