Some Like It Hot

[scoopster]

Well I used to like it hot and regularly sought out the eateries in Boston that offered the hottest food. I've mellowed a lot since I moved to the burbs and take it easy on my colon these days.

But this weekend I was out for my birthday celebration and went to East Coast Grill in Cambridge MA. (http://www.eastcoastgrill.net/main/hellnight.htm) For those that are familiar with this place all I can say is I survived a "Hell Bone" appetizer - barely. There was sweat, there was hurt, there was rapid consumption of my 16 oz. house special margarita. And I was pretty uncomfortable the next day in ways I don't think befit discussion on this fine, gentlemanly board. :nuke:Inner Beauty (http://hotsaucecatalog.com/hs1289h.html)hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler :nuke: agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.


:devil: So, how hot do you folks like it? Let's hear stories and products.:devil:

[Unit 91]

I love hot food. Love it.

My cousin married a Peruvian gentleman and he often brings back a hot sauce when he goes home. It's pasty, yellow-orange baby poo in color and is probably hotter than hell. It's amazing. I wish I knew what it was called but I can't find it anywhere.

I do find that my body doesn't, ahem, process hot things quite as well as it used to.

[Zonian]

21587
:devil: I love this stuff.

[scoopster]

21587
:devil: I love this stuff.
Dave's Insanity is well reputed among questers of the ultimate capsicin-invoked transcendental experience.

[AZShaver]

I thought you were talking about Phoenix. It was 110 yesterday, 109 today. Is that hot?:eek:

[ratcheer]

I enjoy hot sauces but I do not care about trying to have the absolute hottest things available. I like moderately hot habanero sauces, etc.

Tim

[boboakalfb]

I enjoy hot sauces but I do not care about trying to have the absolute hottest things available. I like moderately hot habanero sauces, etc.

Tim

I agree. I am a fan of spicy foods, but it's all about the flavor. Not hot for the sake of it being hot.

[chop-chop]

I love hot food. Love it.

My cousin married a Peruvian gentleman and he often brings back a hot sauce when he goes home. It's pasty, yellow-orange baby poo in color and is probably hotter than hell. It's amazing. I wish I knew what it was called but I can't find it anywhere.

I do find that my body doesn't, ahem, process hot things quite as well as it used to.

Your description sounds like it could be this one: http://www.2hotsauce.com/productos_en.htm

There's a hot pepper which is used in Indian food that will... give you instant burn in your mouth, make your nose run, make you sweat, bring tears to your eyes, and make talking a real challenge. It's the hottest pepper that I've ever "happened upon". I was very careful to inspect every fork-full after that experience. It hasn't kept me from enjoying Indian food.

I am told that the spice is called: Naga Jolokia

Wikipedia defines it like this:

The Bhut Jolokia (also known as Naga Jolokia, Ghost Chili, Ghost Pepper, Naga Morich) is a chili pepper that grows in northeastern India (Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur), Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In 2006, it was confirmed by Guinness World Records to be the hottest chili in the world, displacing the Red Savina. Disagreement has arisen on whether it is a Capsicum frutescens or a Capsicum chinense. The Indians claim it is a C. frutescens,[1] but the derived cultivar Dorset Naga was assessed as a C. chinense. Recent DNA tests have found both C. chinense and C. frutescens genes.

Enjoy the HEAT! :cool:

Ciao,
chop-chop

[Unit 91]

It may be the 2hot. I'll have to ask him when I go home this weekend.

[Zonian]

Dave's Insanity is well reputed among questers of the ultimate capsicin-invoked transcendental experience.

Yes it is pure delight.



I enjoy hot sauces but I do not care about trying to have the absolute hottest things available. I like moderately hot habanero sauces, etc.

Tim

A drop of this stuff will give your soup, sauce, etc. the moderately hot habanero flavor you are looking for. More will put hair on your chest as well as give you the true test of fire resistance. It is a multipurpose hot sauce. Be careful! :devil:

[thirdeye]

21587
:devil: I love this stuff.

Now your talking....That's some great heat...:mad5:

[Nemesis]

I'm a big fan of hot stuff.
I have a garden I'm rather proud of, I grow a very nice selection of the hottest peppers on the planet. Some you've heard of like the Ghost Chili/Bhut Jolokia, others you'd have to be a dedicated pepper grower to know of.
Many of my peppers are naturally hotter than the stuff they put on wings for those hot wing eating contests, with the benefit of being all natural.
Pepper extract has a nasty taste that I can live without.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3383/deliciousevil.jpg
One of the plants I'm most proud of, my Yellow 7 Pot. It will eventually ripen to a brilliant yellow color, will taste great, and will be hot enough for anyone.

Can't wait for my chocolate habaneros to ripen, they're hot but not intolerable (if you can handle heat, a normal person would be blown away), and they have this awesome passionfruit taste to them.

Bhuts are also a favorite, they get a lot of press for being the "world's hottest", but aside from the searing pain, they have a really lovely flavor.
That is, until your taste buds go numb from sensory overload.

[jpakstis]

Well I used to like it hot and regularly sought out the eateries in Boston that offered the hottest food. I've mellowed a lot since I moved to the burbs and take it easy on my colon these days.

But this weekend I was out for my birthday celebration and went to East Coast Grill in Cambridge MA. (http://www.eastcoastgrill.net/main/hellnight.htm) For those that are familiar with this place all I can say is I survived a "Hell Bone" appetizer - barely. There was sweat, there was hurt, there was rapid consumption of my 16 oz. house special margarita. And I was pretty uncomfortable the next day in ways I don't think befit discussion on this fine, gentlemanly board. :nuke:Inner Beauty (http://hotsaucecatalog.com/hs1289h.html)hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler :nuke: agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.


:devil: So, how hot do you folks like it? Let's hear stories and products.:devil:

Have you ever been to one of their Hell Nights? It was a whole meal (and drinks!!!) like that. I had to keep reminding myself that I would want to come back but I couldn't because it was just too hot. And now I want to go back!

[BladeRunner001]

Well I used to like it hot and regularly sought out the eateries in Boston that offered the hottest food. I've mellowed a lot since I moved to the burbs and take it easy on my colon these days.

But this weekend I was out for my birthday celebration and went to East Coast Grill in Cambridge MA. (http://www.eastcoastgrill.net/main/hellnight.htm) For those that are familiar with this place all I can say is I survived a "Hell Bone" appetizer - barely. There was sweat, there was hurt, there was rapid consumption of my 16 oz. house special margarita. And I was pretty uncomfortable the next day in ways I don't think befit discussion on this fine, gentlemanly board. :nuke:Inner Beauty (http://hotsaucecatalog.com/hs1289h.html)hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler :nuke: agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.


:devil: So, how hot do you folks like it? Let's hear stories and products.:devil:



And I thought you were talking about Marilyn Monroe :001_wub:.

Well, I guess since we are talking about food, I will vote for hot food as well...but not hot enough to melt the palate though. I do like to taste food :biggrin1:

Cheers,
Robert

[damooshki]

First off let me say that I absolutely love hot/spicy food even though it may not agree with my digestive tract very well. I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.

While I have many other hot sauces which are good, this is by far the hottest I have ever tried. Dave's Insanity doesn't even come close (not that it's a bad sauce, I actually really like it too).

In an attempt to explain just how hot this stuff is; I use a toothpick, dip in about 1/2" in the bottle and stir it into a bowl of ramen/cup noodles. If I do that twice it's on the verge of being too hot. This stuff is seriously hot. Not recommended for the faint of heart.

[kingfisher]

I like Melinda's; it's a hot sauce but it has a lot of other flavors going on in it.:thumbup1:

Lately I've been using Speedy's #44. Hotter than Melinda's, but still with some good flavor. Not quite as tasty as Melinda's, but pretty darned good.

[steveclarkus]

As an aside, many of the bottles make good AS bottles for those who do not appreciate the many atributes of plastic.

[Kouros]

Defcon Hot Sauces are the best:

[_JP_]

I like the spice, but I have to want and be prepared for it. Otherwise it can just hurt. There has been a couple of times where I was surprised by heat that was too much for me. My throat actually closed up! I prefer breathing.

[ackvil]

Unfortunately, my hot days are over.

However, I recall eating at a restaurant in New Orleans years ago that had the most unbelievable jambalaya. It was made with three different hot peppers: one that was hot right off the bat, the second one exploded after you chewed, and the next one after you swallowed. Thought it was great until the next day. :cursing:

[mretzloff]

I agree. I am a fan of spicy foods, but it's all about the flavor. Not hot for the sake of it being hot.

This. I do not mind an extremely hot dish, but there also needs to be some flavor there. Extremely hot food without flavor is just boring.

[_JP_]

This. I do not mind an extremely hot dish, but there also needs to be some flavor there. Extremely hot food without flavor is just boring.

In a restaurant that I worked at we used to put wings for Happy Hour. Somewhere along the line we switched from using a wing sauce to using straight Chinese chili oil to "make the customers thirsty so they would buy more drinks."

It didn't work that way.

Not only did the customers not order more drinks, they ate fewer wings. No flavor to them. And I can't stand the smell of that chili oil to this day. We switched back to wing sauce.

[Monkeydad]

I am typically a Tabasco, Frank's Red Hot or Texas Pete fan, but I picked up a bottle of Louisiana brand hot sauce for a buck...it has more of a kick than most other grocery store brands. I like it a lot. Huge bottle too.

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[3eff_Jeff]

:devil: So, how hot do you folks like it? Let's hear stories and products.:devil:

In college, I was a madman for spicy food. Let's put it this way. At Thai restaurants, they normally have a scale of 1 through 5 stars, and they'll ask you to rate how hot you'd like your food. My preferred way to order (with one exception) was to order five stars, and then inform the server that "last time I came here and ordered five stars, I barely noticed it. Tell the chef to make it hot this time." :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

I mellowed a bit since due to digestive discomfort, but I recently started eating more salt, and that seems to have brought my system back into order. :w00t: :devil:

[DavyRay]

In college, I was a madman for spicy food. Let's put it this way. At Thai restaurants, they normally have a scale of 1 through 5 stars, and they'll ask you to rate how hot you'd like your food. My preferred way to order (with one exception) was to order five stars, and then inform the server that "last time I came here and ordered five stars, I barely noticed it. Tell the chef to make it hot this time." :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

I mellowed a bit since due to digestive discomfort, but I recently started eating more salt, and that seems to have brought my system back into order. :w00t: :devil:

The owner of my favorite Thai restaurant told me that he orders everything 1 star. He supplies three spices on the table, a brown powder, red mush, and red pepper segments in liquid. He adds those to his food until the sweating gets to the proper level. If he goes too far hot, he eats from the un-spiced side for a bite or two.

[3eff_Jeff]

21587
:devil: I love this stuff.

Oh, Dave's. We've had good times. So many good times.

On my "Once" list was doing a shot of Dave's on a dare. This is dumb. Don't do this. It hit my throat, and the burn came on immediately. It was liquid pain, but not more than I could take. Initially. It kept burning, and burning. It burned my throat. As in, chemical burns. After sticking it out for as long as I could, I ran and grabbed some milk to try and douse the flames. A quart later and no dice. It kept burning. The night ended with vomiting, and the burns on my throat stuck around for a week or so and had symptoms similar to a sore throat. Yeah, don't do this.

So, hanging out on a weekend while living in a house with a bunch of guys while in college. My roommate invited a buddy over and everyone was relaxing. Anyway, roommate's buddy had some chicken wings and needed some hot sauce. He liked his food extra spicy, and asked what we had. I told him we had a couple types. He asked for the hottest stuff we had. Out comes the Dave's. So, here I am a scruffy gringo with a bottle of something he hasn't seen before and I warn him that it's really hot. He sized me up and decided I looked like a spice wimp and ignored me. Off comes the cap, and he shake-a shake-a-ed it like it was Heinz 57. Realizing he'd decided to ignore me, I just stood there, arms crossed and smiling. I don't think he made it halfway through his first bite (that wing was dripping with sauce) before he was hollering like a little girl. He managed to set the wings down before running around the house looking for anything to drink (still yelping in pain). We had to throw out the wings.

I warned him. :lol:

[3eff_Jeff]

The owner of my favorite Thai restaurant told me that he orders everything 1 star. He supplies three spices on the table, a brown powder, red mush, and red pepper segments in liquid. He adds those to his food until the sweating gets to the proper level. If he goes too far hot, he eats from the un-spiced side for a bite or two.

Awesome.

There is one Thai restaurant in Seattle where I will not make my dare, because they make the food hot enough. It's Thai Siam on Crown Hill. It's a great little restaurant, and I miss it a lot. They only went up to four stars, but two was about equal to three anywhere else, three was like ordering five stars, and for four stars, they use the special peppers imported from hell. Four there is actually a smidge too hot for me. While I can make it through a meal, I have to eat very slowly.

To all the B&Bers in Seattle, I definitely recommend this place. The food is good and it isn't expensive. Just be mindful that you might want to ratchet back a bit on how many stars you order.