Ok, I’ve got a really funny story for this one. Dave from Off Road Fire Company sent me two sauces in the mail via USPS in a small box. Somewhere down the line something got confused and labeled these “Hazardous Material”. The mailman cautiously dropped the sauces off in their own extra large container (so he didn’t have to handle the box by hand) with a large sign marked “Hazardous!” on it.

My mom went outside, pulled the package out of the box and walked over the mail man and said, “Here’s your box back”. The guy turned white, backed away from it and said, “Oh no! We can’t take that back, there’s a possibility that whatever was in the package contaminated the box.” My mom laughed and said that it was only hot sauce, too which the postman stated, “Are you serious? It was in it’s own little corner away from all the other mail and everyone was avoiding it!”. Needless to say, I got a really good laugh out of the whole thing. I guess hot sauce could be hazardous if the bottle broke open.

Off Road ”Camp” Fire Pepper Sauce Ingredients: Organic apple cider & white vinegar, Cayenne pepper mash (aged Cayenne peppers, salt), fresh Red Pepper, fresh white onion, garlic, Habanero pepper.

Off Road ”Forest” Fire Pepper Sauce Ingredients: Organic apple cider & white vinegar, Cayenne pepper mash (aged Cayenne peppers, salt), fresh Red Pepper, fresh white onion, garlic, More Habanero pepper.

The labels on these sauces are great! Simple, easy to read, great color contrast, and I always love that “brown paper bag” type label stock. Since this is basically the same sauce except for the fact that the Forest has more Habanero, I’ll note the differences when they come up but consider this as a review for the Forest sauce.

I’m the son of a Scout Master and was a cub scout and boy scout. Camping’s in my blood. Not the “where’s the TV and why aren’t we taking the RV” type camping but the “It’s going to rain, let’s get the tarp set up over the table and then put up the tent. I love roughing it” type camping. So, when I say this is a definite “out doorsy sauce that you should go camping with” you better believe it. The ingredients and taste scream camping. I wonder if Dave’s a boy scout too…

The salt is the first thing to hit but it isn’t overbearing and nicely complements the rest of the ingredients, especially the Cayenne. The first thing I think of is, “This would go great on a steak”. Then the Cayenne hits along with the Red Pepper with a hint of the apple cider floating in the background. They all meld pretty well together and form a quite harmonious mixture of spice and flavor stirred in with just a sprinkle of a hint of sweetness. That’s one of the places where this sauce really is clever. While the apple cider is listed first, it’s taste is very small.

I don’t taste the vinegar at all (another bonus) and the garlic comes in right after the peppers and proceeds on out with the onion as a aftertaste. Finally rounding it all up is a sliver of the fruity taste of the Habanero. It’s a little less pronounced in the Camp sauce but still there.

The heat on the Camp is around a little less than Medium. It does have a little back of the throat burn from the Habanero but is primarily a Cayenne tongue burn. Now the Forest is hovering around Medium. The heat isn’t there right away but slowly creeps in and hits the back of the throat much more. Really great sauces and a must if you are going camping. This will go great on scrambled eggs in the morning, freshly caught trout in the afternoon, and grilled on some streak at night. Heck, it’ll go great in s’mores if you are into that sort of thing.

Camp Fire Taste: 8.4, Heat: 3.77

Forest Fire Taste: 8.6, Heat: 4.8

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI