INGREDIENTS: Vinegar, red habanero peppers, lemon juice, water, sea salt, garlic, cornstarch and spices.
DEVIL’S DROOL is not the most appetizing of names, but it is apt. This stuff is hot, hot, HOT! As a matter of fact this may be the hottest non-extract sauce I have ever had including my own crazy concoctions. It burns your mouth and the burn lingers for a while. I have no idea what the Scoville rating on this cause is but I would say, just from the way it burns me, that it’s comparable to Dave’s Ultimate Insanity which claims to be 50,000 SHUs.
Aside from being real dang hot, this sauce has a great taste. The label proclaims “Southern Style” and it’s a vinegar-based sauce. The first ingredient on the label is vinegar and the second is red habaneros. There’s no “base” like carrots or tomato so the habs are the base. That is where the powerful natural heat comes from.
Scotty B’s DEVIL’S DROOL has a wonderful vinegar/habanero flavor. Think of the best Louisiana-style sauce you’ve ever had and multiply that by 20 and you’ll have an idea what this sauce is like. It’s really tasty and REALLY hot. Lately I have been building up an intolerance to extract…. It does awful things to my stomach and I just don’t like it’s chemical taste. It’s great to have a bottle of this in my fridge for when I want something really hot that won’t make me feel like I’ve been kicked in the stomach.
As you can see from this picture, this sauce has a nice, deep orange color and is a bit on the thick side. The aroma is vinegar and HOT! As my wife often says, it ”smells hot”. After a nice size dollop on a tortilla chip my mouth burns for a good 10 minutes, mostly on the tongue. My nose starts to run a little too; a sign of serious heat. If you enjoy the old school taste of a “Louisiana-style” vinegar-based sauce but want some seriously mean heat then this is your sauce.
OVERALL: Heat: 9 out of 10. Taste: 8 out of 10.
I know that Nick did a review this quite some time ago. I have kept myself from going back to that review to remain as unbiased as possible.
The first thing I have to point out is the bottle. You see my bottle says it is a 5oz. In fact it is a 12oz whopper. The fact is that this large bottle probably helped it get a bonus point because I now have a bigger picture in which I see the sauce as opposed to a 5oz bottle. This hot sauce looks great. You can see chunks of pepper inside it. It has a pleasant consistency and the aroma is nice. It is a vinegar based habanero sauce so be ready for that. Vinegar is the first ingredient on the list.
INGREDIENTS: Vinegar, red habanero peppers, lemon juice, water, sea salt, garlic, corn starch, spices.
So, let’s get back to basics here. Scotty B has created a sauce here. Not just a run of the mill vinegar based habanero sauce. He created THE sauce. Nothing fancy, he took the basic formula and nearly perfected it. If you don’t like vinegar based sauces look elsewhere. But if you want an honest to goodness vinegar/habanero based sauce this is the one. Devil Drool has a beautiful red/orange color with a more watery than thick consistency and some awesome heat to boot.
To date I have used this as a substitute for ketchup – it is just incredible on fries, topped off my burgers, hot dogs, subs, you name it.
For my review you get to see the finger field test:
This style of sauce is staple to the industry and many manufacturers have this kind in some incarnation or another in their line-up. And they do it well for the most part. I find that Scotty B has made this sauce his sauce. He knows he has competition out there so he took the classic formula one step farther. I don’t know if it is the ingredients he uses or the ratio of the ingredients he uses but I hope he won’t change it.
The one thing I would like to see in Scotty B’s repertoire is an extract based habanero sauce based on this recipe (did I say that out loud). Great stuff here!
OVERALL: Packaging 7 out of 10. Aroma 7 out of 10. Appearance 8.5 out of 10.
Taste 8 out of 10. Heat 8 out of 10. Average Rating: 8 out of 10.