Huffin and a Puffin sauces

I received two bottles of hot sauce from Huffin and Puffin. The first one was the original and the other was roasted. website


On the website they really do a good job hyping up their hot sauce. This is a portion of what they had to say about their hot sauce. You take a taste... the flavor is immediate and very satisfying.. And then comes the heat... it starts out slow and then ramps up to a heat that can only be experienced and barely described. And still the flavors remain, packaged in the heat like a well shipped UPS parcel...

Next comes the physical effects. The tongue burning.. the sweat, eyes watering, nose running.... face turning red.. Ideas of what you can do with this sauce immediately flow through your brain. You will want to try it on EVERYTHING.... ice cream is probably not a good idea.

Have a recipe for chicken wings? They will never taste better than when you use our sauce.

To our mind ( which is clinically insane ) there are four categories of hot sauce: Why Bother, Amusing, Just Right, and ARE YOU INSANE? We are NOT in the INSANE category. This is not a contest to see how much pain we can inflict on you.. if you want pain, then hammer a nail through your forehead. Or eat burning sawdust.

We are in the JUST RIGHT category. A generous taste on the tongue will produce heat and flavor that will last well beyond the mass produced "Why Bother" you will find in the grocery store.

See our SAUCE page for more information... and why we set out to create the finest habanero hot sauce in the world.

I posted what they said because my thoughts were different about the sauces. When I looked at the sauce in the bottle, the color of the original looked kind of pale like an under ripe tomato, and I am guessing they used orange habanero peppers, plus carrots. That probably adds to the orange color.


The color of the roasted sauce is a nice dark color. It has a natural look, and they do say their product is 100 percent natural. I like the color of the roasted much better. I see in both sauces lots of seeds and pulp. That tells me that they ground up the entire pepper in the sauces, so I would think that these sauces would be hot since they have seeds and pulp from the peppers.


The picture on the bottle is ok. It's a picture of a puffin bird with flames coming out of its mouth. The picture is the same for both, the original and the roasted.

The list of ingredients are the same for both bottles, original and roasted, and they are exactly the same and in the same order: vinegar, carrots, sugar, spices, and the love of a sick mind. Oh yea, and habanero peppers.

I love the bit about the love of a sick mind. I had my brother and best friend over along with my wife to watch the fights while trying out both sauces on chicken wings. I decided to try the sauces out on wings since that was one of the ideas they gave for using the sauces.

Aroma for the original: Right out of the bottle, I thought it smelled like onions were in the sauce, even though they were not listed. My wife felt it smelled like taco sauce. I was a bit surprised by the fact that the sauce did not smell strongly of vinegar since that was listed first, and that it did not smell hot since they claim it is pretty hot.

The smell of the roasted sauce has a little stronger smell of vinegar, and a really nice roasted smell.


Taste and heat right out of the bottle: I can eat serious heat and my wife cannot eat the kind of heat I can, so I will give my thoughts for a heat level and my wife's thoughts for heat level.

If for some strange reason you felt like drinking the sauce right out of the bottle, I would give the heat level a 4 out of 10. My wife gives it a 5 out of 10, so to me that's not as hot as they make it out to be since my wife does not feel it's very hot.

The roasted sauce was not as hot, I would give it a 1 out of 10, and my wife gave it the same. The roasted one pretty much has no heat at all.

The flavor of the original sauce on the wings was pretty much non-existent. After using almost an entire bottle on wings, the heat level was a 3 out of 10 for me, and my wife gave it a 5 out of 10 on the wings. The sauce was slightly sweet and had a little heat, but other wise it was really bland. My friend said it needed salt, I agree with that. Outside of the sauce being a little sweet, there was really no flavor so speak of. It was nothing impressive and sadly, I cannot say, "You gotta go buy this sauce."




I really would like to know if anyone other than the people who created this sauce, has tried it and what their thoughts are. Otherwise, I really was not impressed by the original sauce.

The flavor of the roasted was better, it had a nice natural roasted flavor. It was not nearly as sweet, but the heat was not there at all. I am not sure if roasting took the heat away, but on the wings I would give the heat level a 0 out of 10 and my wife gave it a .5 to a 1 out of 10. I would say if you looking for a sauce with a decent flavor but no heat, try this sauce.



Overall, the makers are correct, this does not have a heat level set up to hurt you. On the other hand, there is pretty much no heat at all either. My wife, as I said, cannot eat heat. She has never been a heat eater and can handle this like it was nothing. Also, out of the 4 of us who tried both sauces, we all felt they were sweet with next to no flavor, the roasted had some, but the original was bland. Rick b