"Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
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> "Bob Myers" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Del Cecchi" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> > Some of the favourites seem to be:
> >> > Blair's After Death Sauce
> >> > Mad Dog Inferno!
> >> > Dave's Insanity Sauce
> >> > Endorphin Rush! Beyond Hot Sauce
> >> > Blair's Mega Death - Beyond Hottest Sauce!
> >
> >> All are extremely hot, way beyond normal hot sauce.
> >
> > Yes - of the ones listed, I think that the "Dave's Insanity" is
> > possibly the "mildest" - if that word is even applicable here -
> > but certainly the Blair's products are EXTREMELY hot. I
> > don't have any personal experience with the "Mad Dog."
> >
> > You get to a point where these are no longer "sauces" in any
> > sense of the word - you're not EVER going to be consuming
> > them straight out of the bottle on chips or whatever. Instead,
> > they're best viewed as flavorings; something to add to whatever
> > you're cooking when you want to add a lot of hot without anything
> > else. Which sometimes IS exactly what you want - just don't
> > expect "sauces" like this to be bringing anything in the way of
> > more subtle flavors to the party. They're all about heat, and
> > really ONLY about heat, with very few exceptions.
> >
> > Bob M.
> >
>
>
> I find these superhot sauces to be just plain silly. As you say they
provide
> nothing but heat and you can get that with cayenne pepper. A good hot
sauce
> adds heat as well as other flavors, preferably the taste of the peppers
> themselves. I have become find of Marie Sharp's sauces. The "mild"
habanero
> sauce is actually pretty zingy and has a lovely flavor. I can put a
teaspoon
> or so on an omelet and not scorch my tastebuds!
I'm a member of the Chile Heads E-list, and even the real heat heads there
don't tend to care for these extract based sauces either, even those that
are the fans of biting chunks of raw Habanero Red SavinaŽT chiles. The
sauces taste awful for starters...
Shaun aRe
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