[CH] The Habanator
Deb deForest (deforest@selec.net)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:33:23 -0600
Well, I've had a chance to taste the sauce (The Habanator) that Jeff won 1st
Place Hottest Hot Sauce this year with at the Pig and Pepper Hot sauce
competition (I think it also may have won Best of Show). It is goooooood.
As its name implies it has some wonderful hab flavor and a subtle hint of
citrus (Dan and I thought it might have been orange but according to the
description on Jeff's web site http://www.ultranet.com/~jeffro/Hot%20Sauces,
it's lime--it's very subtle along with some subtle garlic, too). It is
straight forward and nicely hot. It gives the typical hab heat but it also
has some nice front of the mouth effect. One of the things I like about
Jeff's sauces is his use of some of the more exotic chiles. One of those
must be what produces that good mouth burn that I don't usually get from
habs or Scotch Bonnets. The site says it has a combo of eight varieties of
chiles-orange habs, yellow scotch bonnets (ya'll know I love those little
hats!), Caribbean Red habs, Red Savina habs and some others I've not grown.
I'm not sure which one of those might be making my tongue tingle and lips
light up: bod'e, billy goat, devil's tongue, or yuquitania. Anyone have an
idea?
I'm thinking some Cream of Habanator soup would be real good.
He's also got some other new ones described on his page. I've been hinting
to Dan that some of the fatali-based East African Fire Sauce would make a
perfect stocking stuffer. (Jeff won 1st place "Fruity" Hot Sauce with it.)
So, whomever you were that asked what to do with your Christmas money...this
might be a place for you to spend some of it (don't forget the Calvin's and
Jim Campbell's sauces and powders; those are pantry staples, of course).
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Deb in Houston