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Title: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Kingcreek on August 05, 2018, 09:55:38 AM: I'm not timid with hot sauce. The common store brands do very little for me. I will liberally apply habernero sauce at times and enjoy it.
But this morning I found my upper scoville limits.
A friend of mine has been growing his peppers and experimenting and he gave me 2 bottles to try. The mango and habernero hot sauce was really good on my Cajun egg scramble this morning.
The straight ghost pepper sauce was nothing but painful. I couldn't taste anything but searing fire. I threw it in the trash. I have no desire to experience that again.
So when I next see him, I'll have to tell him one was very good and the other not so good, unless you are really out to hurt someone.
He told me he has a batch of Carolina reaper sauce also but I am not interested.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: BobR on August 05, 2018, 11:35:10 AM: My hot pepper plants (Chocolate ghost pepper, Carolina Reaper and Bleeding Borg) plants aren't doing anything this year, not even growing very well. It's disappointing, I have some friends that I was going to give some peppers to for their use.

bob
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: zxcvbob on August 05, 2018, 12:12:31 PM: My serrano peppers are just coming in. They are nice and hot but not too painful. I also like the little Thai peppers from the Asian market; I can munch those, but if I eat more than about 5 or 6 in a day I pay for it the next. Seems like they all arrive at my colon at the same time... (TMI)

I'm growing some weird chiletepin x "Lemon Drop" cross peppers this year for the first time. No idea how hot those will be. I have some that might be ready to pick, but I don't know so I'm waiting until the first one starts to change color.

I've had the same bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce on my desk for about 5 years. I've used about half of it. One big drop is enough to season a bowl of soup or can of ravioli. Two drops is too much.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: grampster on August 05, 2018, 02:07:09 PM: SMH. I never have been able to figure out why people put peppers in food that scorches the skin off'n the roof of their mouth, causes contractions in the swallow tubes, exercises the sweat glands, induces hiccups of the grandiose kind, projectile vomiting and as a final bow out, scorches the sphincter and melts the wax ring in the terlett. Am I missing anything?
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: K Frame on August 06, 2018, 07:07:13 AM: I like mild to moderate heat. Tabasco brand is a bit too hot for me. Worse, it doesn't have much flavor.

That's why I like Louisiana hot sauce. It has a decent amount of heat but it has incredible flavor. It really pops. Best of all, it's cheap. Walmart carries it for $1.49 or so for a 12 ounce bottle. A 3 ounce bottle of Tabasco is nearly triple that.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Brad Johnson on August 06, 2018, 10:47:52 AM: Cholula is my go-to. Has flavors that actually... flavor. Not just vinegar, salt, and heat.

Brad
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Kingcreek on August 06, 2018, 10:55:14 AM: I like the green habernero el yucateco for heat and flavor. The mango habernero sauce he gave me is a nice sweet and moderate hot.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Scout26 on August 12, 2018, 01:16:55 AM: Hard pass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSeBSXmc9rU
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Ben on August 12, 2018, 10:24:28 AM: Quote from: Brad Johnson on August 06, 2018, 10:47:52 AM
Cholula is my go-to. Has flavors that actually... flavor. Not just vinegar, salt, and heat.

Brad

I'm down with the Cholula - it's what I keep at home. I wish more restaurants would carry it. Like Mike, Tabasco is a little hot for me. If that's all a place has for my breakfast eggs, I'll use it, but only a few drops.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 13, 2018, 01:22:28 AM: I'm seeing Cholula at a whole lot of restaurants lately.

Tabasco comes in a variety of flavors now, although you tend to lose the purity of the vinegar/salt/pepper carb-cleaner-ness of the original. I like the Chipotle flavor.

I've been trying Louisiana Hot Sauce lately (the official hot sauce of Mike Irwin), and I grudgingly admit that I enjoy it.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: TechMan on August 13, 2018, 01:59:57 PM: Quote from: Amy Schumer on August 12, 2018, 01:16:55 AM
Hard pass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSeBSXmc9rU

Raise you with this one: https://youtu.be/9k-SBpElcWA?t=178 (https://youtu.be/9k-SBpElcWA?t=178)
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: grislyatoms on August 14, 2018, 01:19:52 AM: Pretty good with standard "Huy-Fong" Sriracha and Tabasco. Really don't feel the need to go any hotter. If I want hotter, then more!
Cholula and Frank's Red-Hot - why bother? Can't even taste them.
I do have a small bottle of Dave's Insanity. It has it's uses. Anything beyond that is just too much, and I regularly order "thai-hot" from the local pad-thai joint. That stuff will peel paint, but *so* good. Their fish cakes are excellent. Thai Cuisine restaurant on Coors and Montano.
Title: Re: Hot sauce, from condiment to pain generator
Post by: makattak on August 21, 2018, 12:57:48 PM: I've discovered I'm not really interested in pepper-based heat.

I'd like something hot that then goes away (horseradish) or a slow, building heat (curry).

I don't like the lingering heat of peppers. I'm fine with it, so long as it's not too hot, but the "bet you can't handle this!" heat seems pointless to me.