Birthday Week

I apologize for the lack of a review this week. It's my birthday and I'm relaxing!

Scorned Woman

Welcome to another Molten Sauce review! For many of us the weather is hot and oppressive and what better way to make it through these dog days than reading about hot and oppressive sauces? Today I wish to lead an excursion of words examining Scorned Woman Original Hot Sauce. This product it brought to us by Vita Food Products, a company founded in 1898 and located in Chicago, Il. Scorned Woman is based on a story of a woman named Ariel who was mistreated by her partner Phillipe. When confronted by an apologetic Phillipe, Ariel pretends to forgive him and yet parts ways with Phillipe, leaving him not knowing her context or whereabouts.
The label is colorful and draws the eye without being too busy or crowded. In the upper right appears a stylized drawing of a woman's face on a backdrop of flames. To the right is the Scorned Woman logo which, to this writer's, is simple and straightforward while expressing just enough individuality to separate it from the crowd. At the top there is, in a plain white font, the phrase "Don't Get Mad...Get Even". While I get the idea of that saying for a hot sauce, I found it to be slightly cheesy.
The consistency of our subject here is thin but not too thin. It has a pour that, while one should exercise a bit of control while administering as not to over pour, is not at all what I would tag as "runny". The sediment level is high here and I'm able to see black pepper bits and what is presumably tiny pepper remnants. It went on my tortilla chip-vector smoothly but with not too much velocity. All in all I'm very pleased with the viscosity.
The flavor is a somewhat layered without being overwhelming. At first there's a slight hint of sweetness intermingled with a low level of vinegar flavor and the suggestion of vegetables. This is followed by the peppery taste. I thought I caught a comforting garlic note but the ingredient wasn't present on the list. 
The heat is interesting for Scorned Woman. It's not too pointed at first, which led me, and maybe you too, to swallow maybe a little too quickly. The burn intensifies after a couple of seconds leaving a back of the throat burn that is relatively severe. I'm not very used to this so it had me scrambling for my cautionary glass of water. While this was the case, the scorch-factor is not so much that it makes the experience unpleasant. It just kind of "wakes you up".
This sauce is surprisingly well rounded and crafted for the price. At the time of this writing, it's going on Amazon for $6.30. Interestingly, Vita Food Products doesn't sell it (or any of their product apparently) on their site. But I recommend this sauce for collectors or even just fans out there. Enjoy yourselves and we'll explore more sauces soon!

Foo Foo Mama Choo

I picked up a sauce called Foo Foo Mama Choo made by High River Sauces based primarily on the fact that it's a Carolina Reaper sauce. Always looking to explore heat, I was compelled to explore a Reaper sauce with you. As many of you chiliheads know the Carolina Reaper was the pepper with the highest recorded Scoville rating until Pepper X recently dethroned it. Let's see what our expedition yields.
High River Sauces was founded in 2011 and is based out of Kings Park, NY. Their mission statement is "to rid the world of bad hot sauce". Formed to stoke the founder Steve Seabury's passion for food and music. The company uses organic ingredients to make their gourmet sauces. They also make Rogue hot sauce which is one of the top sauces in my collection.
The label is fun, with what appears to be a demon face made of fire grabbing center attention. The demon greatly resembles popular depictions of a Japanese Oni. This is front of a background appearing to be bamboo. I'd like to make note of the font that makes up the name High River Sauces.
It is very obviously a font intended to be similar to an Old West font such as one might see outside of a saloon in that era.
Foo Foo Mama Choo's consistency is a bit thinner than I expected. Pour slowly or you might unintentionally overpour. It is a nice rich red with a great deal of sediment dotting the liquid within the bottle. It promises a citric acidity from tomatoes that I absolutely adore. Let's see if the flavor lives up to the suggestions of the color.
The taste does indeed meet the tomato implications of the color. As well there is a strong black pepper and garlic taste. It's slightly salty with a vaguely metallic taste that I learned was a slight hint of ginger when I read the ingredients list. A well balanced profile overall and one that would pair with many foods, especially chili, quite nicely.
Folks this is a fiery sauce. I immediately reached for my water bottle upon the first sampling. A sharp stab of pain initially greeted the tip of my tongue as I first ingested it, spreading quickly to the roof of my mouth and the back of my tongue. Lip tingling presented itself rather quicker than to which I am accustomed. I'm gonna have fun cooking with this sauce.
I think that this will be one of the aces in my collection going forward. The deep flavor profile coupled with the profound heat here will add to food favorites already enjoyed and hopefully bring life to new endeavors in the future. At $7.99 (plus $3.99 shipping) directly from the source or for $8.73 (with free shipping for Prime members) it could, and probably should, be a nice addition to your own. Until next time friends!

Good Burn

I have returned from my hiatus to explore more hot sauces with my friends! I hope you didn't miss our diggings into the world of spice too much. I just wanted to return as fresh and excited for our journeys as I could be. I'm glad to be with you all again!
Today I want to look into a sauce I got a few weeks ago made for Sully's Hot Sauce Store called Good Burn. I couldn't find much information about the company as all links seemed to go to Amazon.com but I did find a Facebook page. Present but not really informative.
The label is quite uninteresting. The only thing that breaks up the black and white lettering in a monotonous font is the red shadowing effect with the word "BURN". A portion under the ingredients list dictate that this sauce is a product of McCutcheon's Apple Products, which seemed odd at first, in that this company seemed to mainly truck in apple butters and jellies. Upon cursory exploration of this sit,e however, I did find a hot sauces and mustards section. They do, after all, appear to have a fairly diverse catalog.
The thickness here is quite pleasing to me. It has a nice slow pour and leads to an even distribution of the bottle's contents onto the target vector. As well, the color is a nice deep red that you all know I like. There is considerable sediment present so we can infer that the product wasn't pulverized too much upon blending.
The flavor is surprisingly complex. At first I tasted a very vegetable-like flavor that mixes with a kind of unidentifiable savoriness. This is quickly followed by an almost sweet taste. Curious about this, I perused the ingredients list, finding nothing sweeter than lemon juice. I have to conclude that the lemon juice interacts with the habanero and other peppers to create a vaguely sweet output.
The heat isn't oppressive or severe at all. It definitely leave a tingle on the lips and tongue but I had no immediate need to quench my palate. The initial "Good Burn" on the tongue plays on the tip briefly but wasn't really detectable anywhere else in the mouth. Additionally, the tingle on the lips that I referred to lasts a while but is actually quite pleasant.
While this condiment didn't "wow" me with its heat or its plain label the flavor profile is enough, paired with it's admirable pour and appearance, to make me revisit this sauce again. In fact, I think that it will go wonderfully on my tacos later. This combined with the low price of $5 makes me lean towards recommending a purchase for anyone with interest in tastiness. Thanks for joining me friends and I'll be back next week with another study in sauce.