Condiment Review: Frank's RedHot | Nashville Hot Wings Sauce

I personally find my food bland and boring, but one can only eat Sriracha hot sauce for so long. Thus, I have amassed a collection of condiments to be added to my food, and this is going to be first of various condiment reviews. 

Frank's Red Hot is a whole family of hot sauces, and this one is supposed to be good on chicken wings. Personally, it goes well on everything. 

From the back of the bottle: "hot 'n spicy with a touch of sweet" and "kicked-up flavor from Aged Cayenne Red Peppers, Mack pepper, and a hint of sweet molasses". According to the ingredients list, the primary ingredient is distilled vinegar, and you do taste the tartness. Next is aged cayenne red peppers, then sugar, canola oil, and water. 

Visually, the sauce is a very orange and thick sauce with a LOT of flecks of black pepper. If you taste the sauce alone, your tongue will feel the tartness of vinegar first, then the individual pepper bits as if you hit specks of sand. THEN the heat of the cayenne pepper hits the back of your throat and tongue. But the heat is relatively subtle, yet it will make you feel you are sweating somewhat, but the sweetness counterbalances the heat. 

If you put it on meat or other food, the thickness of the sauce allow it to cling to various surfaces, which is very helpful in retaining the sauce where they are needed. However, one tablespoon is 30 calories, and 340mg of sodium (about 15% of DV), and you probably need a bit more than that. 

Better than Tabasco or similar type sauces, IMHO. 4/5