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.

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.

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

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.

Boomin' Onion Salsa

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

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.

Meadowcroft Hamburger & Hot Dog Relish

Sarah Allen's Amazing Hot Dog Sauce

Detroit Style Coney Sauce

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.

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.

Redlinski Texas Sauce with Meat

Rochester Plate Sauce

I found this sauce years ago. It came three packages to a box and could sit on your shelf nicely. Unfortunately, the co-packer changed machines or something and they were unable to make the product any more and it went off the market for awhile. My website only features products you can order online and I toyed with the idea of taking down my review. However, I liked the product so much that I decided to leave something up as a note to people who came here and as encouragement for Jim at Hot Top Foods to find a solution to get his product back on the market. I even would email Jim from time to time basically to just say hi or talk hot dog topping, partially because he seems like a genuinely nice guy, but more so that I always wanted to plant the seed in his head that his product needs to be back on the market. I even offered to buy a really large quantity if he found a new co-packer and needed enough to make a minimum order. I think all that says enough about how much I like this.

I'm proud to say it's back. I know it came back a few months ago, but my circumstances changed recently. Anyway, long story short I asked for this as a Christmas gift and received it today.

The new product is freshly made and ships frozen. I have ordered from Dominic and the staff at NYStyleDeli.com a bunch of times now. I've never had any issues at all. My sauce came in a styrofoam container that fit the packs perfectly. There were ice packs on the top and bottom. The package arrived earlier in the day, I arrived home many hours later and things were still frozen. Here's a picture of the package after having removed the top. It was taped very well and the contents did not slide around.

People who tried the old product will notice this new version tastes very similar, although slightly better. The reason for this is because there aren't some (or as many) of the preservative type stuff that was in the old one. I don't have the old package to compare ingredients, but I'm guessing those are really the only changes.

The sauce is bursting with flavor. There's a nice heat and flavor that lingers in your mouth long after eating. It's not too salty either. I think the ingredients all play a part into making a perfect savory flavor (such as the vegetable broth). Great to make Rochester Plates, on hot dogs, right out of the bowl on a spoon, or with chips.

Cooking is easy. You can do it on a stove, although I did it in the microwave. Just snip off a section of the package to vent end and put in a box and microwave for 5 minutes. I found that ceramic bowls weren't good. Glass bowls is perfect. The only issue is now you have a bowl of chili with a package sitting in it. My preferred method of cooking was to actually cut the product out of the package and put it in a container to microwave, however I found since taking it out of the pouch I had to microwave a bit longer.

I previously mentioned that this is something I crave from time to time. The new product is no different.

Ingredients: ground beef, beef broth (water, beef stock, natural flavor), salt, yeast extract, sugar, beef fat), vegetable broth (water, vegetable juices [tomato, mushroom, onion, carrot, celery], yeast extract, salt, natural flavor), water, onion, tomato paste, spices, salt, modified food starch, xanthan gum, canola oil.

Rochester Meat Sauce Seasoning - Dry Mix

Ingredients: chili powder, red peppers, cayenne, allspice, cumin, cinnamon, celery seed, paprika, salt.

Homade Chili Sauce

At first inspection I thought the picture looked a big sketchy. Something made at home and sold on Etsy. But upon further searching the internet it's actually manufactured by a company in New Jersey and also sold on other websites and in some supermarkets. I found it in ShopRite. Leave it to someone in Dirty Jersey to spell it "Ho". The picture above says "All Natural" but my jar says "Instead of Ketchup". Further reading people seem to love this stuff. Some going far as to say it's the only thing they'll eat on meat loaf. One lady said she buys cases of this at a time.

I don't think ketchup belongs on hot dogs, but I figure with the other ingredients maybe it'll be spicy or something. Sesame seeds seem like such a random ingredient.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to hold off judgement on this until another day. I opened the jar and took a taste. It's tomato laced with sweetness and some crunchy peppers. I took a tiny taste from a spoon, but so far I think this would be better on a hot dog, but with some mustard to add that tangy heat. My initial judgement would be that I don't know why people go so crazy for this stuff. I tried it on crackers also, it's alright, but not something I'd ever go crazy for.

Ingredients: tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, green and red bell pepper, salt, onion, sesame seeds, spices.