Scotty B’s Loco Gringo Chipotle Pepper Hot Sauce Ingredients: Tomatoes, yellow onions, water, chipotle in adobe sauce, distilled vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, sea salt, corn starch, spices.

I’ve got to complement Scotty B on his new labels. Each one of his sauces now has a nice gradient in the background with the name clearly displayed and a funny little smiley face representing the sauce’s effects. For this sauce he has a goofy looking smiley face with eyes that have gone all wonky wonk. Great design job, Scotty!

After opening the bottle and sampling the sauce I came to an immediate conclusion;
this is not a hot sauce. I know what you are all going to say, “But it says it is a hot sauce right on the bottle”. Appearances are deceiving. This is actually a spicy tomato sauce in disguise or what I’ve been calling it, a “spaghetti sauce”.

The taste of tomatoes and onions are so prevalent that it tends to drown out what makes a hot sauce a hot sauce, the peppers. It is also extremely chunky, one thing you would expect to see on something you put on your pasta. I do detect a slight bit of the smoke taste of chipotle peppers but not very much. I must say though, that this sauce taste EXTREMELY fresh, almost as if it were just made last night. The heat is very small, hitting you very briefly and one is left with a nice garlic after taste.

Where I found this sauce to really shine is when I cooked with it. The first experiment was to simmer it slightly in a saucepan and then use it on pasta and the second experiment was to use it as a pizza sauce. Cooking really makes the tomato and onion taste die down and accents the Chipotle peppers and Adobe Sauce giving you a slightly sweet taste. When it came to the pasta, I recommend not cooking because you’ll really want that great tomato and onion flavor.

If you do purchase this sauce, pick up the 12 ounce bottle instead of the 5 ounce one. Believe me, you’ll end up using a lot in one sitting.

Taste: 7, Heat: 2

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