by HOT SAUCE EXPERT » Tue Dec 27, 2022 8:15 am
For one of my Breaking Bad-themed Christmas gifts, I received a three-pack of Danny Trejo's hot sauce, along with his cookbook. The man has done everything! Been to prison,
got his head cut off and stuck on a turtle, opened a restaurant and now has his own hot sauce brand!
The ingredients of the sauce are a bewildering array of different chiles: "chipotle, chili de arbol, guajillo, chili puya
[ed: what?], California entero
[ed: WHAT?], serrano and cayenne peppers". It is relatively thick, with noticeable chunks of ground chiles, and plenty of seeds. The color is a deep, dark, and very inviting mahogany.
With all of those chiles, though, the chipotle dominates, and that characteristic smoky, earthy zing seems to overwhelm any of the subtle notes you might get from the rest of the cavalcade of chiles. Think a thicker, craft-brewed version of Tabasco Chipotle.
It is no surprise that the hot sauce and the cookbook use many of the same ingredients, and I would think that this would be the perfect medium-hot sauce to go on any taco, burrito, or tamale you happen to come across, at his or any other Mexican restaurant.
And it mixes great with Herb-Ox Sodium-Free Granulated Chicken Bouillon.
I give it three and a half
Tortugas out of four.
For one of my Breaking Bad-themed Christmas gifts, I received a three-pack of Danny Trejo's hot sauce, along with his cookbook. The man has done everything! Been to prison, [url]got his head cut off and stuck on a turtle[/url], opened a restaurant and now has his own hot sauce brand!
The ingredients of the sauce are a bewildering array of different chiles: "chipotle, chili de arbol, guajillo, chili puya [b][ed: what?][/b], California entero [b][ed: [i]WHAT?[/i]][/b], serrano and cayenne peppers". It is relatively thick, with noticeable chunks of ground chiles, and plenty of seeds. The color is a deep, dark, and very inviting mahogany.
With all of those chiles, though, the chipotle dominates, and that characteristic smoky, earthy zing seems to overwhelm any of the subtle notes you might get from the rest of the cavalcade of chiles. Think a thicker, craft-brewed version of Tabasco Chipotle.
It is no surprise that the hot sauce and the cookbook use many of the same ingredients, and I would think that this would be the perfect medium-hot sauce to go on any taco, burrito, or tamale you happen to come across, at his or any other Mexican restaurant.
And it mixes great with Herb-Ox Sodium-Free Granulated Chicken Bouillon.
I give it three and a half [i]Tortugas[/i] out of four.
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