Right back again live and kick­ing from my little break in Yeovil where myself and Mr’s Naga stayed with Hot Juan and his fam­ily for a very pleas­ant few days, but now its back to busi­ness, so lets kick it off with a little some­thing from Blair eh?

Blair’s Queso

For those of you who have been liv­ing under a rock for the past 10 – 15 years, Blair is the US Daddy of the hot­sauce scene, he makes what i con­sider to be some of the freshest and tasti­est sauces out there and has been doing it for about 15 years or so now! The product i have for review today is one of Blairs lesser known items but it non­ethe­less deserves some recog­ni­tion for the reason that it con­tains two of my favour­ite products, chilli and CHEESE!!!

Ingredi­ents: Water, Toma­toes, Cheese mix, Whey mod­i­fied food starch, Malo­dex­trin, Dex­trose, Salt, Xanthan gum, Nat­ural fla­vour­ing, Soy­bean oil, Onions, Cheese enhan­cer, Fire roas­ted Habanero, Mod­i­fied food starch, Green Chil­lies, Pimen­tos, Spices and Jalapeno seasonings.

(Many thanks to www.scorchio.co.uk for the review Jar)

Okay, so i looked at the list of ingredi­ents in “Blairs Queso” and thought to myself “wow, thats alot of ingredi­ents!” and the hor­rible thought imme­di­ately hit me that this was going to have a very “plastic” and chem­ical fla­vour to it, like alot of “cheese” based products and i noted too that the Habanero’s were down very low on the list of ingredi­ents so i was’nt sure this was going to be hot at all. The label is a lovely bright orange with full col­our pic­tures of Jalapenos, onions and cheese, together with the title of the sauce in bold yel­low let­ter­ing and blairs sig­na­ture logo above that.

Upon open­ing the jar and tak­ing a sniff i imme­di­ately recog­nised the chee­sey smell and sur­pris­ingly i could really smell the Habanero’s! It was at this point i star­ted to get a little more excited as it dawned on me that this product may just exceed my expect­a­tions, so i grabbed my spoon and dug out a huge glob of this stuff. The sauce is quite firm and yel­lowy orange in col­our, peppered with red and green chilli pieces and also bits of onion, my nose lit up as i placed the spoon into my mouth and swirled the sauce round and round try­ing to ascer­tain the dif­fer­ent flavours.

Imme­di­ately the cheesy fla­vour hit me hard, like a ched­dar cheese train that was’nt stopping…but what was this??? The Habanero’s burned in my mouth like hot coals straight from the engine of this mighty cheese beast, and it was’nt about to let go! Reach­ing for a glass of milk i real­ised that i had def­in­itely under­es­tim­ated this stuff and that its burn was HUGE! With sweat pour­ing off my brow but no hic­cups to speak of, this was def­in­itely a sauce to be reckoned with!

I think this product would be more suited to the medium-insane range of peeps as it has an amaz­ing fla­vour but a huge punch of heat that you just don’t expect, it’s suit­able for alot of things, if you’re a bit of a wimp then mix this stuff with mayo at a 3:1 ratio for a real nice dip (thats 3 mayo to one Queso) to have with corn chips or the like, and if you wanna add a kick to your next lasagna or macar­oni cheese then chuck a table­spoon of this in with your cheese sauce to give it a nice fiery kick up the arse!

At only £4.99 for a huge 453G jar from www.scorchio.co.uk i think this is amaz­ing value for money as it has so many prac­tical uses in food and par­tic­u­larly party food, so go out and grab one as soon as Scorchio get more back in stock, in fact email them and pester them for it, it really is THAT good!

Till next time my chilli padawanz, may the sauce be with you, always!

Fla­vour	(9/10)
Heat	(7/10)
Pack­aging	(7/10)
Value	(7/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

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