Friday, July 20, 2018

Pace Taco Complete - Mild Original


I know they said Taco on them, but they were a new product and I thought they'd be good on hot dogs. I probably wouldn't get them again. They have a texture and smell similar to Hormel chili, which is not good. Taste is slightly better. Similar to chili, but with a taco meat type taste. This was too mild for my liking.

Ingredients: Oops I forgot.

Pace Taco Complete - Jalapeno


This is very similar to the mild original flavor, but a tiny bit more spicier. Read the review there for why I wouldn't buy this again.

Ingredients: Oops I forgot.

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Pickled Pink Vidalia Onion & Peach Relish

I really enjoyed this a lot. There's not many ingredients in it. It has a bold peach flavor and tastes very fresh. Great on top of hot dogs and pairs nicely with mustard. The only thing I do not like are big herb leaves that get left behind, some of them are crushed a bit, but I have to fish those out first.

Ingredients: Peaches, vidalia onions, cider vinegar, sugar, natural peach extract, garlic, spices.

Friday, May 25, 2018

Jerry's Meat Hot Sauce


This has to be one of the most unique meat sauces that I've ever seen. It's made with a lot of the same ingredients you might find in a Rochester Garbage Plate, but with the addition of hops and beer.

If you're not a big beerhead, then this won't be for you. The only thing I really taste is hops and bitterness. I tried to love this sauce, I really did. I had it straight out of the jar, I then tried it with mustard, I added extra tomato paste, I added extra cayenne. Each time I tried it the only thing I taste is hoppy bitterness. I'm hardly getting any of that classic garbage plate flavor.

If they could tone down the hoppiness and increase some of the other spices, I think this could be more of a mainstream hit, but as it sits now I feel it's something only for beerheads.

Ingredients: Ground beef, water, canola oil, onions, tomato paste, brown sugar, chili powder, sodium acid sulfate, black pepper, cayenne pepper, salt, hops, garlic, cumin, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, beer.

EDIT: Purchase link removed. I no longer see this for sale anywhere.

Rustic Tomato Chili Sauce

Comes in four flavors: Habanero Heat, Smokey Chipotle, Sweet & Savory, and Sweet Heat.

Joey Chestnut Firecracker Mustard


Joey Chestnut Picnic Mustard


Joey Chestnut Boardwalk Coney Sauce


Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The Gourmet Farm Girl Spicy Hot Dog Sauce


The first thing that comes to mind is the tiny jar. It's only 8 ounces, when a lot of jars are 12 ounces, but the price is right. When comparing the price to something that's 12 ounces, this comes out to the same price per ounce. I didn't know how I'd like this, so I only ordered one jar, but it would make more sense if you order a few at a time so shipping costs are combined.

Definitely looks, smells, and tastes of tomato, after all they are the first ingredients listed. The beans lend itself to making a thicker texture, but I am not sure if they lend anything to the flavor. There is a tiny sweetness at first, but then the heat comes through. I actually wasn't expecting it to be this hot. The heat remains on your tongue awhile, kind of dulling all the other flavors. This is reminiscent of something I'd have made myself. If you don't like foods that are medium to hot in spiciness you'll probably want to order the regular variety. Beef is listed as one of the ingredients, but I don't taste that. I definitely want to try the regular variety, as I think more brightness will come through from the other ingredients instead of just hotness, but I would definitely order this one again as well.

Ingredients: tomato juice (tomatoes, salt), tomatoes, red beans, black beans, onions, ground beef, tomato paste, brown sugar, spices, gdl (natural acidifier), salt, green peppers, paprika, tumeric, garlic.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Pop's Original Screamer Sauce


The story starts off with my friend and favorite artist who wrote about Screamer sauce here. His article was enough to make me take a 3 plus hour drive out to Tony's Lunch in Girardville, PA (which only opens at 8PM). Ever since then I've been craving the sauce. A few days later I did some detective work and found another company who makes Screamer sauce. I don't think it has relation to Tony's Lunch, but if my memory serves me correct this sauce is very close.

I drove around 3 hours again into Pennsylvania again just to buy some of this. I'd gladly do it again, however I knew once a new batch was made with the co-packer that it would start to be sold online. That day has come.

I know what you're thinking (if you followed the link above) and it's what most people are going to say. You saw marshmallow fluff in that article above and might have been freaked out. I'll admit I had reservations at first, but the combination turned out nothing short of amazing. You do not need to add marshmallow fluff, but the combination does surprisingly work well together. However, even without fluff this sauce stands on it's own. Even on it's own I think it's pretty amazing. It's a super hot meat based sauce. I don't really know how else to describe it. They make an Extra Hot version, but even the regular one is hot and made me hiccup.

See the links on the left to place an order. This is definitely in my top 3 of  anything I've written about on this website. I would gladly put it on hot dogs, burgers, and cheesesteaks.

Ingredients: I don't have a list of ingredients yet since I've long eaten my last jar and have just ordered some from the website. I'll have that soon.

Saturday, December 23, 2017

Plochman's Cuban Mustard


This is one of my new favorite mustards. I'm not sure how long it's been on the market, but I only saw it in the supermarket today.

It's cuban inspired and some of the interesting ingredients list garlic, cilantro, orange juice, lime juice, lemon peel, and white wine. There's chili pepper as well, and it's not that hot, but I personally would have left it out.

This mustard has a slight texture to it that I don't totally like. I like smooth mustard and stone ground. It won't stop me from buying this again because I really love the flavor.

Ingredients: mild yellow mustard (white distilled vinegar and water, #1 grade mustard seed, salt, tumeric, onion powder, spices, natural flavoring), water, garlic orange juice concentrate, sugar, salt, white wine, spices, chili pepper, cornstarch, cilantro, lime juice concentrate, lemon peel, onion powder, natural flavors, xanthan gum.

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Maggie's Famous Hot Sauce


This is more watery than I expected. I just cooked up two hot dogs, put them on buns, put sauce on top of each. By the time I put the lid on the sauce, put it in the fridge, and put the spoon in the sink (30 seconds?) the liquid soaked so much into the bread that when I picked up a bun it fell apart. As I tried to catch the hot dog, it knocked the other hot dog off my plate, tipped over my iced tea and ruined everything. I would not recommend this as a condiment on top of bread unless you're going to maybe use a fork or something to strain it a bit and make it less watery. Since I still wanted to review this product, I decided to just put some on top of a bun by itself.

This is the "mild" version and it's pretty hot. It tastes like a combination of that vinegary hot pepper spread you can get on top of a sandwich at a sub shop, mixed with ketchup. There's a lot of interesting ingredients in here, but I don't taste the depth of flavor I thought I'd get. I don't mind the flavor, but I think I could probably make a close copycat to this with far less ingredients. By the time I walk from the kitchen to the bedroom, the bread is a pinkish / redish hue and I can't stand the flavor or texture of the sauce with bread. While I will give this a another try with something else (maybe a baked potato or in an omelette), I won't be buying the it again because I feel it's taste on bread severly limits what I can use it on.

Ingredients: red peppers (distilled vinegar, water, salt, sodium benzoate (to preserve freshness), calcium chloride, natural flavor), roasted red peppers (peppers, water, salt, citric acid and calcium chloride added as an afirming agent), sugar, beef base (roasted beef and concentrated beef stock), salt, hydrolyzed soy, corn and wheat proteins, maltodextrin, corn oil, sugar, 2% less of caramel color, cornstarch, autolyzed yeast extract, potato starch, disodium inosinate / disodium guanylate, modified cornstarch, natural flavors), steak sauce (vinegar, corn syrup, tomato paste, water, salt, raisin paste, contains less than 2% of: spices, orange juice concentrate, citric acid, orange peel powder, yeast extract, caramel, onion, xanthan gum, garlic, natural flavor, sunflower oil.