In article ,
maxine in ri wrote:
"Blair P. Houghton" wrote:

Ran across this list on the frenchsfoodservice.com
page for Frank's hot sauce:

Did they happen to mention Dave's Insanity Sauce?

I don't care about Dave's sauce, because Dave is just
plain nuts. Anyone can play one-up with pure capsaicin,
until you're just sprinkling pure capsaicin powder into
your chili. What's the point besides frenzied macho
masochism or severe endorphin addiction?

However, a comparison which included the ones with flavor,
like Bufalo Chipotle, Melinda's, Inner Beauty, Yucateco,
and Scorned Woman... Now, that would be interesting.

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Mike Van Pelt wrote:
In article ,
maxine in ri wrote:
"Blair P. Houghton" wrote:

Ran across this list on the frenchsfoodservice.com
page for Frank's hot sauce:

Did they happen to mention Dave's Insanity Sauce?

I don't care about Dave's sauce, because Dave is just
plain nuts. Anyone can play one-up with pure capsaicin,
until you're just sprinkling pure capsaicin powder into
your chili. What's the point besides frenzied macho
masochism or severe endorphin addiction?

Both!

The Blair's 5am "sauce" used to be the king, at over
5 million scovilles, but it got topped, so Blair (no
relation) got geological on it:

http://www.sweatnspice.com/Top%20Sauces.htm

10-13 million scovilles. Incredible. Raw crystals
in the bottle. Amazing.

Theoretically, absolutely pure capsaicin is 16.7 million
scovilles, or therabouts.

This stuff is interesting enough for its chemical properties.

However, a comparison which included the ones with flavor,
like Bufalo Chipotle, Melinda's, Inner Beauty, Yucateco,
and Scorned Woman... Now, that would be interesting.

I only posted it because nobody ever bothers posting
scovilles for the mass-market sauces; they're all busy
trying to impress the real chili-heads, who think 50k
scovilles is milky. And I thought the 3-digit precision
was kind of funny, considering the scoville rating is a
subjective one originally. I have no idea how you measure
the stoichiometry of capsaicin in organic solution...

Those million-scoville condiments aren't sauces so much
as ingredients. You'd never just put a drop on a crab-
chip, the way I do with sriracha (rooster sauce).

I wonder what the rating for sriracha is, anyway...

--Blair
"Now I want crab chips and rooster sauce..."