Hot honey has become a popular condiment, often enjoyed on pizza and fried chicken sandwiches. Tasting Table assessed 16 brands of hot honey, ranking them based on taste, heat, and the balance of flavors. While many brands did well, Desert Creek Texas Style Hot Honey received the lowest score due to its excessive sweetness and extreme spiciness, causing an unpleasant mixed taste reminiscent of cough syrup. The review emphasized that successful hot honey should allow for the nuanced flavors of honey and chili peppers to shine through, which Desert Creek failed to achieve due to its simplistic ingredient blend.
The Desert Creek Texas Style Hot Honey was an overwhelming affront to our taste buds that was both overly sweet and painfully spicy, leaving us grasping for a palate cleanser.
Simply put, Desert Creek's hot honey was too hot—leaving us with a cough syrup taste followed immediately by an uncomfortable heat that obliterated any other flavor.
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