El Yucateco 4 Habanero Hot Sauces Gift Pack, 4 Items

Unlike some others’ experiences, the packaging was great for multiple glass bottles. That packaging, however, detracts somewhat from the “gift“ aspect. Still, a box with lovingly bubble wrapped bottles beats a box full of spicy shards of glass, so no complaints here.As for the hot sauces themselves, I absolutely love El Yucateco. The sauces have a good, solid chile flavor without the heavy vinegar and salt that you get with many hot sauces. The heat level is good, and this is coming from someone who orders Thai hot and means it. Sliced jalapeños are a snack food in my house. If you’re looking for something to blow the top of your head off this isn’t it, but you’ll probably get the sniffles.All four have a good vegetal (as opposed to fruit) flavor. The red and green are standard habanero sauces, the kutbil ik is a little spicier and has a more pronounced vegetable flavor, and the Caribbean is the sweetest of the four (although still not a sweet sauce). If you’re looking for a good, solid, all-purpose hot sauce, you’ll not go wrong here. If you want something fruity and tropical, try HI Spice.

Dear prospective buyer of these hot sauces,These are a four pack of hot sauces in various 'flavors' although they basically all have the same flavor which I would call 'pain'. These were recommended to me by an online friend who simply goes by the name 'Q' and claims to be omnipotent, for which I have found little reason as of yet to doubt. They were packed well and individually as to not break during shipment. These come in handy during times of self loathing when it is desirable to inflect a safe form of pain by pouring a liberal amount on, say, a Triscuit™ and forcing yourself to eat it slowly while screaming like a banshee and soaking your shirt with tears of agony. Typical application during non-painful self-affliction is just a drop or two at a time which adds plenty of heat and flavor to mostly any dish. Some caution has to be taken as the bottles have no pour-control spout, although the sauces are thick enough to be controllable when dosing your edible delights. Bottles are small, but with average and saneful consumption will last a long time which gives it a good value for it's price.5/5

I have been eating this hot sauce for years.It is one of the few habanero sauces that I have ever tried that really packs a wallop!I usually use Scorpion or Ghost pepper sauces, but sometimes I dont want terrible diarrhea, so I reach for habanero sauce instead.This sauce offers a bright, fresh flavor that allows you to really taste the habaneros before it burns your face off.As some people have mentioned, you can find this hot sauce in Mexican markets for about $2/bottle, but it is usually only the red or green sauce.I can rarely find the Caribbean sauce or the Exxxtra Hot Sauce.To be honest, the green is by far the hottest of the 4, and tastes the best.They are all extremely hot, hotter than Tobasco by far, but Green is my favorite.My next favorite would be Caribbean, which is sweet and almost like a jerk sauce.Next comes the Exxxtra Hot Sauce. It has a great smoky flavor that reminds me of Native American cooking.Finally the red sauce. Friggin hot and tasty, just not as good as the other 3.

El Yucateco is my all time favorite hot sauce brand and none of these flavors disappointed. I love that these are actually spicy but have great flavor. They are good for both putting on top of food items as a condiment but also a nice heat to add to recipes like chili. Highly recommend!

I was pleasantly surprised at the flavor of these sauces. Seems like a lot of people bash this brand saying the sauces aren't hot, too much salt, blah blah... I must be a traditionalist, lots of salt and vinegar in a hot sauce seems normal to me. And these sauces DO contain vinegar (acetic acid + water = vinegar).Having said that, the primary flavor of all of these sauces is chiles. The red, green, and extra hot all taste of habanero. I like the green the best, it's a tiny bit hotter than the red and has a more tangy flavor (more vinegar?). The red just tastes like a basic habanero sauce. It's significantly hotter than Tabasco but not crazy. I wouldn't want anything milder, but the red and green are both hot enough.The Extra Hot is hotter than the others, maybe 50% hotter. If you've tried Melinda's Naga Jolokia Sauce or Tropical Pepper Company's Ghost Pepper sauce, those are both FAR hotter than the Extra Hot. The flavor on this one is a bit different than the red and green; probably because it contains tomato paste. It almost tastes like an extremely hot salsa, only without the chunks, and thicker.The best sauce in this set, by far, is the Chipotle. It's not very hot at all, possibly even less than Tabasco, but the flavor is great. It has a very strong smoky chipotle flavor, and is quite sweet (it's the only sauce out of the four that has any calories, according to the labels). Really this is more of a bbq sauce with a bit of zing. The only drawback is that bbq sauce is very inexpensive, and this stuff is over $4 for 5oz. The flavor is so good it's almost worth that price.The biggest problem I have with these sauces, specifically the red and the green, is that they contain food coloring. I don't care about any health effects, but honestly the green is a very strange shade of green. Almost fluorescent. I feel like I'm putting toothpaste on my food almost, and it makes me want to eat without looking at my food. The red is not nearly as strange a color.I would definitely recommend this set to anyone not addicted to extract sauces. I'm giving four stars instead of five because none of these sauces totally blew me away with flavor or heat (although both were good), and because of the food coloring. Other than that, everything was solid. I see some people asking about the bottles.They are 4oz glass bottles, slightly smaller than the standard 4.7oz, except for the Chipotle which is a 5oz bottle.Shipping was fast, and the packing was excellent. Thankfully this package was NOT shipped via UPS. I hate them, they never leave packages and make me waste an hour of my time picking up a $20 purchase.

All of these are good!!! Got get them!