What: Tabasco, Frank's Red Hot Original, Tabasco's Chipotle & Cola sauce
Price: £2-£3
Where can i buy it: These came from Sainbury's
Summary:
Frank's sauce has just established itself in my Condiment Cupboard! Plenty of fiery heat AND rich Cayenne pepper flavours. Perfect on Pizza.
Tobasco sauce is still #1 for pure unadulterated heat and can't lose it's place at the altar of great condiments. Hotter than Franks and always great on pizza if you like some serious Zing.
Chipotle; promised so much, delivered so little. Hard to know where next for this under performing sauce.
Full review:
Here at TCR we LOVE pizza but we love it even more with a great condiment and today we decided to pitch good ol' Tabasco sauce against Frank's Red Hot Original and Tabasco's Chipotle & Cola sauce.
Pizza is a good test, for a condiment to work it has to either pack enough punch to power through a pizza or add an extra, tasty flavour. Weak condiments need not apply!
First off, the obligatory naked taste test (NTT). Here at TCR we sample every glorious condiment on it's own to get a feel for the 'real condiment' free from any interfering flavours. Once we're on close personal terms we can put them into to battle with our favourite foods...
At the NTT stage a clear favourite emerged; Frank's. This condiment boasts both a kick of heat AND some gorgeous cayenne pepper flavours.
Tabasco sauce came roaring back though with a reminder of what it feels like to be kicked in the condiments with it's fiery heat.
The Chipotle & Cola smelt amazing but had a fraction of the taste, but could it come alive once it was added to some pizza?
Actually, no. It was a real disappointment; it made no dent on the pizza's flavours, it went first so our taste buds weren't reeling from the stronger chilli sauces. in fact it had pole position on the grid but failed to even start.
Next up was Frank's. This comes in a larger bottle than Tabasco so you'd expect it to have less kick, and whilst this turned out to be true, it rode nicely on the wave of flavours from the pepperoni pizza adding a delicious finishing touch of spice and cayenne flavour.
And now Tobasco; the old favour didn't disappoint in the face of the new condiment competition. It packs such a punch it's hard to think of pizza without it.
