Heat 1/10 – I have a relatively low heat tolerance, and I could drink this stuff like Gatorade.
Taste 6/10 – Not offensive or anything, but it's not going to dethrone Choula for my low-heat, flavorful sauce of choice. It tastes kind of like tomato soup with too much pepper in it. Which is weird, because I don't see any tomatoes on the ingredients.
I'm still going to use the rest of the bottle. But unless I get some inspiration on what this would be good on, I'm probably not buying it again.
by KeyboardMunkeh
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I pretty much said the same thing over a year ago…
I still have the damn half full bottle. it just lacks any real character whatsoever and is outclassed in every application by something else.
It’s good on Italian food with tomato sauce. It’s not super flexible outside of that. Cholula would be absolutely vile on Italian food though so this has its place.
Shits terrible. Tasted like wax. It’s the only sauce I’ve trashed aside from one that was infected and bubbling when I opened it.
The “extra hot” variety (which isn’t really hot) actually tastes good on tomato-based dishes like pizza and spaghetti, IMO.
I would immediately nope out to hot sauce that’s labeled “Italian”.
I’m not sure if it’s because I have a level of self hate, but every bad review makes me want to try it and see. What does it taste like? Red bell peppers?
I think this is the most reliably hated sauce I see posted in this sub. Haven’t tried it yet and im in no hurry. As a person from an Italian family I dont even know what the hell they’re trying to do here haha.
I got some out of interest for the first time a few weeks ago and I wasn’t totally against it.
I do think it’s close to not really being a “hot sauce” but in certain things I quite liked the flavour, even if it’s just to break up my usual go-to’s.
Got the extra hot, not a fan but it’s ok on some pasta’s or pizza’s
There’s no tomato in this? That actually blows my mind.
As much as I enjoy Italian food, I wouldn’t think of Italy at all when looking for a good hot sauce.
I agree with the majority that this stuff is just not good.
Babish has a bit of a falling out with the sauce recently. Had spent years convinced he loved it, then tried it in a blind taste test in one of his more recent videos and absolutely ripped into it, then said he’s never buying more after he realized
I found it works best when I want to spice up a pasta dish or on a slice of pizza. Something already tomato heavy, as I agree it does have a strong tomato taste.
I like this and the extra hot one just fine. Nothing special, but it’s decent. Don’t know why it gets so much hate here.
It wasn’t for me either.