We Put Bird Blood & Scorpion Sauce on Wings… Bad Idea?

Four sauces. One plate of crispy wings. We line up a bright cherry pepper classic, a mischievous cranberry-habanero “sweet heat,” a dill pickle relish-style burner, and a pear-scorpion sleeper that smiles first and stings later—and then we see which ones actually sing on food, not just on a spoon. From first sniff to final burn, we break down flavor arcs, heat timelines, and the little choices that make a sauce work in the real world.

Sauces Used in the Episode:
White House Station's Cherry Pepper
Sauce Leapord's Bird Blood (Cranberry Habenero)
NEWKS. Dill Pickle Sauce (made with Grillos Pickles)
Angry Goat Pepper Company's Purple Hippo (Scorpion Pepper)

We start with the cherry pepper bottle that proves simplicity travels well: clean vinegar, cherry bite, quick heat, and endless uses across eggs, pizza, veggies, and sandwiches. Then we flip the script with cranberry habanero—sweet, ruby, and oddly perfect for turkey leftovers, cheeses, and even desserts—though on wings it becomes a fun curveball more than a staple. The dill pickle hot sauce crashes the party like relish with intent, briny and dill-forward with a late habanero nudge that makes burgers, brats, and fried chicken sandwiches pop. Finally, we face the pear-scorpion combo: fruit up front, then that unmistakable scorpion bloom that warms the cheeks and lingers just long enough to make you reach for one more bite.

Along the way we talk pairing strategy—how fat, crunch, and heat balance each other; why sugar can mask but also carry capsaicin; and how acidity resets your palate between bites. We call out the everyday winner, the novelty hero, the secret weapon for game-day stacks, and the bottle that turns a casual meal into a dare. If you love hot sauce reviews, spicy wings, and practical flavor tips you can use tonight, you’ll feel right at home with this lineup.

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Transcript

Setting Up The Sauce Lineup

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello. Hi. We are back with the seventh episode of Spice Feed. All right, we got four hot sauces for today. And uh what are we going to start with? So we start with this. That's the uh White House station cherry pepper sauce. That sounds like a lot of fun. It might be the most mildest, so we're just kind of guessing on that one. And this this is something that I bought. It's by the uh Sauce Leopard Sauce Company. And saw it in the store. I love the name. It's called Bird Blood. And this is a cranberry habanero hot sauce. All right. So that's gonna be fun. Yeah. I should have brought in some dead birds and filled them up and then they ate them, right? It's weird marketing, but uh we'll see how it tastes. Third on the list, we got nuke gorillos pickles, hot sauce. Love pickle sauces. Gorillo pickles, baby. Gorillos, huh? How about that? And last but not least, look at this Purple Hippo by Angry Goat Pepper Company. And uh yeah, this is a um prickly pear and scorpion. Uh-oh. Sounds like it's what we call purple nurple. Ouch. Ouch. All right. So uh I guess uh we'll start with number one. Number one, picker up your butts. Let's go. Okay, here you go. We're gonna bust out the evil spoons. Choose your weapon. Yes, this looks like a good one. But I don't know if you could see the skull, but it's a little fun, little fun guy. All right. Those holes in my spoon, mommy. It says shake well, huh? Cherry peppers. You always want to shake well. It's been a while. Oh my. You first. I love cherry pepper, so I'm excited. Oh baby. Spoonful. Alright. Just missed the skull eyes. I'm getting good at it. Cheers. Cheers. Let's see what type of adventure we can do. We'll spill. Oh shit. Wow. Right. That's hotter than I thought it was gonna be. Yeah. We did just have a spoonful, so. Yeah. That's great. Wow. That's fun. Delicious. Yeah, it hits you right away. Um there's not really much on a description on here, but White House Station. I mean, I think they're local to us. Yeah, supposed to just hot cherry peppers, vinegar, onion, sugar, salt, gaelic. Oh no, they're from New Jersey. I'm sorry. Jasmine. That's great. I mean, definitely simple, nothing crazy, but that was uh very likable. Yes, I can put that on. It's one of those things you can kind of throw on anything. Yeah, and I can do like versatile. I feel like I could do shots of this. We just kind of did. Little baby shots. Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. Right, right. Okay, so um, yeah. All right, let's do the next one. I'll grab the first flying. Oh god. Cranberry habanero from uh the sauce leopard. Make sure you shake the blood. Gotta shake the blood. Like we're doing a ritual right now. You know, and if we kind of thought in advance, we should have got at least like a rubber bird or something. Fucking squeeze the blood out of them. I don't know, I'm fussed. I don't know. All right. To the blood. To the blood of the bird. You'll be sacrificed. Tastes like a body bird. Oh man. That's sweet. Very sweet of front. Yeah, it's bizarro. It's nice. This would be good like on ice cream. Bloody ice cream. Maybe like peeps. I don't know. And you bite the peeps head off. Like trying to think. Trying to think, but nothing happens. Yeah, but um maybe you could put like um like a yeah, definitely is it has that cranberryish color in there too. Yeah, that's good. It's just like bizarro. Yeah, it's a lot, yeah, it's very sweet. Can you throw it on some turkey or something? Some cranberry and turkey. Yeah. Maybe we'll have a Thanksgiving episode. Yeah. Are you gonna be the turkey? Yes. You can baste me, baby. All right. All right, we're getting ahead of ourselves here. I'd like to see the visual for that. Butter me up, butterball. All right. So um, would you like to do the honors for the um I love pickles, so gorillo's pickles are awesome. I mean, nukes, that's crazy. Two great companies as far as I'm concerned. So what would you say? Would you say that before we opened that? Would you say the bird blood was hotter than the cherry peppers? It almost was like slightly hotter. Yeah. I think it had more of a sweetness, which kind of toned down the heat, but like I think the heat was probably a little bit stronger. You can even put like like cra crackers or like that was like cheese and crackers and cranberry. I I um the I think the only other straight-up pickle sauce I have, and there's like chunks of pickle in there, too. That's pretty wild. Yeah, the the one was the epicalypse one. I think we reviewed that, I believe, right? I think so. I don't know. I just know we've had it a bunch, so this is like almost like relish. Yeah, maybe it needs an extra shake, but I'm not sure. Didn't I shake it? It did, but you need ding ding. I think it just it's a thicker sauce. Oh my god. Oh yeah, it's nice. This is great. Looks like definitely looks like a relish. Very nice. Alright. Tastes like pickles. And then the burn takes a second. Yeah, what kind of peppers is in this? Could you see? Might need the magnifying glass 3000. What's it called? Lilo. We did name it. Was it Lilo? Yeah, from Lilo and Stitch. No, from um Futurama. I don't know that I'm terrible at names. I'm not good at all right. Uh jalapenos, jalapeno, cucumber, cucumber, yellow onion, dill, and habanero and gargoyle. That's the habanero at the end. That's great. I'm gonna use this all the time. Oh, that light's better. Okay. I wanna have another uh little taste of this. Oh, he's doubling down. I really like this. Double dare you. What was that name of that guy who hosts the double dare? Oh, I forget his name. Markers. Oh, yeah, like a big chunk of pickle. We'll have to have Mark Summers pop on the screen. Double dare. Oh baby. Hmm. Awesome. It's totally like a relish. Yeah, it's bizarre. Well, but it's definitely going on a burger. Definitely going on my face. Is that a is that a booger on your face or is that nukes? Gorillo. Dill pickle hot sauce. Yeah, it doesn't actually this one doesn't actually have a name. It just says nukes dill pickle hot sauce. Hey, you know what? It doesn't need a name. It's so good. It's got more of a burn at the end than we thought. You know, I thought it was gonna be a lot more mild because it's yeah. I think it's not like earth shattering, but it's got a good end. Yeah, if you had it on a burger, I bet you'd just keep keep getting, yeah. It's gonna be beautiful. Oh no. What is our final encounter? Yeah, it's the um purple nurple. Yep, the purple hippo. Pear and scorpion. So this one is probably gonna be, let me guess, fruity up front. Stinging on the back. Yeah. Like a damn scorpion. Angry goat. They're they're uh angry scorpions. Yeah, every angry goat sauce I've had so far. And I have a couple more. It's a burner. Definitely been big burners. Like they're messing with you. And I I gotta say, like I think I might have said this another episode. Out of every hot sauce company that we visited at festivals and stuff. They definitely have gotta have like you know, 50 on display. I've never seen so many like sometimes, you know, vendors will have, you know, handful of other things and whatnot, but these guys loaded with, and they all have this really cool artwork, too. I love it. Anyway, funny names. Yeah, and wicked funny names. And they're angry. They're gonna make my mouth angry any second now. All right. The purple hippo. Yep. All pear in the beginning. Um pear, then scare. Yeah. There it goes. Oh my god. Oh yeah. Just got a purple nurple in the fucking mouth. That is great. Wow. Oh Pete Pablo loves Pete Pablano loves the heat. Yeah. My face just warmed up. I'm breathing fire. Like a fucking dragon right now. Yeah, there you go. Angry goat. Never never leave never leaves you hanging. That always tricks you because that tastes good. And then it's like Yeah, the pears were just it was like all pear on the front. You know, it's like it's like a pear party. It's preparing you to die. Yeah, preparing to get death by scorpion. Oh, scorpion from Mortal Kombat comes out and just fucking gets you. Oh yeah. What is the um I don't know fatality? Yeah. Oh my god. Awesome. So what do you think? What do you um I'm looking at the time? Yeah. It's uh magnifying glass. I think I do. Well, I think it's time to try this with some wings. I think I just spit up. Yeah, I felt it on my face. I liked it. To keep this in there? Let's get some wings. The drug watch. All right, so we're back. And uh got some wingage. Got some inspections to do. Doctor. Every time I'm with you, we're wearing rubber gloves. All right. So we got here. We are now for you for the listening audience. We are putting on our safety gloves. So the glove does not fit. Oh, it does not fit. I was doing an OJ reference. All right. Doctor, do you concur? All right, what do you want to go first? You want to go, do you want to go hot to not or are we going the same order? I guess same order. Okay. All right. So we got the uh White House Station cherry pepper. We have shaken our sauces all over these damn wings. God damn. Oh boy. Well, there you go. Slippery sucker. All right. Wow. There we go. Very versatile shot.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Wow.

Gearing Up For Wing Trials

Wings Round: Cherry Pepper Works

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Super chill. Yep. Good versatile. That was fun. I can eat this all day. All right. Nice crispy wings though. I may have cooked them for too long. Now we're doing the bloody birds on a bloody bird. It looks like it's been in a bloody bird. It's officially a bloody bird. This might be a little weird on a wing, right? Probably not a preference, but I kind of like it. Yeah, I'm always hostile. If you don't need them straight up, are you a little? A little more cranberry uh cranberry as twins. My friends call me muck. Mukbang. Alright, we're looking we're flying through this, huh? We're on speed today. Alright, what's the this is the uh nuke? Nuke. Nuoks and grillo are hanging out together. I love I love that they're using grillos. Grillos are so cool. Pickles on a freaking chicken wing. I'm gonna add more of that. That's a weird mix, too. I didn't even I don't think we planned this out very well. Oh my god, dude. What is what's up with you, butterfangers? Apparently, when I go like this, everything falls. You should get that looked at. Yeah. Gravity or something like that. That's good. I don't I mean, no knock on the sauce, I usually um I don't know if pickle sauce is good on a chicken wing. I still like it. Yeah. I don't apparently there's nothing I don't like on chicken wings. Yeah, never. Or wings like pickles or wings, but put the pickles on it. Extra pickles. Make sure you put them on the wing. None of that on the side shit. I'm gonna try to have that at a restaurant soon just to see what they say. Well, I do. Can you put them on the chicken wings? Oh god. Is it the goat now? Angry, angry goat. Extra angry. Oh god. I don't think this is gonna hide the flavor. No. This is gonna be all wait, it's gonna be really nice to you in the beginning. Lots of hairs. It's gonna be like, oh, it's not too bad. Oh, oh. Oh, like I'm eating the bone. Oh, I'll go on, cool. Oh, no bone. Um yeah, it's hot. I'm not like the scorpion isn't like coming to get me with my face. Yeah, is that oh no, here it is. Definitely not. Yeah, I'll tell you. It's more manageable though, you know. Yeah. This was great. Well, there you go. I mean, that's uh I think we have the this is the is this the record for fast this episode. Yeah. I don't know. We'd have we'd have to look at the um the time code after to see where what what's going on, but um sorry for the folks who wanted to listen to us talk for an extra three hours, but we have completed this episode way faster than we thought. Yeah. And the angry goat has taken my soul, and the surgery is done. Surgery is over. We'd get to live. And um survived surgery. Well, thank you for watching. Please come back again because we might have some special guests.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Probably make us a little more entertaining with guests, I would say, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:10

It's all right.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

We're great. I'm gonna go take an ice bath. That doesn't sound like fun. Over and out.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Let us get it.