Pepper Pete’s Mean and Green Ingredients: Fresh roasted Jalapeno peppers and other select peppers, distilled vinegar, fresh garlic, natural spices.
Pepper Pete’s Devil Dare Ya Ingredients: Fresh Habaneros and other select peppers, distilled vinegar, raisins, and natural spices.
The kind folk’s over at The Pepper Source sent me two unique hot sauces for me to try out. The first one, Pepper Pete’s Mean and Green sauce, won second place in the Amateur division of the 2006 Fiery Foods Scovie Awards and a 2007 Zest Fest Golden Chili Award.
This is the first green sauce that I’ve come across to have really large chunks of it’s ingredients floating around. Most sauces are much more finely chopped. Now, chunky is definitely not a bad thing. It gives this a nice texture and lends itself well as an ingredient to cook with (ie: omelets and scrambled eggs).
The flavor, much like Blairs Jalapeno Death sauce, is very green and fresh. The jalapenos are right up front, but the copious amount of vinegar that is used is a little distracting. The garlic also makes its presence know on your palate and then rounding off the taste is something I just can’t put my finger on. The taste is really sweet, almost like there was a dash a sugar thrown into the mix. If I had to guess, and I do, I would say it comes from Sweet Basil. I also detect a slight aftertaste of sage.
Taste: 7.3, Heat: 5
Next up is the 2006 Fiery Foods first place Amateur Scovie Award winner, Pepper Pete’s Devil May Dare Ya. This is one awesome sauce. It goes well on most everything and has quite a kick to it due to the Habaneros. Like its bother above, it has a very fresh taste to it and I would assume an amazing aroma.
There is one thing that really throws this sauce into the unique category. Raisins. That’s right, there are raisins in the sauce. I would have never even considered using that ingredient and have yet to see anyone else using it. The sweetness of the raisins lends extremely well with the fruity taste of the Habanero. My next experiment with this sauce is to marinate some pork for grilling because I’ve found it went well on the pulled pork pizza that I dribbled it over. Keep up the good work Pepper Pete, and thanks for the sauces!
Taste: 9, Heat: 7
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John, just want to thank you for the nice review. I also want to say reagrding the Mean & Green, there is very little vinegar used in either sauce and sorry, there is no sweet basil or sage. Only 1 person has come close to the secret ingredient.
Comment fired by Kateri — February 22, 2007- 6:16 pm
Hmmm…interestin, no basil and sage eh…..you hide your secrets well….
Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — February 22, 2007- 6:52 pm
Just want to say Jon that your taste buds must be dead. That Mean & Green sauce is way hotter than a 5. I would say about 7 maybe an 8. Much better than Blairs too. Sorry Blair! Ya got me wanting to try the other one now with your comment about pulled pork pizza.
Comment fired by Don — February 23, 2007- 2:58 pm
I would say that yes, I have beaten them into submission.
Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — February 23, 2007- 6:09 pm