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dino. posted:I really dislike sriracha because it's sickeningly sweet to me. Cholula works pretty great though. It's got a nice flavour to it. this is an excellent post. I feel alone pretty often in my 'eh'-ness towards sriracha. I think the sweetness is what bothers me also. And that it dominates the flavor of everything it touches. but goddamn if it isn't good on eggs. that said, thai chilies are the best. no beating them. Sjurygg posted:
yeah most def. my girl thinks I'm crazy. my favorite sauce in the world is probably an intense nuoc cham though, which I learned to make at my first restaurant job. just thai chili, heavy on fish sauce, a squeeze of lime, mash a garlic, and a bit of sugar. I put that poo poo on everything. roasted veg, fried food dipping sauce, salad dressing, you name it.
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BLARGHLE posted:That is a weird rear end looking pepper It looks like satan's colon polyp.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 14:26 |
El Marrow posted:Made from the HP22-B Carolina Reaper, currently the hottest pepper in the world. It's loving amazing and produces a very real endorphin rush. Does this pepper taste sweetish like the scorpion or is it smokey like the ghost?
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 17:35 |
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Mr. Wookums posted:Scorpion is already out? It's definitely sweet. It's a really thick sweetness, too. Sort of like fruit as opposed to the singularly simple sweetness of honey. Also, the interior of the pepper is quite oily.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 17:42 |
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I don't understand how people taste anything other than heat when eating super hot peppers. Maybe my taste buds just suck.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:58 |
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All they need to do now is cross that pepper with the peter pepper, and they will have the most unappetizing looking pepper ever. Has anyone ever tried making their own sauce by fermenting fresh peppers? I am waiting for the farmers markets to stock fresh habaneros, but I have no idea what to use as a starter culture. (Kefir grains? Kimchi juice?)
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 03:16 |
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Wow, that's one uncannily phallic fruit (the peter pepper, of course).
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 04:15 |
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kaujot posted:I don't understand how people taste anything other than heat when eating super hot peppers. Maybe my taste buds just suck. The heat isn't really a flavor. If you're used to it, it isn't as distracting. You eventually get to the point where your brain associates heat with the endorphin rush it creates, and you'll start salivating just thinking about the smell and taste of hot peppers. Edit: I know I'm eating well when my scalp starts to sweat. litany of gulps fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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litany of gulps posted:Edit: I know I'm eating well when my scalp starts to sweat. This chicken wing place I go to, the #5 wings make sweat bead up so bad on my head it's not funny. My shirt will be soaked, my nose will be running like crazy, when I go to the bathroom and wash up the waitress will always ask "Is he okay?"
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 18:09 |
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litany of gulps posted:You eventually get to the point where your brain associates heat with the endorphin rush it creates, and you'll start salivating just thinking about the smell and taste of hot peppers. Once I've committed to grabbing some chips and hot sauce to snack on, my mouth is watering before I even get to the fridge to grab the bottles.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 18:21 |
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kaujot posted:I don't understand how people taste anything other than heat when eating super hot peppers. Maybe my taste buds just suck. There's a right and wrong way to use just about anything. You might try adding a superhot sauce to something like a soup, where it will become highly diluted. Just increase the dosage each time, and before long, you'll be taking 1mil scoville+ dosages like a champ.
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# ? Jul 25, 2014 18:29 |
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Bob Morales posted:This chicken wing place I go to, the #5 wings make sweat bead up so bad on my head it's not funny. My shirt will be soaked, my nose will be running like crazy, when I go to the bathroom and wash up the waitress will always ask "Is he okay?" 'Sup, fellow disturbingly-sweaty goonbro. Partially inspired by this thread, I've been going through my pile of hot sauces recently to see what I like best. (My testing method is to put it on BBQ chicken pizza - I like BBQ pizza but it tends to be a bit too sweet, so adding some burn makes it perfect.) Both Chipotle Cholula and Chipotle Tabasco have always been favorites of mine, and they still are. But last night I finally opened up this, which has been sitting in my cabinet since a trip to Asheville, NC last year. Unlike the other habanero sauces I have, it's very thin and vinegary (but I like vinegary sauces) and I didn't realize the bottle mouth doesn't have any restriction - when I upturned it over my pizza slice half the drat bottle poured out onto it. I was sweating like a motherfucker, but it was a drat GOOD slice of pizza.
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# ? Jul 26, 2014 22:05 |
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If you've never tried Trinidad Scorpion peppers, you owe it to yourself. It's incredible. I'm not really the biggest fan of Dave's Gourmet though. They tend to use a lot of extracts, which to me feels like cheating. I'd much rather enjoy the natural heat and flavor of the peppers themselves, instead of a blisteringly hot, manufactured heat. El Marrow fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jul 28, 2014 |
# ? Jul 28, 2014 13:42 |
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ookuwagata posted:Has anyone ever tried making their own sauce by fermenting fresh peppers? I am waiting for the farmers markets to stock fresh habaneros, but I have no idea what to use as a starter culture. (Kefir grains? Kimchi juice?) I haven't personally but my brother did a couple of years back and as far as I know he didn't need to add anything much to start the fermentation other than salt - I know he followed an online recipe that claimed to use the same method as Tabasco do so maybe search for that? If you like I'll ask him about it when I see him next (I do remember him saying it was much easier than he thought it'd be)
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 12:28 |
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Annath posted:Is Cholua any cheaper if bought in bulk? I ask because it's my favorite sauce, but at $5 or so for a small bottle, it's absurdly expensive. Last time I bought cholula I saw a 2-pack of 12 oz bottles for around $8/9 dollars at Costco if I remember correctly. Not sure if it's still there, though it's worth a shot. I am through my first gently caress-off bottle of cholula and on to the second. I use it mostly on fried eggs and popcorn (hey, I'm a weirdo).
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 12:45 |
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Melinda's Naga Jolokia It's brilliantly flavorful, and made completely without extracts. It's not the hottest thing in the world (compared to other sauces made with superhots), but what it lacks in obscene heat, it makes up for with vibrant jolokia flavor. (Not trying to turn the thread into a [super]hot sauce discussion. They're just my forte)
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 19:11 |
I learned to like the super sauces by constantly chasing a dragon for endorphin highs. I have a slight problem with it now, I will seek out spicy foods or foods I can sauce up if I go a few days without any. For reference, I can smother something with half a bottle of habanero sauce and be unphased (given habaneros are quite weak and will overpower the food) Sauces with extract really really suck, they taste like lovely oil.El Marrow posted:Melinda's Naga Jolokia
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Mr. Wookums posted:I learned to like the super sauces by constantly chasing a dragon for endorphin highs. I have a slight problem with it now, I will seek out spicy foods or foods I can sauce up if I go a few days without any. For reference, I can smother something with half a bottle of habanero sauce and be unphased (given habaneros are quite weak and will overpower the food) Sauces with extract really really suck, they taste like lovely oil. You know you're bad off when you start viewing certain foods as platforms for an endorphin rush. I love it.
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Not exactly hot sauce related but I have been growing some habaneros and Scotch Bonnets in my garden and they have been approaching ripeness. I have discovered that eating habaneros right off the plant are quite tasty. I need to figure out how to make sauce or pickle them or something.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 04:03 |
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I have a bunch ripening right now too. I don't have the balls to try popping one right into my mouth though. If you find a good sauce recipe, please post it.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 04:26 |
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Put me in the ripening habaneros camp. As for recipes, searching for "hot sauce" in the GWS wiki gets these three recipes if you want to try them out.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 04:56 |
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Huy Fong has another product that is far more versatile and superior to sriracha.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 09:10 |
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Al Cowens posted:Huy Fong has another product that is far more versatile and superior to sriracha. uhhh.... Isn't THAT sriracha?
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 14:31 |
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Crazyeyes posted:uhhh.... Isn't THAT sriracha? That my friend is Sambal Oelek. It's chilli paste with garlic and pretty much nothing else. It is amazing. I use it for putting heat into any type of cuisine in which red chillies are appropriate.
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Crazyeyes posted:uhhh.... Isn't THAT sriracha? Edit: Beaten
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 15:29 |
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Crazyeyes posted:Not exactly hot sauce related but I have been growing some habaneros and Scotch Bonnets in my garden and they have been approaching ripeness. I have discovered that eating habaneros right off the plant are quite tasty. I need to figure out how to make sauce or pickle them or something. Oh man. Scotch Bonnets are fantastic. Whole slices cooked into Jamaican curry... I just ordered a few superhot sauces. Will post pics when they arrive.
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# ? Aug 3, 2014 15:59 |
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I made my own sauce from home grown Thai chillies and habaneros. Chopped them up fresh with just a little onion and garlic, put them in the food processor until they liquefied, and put them in a jar in the fridge with plenty of vinegar and some salt. Left em there for 2 months, strained them, bottled it, and it wasn't half bad. Pretty drat good considering I didn't follow a recipe and just used poo poo I already had.
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CommonShore posted:That my friend is Sambal Oelek. It's chilli paste with garlic and pretty much nothing else. It is amazing. I use it for putting heat into any type of cuisine in which red chillies are appropriate. There is a not insignificant chance that I have never eaten actual sriracha then. My stuff has always been green cap garlic chili sauce.
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# ? Aug 4, 2014 12:54 |
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Crazyeyes posted:There is a not insignificant chance that I have never eaten actual sriracha then. My stuff has always been green cap garlic chili sauce. Sriracha is a squirty sauce. There's a pretty high chance that you've had it in some asian restaurant. Lots of cheap sushi ("spicy tuna") has it on it. I have a bottle, but I find it pretty overrated. There's an oaky or smoky bitter aftertaste in it that I don't like so much (even though I like tabasco, which is oak-aged). I'll put it on hard-boiled eggs and that's about it. The sambal is superior.
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CommonShore posted:That my friend is Sambal Oelek. It's chilli paste with garlic and pretty much nothing else. It is amazing. I use it for putting heat into any type of cuisine in which red chillies are appropriate. Not quite. Sambal Oelek is basically chile, preservatives, and nothing else. No garlic, unlike the Chili Garlic product in the photo. As far as the three Huy Fong products are concerned, they're all made from the same base chili mash. You can think of the Chili Garlic as Sambal Oelek + Garlic, and of Sriracha as Chili Garlic + Sugar (blended to a paste with xanthan gum as an emulsifier). Ingredients posted:Sambal Oelek
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 01:36 |
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The lack of sugar and the chunkiness of the chile garlic makes all the difference in the world
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 02:10 |
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Seriously. That sugar in there makes the drat thing taste awful. I really don't want sugar in my garlic sauce.
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 13:24 |
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Got pale orange habaneros from farmers market seed, bigger red habaneros, brown jamaican chocolate pepper, red ghost, yellow ghost, "big thai hybrids," and proper upward growing thai chiles. Should I do individual sauces or mix them all together? Thinking just garlic and white wine vinegar, in the past with onion and other stuff the texture was too thick and I had to strain.
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 18:49 |
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If anyone here hasn't tried malagueta sauce, you owe it to yourself to find a bottle.
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# ? Aug 5, 2014 19:29 |
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The title of worlds hottest pepper really means nothing. Peppers can vary from crop to crop. You get a good plant, pay the judges an appearance fee, and blammo you get the title. It doesn't mean other peppers can't be, on.average, hotter. Just go with the superhot with the taste you like. I make my own hot sauce using homegrown tomatoes and scorpion marugas. But I've been thinking of switching to guost peppers. They take twice as long to grow, but they have peach and chocolate varieties. Does anyons have experience with peach or chocolate bhut jolokia?
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# ? Aug 6, 2014 00:46 |
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Wife came home with this today: She's a buyer for a food distributor, and her vendor sent her this. This is after she gave some away at work.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 00:36 |
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Kafka Esq. posted:Mcilhenny Habanero Tabasco Sauce. I swear to God, I could have this on everything. I bought a 24. ThomasPaine posted:I genuinely like Tabasco's habanero sauce, am I a joke? To add to the discussion: How do you all feel about refrigeration? Do you store your sauces cooled or at room temperature?
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 16:01 |
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Pioneer42 posted:No way, the Habanero Tabasco is the best Tabasco variety out there--even better than the Chipotle variety that everyone seems to rave about. It's my number one go-to. I personally refrigerate all my hot sauces but that's because I prefer that lower temperature on my palate (a cold hot sauce if you will), not because I'm afraid they'd spoil.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 16:20 |
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The Melinda's Moruga Scorpion sauce is simply amazing. No extracts. No bullshit. Just the essentials. It's probably the purest superhot sauce I've tried.
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# ? Aug 7, 2014 20:36 |
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I refrigerate. After time hot sauces kind of lose their vibrant color(tabasco gets all dull and muddy looking) and begin to taste mostly of the vinegar. I can only imagine refrigerating slows that process.
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