hot-sauce DEFCON 1 Sauce

Okay. I have been looking forward to trying this one (admittedly, with a little bit of trepidation, given the name). After studying Organic Chemistry all day (about 7 hours) I was going to cook my wife a killer meal of mango/chipotle chicken, fried plantains, and spanish rice. It is the rice that I like to use to try out sauces on, because it doesn't interfere much with the flavor.

Anyway, I knew this was an extract sauce, and I respect warning labels. At the same time, I knew that I had to put enough on to be able to taste the product. I put about a teaspoon on my first helping of rice. WOW!!! The heat hits you pretty much immediately. Then the flavor. It was subtle, so I had to have another helping to try to pin down the flavor. On this helping, I put about a half an oz. of this molten concoction.

After my first helping, I was used to the heat, so I was better able to describe the flavor. My first impression was that this is a wing sauce. It has that tomato/chile pepper taste. There is a hint of that flavor that extract adds to any extract sauce, but the creaminess the dairy product adds tends to smooth it out. Personally, I don't dislike the flavor of extract. It can be used to great effect, and it is here. I don't know why my first impression was wing sauce, but I calls them like I tastes them. I will use the remainder for just that purpose.

I like this sauce, and I think anyone who likes wings will too. A word of caution, though, this sauce is not for the faint of heart, pregnant women, small children, or those with a low threshold of pain tolerance. I bow to the DEFCON creator. I am still wiping the sweat off my brow. :shock:

What an experience.

Josh

Thanks Josh,
Perhaps the #2 (medium) would be more up your alley. The #1 is definitely not for the average spicy eater. Many people add it to stuff like marinara sauce, or even their own wing sauces to kick it up a little bit. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and once again, be careful with that little cobalt blue bottle of ZERO I included...If you thought the #1 was hot...........

Thanks again for the review.

We used both the defense condition 1 & 2 on wings and bbq shrimp
First Defcon 1 on the wings was awesome great flavor & heat
The wings were hot and had a great wing sauce taste with lip numbing heat that blew my mind at first didn.t seem that hot but as early as my second wing section I was sucking the suds down in true beer drinking fashion I would give it a 10 of 10 on heat and also a 10 of 10 on Flavor very good stuff along with a Miami Dolphin win a very good day of football and wings.
We used the Defcon 2 on shrimp on the grill like the Defcon 1 the 2 has a great wing sauce flavor but as a relief to some of our guests the 2 on the shrimp was just the right mix of heat & flavor that I would give a 8 of 10 on heat and a 10 of 10 on flavor.

John these sauces are fantastic that had our friends asking where we got the wing sauce I told them from the creator.

Very good job

After eating the Defcon 1 i'm a little apprehensive of the Defcon 0 I'll try it alone like Josh said on some plain white rice with some ice cream in the freezer to cool things down

Mick
Kato's

DEFCON Creator said:

Thanks Josh,
Perhaps the #2 (medium) would be more up your alley. The #1 is definitely not for the average spicy eater. Many people add it to stuff like marinara sauce, or even their own wing sauces to kick it up a little bit. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and once again, be careful with that little cobalt blue bottle of ZERO I included...If you thought the #1 was hot...........

Thanks again for the review.

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Actually, the #1 is right up my alley. I put a quarter of the bottle on 2 dollops of rice. In that amount, it was hot, but I like it that way. I hope I didn't scare anyone off. Had I used less sauce, I wouldn't have had as clear an idea of the flavor of the sauce. I put the same amount of endorphin rush on my rice, too, when I first tried it.

When I use the rest on wings (probably this weekend for the UT - FL game....GO VOLS!!!) I'm sure I will enjoy it. You are right, though. It does deliver on heat. Nothing wrong there. The label says it all. Thanks again for the sauce. You will be getting an order for more #1 and probably some #2 as well.

Question: Are the #1 and #2 different heat variations of the same sauce, or are they totally different? The reason I am asking is that if I use #1 exclusively at football parties, I only have 1-2 friends that are chile heads. I would have to make something for the masses as well (although I am trying to convert more to they way of the pepper).

Thanks again for the adventure. While I could tell (to me, anyway) that this sauce was meant for wings (although I wouldn't limit it to that), it was not your typical wing sauce. It was great.

Kato, thank you for the kind review, I look forward to having your friends partake of our elixirs as well. We'll be using your products in the next couple of upcoming days. We're moving into a new house soon, so it's time to fire up the grill and cook the freezer clean!

Josh - During the sauces inception, I exclusively used the #3 sauce to placate the masses. It wasn't until people started to ask for more heat, that the other 2 versions came to be. The #3 and #2 are both cayenne-cased, the #1 is habanero/cayenne based. I consider the #3 quite timid, flavorful, but timid, however everyone will eat it. The #2 is right down the middle. I like the fact that the vinegars (all 4 of them) literally pull your face down to the plate with olfactory overload.