Just my thoughts about Tabasco Scorpion after a week of using it.
Foods Tested With:
Pork burritos
Pizza
Chili
Chicken nuggets
Pros:
Heat: Very strong and long-lasting heat. Made my lips and tongue tingle and even caused spicy hiccups.
Vinegar: Not overly vinegary, which I appreciate and is why I now prefer Crystal over Tabasco.
Price: Under $5, which is a great value.
Cons:
Heat: The heat completely dominates the sauce.
Taste: All I could taste was scorpion peppers. I didn’t detect any pineapple or guava, even though they’re listed as ingredients. I was hoping to taste the other ingredients.
Hype: Much like Marie Sharps Belizean Heat, I found this sauce overhyped. Many people describe it as extremely hot with a nice fruity flavor, but I only experienced the heat.
Final Thoughts:
These are just my personal opinions and experiences. Whether you agree or disagree, I encourage you to try it yourself and form your own opinion without influence from the hot sauce community
by scoobinshoob
7 Comments
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Thx for the review! I appreciate the post
It has one of the best heat/flavor to price ratios out there. It’s not the best tasting, but considering it’s 1/5 the price of my favorites means I always have some on hand in between online orders of more specialty hot sauces.
I’m convinced you aren’t supposed to put this on things, you’re supposed to put it in things. It’s not a condiment, it’s an ingredient.
If you taste it side by side with a pure scorpion mash sauce, you’ll notice the fruit is there, but it isn’t cloying like Tabs’ habanero is. It enhances the scorpion’s natural fruitiness-it doesn’t try to be fruit-forward. I think this is the reason it is so popular. I’m not looking for a coffee/grapefruit/banana/rosemary hot sauce.. I just want to taste the peppers god damnit and if I can do so at that price, I’m all in.
That local hive sauce is amazing.
It mostly tastes like scorpion peppers but just a little less of the bitter comes through because of the fruit. If you don’t like the taste of peppers without a bunch of other stuff added, you probably won’t like this. I personally love it.