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Multi-Review:Mild to Wild Pepper Co.- General Hurtin’ Hot Sauce
By Buddah | September 22, 2008 |
From the Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Company Website, a little about this product:
“General Hurtin’
We were all effected by the attacks on 9-11, some of us more than others. As with many people, I lost family that day.
My brother-in-law, Lt Gen Tim Maude was killed in the attack on the Pentagon. This sauce is done in his honor and it raises money for soldier education and support through a memorial scholarship in his name.
This sauce is the same as my Ralph’s Righteous.” – Jim Campbell
BUTCH T
Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Co.s “General Hurtin’ ” Sauce is the last of
Jim’s sauces I was sent to review. Lets start with the label, it is
titled “General Hurtin’ ” and has a picture of a 3 star general in obvious
pain. Below the picture is “THE LIEUTENANT GENERAL TIMOTHY J.
MAUDE FOUNDATION” which turns out to be a non profit foundation
providing educational support to current and future USA soldiers. There’s
more, but you will have to buy a bottle to get the rest. 
Now to the other side of the label, Ingredients; our own hand selected
Habanero peppers, Vinegar, Onion, Garlic, Spices, Herbs, & Salt. A good
shake of the bottle and you can see little bits of herbs floating around in
the yellowish colored sauce, just enough to make you wonder how it tastes.
After opening the bottle your nose is assaulted by the unmistakable odor of
Habanero’s, Whew! That is refreshing in today’s world of designer sauces and
extracts. After taking a dollop of the thick yellow sauce and placing it in my
mouth I remembered what I liked about hab sauces, good heat & great flavor that
will stand up to anything, you put it on! This sauce is what I would use as a
supplemental sauce on BBQ after cooking to warm it up and change the flavor a
tad. I also have used it on my breakfast eggs, sandwiches and even mixed into a
weak batch of salsa!
This is tad warmer and would rank a 7+ on S.O.B.’s (sweet ol Butch’s)
heat scale and a 8.5 on the lip burn :{}. Now as far as flavor, if you love
habs you will love this sauce, the habs are the dominating flavor which
indicates a sauce that is mostly peppers, which is really what a Hot
Pepper Sauce is supposed to be. I give it an 8 on the flavor, and would
recommend that those who haven’t tried it to buy a bottle, you’ll get a great
bottle of sauce and help support a noble foundation that supports our
troops!
Butch T
Bob Tyler
For those that don’t want a tomato based sauce, the General Hurtin Sauce
is just the ticket. I think you can use it to fry eggs. It is a five
alarm sauce that should be used sparingly to flavor anything from chile
to a salad. If the inside of your mouth has been completely burned
away, just pour it on, but for the rest of us, a little bit will go a
long way. This sauce is very tasty, but very hot. Interestingly,
despite the heat, the onion, garlic and other spices still come through,
a very nice blend of flavor and liquid fire.
The General Hurtin’ was very flavorful and very hot. As a final test,
I put a bit of it on my tongue. It tastes good. I think you could cook
with it though but it burns like a sumbitch.
Justin
Okay, so I got an email from Sandi asking me if I would help her out and review this sauce because it was too hot for her. She said that it wasn’t an extract sauce, but she couldn’t believe it wasn’t because it was so hot. I quickly agreed to do the review and was excited to try it knowing that it was a Mild to Wild Pepper Company product. When I got it in the mail I opened it and licked the top of the bottle as I was walking in the house. I just had that little bit on my tongue and it was enough to know how much I had underestimated this sauce. I understand now why she said that she thought it had extracts because this stuff is hot! Other than CaJohn’s Lethal Ingestion hot sauce, I have never had a non-extract sauce as hot as this one, and its pretty close to that. I am curious if the same process was used to create this wonderfully hellish concoction of a sauce as with Lethal Ingestion and CaJohn’s Killer product line. Maybe it is just the way the green habaneros affect me since it is my first green habanero sauce.
General Hurtin’ has got that special burn on my lips and tongue that I get from Tabasco sauce, but don’t usually get from sauces 10 times as hot. I cant really describe it, but it’s just a different kind of burn. It is the kind of burn that makes you salivate uncontrollably. Then after the actual stinging burn goes away your lips continue to burn every time that you breath out across them for awhile afterwards. Only without the stinging part, just the warm temperature type burn. Is any of this making sense? I don’t think that because I compared it to Tabasco that that is the heat level, because this stuff is about 100x the intensity. I ate about a 1/8th of the bottle tonight on my meal and my nose is running like a faucet.
As for the taste, it’s a great sauce with a simple and well blended flavor. The habaneros and vinegar are up front, and everything else is blended well enough that I cant pick it out. I can tell from the flavor that there is more than just peppers and vinegar, but the habanero flavor is the star. The other ingredients don’t take away from it in anyway. In the time I have had this sauce I have had it on pizza, frozen meals (with beer not wine), nachos, grinder sandwiches, subs, black bean quesadillas, refried beans, and grilled chicken. It went great on all of them. I will definitely buy this sauce again, and it will most likely end up being a regular sauce, (as regular as they get in my fridge anyway).
I am so happy that Sandi thought of me when she couldn’t do this review because I probably never would of tried it otherwise. When I buy non-extract sauces I look for ones made with peppers I know to be the hottest and green habaneros isn’t something I would look for. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a non extract sauce with a good heat level and great taste. I now return you to your regularly scheduled review.
Xero
Greetings All,
Today we will be talking about General Hurtin’ Hot Sauce. This sauce is dedicated to Lt General Timothy J. Maude and the Maude Foundation. Lt General Maude was the hightest ranking military officer killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and is the most senior U.S. Army officer killed by the enemy action since 1945. He was serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, and was at a meeting when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of The Pentagon. His offices had just been moved to the most recently renovated section of The Pentagon. Lt General Maude served in Viet Nam as a Lt. and held many of the highest positions in the 7th Army Europe. Among his many commendations, he earned the Distinguished Service Medal, The Legion of Merit, The Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He was also responsible for the “Army of One” campaign. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetary and the Lt General Timothy J. Maude Center for Human Resources was dedicated in his honor in Heidelberg, Germany. The Maude Foundation provides educational support to current and future American soldiers. The label reads that a generous portion of the sale of this sauce goes to the Maude Foundation. Recently, there has been a story in the news about a guy that walked across the country in support of our troops. While he is entitled to do just that, because this is America, as a veteran, I think this sauce is a much better way to support the troops. That being said, on to the sauce.
Created By Jim Campbell at the Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb Co. originally as Ralphs Righteous Habanero Sauce, this sauce is described as being “a habanero sandwich”. It has been acclaimed as one of the hottest non-extract sauces by all who have tried it starting at the 1998 Fiery Foods Show.
Ingredients: Our own hand selected Habanero peppers, vinegar, onion, garlic, spices, herbs and salt.
A Habanero sandwich, huh? I will agree with that. Acclaimed to be one of the hottest non-extract sauces by all who have tried it? Yep, I’ll go along with that too. Upon opening, guess what it smells like. Yep, habaneros and vinegar. While the habanero is my favorite pepper for heat level and flavor, I am not a big fan of vinegar. The flavor of the habs and vinegar is very very strong and quite overpowering. If you dont want to support the troops in this fashion, then get a bottle of this because it is the best value for the money because you only need a drop of it on what ever you are eating. For me, because of my dislike of vinegar, the best thing that I had this on was English Style Fish and Chips. I usually use balsamic vinegar on the fish and hush puppies. I make the batter with whatever black beer I can find at the store and the hush puppy batter has green chiles mixed in. The sauce was quite good on this.
Tastes of Opportunity:
Dominos Pizza- it totally overpowered the pizza, but it was my first taste and I put way too much on.
Green Chile Cheeseburger from local eatery- once again, total domination, face on fire.
Breakfast burrito- still too much vinegar for me, but I got the amount right and enjoyed the heat. The heat is better than coffee in the morn.
On a hotdog with dijon mustard and sourkraut- yummy
On a side note, I took a swig of this right out of the bottle to get my pain face for Turks WOF Most Wanted poster.
Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Co
81 Martin Place
Franklin, IN 46131-1745
On the web at www.wildpepper.com
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Topics: General, Hot Product Reviews, Reviews | 28 Comments »
Thanks again folks! Changes are in store for this sauce though- I’ve switched from habanero to fatalii- longer burn now :-)
Xero- outstanding reasearch & thanks for posting the additional info. The in country processing center in Korea is also named for him as is a hall in Building 1 at Ft Benjamin Harrison. Thank you for your service sir!
Justin- nope, not the same process as the lethal ingestion. No process at all as a matter of fact! This is about as uncomplicated a sauce as you can get. The heat is simply orange habanero straight out of my fields.
Al- see you in a few weeks. Butch- see you in a couple of days!
Thanks again all!
Sounds like something I need to get. Great reviews guys.
What a great review guys! Much braver with this sauce than I was! Justin, Thank you for taking on this review! Great job! I’m glad you were able to enjoy it and do the review!
Xero thanks for the history that the bottle didn’t show. Great review.
Thank you Jim for sending this out. And for such a great cause. I’m sorry I couldn’t complete the review but gald that I knew who to turn to. I’ll see you this weekend!
Great review guys! I actually have a bottle of this one and I’m about to open it and start my long process of reviewing it.
Jim, doe the Ralph’s Righteous also get the Fatalii tratment?
Great review everyone. I’ve got the Ralph’s version of the sauce and love it. Yes, it’s HOT! Looks like I need to get this bottle as well. Two I guess, one with the habs, and onewith the Fatalii’s.
Great sauce as always Jim.
See you in TN. 
Hey Pascow, you coming to Fire Mountain Krewe?
Oops, I meant Passcow. Sorry for the misspelling.
Xero must work for the CIA
Good Background search on the info. What an amazing individual America lost.
Great review from everyone. Congrats on another great review Jim…just wish I could’ve mustered up more time at ZestFest to try your sauces.
I would bet money that the bottle we sent to Justin was fatali. I wish there was a picture of it. It was yellow and trust me it tasted fatali. Maybe the sauce fairy switched it?? Oh well-I’ve been wrong before,once.
Trust me, the Hab version is HOT as hell and very tasty. It really suprised me how hot it is. The first time I had this I poured it all over my breakfast at FMK a few years ago. YeeeEEEouch! But being the tough guy that I am, I acted like there wasn’t anything to it.
And that was one of the old label bottles. Yep, it’s yellowish orange in color and hot as hell.
Cap’n, we could tell you were suffering, the tears and cries of pain gave you away.
Wish I could come, don’t have the funds though
Hey did you ever get my email about that question I had for your friend? If not, shoot me an email.
D’oH…um, that was directed at DK, not the hundreds of masses that visit the site….
The well has run dry.
Hunderds of whut? Nuthin’ but Chileheads here.
Oh, and the general.
That would be 10′s of thousands of Chileheads Passcow!!!!!
Wasn’t the question that I sent you. Shoot me an email
Yes, them too, that’s who I ment.
Great sauce…even if it was my second choice.
I’ve been enjoying Jim’s Red Savina garlic sauce on my breakfast sandwiches (hard roll and sausage links) but ran out. I turned to a sauce I’d never tasted before (Ralph’s Righteous) and was glas I did.
Nice flavor, about the same heat as the red savina garlic, and it’s help me build up my heat tolerance for Open Fields.
Yep, that’s the question. The friend is no longer available to answer questions.
No friend, no well, no water.
Welcome to TTF Jeff!
Oh, I see now, bummer. I wasted you to forward him a design for extracting the well water to see if it would work…nevermind
i love fatalis, cant wait to try the new version.
that would explain why i loved it so much but i would be suprised that i didnt pick up on the fatali flavor.
its sad that i have so little time that i need to bookmark a thread with 26 posts. 10
dk said
Jim, doe the Ralph’s Righteous also get the Fatalii tratment?
im wondering the same thing