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DirtyDirtyVagrant
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I'm looking for something extremely, extremely hot, but also flavorful. I'd like to avoid sauces with chili extract in them, if at all possible, because they tend to taste kinda nasty in my experience.
I was considering this Green Ghost stuff but after looking around it doesn't seem to come too highly recommended.
Suggestions for tasty and painful sauces? I'm aiming for at least 70,000 scovilles.
e: Meant 70,000.
I was considering this Green Ghost stuff but after looking around it doesn't seem to come too highly recommended.
Suggestions for tasty and painful sauces? I'm aiming for at least 70,000 scovilles.
e: Meant 70,000.
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I had some variety of Mad Dog a few years back that I remember being pretty good. I don't remember if it was Mad Dog 357 or Mad Dog Inferno. There's a Mad Dog 357 Ghost that might be what you're looking for. I also had some barbecue a couple of weeks back that we mixed some Da Bomb Ground Zero into that I really liked.
If I can prepare a sauce, then that could be fun. How might I actually do that?
I basically just want to make (or buy) an incredibly hot sauce for burritos or nachos or whatever.Tabasco/jalapenos/typical grocery store hot sauce just doesn't really cut it. Especially for my friends.
The beyond sun melting is pretty unique, not your usual hot sauce. It's hot and tasty.
They come up to the local Big E every year I always get jerky, and hot sauces.
I like Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce myself, but I think that's sub-70k scovilles.
edit: no wait, my bad. The plain Insanity Sauce is 180k. The Ultimate Insanity Sauce is hotter.
edit - I took out the scoville rating because it's not listed anywhere and I'm terrible at guessing how hot things are. I've had a teaspoon of the Aliento de diablo and I was fine; but I also have a pretty high tolerance. So pretty hot, but not I wish I was dead hot.
I don't think 70,000 is way beyond the average person. Excluding people who think any level of hot is too much, I'd say the habanero is usually too hot, but cayenne pepper is not bad at all. If the habanero is around 200K, and the cayenne pepper is around 30K, I'd say around 70K is still very tolerable, but noticeably hot.
Hmm, I guess I'll just say that maybe it does vary regionally. I'm from oregon, but I can't think of anyone who thinks a jalapeno is really hot. There's certainly people who flat out don't like things hot at all, but most people I know wouldn't think twice about eating jalapenos.
That being said, I was thinking of jalapenos, not cayanne peppers; so 70,000 is probably pretty hot for most people.
It's also going to depend on how much sauce you want to use. Nobody is going to drench their nacho's in a 500,000+ sauce. I like using really really hot sauces as a dipping sauce, but if your looking for something to use as the main sauce for cooking taco meat, or something like that, then something much less will go a long way.
They sell it at the pizza place catty-corner from my apartment. That reminds me that I need to grab some.
Huh, interesting. Out here in Virginia most people start sucking down the first thing they can find to drink if they eat a jalapeno and top out with a few drops of Tabasco for hot sauces. Those El Yucateco sauces I recommended for normal grocery store brands are something like 8k-10k. One of Mexican restaurants here has them on the table and whenever I go with groups of people the "I like a little bit of spice" people can't deal with them. It was pretty much the same back when I lived in Iowa.
It's not too surprising, though. You see it with Indian, Thai, and Mexican foods all the time, or at least hear about it - the restaurants around here don't serve the fabled "really hot" stuff. I've been warned to be careful with the Sriracha at restaurants here.
Oh well, enough de-railing this here thread, eh?
I came into this thread to recommend http://www.secretaardvark.com/
This stuff is amazing; not quite as hot as you are looking for, but it is so good.
Yeah, I'm not sure that chart is completely accurate. I always found Sriracha to be much hotter than Tabasco and Cholula, too. It also lists regular Dave's Insanity Sauce as 180k, but I'm pretty sure I looked it up when I first started taking an interest in the boutique hot sauces and it was estimated at closer to 80k. Most of it seems close enough as far as I can tell, though.
I'm curious where Aardvark ranks.
One source of "heat" that I found brings a lot of interesting flavor is harissa, which is, as far as I know, an arab / middle-eastern thing, so it tastes very different from the mexican/southwestern sources of "heat". It's probably not as hot as Tabasco, but you can use more of it with less fear of the result being too hot. I mix it with mayo and spread it on my hamburger buns. The stuff I buy comes in a tube like the ones used for toothpaste. For my hamburgers, I'll use an amount equivalent to half the amount of toothpaste I put on my toothbrush, on each hamburger bun.
I doubt this will be hot enough for the OP's needs, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to share this different option. The OP did mention he was looking for something hot that also brings some flavor. Pure cap is not going to add much flavor, and neither will will the more extreme hot sauces.
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i find the spicyness of sriracha varies greatly depending on what you eat it with.
Used to have a Habanero BBQ sauce that I liked, but that was a local company back in Indiana.