Ingredients: Red Savina Habanero Chiles, Vinegar, Onions, Garlic, Black Pepper, Chile Caribe and a select blend of dehydrated vegetables.

Joe and Linda were benevolent enough to bring me this hot sauce to have and to hold until hunger does us part. I must now officially say I’ve found my new favorite hot sauce and it’s name is CaJohn’s Fiery Food’s Ace Hot Sauce. This little ditty is one of the best overall hot sauces that I’ve ever had from taste all the way down to the printing of the label. I really can’t say enough good things about this product, but for you the readers, I’ll give it my best shot.

First thing I noticed is the quality of the packaging. The label is a nice, high gloss label (possibly due to an aqueous coating). Most of the time when you take a sauce out of the fridge, condensation forms and gets sucked up buy the label. This causes it to deform and look oh so not pretty. But not with this high gloss label! The condensation refuses to be absorbed!

Then there is the graphic design. This isn’t some middle of the road, 72 dpi jpg that was printed out and slapped on the product. Oh no, this is a high res, non-pixelated, professionally designed (probably in Adobe Illustrator) logo and text. From the description of the product on the side down to the flaming spade logo, this are all top of the line! If that wasn’t enough, it actually comes with a bar code as well (something that most independent hot sauces leave out)!

Enough with the packaging, onward to the real important stuff…how does it taste? I’ll tell you in one really long word, “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. This sauce is amazingly good! Ace is made primarily from Red Savina peppers, which is the current Guinness Book record holder for the hottest pepper with a Scoville Heat Unit of 577,000 (but is not the hottest pepper ever, that would be the Naga Morich at 1,047,000 SHU) so right away you know this is going to be hot. At first sampeling, you’ll get a nice, sweet taste reminiscent of a Bell Pepper and then the heat kicks in. It a burn that makes your tongue feel like it has been stung by a bee and knocks the wind out of you a little. This lasts only a few seconds and leaves you with a little pain, that’s when the taste returns.

The overall taste really is amazing. I have been using this sauce on everything and have yet to find something it does not go well with. From eggs, to hamburgers, to dipping sauce, this product will kick the heat and taste up 10 notches. So, in closing, buy this product! No self-respecting chili-head should be without an Ace in the hole, and this Ace is sure to make you a winner every time. Walk, don’t run (because you may trip and I don’t want to be liable for that) to your nearest web terminal and buy this product!

Taste: 10, Heat: 8.76237

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