HOW GOOD A DEAL IS THIS? The math: I paid $62.09 for this gallon of hot sauce, all said-and-done with shipping. A gallon is 128 ounces. The small bottles of the same sauce are 5 ounces. So there are 128/5 = 25.6 small bottles in this gallon bottle. The best price I could find for the small bottles was $7 at a local grocery store (exorbitant, yes, but cheaper than on Amazon!). So if you bought a gallon of this sauce in separate 5-ounce bottles it would cost you 25.6 * 7 = $179.20. That's about THREE TIMES the price of this gallon. What a DEAL!!! I go through a *lot* of hot sauce -- I love it on eggs, which I have almost every morning. And I douse them with hot sauce! But, the relevant question is:
HOW GOOD IS THE SAUCE? Full disclosure: I don't care for regular Tabasco sauce. I find it watery and kind of bland. But I LOVE good hot sauce and I LOVE HOT FOOD. And I mean *actually* hot, not what you get at, say, chain restaurants that say "hot" (for example, I've eaten lots of different kinds of peppers. That includes serranos, jalapenos, anaheim, Thai and habanero -- all raw with nothing else. Some where from a garden, picked right off the plant. WOW some of them are hot! I've also eaten a ghost chili, dried, that I bought on Amazon. It was rough. I made a video of it that perhaps will someday see the light of day. I didn't react like you see on YouTube, people rolling on the floor for hours and so on. I was a little more "prepared," perhaps, due to all of the actually hot food I eat. But it was still the hottest thing I've ever eaten. I also like the beer "Ghost Faced Killah" by Twisted Pine brewery. It's made with ghost chilies. It's *really* hot but delicious and totally enjoyable). Anyway, I've also tried lots of different brands of hot sauce -- one by one I've tried all of the small company, artisinal sauces I can find locally. There are a lot here in the Front Range (Colorado) and many of them are pretty pricey. Some of my favorite hot sauce ever is a friend's family recipe handed down through the generations in Louisiana, made fresh from peppers grown in their garden. Given all of this information, I was really skeptical when I bought my first bottle of Tabasco Habanero hot sauce. I thought, "how good can it really be? I don't like ordinary Tabasco, and it's a huge company. Can they make a good hot sauce on a large scale?" I mean, every huge brewery whose beer I've tried I hate. Needless to say I was totally shocked at how good this Tabasco Habanero sauce is. It's actually the best commercially-produced hot sauce I've ever had. It's absolutely DELICIOUS, and it's got quite a kick too! It's not for people who can't handle even modestly hot food. But if you like your hot sauce hot and flavorful, give this a try. I used to spend like $10-$15 a week on hot sauce (a few bottles of small-company, craft hot sauce). But this Tabasco flavor is better and WAY cheaper. They've saved me a ton of money on a product I actually love -- how awesome is that?! If you've already tried this sauce and like it, then buy this gallon. If you haven't tried this sauce, get a small bottle locally or online before you buy the big one perhaps (I could only find it locally at a Whole Foods -- none of the "regular" grocery stores carry this flavor in my area).
distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt
