Which is definitely extra hot but doesn’t really border on super, like it did before. Providing the sharp feel to this sauce’s low If anything, it’s actually the bird’s eye that’s the most obvious. Because even the generic red chilli in this sauce is really quite subtle. No, that’s added orange juice, presumably brought in to hide the utter lack of reaper flavour. But, once that wave breaks and it starts to fade away, it gets a lot easier to identify. Then there’s a wave of fruitiness, the origin of which isn’t immediately obvious. One which quickly becomes more earthy and savoury, as the cumin and garlic take hold, yet never loses that initial ketchup quality. When it falls from the spoon and onto my tongue, the first thing that I get from this sauce is a sweet, tomato tang. Which means it’s time for me to taste it. So the contents pass the first test but the only scent coming from the bottle is a slight hint of cumin and cornflour. One which instantly gets across its medium thickness, gentle texture and slight stickiness, from the sugar and starch. Its colour and consistency are both similar to the original, with brownish-red tones and the occasional chilli seed adding a sense of warmth and liveliness to its otherwise ultra-smooth, ketchup-like appearance. And my spoonful does look quite promising: It is possible, if unlikely, that this one could do the same. But I’ll try it, anyway.Īfter all, low chilli content sauces with superhot peppers have been able to surprise me in the past. So, to even call it a reaper product, when it contains so much more generic red chilli, and even bird’s eye, just seems fraudulent. Yes, the namesake chilli is now only eight percent of a chilli mash which, in turn, only accounts for five percent of the sauce. Water, Tomato Paste, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Carolina Reaper Mash 5% (Red Chilli Puree, Salt, Carolina Reaper Chilli (8%)), Orange Juice Concentrate, Salt, Modified Maize Starch, Birds Eye Chilli (1%), Cumin, Garlic, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate. Yet that’s the only praise that I expect to give, today, since the ingredients list appears just as awful as the front label, cutting down the carolina reaper content from around five percent to less than naught point five. Their signature “ENCONA” lettering in the glass is probably the only element that remains, from the original, and, while I wasn’t able to capture it on camera before, it really does look rather good.
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