Chilli peppers and hot sauces

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The Scoville scale is a measure of the 'hotness' of a chilli pepper or anything derived from chilli peppers, i.e. hot sauce. The scale is named after Wilbur Scoville who developed the test in 1912.

Regular Tabasco in the red bottle weighs in at a pathetic 2000 - 2500 Scoville Heat Units. Blair's 16 Million Reserve ranks at number 1 at an unbelievable 16,000,000 Scoville Heat Units and can only be bought in 1ml vials and you have to sign a disclaimer waiving all your rights to anything before you can buy it.

I'm all for a hot dish of any kind and enjoy spicing my dishes up with the odd chilli or two but you have to be clinically insane to try some of these.

Some quality names though.

http://www.chilliworld.com/FactFile/Scoville_Scale.asp
http://www.hot-headz.com/acatalog/Untouchables.html
http://www.hot-headz.com/acatalog/Super_Hot_Sauces.html
 
Wow! 16,000,000! I would want to try it but not want to have trouble the morning after :/

I've tried Blair's After Death, that's damn hot!
 
www.hothothot.com

Get all my sauces from there. Daves gourmet insanity sauce is ridiculous but the one to get is DOA. It put my friend in hospital after he swallowed a teaspoon full for a tenner:D
 
Dave's insanity sauce is absolute quality. I once hid some in a Wagon Wheel biscuit when the food stealing girlfriend of my flatmate came round. All I heard from the kitchen was "ooooh my mouth" and other sounds of pain.
 
Mmmmmm I fancy somethign really hot for dinner tonight. Something that will spoil the first day of my holiday ;)
 
These things are not for ******* around with; even very small amounts can do serious damage.

I've often thought that if you mixed some of these sauces with water and put the mixture into a spray, it would be as bad or maybe worse than pepper spray or CS gas.

Not that I want to give anyone ideas.
 
We always order from Hot Headz - the Blairs range are amazing

Must have the crisps they are excellent :D

Andy
 
I've got some Dragon's Breath that I picked up from the Chili Fiesta nr Chichester in the summer, never got around to assas... feeding it to anyone as the BBQ season went out the window quick sharp. :rolleyes:
 
Someone at my placement used to order regularly from pepper-king.com,

On his last order before I left I got a box of 24 Blairs crisps (Cajun ***), a packet of Habanero coated cashew nuts (awesome) and some Blair's Jersey Death sauce,

Not sure I'd want a hotter sauce than jersey death though, 3-5 drops in a meal (single portion) makes it nicely hot without going too far imo :)

Did try a dab of it on my finger, my tongue was burning for ages :p
 
Has anyone tried any of this 16million heat points stuff? i'm guessing you can just use one drop for an entire pot of chilli or something
 
Dracata said:
Has anyone tried any of this 16million heat points stuff? i'm guessing you can just use one drop for an entire pot of chilli or something
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To be honest 1 drop of the 16 million scoville unit stuff would probably make a pot of chilli unbearable.

The Scoville scale is a measure of how much you have to dilute it to become undectectable.
16 million means you have to have 1 part chilli sauce to 16 million parts water for it to be undetectable.
 
I put one very small dribble of my 1million stuff into enough stir fry to feed 3 people and it gave it a nice burn so I would imagine as Haircut said 1 drop of 16million would probably still feel like eatting lava
 
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