Hot Sauce?

[MileHighGrowler]

(02-02-2021, 08:16 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: I love hot sauce. However, people who know me always like to have me try these explosive rot your stomach liner sauces. I ain't into that stuff. Hot sauce should not be painful because after a certain point, it kills the flavor of the food and drink. Ridiculous to me to go crazy on the Scoville levels, but that's just me. Plus, the extreme hot ones really taste like crap.

I like that you were able to find some good flavored hot sauces. I like siracha sauce as well. The heavy garlic presence is wonderful. I also add Franks heavily into soups and chili's. About 60% of the heat cooks out and adds a tremendous flavor. I also like Tobassco but It needs to be proper like with a bloody mary, on a sunny side up egg or on sausage gravy. Just a few drops.

My son bought me a sample pack of different hot sauces at Walmart during Christmas. Some of those were kind of nice, while some were ok. I really enjoyed trying them all though.

I'd agree completely with that.  If I can't taste anything, the experience is ruined.  What really blew me away with the folks at Heatonist (https://heatonist.com/) is that they made a sauce that clocks in at over 3 MILLION Scoville (a habanero is about 200,000 for reference - 2 million is about the same Scoville as pepper spray) that still has flavor, and damn good flavor at that.  You can pick out the ginger and coriander, which is just a remarkable feat.  It's hard to beat putting a little of that in some chili.  Eating it straight is madness, although I've done it a few times to help clear the sinuses.