Baumer Foods Crystal Hot Sauce Review

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Middletown, MD

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It isn't just hot, it also has flavor

a spicy food fanatic, trying new things all the time

Pros

Delicious, goes well with many foods, not just hot

Cons

use with caution, some people may be sensitive

OCT

2007

    I grew up with a bottle of hot sauce sitting on the dinner table and watched as my father doused it on everything he ate, except maybe dessert (but, even that would not have surprised me). Then I would watch as beads of sweat broke out on his brow. That's how I learned to appreciate hot sauce.
    There are many hot sauces on the market and some claim to be hotter than the rest. I like hot sauce, don't get me wrong, and some things have to have just a little to be good. I find that most of them don't have much flavor, they're just hot and I'm not the macho type trying to show just how much heat I can stand in my mouth.
    Crystal Hot Sauce does have flavor from the peppers that is put into it, and it is hot. I use hot sauce to add flavor, not heat.
    Crystal is made by Baumer Foods in Louisiana, and has been around since 1923. Alvin and Mildred Baumer founded the company and their son, Alvin A. Baumer, Jr. runs it today, and carrying on the family tradition of a superior product, by inspecting the pepper fields personally to insure the peppers are picked at just the right ripeness. There are many other products they make, including an Extra Hot Hot Hot Sauce, however, I have not seen them in the stores here. They are available online at baumerfoods.com.
    Hot sauce is good on many things; chicken, pork, fish (especially fried catfish), salmon cakes, fries, eggs and I could probably keep going. But use your imagination and experiment.
    If you are going to use the wing sauce to make Buffalo Wings, don't forget the bleu cheese dressing. That's the only way to go.