I collect Hot Sauces

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 22, 2005, 1:39 pm

I just wanted to share the fact that I collect hot sauces. I've been doing so for about a month, and it's quite an eye opener in terms of the science behind hot sauces.

I originally got into this so I could decorate my kitchen with cool and interesting hot sauce bottles. The names and packaging are pretty interesting IMO, and always seem to create some conversation when people see them displayed on various shelves/nooks and crannies in my kitchen. My kitchen is all stainless steel with white cabinets and gray marble counter tops so it needed a punch of color and character. The hot sauce bottles have worked out extremely well in both regards.

So, I've learned that collecting hot sauces is actully a legitimate hobby and can get quite expensive. Who would've thought? Here is a cool site for those that are interested: http://tastethepain.com/shopsite_sc/sto ... page3.html

That link is to the A-Z listing of bottles. Some of the names and packaging are crazy, but in all honesty, those are my favorite to collect. The pricing on that site is pretty steep as well. You can go to your grocery store and get some great sauces for about 3$. I just pick them up when I see them at different stores. I haven't resorted to the Internet yet, but I'm tempted with some of the unique packaging I've seen.

As far as actually tasting and cooking with these, well, I'm not really into eating spicey foods on a regular basis. When I do go spicey, I go all out. I'm telling ya, the "Dave's Insanity Sauce" iis a great name because it is absolutely fucking insane. A drop will redden my face, make my eyes water, and make my nose run. That shit will kick your ass! I have about 50-60 different hot sauces now and I bet if you drank an entire bottle of any single one of them, it would either kill you or you will end up wishing it would have.

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.c ... atch=exact

Satan's Blood... I gotta get that bottle!

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

PS. What good is a stainless steel fridge if you can't even put magnets on it?!? Take that fucker back!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » August 22, 2005, 1:50 pm

Very cool! I have ~20 bottles of hot sauce, but they are all used for cooking.

Try your local organic grocery or specialty grocery and you can find some cool ones. Dave's Gourmet has some awesome hot sauces that are more edible than Insanity. Granted, I do use the stuff, it is just a bit over the top sometimes!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 22, 2005, 1:52 pm

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/hotsauces.html

A site with better pictures. I mean, who wouldn't want to eat a food product called "Wet Fart" or "Rectal Ripper XXX"?

Jassun · Post by **Jassun** » August 22, 2005, 1:56 pm

Try this website...

http://hotsauce.com

...to find cool hotsauce posters like...

http://hotsauce.com/detail.aspx?ID=69

Also, send Adex a PM. Since he moved to Lafayette, LA, he is less than 30 minutes away from Avery Island, where the original hot sauce is made, Tabassco.

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » August 22, 2005, 2:41 pm

So do you buy just one of each bottle? Or do you buy one to display and one to taste?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » August 22, 2005, 3:05 pm

I prefer illegitimate hobbies.

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » August 22, 2005, 3:13 pm

Yeah, the whole bottom rack of my fridge is full of various hot sauces. In the the minneapolis area here the Mall of America had a couple hot-sauce specialty stores. Btw, 'Final Answer' is the hottest sauce that I'm aware of, I've seen people pass out after having a toothpick coated in it wiped on a chip for them...i'll try to find a link for it...

*EDIT* Link aquired: http://www.firebreath.com/s.nl/sc.2/cat ... A/id.26/.f

Siji · Post by **Siji** » August 22, 2005, 4:22 pm

http://tastethepain.com/shopsite_sc/sto ... duct0.html

wtf. Anyone that pays $900 for a hotsauce (food additive) deserves to have the shiznit beat out of them.

By the way.. Final Answer (1.5 mil scu) compared to this (16 mil scu)

http://tastethepain.com/shopsite_sc/sto ... ct333.html

Is ice cold. But who the fook could handle this stuff?

miir · Post by **miir** » August 22, 2005, 4:25 pm

There is no real market for that crap.
It's just for 'bragging rights'.

Trek · Post by **Trek** » August 22, 2005, 7:22 pm

For most things I like Tapatio, every now and then I use Sriracha (or whatever the fuck its called) on my eggs and Sushi

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » August 23, 2005, 12:28 am

Sriracha is incredible for any asain food....

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 23, 2005, 12:41 am

http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm

Here's a ranking of hotest sauces. I like how they list tobasco sauce at the bottom in order to give a comparison. 2,140 Scoville units ain't shit!

So do you buy just one of each bottle? Or do you buy one to display and one to taste?

Personally, I buy to display and buy an extra one to taste depending on the scoville scale and ingredients. I actually perfer something that dosen't hit you in the face right away but instead creeps up and warms you from the inside out. Blair's brand does a good job of this IMO. Of course, the "holy shit that makes me want to die" hotsauce certianly has it's place!

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » August 23, 2005, 2:14 am

I also collect hot sauces, and regularly use Dave's Insanity Sauce in my cooking.

One time I was working in Boston with a new associate, a mouthy brash fellow, who acted as though he was invulnerable. We decided to go to Quincy Market after work one day to browse the shops and grab a bite to eat.

On the way to the food court, we passed a hot sauce shop, which had a small bowl of Mad Dog Inferno and some chips, with a small card that said, "You won't win". He asked what it was, I said "kickass hot sauce," and dipped the corner of a chip about 3mm into the brown goo and ate it. Got an endorphin rush right away, and asked to buy a bottle. I was paying when I heard a bellow of pain and a crash. I turned to see the unfortunate associate tearing ass to the food court and the clerk laughing his ass off.

"He didn't win," was all the clerk said.

I caught up with my boy at the food court, gasping and guzzling a 64 ounce Coke. "Holy shit you must have balls of steel to eat that shit," he gasped.

On the way out, he went back to the hot sauce stand and bought a bottle. "I gotta try this on my cousin, he'll go apeshit."

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » August 23, 2005, 2:17 am

Hahahaha!

Great story! Some of these hot sauces will certainly make people re-think their tolerance!

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » August 23, 2005, 2:23 am

Mad dog hot sauce rocks! I bought a bottle of it some time ago and wish I had more!

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » August 23, 2005, 2:27 am

They sell Mad Dog Inferno online at the site Siji linked up top...

http://tastethepain.com/shopsite_sc/sto ... uct69.html

ROFL, it's product #69

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » August 23, 2005, 2:42 am

Mmm that isn't the same stuff I had.

Same name though!

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » August 23, 2005, 2:46 am

Give it a try, you may like it better than your old favourite! This really has a distinctive taste, molasses, cloves and HEAT~

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » August 23, 2005, 5:52 pm

Hot sauces like this kicked ass in highschool for meat-heads that thought they were kickass and bragged in a foods class about how much tabasco they would put on their food...we also but some of this on our stir-fry that some teachers had to judge for a little contest at the end of the class:

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » August 23, 2005, 8:03 pm

http://firegirlpower.com/reviews/1331-02/

Eat this and I will bow down.

If you want a great laugh, read all of what those people wrote.

We bought some of this two years ago and as it is pure pepper extract, it is truly dangerous.

You are supposed to put a drop in like a vat of chili to make the entire thing spicy.

A couple choice reviews:

"has a mild start but then all of a sudden my mouth felt heat ...real heat not that wussy "tingle" you get from other "HOT SAUCES"
this shit is for real anyone that says its not hot ..has already been dead for at least 3 years

I left my anus in a mayonayse jar to cool off.

- ASSBURNER"

and my favorite. . .this is really one of the best posts I have ever seen. . .

"I eat of the habañero chile as if it was popcorns. The fuego does not affect me mucho. I am known as Mexico's most strong pepper man.
When I taste THE SOURCE I went into the epileptic seizure for 6 hours and I cried tears of liquid fire and blood. The sun turned black and the demons from hell came and danced around the dead bodies of my family, laughing and pointing at me.

THE SOURCE is an evil demon from hell. It should not be!! It is el infierno manifestado. Espero que el poder de Jesús me salvará pronto y revuelta los demonios al infierno para siempre. - Juan del Infierno Hector Villalobas"

classic

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » August 23, 2005, 8:41 pm

Why anyone would pay $99 for something they can barely eat is beyond me.