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★★☆☆☆
Don't spend $25 on 8oz of fish sauce and soy sauce
I was given a bottle of this, among other grilling accessories, as a Christmas gift this year. I was intrigued when I first saw it as I had been considering purchasing a mini-fridge and hacking it up to make my own dry-aging device, and this seemed far easier.
The sauce smells funky, but no surprises there since fish sauce is the #1 ingredient. The taste of the product wasn't bad.. it's not really like a true dry-aged steak, but it's good in its own merit. My biggest problem with it is that it tastes nearly identical to how my steaks taste when I simply brush them with fish sauce. The second time I used it, I prepared one steak with this sauce and another with only fish sauce brushed on it. Tasting them back to back, three different people (myself included) could hardly taste a difference. This sauce had a *slightly* richer flavor, but it also has additional salt, MSG, sugar, etc., so that's not at all surprising. You could very easily mix up your own fish sauce / soy sauce / msg / sugar batch yourself and get an identical product for a fraction of the price.
This leads to my biggest issue with this product - it's $25 for 8 ounces of what is largely fish sauce. There are a host of other ingredients thrown in in small quantities, but it smells like fish sauce, and the results of it are near-identical to that of fish sauce. I'm willing to support businesses coming out with innovative products, but this is pretty ridiculous.
And, not for nothing, I feel like most/all of the 5-star reviews for this product are fake. All but one were done on the same day or within one day, and all but one of them all only have a review for this product and one other random product, nothing else. Not only that, but none of them purchased on Amazon, either. Seems really unlikely that 5 people would purchase a product on a different site than Amazon and then just happen to review it on the same day, all while having only also reviewed one other product prior. It's like companies don't even try to hide fake reviews anymore.
