Review - Sweet Baby Ray's Dipping Sauce - Creamy Buffalo Wing Flavor
The wonderful Sweet Baby Ray's, makers of one of the most delicious barbecue sauces in the industry, are apparently dunking their proverbial toes in other pools by introducing dipping sauces. The Creamy Buffalo Flavor Dipping Sauce and Sandwich Spread sounded tasty (and since they're highly proficient at BBQ sauces chances are they'd be pretty good at other condiments). Well, I've got bad news. This is a very disappointing sauce from Sweet Baby Ray's.
Ingredients:
Vegetable Oil (Soybean and/or Canola), Water, Distilled Vinegar, Aged Cayenne Pepper, Egg Yolk, Salt, Contains less than 2% of: Garlic, Modified Food Starch, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, and Calcium Disodium EDTA as preservatives, Propylene Glycol Alginate, Xanthan Gum, Spice, Paprika*, Natural Flavor. *Dried.
Aroma:
2 out of 5. Very much like a weak thousand island dressing. You would never guess in a million years that this was a "creamy buffalo wing" sauce simply by smelling it.
Appearance and Texture:
4 out of 5. Smooth, thick, and creamy with a bright orange hue. It looked good, so I had high hopes for it.
Taste Straight Up:
2.5 out of 5. One lick off my fingertip revealed a sauce that had a pair of diametrically opposing flavors. One one hand it had a spicy tartness from the vinegar with a hint of peppers, and then on the other end of the spectrum was a milky creaminess. Unfortunately the two tastes never were able to fuse together. I thought it lacked the trademark butteriness, richness and the low but punching heat of other buffalo sauces - and this would have been a suitable bridge for the two mismatched flavors that it does possess.
Taste on Food:
2 out of 5. What else can be better at being dipped than fried chicken breast tenders and french fries? I gave several pieces the Sweet Baby Ray's Dipping Sauce treatment. It was halfway decent, but my impression of the sauce was that it was too bland and too boring to use as a regular sauce. Regular buffalo wing sauce mixed with salad dressing would have produced a more delicious condiment.
The next day I had applied some of this to a ham & cheese sammich. It, too, received no benefit of the Dipping Sauce being on it.
The horizontal slit makes for easy squirting and pouring.
Heat:
One a heat scale of 1 to 5, this may be a 1.5. It's much mellower than buffalo sauces and won't give you much as a burn at all.
Overall:
I really can't recommend it. It truly lacks the zip and zestiness to be called "buffalo flavor". I would buy some of the incredible Ott's Wing sauce instead for a real burst of flavor and heat.
My wife had picked up my bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's Dipping Sauce and Sandwich Spread at my local St. Louis supermarket. I can't find any place to purchase this online, so if you're really interested in trying this out for yourself you'll probably have to do some hunting in your regional area, if it's even available at all.
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Comments
2009-08-14 08:14:58
Now, I want wings for lunch. Mmmm...
My personal favorite wing sauce: Defcon 2. Defcon 1 or CaJohn's Jolokia wing sauce if I want it good and spicy...
2009-08-14 21:40:29
2009-08-15 21:41:36
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