Hot Sauce Problem (1 Viewer)

[Mr Person]

I'm a big heat fan as well, and a Hot Ones fan - and I'm pretty convinced that the show is lying, and that Da Bomb has more heat to it than any of the Last Dabs.

I have the three Last Dabs - Apollo, XXX and eXperience, and I use to them all pretty frequently. But Da Bomb only comes out when I have a friend to dare into trying it.

I agree about Da Bomb. Their Scoville numbers are way below what they really are, OR, everyone else's are inflated.

My last bottle of Da Bomb: Ground Zero lasted a good 12 years. It claimed a measly 358,000 Scoville rating. But it blew everything else I got out of the water until I found the straight Carolina Reaper Mash.

My replacement bottle claims 321,900 Scoville, and it's much weaker. But it still outperforms The Last Dab by volume. (The last Dab, dear other viewers, sells itself by noting it's made with Pepper X at 2,900,000ish Scoville, but is then diluted with vinegar/etc).




So I dunno. I was under the impression that initially, the Scoville number rating was arrived at by mixing mashed up pepper with a certain amount of water, and reflected the average concentration at which people who didn't eat hot peppers noticed heat. It was the denominator. At some point, they switched over to GC-MS testing to measure the amount of capsacin and presumably re-rated things, I don't know. So ..fair warning for those reading this who haven't had Da Bomb sauces: they're hotter than they claim.

 

[Mr Person]

I feel like Sean says "careful round the eyes" in nearly every episode of Hot Ones.

I will say, though - forgetting to wash your hands before touching your eyes is the second worst mistake one can make with hot sauce - and I can speak to making the first.

Let me tell you about a bad moment from a few years ago.

My dad likes everything up to habenero heat. I got him a big jug of Sonoran Spice habanero flakes. My parents refill a repurposed generic "red pepper flake" container with it.

I'm visiting my parents. My mother asks me to tell her whether or not the flakes in a shaker that ostensibly is a generic red pepper flake container is telling the truth, or is full of habenero flakes. But there aren't much in the way of flakes. It's just a bit of powder at the bottom. What does our intrepid moron do?





He screws off the top, sticks his nose over the opening, and sniffs.

So yeah, Ozzy snorted live ants. I snorted Habenero powder. This was unpleasant.

 

[Lutherf]

I agree about Da Bomb. Their Scoville numbers are way below what they really are, OR, everyone else's are inflated.

My last bottle of Da Bomb: Ground Zero lasted a good 12 years. It claimed a measly 358,000 Scoville rating. But it blew everything else I got out of the water until I found the straight Carolina Reaper Mash.

My replacement bottle claims 321,900 Scoville, and it's much weaker. But it still outperforms The Last Dab by volume. (The last Dab, dear other viewers, sells itself by noting it's made with Pepper X at 2,900,000ish Scoville, but is then diluted with vinegar/etc).




So I dunno. I was under the impression that initially, the Scoville number rating was arrived at by mixing mashed up pepper with a certain amount of water, and reflected the average concentration at which people who didn't eat hot peppers noticed heat. It was the denominator. At some point, they switched over to GC-MS testing to measure the amount of capsacin and presumably re-rated things, I don't know. So ..fair warning for those reading this who haven't had Da Bomb sauces: they're hotter than they claim.

Yeah. I read the label on that one and mumbled something about it being nothing but vinegar and murder. It was definitely hot but didn't have much in flavor. A lot of the high capsaicin peppers have a floral note to them which is really kind of nice but that "Pepper X" stuff was just hot and not much else.

 

[Allan]

I once got in a pickled jalapeño eating contest with a friend, and while I held my own, afterward I had to pee, and that was a total loss.

MAGA.

You were pickled or the jalapeños?

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Any suggestions for where to go with all this stuff would be much appreciated

Sounds like you need to start putting it on everything.

Or keep a bottle on hand when hanging out with 'friends', unbeknownst to them. Get creative.

 

[Rexedgar]

Geeze, I'm good with Tabasco. All the hot sauce I need.

I'm not going to think about what happens to you guys the next day.

That’s why you finish up with ice cream!

 

[Risky Thicket]

Yeah. I read the label on that one and mumbled something about it being nothing but vinegar and murder. It was definitely hot but didn't have much in flavor. A lot of the high capsaicin peppers have a floral note to them which is really kind of nice but that "Pepper X" stuff was just hot and not much else.

Don't forget to have a half gallon of your favorite kind of ice cream ready for when you are finished eating a super hot meal.

C'mon, ice cream.

 

[Daisy]

Stay close to a toilet tomorrow.

And keep an ice pack handy...

 

[Daisy]

That’s why you finish up with ice cream!

And tomorrow? What about tomorrow?

 

[Ganondagan]

I like hot sauce but since I've gotten older the really hot ones will make me choke even when I don't mind the flavor. So annoying.

Same. I love the Jalapeno sauces but when I get to Habanero I get hiccups. I found that out while visiting Oaxaca. My daughter loves reminding me about that.

 

[VanceMack]

I keep the latest version of "the last dab" on hand.

My go to these days is actually Akabanga oil from Rwanda. Its got really nice heat but also a really good flavor that I think compliments whatever it is on instead of commandeering the flavor.

 

[maxparrish]

I made a mention to a friend that I like hot sauce on certain foods and have a pretty good tolerance for heat. That friend later spoke to one if his friends and I ended up with a sampler box of 10 different hot sauces (one of which is the focus of a YouTube hot sauce challenge). This was on top of the dozen or so bottle of hot sauce I usually have in the house. I tried everything in the sampler box and didn't burst into flame which impressed my buddy and his friend enough that, after getting back into the office after a short trip, I found a box of more than SEVENTY bottles of hot sauce.

I have no idea what I can do with what amounts to a couple of gallons of hot sauce. I'm not sure how to even sample all of them in a reasonable amount of time. Heck, I have no idea where to PUT all the bottles.

Any suggestions for where to go with all this stuff would be much appreciated.

If you were a hot sauce nut, I'd suggest you keep them all and gradually sample four or five a sitting, categorizing by "vinegary, hot, spicy, sweet..." ect. Then if you were really into it you could start concocting combinations of them to develop your own hot sauce...if that was your thing.

Barring that, giving it to someone who is willing to do that might be a good option.

 

[VanceMack]

As for the bottles...you might host your own version of hot ones...have a tasting contest...encourage all the participants to feel free to take their favorites home with them, and then have a talk with your buddy.

 

[TheDoctorWasIn]

There's a kebab cart in Midtown that has some of the best hot sauces I've ever tasted - and it's surprisingly hot as well (easily at the habanero level).

That cart has actually developed into a national franchise ("Halal Guys"), but the franchises have a different hot sauce.

 

[Lovebug]

Send them to me! I'm a hot sauce nut! I put that sh!t on everything!

Scrambled eggs, egg salad, boiled eggs...

Lol, reminds me of

 

[Stealers Wheel]

I've never understood the appeal of spices that cause involuntary bodily reactions. Same reason I don't play with live elctrical wires.

 

[BitterPill]

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I've never understood the appeal of spices that cause involuntary bodily reactions. Same reason I don't play with live elctrical wires.

Capsicum is a strategy peppers use to prevent mammals from eating their peppers since mammals are susceptible to the effect - most won't bother, and if a mammal ever eats a pepper, the seed is destroyed, yet birds are immune to the effect, eat the peppers and do not destroy the seeds. Perfect strategy for seeding.

Yet peppers never figured on humans developing a resistance to and even desire for the effect, and if humans ever make it to space and beyond, peppers will certainly go with us.

Peppers are genius.

I've never understood the appeal of spices that cause involuntary bodily reactions. Same reason I don't play with live elctrical wires.

Since I've done both, I assume it is one of the many differences that make me a MAGA and you a naught.

MAGA.

 

[lmt]

Keep them and use them? Put them in the refrigerator to slow down enzyme activity, and hence, push forward the expiration date.

 

[americanwoman]

I made a mention to a friend that I like hot sauce on certain foods and have a pretty good tolerance for heat. That friend later spoke to one if his friends and I ended up with a sampler box of 10 different hot sauces (one of which is the focus of a YouTube hot sauce challenge). This was on top of the dozen or so bottle of hot sauce I usually have in the house. I tried everything in the sampler box and didn't burst into flame which impressed my buddy and his friend enough that, after getting back into the office after a short trip, I found a box of more than SEVENTY bottles of hot sauce.

I have no idea what I can do with what amounts to a couple of gallons of hot sauce. I'm not sure how to even sample all of them in a reasonable amount of time. Heck, I have no idea where to PUT all the bottles.

Any suggestions for where to go with all this stuff would be much appreciated.

Depending on the kind of hot sauce you got (and I am thinking if you have 70 bottles at least a couple might work ) and if they are big enough bottles - take some meat cut into bite size portions ( beef, pork, chicken ) fry it up a little, add some cut up potatoes, fry a little more, add the hot sauce to cover everything, boil, and then simmer until meat is fully cooked and potatoes are soft. Eat with a side of rice and tortillas. Carne en salsa con pappas. Usually it's made with homemade salsa but if you have so much hot sauce to use, it might not hurt to try it out.

 

[VanceMack]

Depending on the kind of hot sauce you got (and I am thinking if you have 70 bottles at least a couple might work ) and if they are big enough bottles - take some meat cut into bite size portions ( beef, pork, chicken ) fry it up a little, add some cut up potatoes, fry a little more, add the hot sauce to cover everything, boil, and then simmer until meat is fully cooked and potatoes are soft. Eat with a side of rice and tortillas. Carne en salsa con pappas. Usually it's made with homemade salsa but if you have so much hot sauce to use, it might not hurt to try it out.

Word of caution about cooking some of those hot sauces. You can literally turn your kitchen into a pepper gas chamber.

 

[americanwoman]

Word of caution about cooking some of those hot sauces. You can literally turn your kitchen into a pepper gas chamber.

Great point! Forgot about that, might need to open some windows.

I also like sauteing some shrimp then adding hot sauce, camarones a la diabla.

 

[Lutherf]

Depending on the kind of hot sauce you got (and I am thinking if you have 70 bottles at least a couple might work ) and if they are big enough bottles - take some meat cut into bite size portions ( beef, pork, chicken ) fry it up a little, add some cut up potatoes, fry a little more, add the hot sauce to cover everything, boil, and then simmer until meat is fully cooked and potatoes are soft. Eat with a side of rice and tortillas. Carne en salsa con pappas. Usually it's made with homemade salsa but if you have so much hot sauce to use, it might not hurt to try it out.

There are a few off them that will work for that and I do that pretty regularly with leftover steak.

 

[Lutherf]

I tried about a dozen of the sauces last night and the clear winner of that batch was Dawson's Zuzu's 7-Pot. It's blazing hot but the flavor profile is simply amazing.

 

[Lovebug]

Word of caution about cooking some of those hot sauces. You can literally turn your kitchen into a pepper gas chamber.

When you hear the spouse coughing in the room down the hall, make sure you have your vent hood on high. Open windows if necessary.