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I've tried his "insanity sauce'.
It is plenty hot but tastes like crap!
In his quest for the hottest thing known to man, he overlooked the fact that some 'chili heads' go for flavor 1st, heat 2nd!

I'll stick with my home grown habanaro's!
When the season is over, I dehydrate a bunch of them, crunch them up, but them in a 'sprinkle jar' and put it on EVERYTHING! Yum yum!

Blair makes some good hot sauces

Presumably Gordon supplies the water.

Hmm, remember when jalapeno peppers were considered hot?

I once had the pleasure of telling my sister that her sauce couldn't be too hot because I like hot. The hotter the better.

Well she pureed some habanero peppers (seeds in) and poured just a couple of tablespoons over pasta.

At first I thought this is good and tasty. Then I thought wow this is hot. Then I was just being polite as I finished my dish sweating witha numb tongue then numb mouth.

I said man you guys don't even act like it's hot! I'm dying over here.

She said "Oh hell no. I didn't put that stuff on my pasta I just have some olive oil and butter on mine. You're the only one that has that!"

I spent the night on the toilet with a headache and terrible heaves. It was coming out of both ends and I thought I was going to die. It was awful. The next day the burn continued into the afternoon.

I've never had a problem with anything in a bottle since but I am VERY careful to test first before devouring large amounts.

lol, those are always the funny stories (the person that does not believe it can be too hot until it happens). A bunch of us from work went out to eat one day (can't remember if it was lunch or after work.) to a restaurant that had Blair's sudden death. As usual I ordered something (probably the burger) and asked for the special hot sauce. There was a guy with us that had never tried the sauce before, we warned him about it, but he pours some in his plate looks at it and says it does not look bad. He then takes a fry dunks it in and eats the fry and immediately says "this is not hot" or something like that. Takes the second fry does the same, by this time, like you, his mouth was out of the shock and the full effect came into play. The whole time he as there complaining about his mouth being on fire even though he did not taste any more of it.

Canadian. ;-)


Yeah - I can relate - a Texan I worked with brought in his hot sauce and tortilla chips... It tasted great (enough that I had a jar and a half before I realized it)... Had to call in sick at work the next day.

This message was edited by RC Geek on 05/10/05 15:05 ET.

The key to enjoying habanaro's is to use moderation, kind of like beer. Umh.... ok not like beer.
More like hitting your thumb with a hammer. If you hit it a little bit, it's not too bad! If you hit it ALOTT, it herts like hell!!!
Just because there small doesn't mean you have to chomp the whole thing down all at once! Although it is fun to watch people do that :-)

And if you're ever shopping for hot sauce, if the bottle's label requires a NC21 rating to read it, it's just gotta be hot! :-)

Here's another quick one but not about eating hot peppers.

My sister was cutting up some potent jalepenos for chilli. She was doing this in the winter and she had terribly dry and cracked skin from the dry weather in Chicago. Ten minutes after she started the burn set in so bad that she was crying in agony. She even called a doctor at the hostpital she worked at to ask if there was anything she could do. She said she was just moments from calling 911...it was that bad. I guess any of you that have had the pleasure of finding out what pepper spray is like have a pretty good idea about what this must feel like.

(Mind you , this is the same sister that woke up in the middle of the night to add some eye drops to her dry eyes and ended up squirting contact lens cleaner directly into her left eyball.(that's right squirt, NOT drops). Again, screams of agony. The tissue surrounding her eye swelled up as if she were a prize-fighter.)

I was slicing up some habanaro's, making some picante sauce, and felt the need to run to the store and get some beer. I don't remember why I deciced to rub my eye(as I was buzzing along at 75) but it damn near caused a 1 car(truck) accident!!!

I guess my eyes are a little more sensitve than my mouth!!!! :-)

Reminds me of something that happened... Our neighbor grows Hungarian peppers from seed - all sorts of varieties. A while back he had "over grown" on seedlings, and gave us a bunch of sweet yellow banana pepper plants for our veggie garden (maybe 24 of them).

At any rate, when they matured and we first picked a peck of peppers (this IS the intermission forum) everything was fine until this one pepper that turned out to be SUPER hot. I mean KILLER hot. A friend who isn't much into hot stuff touched the outside of one while sorting and then her face and got red blotches. So we threw it out. Then in the next batch there was *again* a couple of hot peppers that looked identical to the sweet ones.

After a while we got fed up with the Hungarian roulette and picked one pepper from every single plant outside to see where the hot ones were. Turns out it was *one* plant that was a super-producer and thus always managed to get one or two peppers in each picking.

I had a friend that worked for an authentic Chinese restaurant and he gave me some 2 yr old hot mustard. This isn't the stuff for your McNuggets, this stuff is brutal. It's a whole different hot than peppers.

I eat some wasabi now and again and I enjoy Frank's Red Hot in chili and on wings... other than that, I stay away.

I made my special wing sauce (with Red Hot and a dash of green Tabasco) for a family get together. After one taste, my old man gave me a disinterested look and said, "it's not hot enough".

I put his chickenm on my plate and told him his would be right out...
I used some little specialty brand of habanero sauce that a friend gave me as a joke.

He wasn't around much all night, I think he was suffering the same fate as Chicauger...

Chicauger,
What happened to your sister with the lens cleaner drops also happened to my good friend. After he healed up, some other friends and I were kidding him about it (yeah I know... we're all ruthless jackasses).
We came to the conclusion that all lens cleaner drops should be in a distinctively shaped bottle with HUGE letters that you can read with bad eyes even if your lenses are out.

We have a way of coming up with ideas that we think are just ultra-obvious product improvements that any thinking person would agree with, but usually they don't make as much sense the next morning.

This is one that I think holds up pretty well as an obvious good idea.