So I tiptoed into Tommy’s hotsauce.com order at work, my patronage having been solicited in order to help reach the $75 free shipping threshold. (Oh, they seriously incentivize you to get there too.)
I’ve enjoyed my two selections, except that I’ve almost drained them in less than two weeks. (One night this week I was just filling Tostitos Scoops up with Marie Sharp’s hot habanero sauce.)
So I went out there myself, to answer the question: how much is $75 worth of hot sauce? Answer: it is a lot of hot sauce.
Oh, this was fun. You just sit with one window open at hotsauce.com and another open at ScottRobertsWeb.com until you bust $75. Scott writes wonderful reviews, making it easy to choose well. He had a couple of recommendations that I wanted but couldn’t find there, but hey, that just means another adventure another time, right?
What do you think? Six months’ worth or so? I guess it depends on how much I like them (and for which foods), doesn’t it? Into the fire!
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You guys and your hot sauce. Cracks me up.
That sounds yummy! We have some of Dave’s Insanity…beware it is NUCLEAR! Please do a review of those you’ve tried.
Carol, it’s a great way to get gustatory excitement, essentially calorie-free!
azn8tive, I’ll be very careful. The hottest sauce I’ve used essentially with abandon is Blair’s After Death, which is about 50,000 Scoville units. (For reference, regular Tabasco is 2,500 to 5,000.) Dave’s Insanity is 180,000, and the Great White Shark Predator right next to it is about the same. I also got some Blair’s Mega Death in this order, which is 550,000. (I’m all but positive that’s hotter that I’ll ever be able to stand, but it came in a combo of four, I wanted the other three, blah blah blah. Maybe I’ll try a toothpick’s worth sometime.) 🙂
After living in Korea for five years I really gained an appreciation for “spicy foods.” I, too, love hot sauce and I used to carry a bottle of some in my backpack in graduate school just in case any food might need some. I tried Dave’s Insanity Sauce once in graduate school and my tongue hurt, not a good kind of hurt, for an hour. If that sauce is 3x hotter than Dave’s then it is going to be rough!
Has anyone tried Anaheim Chili (restaurant) yet? They bill themselves as specializing in spicy foods (and chili). Seems up your alley.
Cracked open the Mad Anthony’s XXXTRA Hot Special Reserve yesterday. It’s delicious, and quite warm. Right now I’m trying Great White Shark Predator. I took a single drop to start, and yes, it’s a heater. I haven’t had to take a drink of root beer yet. (I also have a glass of milk at the ready if I just have to have it.) I think I’m going to use it on my pizza for lunch, though I won’t be slathering it with abandon. This is 175,000 Scoville units, which makes it the hottest thing I’ve ever eaten. (It’s 70 to 140 times hotter than Tabasco.)
OK, I put the milk back up, and I’ve eaten most of two pieces of pizza with fairly liberal use of the Predator sauce. It’s got a great flavor: sweet and fruity, a little smoke on the front end, with no real bitterness from the pepper extract. It’s very hot. I’ve got a continuous blaze in my mouth, though it’s more interesting than unpleasant. Feels like it’ll be around a while. 🙂
So, I should point out that I was dared to dip a chip into the Insanity Sauce much like one would do if dipping it into salsa. I think I could probably tolerate a few drops of that, but the amount that was put into my mouth was painful! 14 years later you may be encouraging me to give it another run….
Dave, yes, this definitely wasn’t plunging a chip in and coming up with a half-ounce of the stuff clinging to it. 🙂 I did get pretty brave with the Predator; five or six drops a bite. It really is tasty, and much more interesting than you might expect. Wow, it’s definitely hot though (35 times hotter than a jalapeno!). The inferno lasted about half an hour after I finished eating.
Tell me how you feel about it in the morning.
‘seester, it’s a funny thing: I can’t see any way to predict what’s going to hit me that way. I got nothing from consuming a fair amount of these unambiguously hot sauces. But last month I ate some salsa that was only “hottish” at Lime Fresh, and it delayed me 20+ minutes the next morning.