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. 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. Inner Beauty hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.

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

[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]

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I love this stuff.

[scoopster]

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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?

[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!

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!

[thirdeye]

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I love this stuff.

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

[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.


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. 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. Inner Beauty hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.

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

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. 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. Inner Beauty hot sauce is one of the featured nu-cu-ler agents added to East Coast Grill spicy offerings.

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

And I thought you were talking about Marilyn Monroe .

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

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.

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.