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Small Axe Peppers hot sauce is made with peppers grown in community gardens throughout the US. Using peppers sourced from local gardens at premium prices, the company supports the wellbeing of small-market farmers around the country Read More
Tried Habanero Mango. Love it. We keep a few bottles in the kitchen here at the Massdrop office. Just realized it was featured in Hot Ones as well: https://youtu.be/zXp-oWBF5x0?t=341.
I bought the Three Small Axe Peppers for my brother-in-law. He said flavor was good, not burning heat, but good kick. I'll have to try for myself next time.
The red Bronx Greenmarket sauce is amazing, easily my favorite of the bunch. It’s complex, almost like a funkier version of an Asian chili-garlic paste with some nice acid in the background.
The others I wasn’t as big a fan of. The Ghost Pepper sauce doesn’t have the unpleasant burnt taste that many ghost pepper sauces have, and it’s very spicy, probably my second favorite.
The fish-sauce background in the Queen’s Greenmarket is interesting, and good with some food, but it’s not universal.
The green Bronx Greenmarket and the two habanero sauces weren’t to my liking - too thin, not very complex in flavor, and the two habanero sauces had the balance set too far towards heat as opposed to flavor IMO.
I wish I could give each set of sauces different ratings... I really disliked the NYC inspired sauces. They were very vinegary and had a weird funk I wasn't expecting in a hot sauce. Kind of like a sriracha with a very heavy dash of pickle juice or a spiced sauerkraut/kimchi situation. Not a fan.. 1/5.
The hot pepper group however, that's the bees knees. The habanero sauces were very nicely balanced in flavor vs spice. The sauces did a good job of putting the habanero's fruity/floral profile on a pedestal. A slightly sweet, slightly tangy sauce with a good strong (not vinegar charged) kick. Like a tasty chutney with some habanero for added oomph.
The ghost pepper was mostly spicy, but in a good way. It has a slight smokey flavor, kind of like a very hot chipotle pepper. Given, of course, you can work through the instant inferno in your mouth. This sauce is hot! But it doesn't taste like Satan's butthole unlike other super spicy sauces I've tried, so this one might be my new favorite high intensity pepper sauce.
5/5 for the hot pepper bundle.