Chilli Sauce Reviews - Page 006

Reviews of chilli sauce products by an former industry-insider

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0-3/10 = crap, 4-6/10 = average, 7-10/10 = great!

Disaster Bay Kasoundi

Name: Disaster Bay Kasoundi

Manufacturer: Disaster Bay Chillies Pty Ltd ( Eden, New South Wales, Australia )

Style Classification: Indian Chutney

Appearance: 8/10

Nice looking bottle, though not as unique as the Disaster Bay Chipotle. Same good labelling.

This is a beautiful looking sauce with chunks of ingredients throughout. There are visible pieces of chilli, tomato, garlic and mustard seeds. So we know this is not a highly processed product – a good indicator of potential high quality. Looks great.

Opening the jar and spooning some of out reveals that this is a very thick product which indicates there is not an excess of water or vinegar – it should all be flavour.

Everything to this point indicates that this is a quality product.

Ingredients: 10/10

Fresh tomatoes, organically grown chillies (Jalapeno, Cayenne and Manzano varieties), vinegar, fresh ginger, fresh garlic, vegetable oil, cane sugar, black mustard seeds, spices, and salt.

There is nothing artificial here and that is a beautiful thing to see. No artificial preservatives, colourings, or flavours. No food acids, no anti-microbials and no anti-oxidants.

This is a faultless list of ingredients. Note that I find it unusual that there is no onion in this product

Aroma: 10/10

It doesn’t fill the room as much as their chipotle sauce but it is still a great impact on the senses, dominated by the spices and backed up by the garlic and ginger. I can certainly pick out coriander seeds and cumin amongst the spice component.

Definitely gets the mouth watering.

Flavour: 9/10

Rich, spice driven flavours are what predominate here, which is what you would expect given the Indian styling of the sauce.

Each spoonful gives a slightly different flavour depending on what chunks of ingredient are picked up. Sometimes ginger, sometimes garlic, other times just pure spice.

I’m quite impressed with how low-level the vinegar is in the flavour profile.

This is a sauce that stands high on it’s own merit. The bonus is that, as you’ll see in this month’s recipes, it’s quite a good product to cook with as well.

Overall: 9/10

This is a high quality sauce that really shows what you can do with simple, fresh ingredients.

Matching it with food;

• My personal favourite use for this is on cold silverside (corned beef) in a sandwich.
• Also, simply mixed through hot pasta – this one is not my idea, it’s on the label, but it really works.

Heat: 1-2/10 (doesn't affect Overall Score.)

It’s very much a full palate heat for me. A gentle, gentle heat. It lasts about 10-20 seconds minutes depending on your tolerance.

Ingredient Alert: None