Still finishing off my stock of stuff from the Weekend of Fire and this one is from the extremely friendly folks at Kentucky’s Smokin’ Grill. According to them, Too Hot For You! Extra Hot this is the hottest product they make. It comes in a 18 ounce jar with a simple yet attractive label and is described as an all natural meat specialty sauce/concentrate.

Kentucky’s Smokin’ Grill Too Hot For You! Extra Hot Ingredients: Brown sugar, natural spices, pepper, garlic, salt, orange peel, onion, water, vinegar, honey or molasses, natural hickory smoke and hot pepper extract.

Well, the ingredients read off like a good BBQ sauce but I did have to stop on the “honey or molasses” part. That’s a little odd. They’ll both add a different flavor so wouldn’t that make the different batches made inconsistent in their flavors? Oh well, let’s get on with the review! This stuff is thick and looks perfectly like a BBQ sauce.

Right off the bat the brown sugar hits followed by some nice, big smokey flavors then the bitter extract flavor hits. It’s a little distracting at first but quickly falls into the background as the garlic shows up with the orange peel in tow and a hint of onion. It’s strange, I know it says “honey or molasses” but I taste both in here, more so on the molasses end of things though. Maybe the label was mistyped and it should have said “honey and/or molasses”.

The heat is definitely here enough so that it caught me off guard at first. You get to notice a lot of the flavors for a second or two then BAM! It hits you in the back of the throat and moves slowly up the tongue to the front of your mouth. Hot but enjoyable to the point that you wouldn’t mind putting it all over a steak and cooking it up. I made up some pulled pork with this and it came out perfect (the extract flavor dies out a little when cooked which is a bonus). So to answer the question posed in the title…nope. Not too hot for me, but then again there aren’t many things that are.

Taste: 7.1, Heat: 7.5