Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Bajan Style Hot Sauce

Hello again for a surface look at another hot sauce that your author dug up somewhere. This week we're peering into the innards of Bajan Style Hot Sauce by Baron Foods. It's a company with manufacturing facilities in Saint Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad. Based on their site, their motto seems to be "transforming every culinary endeavor into a gourmet experience".
I wasn't able to find the sauce on their site, which seems okay as it appears that it's only intended for wholesale purchasing needs. With that said, I couldn't elicit a price at any amount input. Baron Foods says that they are committed to providing affordable fine products combined with total customer satisfaction. Now I'll admit that this sounded a bit generic to me until I saw all of the gastronomic consumables that they provide, including but not limited to, non-hot-sauce condiments, sugars, mayonnaise, and spice blends. They also talk about their intent to bring innovative Caribbean-style food products of the highest quality and superior presentation.
The bottle type has become a favorite of mine over the years: a whiskey pint bottle in shape has always tickled me of course. I'm Whiskey Mike! The label interests me a bit. While the color and primary font may not be very exhilarating, I like the peppers under the condiment's title and the logo of Baron Foods itself. It is a stylized approximation of royalty, in this case a baron presumably, that leaves me with an Anonymous feeling, the hacktivist group that has members routinely donning Guy Fawkes masks.
The color is a bright yellow with obvious sediment of differing hues, though mostly red. It leads one to the conclusion that this is a mustard sauce, confirmed by the ingredients list displaying mustard powder fairly high in the list. The consistency is quite thick leading to an impressively slow pour. I had to shake to bottle slightly to summon its contents. The deposition is even and easily controlled.
The taste of this confirms my suspicion of a mustard base: very tangy. It begins with a tang and morphs quickly into a subtle sweetness. After this one is left with the feeling of a salad or maybe, probably more accurately, a vegetable soup.  It's a pleasant flavor and hints of possible uses in creating comfort foods, or at least accentuating them.
The burn of this took me by surprise as the ingredients didn't include the pepper types used for this concoction. It hits almost immediately, kind of threatening to obfuscate the flavor profile. Thankfully it doesn't succeed in this but the tangibility of the burn felt like a smack in the mouth. An assault of sear on the tip of my tongue quickly migrated to the roof of my mouth and created a very very present lip burn. To be clear, this wasn't the pleasant lip tingle that I'm used to but an insistent and aggressive, somewhat caustic feeling the continues for longer than I wished.
In summation, this is a very pleasant tasting sauce and, if one is prepared for the heat, is quite a good all-around product. As I stated earlier, this could really add to the taste of foods. Of course you know that this means that Bajan Style Hot Sauce is taco bound sooner rather than later. And costing $7.98 for a 7 ounce bottle, this won't break the bank. I'll see you all next time friends!

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