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).
chipotle pepper, distilled vinegar, water, salt, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, spices, TABASCO brand Pepper Pulp (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt)
