Customer Reviews

Frank's RedHot Xtra Hot Sauce: 5 OZ

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No, this isn't a fire-breathing, reach-for-the-tissues mouth burner sauce. It's Franks with a little stink on the ball. It's flavorful (as you expect w/Frank's) with just enough heat to make you notice it, but not so much that it lingers for long afterward. It's great on anything you'd use regular cayenne pepper sauce for, but seems especially designed for eggs.

Wow, does it make eggs an almost religious experience.

If you like pepper/vinegar flavor and some heat, get this. If you want your mouth burned, this ain't gonna do it for you.

I've been a straight Louisiana brand hot sauce fan my whole life. I like the vinegar flavor for killing a lot of other flavors I don't like. Recently I tried Frank's RedHot Xtra Hot. The flavor is very nice with a fairly mild tingle of heat. To be fair, I eat stuff in the 500,000 Scoville range regularly so don't take my word on heat if you are uninitiated. I came to this sauce for flavor, price, max heat of the product line and to try out the competition. I love the flavor of cayenne peppers and this has an abundance of it. I wish they came in at over 200,000 heat level because that would make the perfect sauce and flavor. Habaneros really overpower anything at high concentrations.

This sauce is great, heat is decent for a mass market product, and the Louisiana flavor is perfect. Not entirely too vinegary when eaten on food and milder in that aspect than its competition in my opinion. I do like the flavor of vinegar, however, so be forewarned to that facet which is inherent to this type of sauce. The heat is on par with Tabasco but the flavor is less sharp by a small margin. It tastes better to me with most foods also, but eggs is always going to be Tabasco's domain (or Tapatio, which can make a mean ranchero style sauce).

I can easily recommend this sauce. I've been tasting it off my finger throughout this review to make sure I provided my actual impressions in real time. I also ate Tabasco just to be sure.

Chileheads: If you are like me, then you like a good sauce that has a tingle to it for when you get tired of just torturing yourself. This has a decent flavor, heat like Tabasco, vinegar is milder, pepper flavor is stronger and would make a nice mixer to wash out the habanero flavor if you want to mix your stronger sauces in and make a southern style super powered sauce. I tried Blair's Ultra Death with Louisiana habanero style sauce and that was a bit vinegary and didn't mix well which is the entire reason I'm trying this. I don't like habaneros all that much for flavor and the vinegar can really tone down and kill that "smoky" flavor they have without completely washing out the sauce.

Frank's RedHot is one of a score of Louisiana Cayenne pepper sauces. The original formula is flavorful, but really lacks kick. It is significantly weaker than standard Tobasco, which I also consider to be relatively weak. This one jacks up the Cayenne pepper significantly, but it is still not a barn-burner. I've tried much hotter sauces than this one. Call it a medium strength sauce with good flavor. Xtra Hot it has a somewhat thicker texture than the original, which I also like. I like it a lot better than the original formula, especially for corn chips and hamburgers. This is the best of the Cayenne pepper sauces. Highly recommended.

We can no longer find Frank's extra hot sauce since we moved to Florida. Shipping was fast. We would buy again from the same seller.

I ordered Frank's RedHot Xtra Hot Sauce: 5 OZ.

I got Frank's RedHot Hot Sauce: 5 OZ.

No Xtra.

No dice.