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The extra hot is easily my favorite hot sauce. I wish I could find it in the KC area, though. Every time I visit my parents, I always get funny looks with a cart full of a month or twos supply of the stuff.
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I'm not too partial to the green stuff, but they have pretty much every other kind of El Yucateco around me. The chipotle and the Mayan Kutbil-Ik versions are delicious.
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Jun 4, 2014 15:01
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Probably because most people don't love hot sauce as much as we do. As an extremely pasty white male, anytime I go into a Thai restaurant or any other place with respectable spicy food, I usually make sure to stress that I like things Thai hot or equivalent. I've gotten funny looks and "Are you sure?" quite a few times. I'll burn my mouth with copious amounts of capsaicin and like it, damnit.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:25
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Is it normal to have a literal Pavlovian response to hot sauce? The second I catch a good whiff, my mouth is watering in anticipation of the burn.
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Jun 6, 2014 00:37
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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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How is it? Until you posted this, I forgot I picked up a bottle a couple weeks ago, and it's been sitting in my pantry waiting for me.
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Sep 9, 2014 21:54
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I love Crystal. It's pretty much my goto when I want some flavor. The Xtra Hot is my true favorite, but I haven't been able to find it outside my hometown. Whenever I make a trip out there, I'm always loading up a cart basket full of the stuff.
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Sep 29, 2014 15:51
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CommonShore posted:Yeah after posting I checked their website. No retailers in Canada. One goofball specialty online store wants $6/bottle + $12 shipping for one. gently caress that. Yeah, it's definitely just more a pure pepper and vinegar flavor. Plain, simple, and delicious. The Xtra hot is just more of the same with a bit more of a kick. I wish I could find a good source on the Xtra hot. Where my parents lives, they usually have the small bottles for $1 at Wal-Mart and I haven't been able to find anything online that's anywhere near that cheap.
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Sep 30, 2014 14:57
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The glass is just a spice enhancer. When the little bits cut up your mouth, then you'll really feel that delicious capsaicin burn.
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Oct 7, 2014 20:30
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 Found this while out shopping hiding on a corner shelf. It's definitely one of the hotter sauces I've tried. I need to have some more to get a true sense of it's flavor as just a little dab was enough to start an endorphin rush.
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Oct 28, 2014 15:33
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El Yucateco.Markoff Chaney posted:A warning to El Yucateco fans: Their sauce has been found to contain a bit more lead than we really want to put in our bodies and lead is not a thing to take lightly http://news.unlv.edu/article/study-hidden-dangers-hot-sauce Are there any test strips you can buy to test stuff for lead? The black label El Yucateco is delicious, but lead poisoning isn't. 
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Oct 28, 2014 17:03
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Pioneer42 posted:Crystal > Louisiana > Tabasco I'm sorry, you had that backwards. Anyone with Crystal in their area seen the Extra Hot variant? I saw my parents last weekend and hit up the stores looking to stock up and there was nothing. They had nothing months ago, but I assumed they were just temporarily out of stock. It was my favorite. 
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Oct 31, 2014 15:35
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CommonShore posted:Check Walmart. Seriously. Just make sure you look in the Hispanic foods aisle. I'm still not entirely sure what dictates whether a hot sauce is put there vs the regular condiment aisle by the other hot sauces.
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Mar 11, 2015 19:20
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One of my favorites. I go through bottles of that stuff quickly enough that my preference of grocery store is based on whether or not they carry my preferred hot sauces.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:07
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Eat more hot sauce until it knows who's boss. The only time I've ever had a problem with that is when I eat something at my heat limit. The burning butthole is actually the relieving part, just wait until you eat something hot enough that your whole intestinal tract hates you. You can actually feel it work it's way through.
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Aug 31, 2015 15:18
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Which kind did you get? There's 2 versions. Yellow label (regular):  Black label (extra hot): 
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Dec 4, 2015 15:31
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Doom Rooster posted:Crystal blue top (mostly flavor, not much heat), or red top (decent heat level) Please tell me if you can find this and, if so, where. All the Xtra Hot bottles have dried up for the last couple years from all the usual places. The only way I can buy it without paying a ridiculous markup is the buy the gallon size and refill.
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straight up brolic posted:Dave's Insanity sauce lives up to the name. I couldn't hear for 10 min after dabbing it on a rib. I thought I was the only one who gets weird ear feelings. It's like my inner ear is sweating and feeling tickly when I eat something sufficiently hot.
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Nov 29, 2016 15:21
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Been devouring some Pain Is Good and Melinda's at work. Taste and heat wise, they're pretty close, which is to say they're delicious. The faces in the label are what you look like in the bathroom after eating way too much. 
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Dec 21, 2016 15:55
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I think I have that same set! I should probably actually get to using it, one of those things I just kind of forgot about.
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Jan 13, 2017 16:20
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This is why I like dropping in to World Market from time to time. They're both deliciously hot.
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Jun 18, 2018 22:11
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Democratic Pirate posted:The $20 for 3 bottles they have on their website is a good deal, but the $14 for shipping is enough to price me out. Amazon has 3 for $20.99 with prime. https://smile.amazon.com/Secret-Aardvark-Habanero-Sauce-2-Pack/dp/B00E5PZ2JA/
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Apr 5, 2019 21:13
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PsychedelicWarlord posted:Article in Deadspin today about Carolina Reaper eating contests and the world of peppers. https://deadspin.com/conquering-the-carolina-reaper-requires-self-deceit-mi-1834153829 I decided to try my hand at growing peppers this year and while I don't have Reapers because my seed order came in super late, but I do have some Trinidad Moruga Scorpion seedlings going. I have no doubt this same pain and suffering await me, and it'll be fun to see how these tiny plants grow into spicy monsters.
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Apr 30, 2019 19:30
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Dave's Scorpion Pepper sauce does not have extract, and it's deliciously hot.
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May 2, 2019 20:48
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Cold pizza, hot pizza, it all gets the Aardvark.
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Jul 3, 2019 16:14
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El Yucateco Black Label may be poo poo, but the Mayan Kutbil-ik sauce is pretty good.
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Jul 25, 2019 22:10
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Picked the last harvest from my pepper plants today. I think I need to make some hot sauce... Left to right: Ghost, Moruga Scorpion, Carolina Reaper 
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Sep 26, 2020 18:50
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No plans yet. Certainly open to input if anyone has any they have tried with some super-hots.
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Sep 27, 2020 04:37
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I checked out one of the international markets in town that I had never been to before. It was a good trip. 
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kazr posted:Marie Sharp's Beware habanero sauce is one if my favorites. Ironically, right next to Melinda's ghost pepper wing sauce It's the first one I opened and I absolutely loved it too. I was a little worried there would be an unnatural taste when I saw it contained capsicum extract, but it was amazing!
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