El Yucateco Exxxtra Picante Salsa Kutbil-ik-de Chile Habanero Sauce Review

If you are a fan of the hottest hot sauces then you've no doubt seen the milder "commercial" El Yucateco brand sauces at your local grocery store. There are three versions that are sold commercially that I have seen, the   El Yucateco Red Habanero Hot Sauce (Habanera Roja), the El Yucateco Green Chile Habanero Hot Sauce and the El Yucateco Chipotle Hot Sauce.

About two years ago I went on a hot sauce experimentation binge trying to locate the hottest hot sauce. That is how I stumbled across the  El Yucateco Green Chile Habanero Hot Sauce, which I found to be the most extreme sold in stores. It was really good and it has been very interesting to me that the "green sauce" often comes up in conversations with people I meet (I usually volunteer discussing hot sauces as I'm such a freak about them). 

While the green sauce - weighing in at 9,000 Scoville units - is no lightweight, both in intensity and authentic flavor it is simply crushed by El Yucateca's lesser know brother, the brown El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Kutbil-ik Habanero Hot Sauce. In my opinion the reason that it is sooooo much better must be for two reasons found in the ingredients:

1. The brown habanero sauce's #1 ingredient is habanero peppers, whereas in the green habanero sauce it's water. I don't like my beer watered down so why would I like my habanero sauce watered down?? Ha, truthfully the brown sauce is aesthetically more authentic, thicker and more flavorful.
2. The brown habanero sauce contains tomatoes and what appears to be black pepper, whereas the green does not. 

The bottom line here is that the El Yucateco brown habanero sauce has a better flavor and - at 11,600 Scoville units - leaves your tongue afire yet begging for more.

While the Exxxtra Picante Salsa Kutbil-ik-de Chile Habanero Sauce from El Yucateco may not be the hottest hot sauce there is certainly something to be said for flavor and overall appeal. In this regard the brown habanero sauce remains my favorite hot sauce and I certainly recommend that you try it! My review of El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Kutbil-ik Habanero Hot Sauce would rate it 5 out of 5 stars!

I searched all over and Amazon appears to have in stock and at some of the best prices:

El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Kutbil-ik Mayan Style Habanero Hot Sauce - 4 oz


Try it and let me know what you think!!


Here is what it looks like: