Review - Habby Habanero's Slap Your Mama Hot Sauce
You may not want to hit your female parental unit, but Habby Habanero's Slap Your Mama Hot Sauce proves to be a good enough spicy condiment to perk up your meals...
Ingredients: Vinegar, Habanero Peppers, Mustard (Distilled Water, Mustard Seed, Salt, Spices), Carrots, Garlic, Spices.
Appearance and Texture:
Slap Your mama has an interesting light brown tint with interspersed with flecks of spices, and even an odd piece of orange habanero pepper or seed floating in the blend. It's relatively thick for a sauce that's completely pureed, it pours easy, and appears to have instant "clingability."
Aroma:
This has a really rich smell. Vinegar and habanero chiles dominate, with noteworthy traces of mustard seed present.
Taste Straight:
3.5 out of 5. This is very tart and hot to my taste buds. I think it compares to a sauce such as El Yucateco XXX-Tra Hot Habanero sauce, which if you've never tried it, has an insanely good habanero pepper-y flavor and an instant burst of hotness. But it's a bit more complex due to the mustard that's in it. If you're not a fan of hot mustard, don't worry. The mustard doesn't overpower the taste at all; it just adds to the richness of the sauce, and the chiles and vinegar still reign.
Taste on Food:
3.5 out of 5. I used Habby Habanero's Slap Your Mama on a couple of items. First was fried chicken breast strips (a staple around the Roberts household). Not bad, and the sauce proved to be a formidable dipping condiment. Next up was pizza. The wife and the kids wanted Papa John's tonight, so I had to put on something to spruce it up. Slap Your Mama was marginally odd, but in a good way. The fiery tartness provided by the vinegar and habs did rather well against the pepperoni and mozzarella. It wouldn't be my first choice (or even second or third) for a sauce to put on pizza, but it you were looking for something that was off the beaten path, this might do the trick for you.
Suggested Uses:
This is probably more of a meat-topper or an additive: it would be good on steak, pork, chili, and (maybe) stew. Slap Your Mama would not really bode well for those who would place this on Mexican dishes - I couldn't see this complementing nachos, tacos, or burritos very nicely. This also might be alright drizzled on a turkey wrap, or even chicken wings.
Heat:
3.5 out of 5. Good and hot. The burn is almost immediate and continues to build with each additional consumption. Mild chileheads may wish to stay away.
Label:
5 out of 5. Very cute and funny. It shows an old lady with part of a hand-shaped red mark on the side of her face and contains the phrase, "So good you'll want to..." right next to the sauce name of Slap Your Mama. The label is colorful and it is immediately memorable.
Overall:
Slap Your Mama (like many other sauces I've tested out) is the quintessential "good but not great" hot sauce. It has a nice taste, there's really nothing wrong with it, and it has a high number of suitable applications, but it's probably not going to be in anyone's top 5 list of favorite spicy food products. It's a few notches above the typical novelty sauce. If you have some excess cash to blow, you might as well pick up a 5.7 ounce bottle for $6.95 on the Habby Habanero's website. You should be able to purchase one on other hot sauce sites or maybe even come across a bottle at a local sauce store.
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