***Hot Sauce Thread! Cor, wehey missus! Oh wait, I mean for food...***

[Jonny69]

This thread could go either way but I'm going to give it a shot because I know there are professional chilliheads lurking on the forum. I eat a lot of hot sauce on stuff and at university always advocated the notion of pushing your chilli-eating capacity. That means you start off finding quite tingly food spicy, but you keep eating hotter and hotter until you can take quite a bit of chilli heat without breaking a sweat. It's a natural progression. That said, I like pretty hot food but I can't handle stuff like curries at the hotter end of the scale but it's time to press on with some hotter sauces for on my chips/onion rings/jalapenos etc.

So this thread ought to be our journal of experiences and recommendations of hot sauces and we can use it to communicate our boundary-pushing activities like the sauce equivalent of Glaucus' insanity burger.

We ought to have some rules to keep things nice.

Rules:
1) No chilli snobbery. Mildly spicy and it's all about the flavour is as acceptable as insanely blow your mofo head off hot
2) Whether you like it or not, given time, you're going to crave hotter sauces and work up. Don't forget your roots - see rule #1

 

[Jonny69]

I'll kick off. I got some 'Cottage Delight' chilli sauces for Christmas - a selection of five sauces from sweet to hot to garlicy. I think they're pretty damn tasty and although some of them are pretty hot they're good to dip onion rings and breaded jalapenos in. I recommend them if you happen to stumble upon them in a deli (or Waitrose), particularly the Indonesian Chilli and Garlic sauce, which is a nice mix of sweet, garlic and hot. Sort of Tobasco hot but in a sauce that you can dip into. Delicious.

I'm ready to try some Dave's Insanity. Am I actually ready though? Am I going to experience pain? How much should I expect to pay and where should I get it from?

 

[Jonny69]

In terms of hot, but not stupidly so, and still flavoursome I like Frank's Extra Hot sauce.

I bought some of that but was disappointed. I can't remember what it actually tasted like but I didn't like the taste very much and it wasn't as hot as the bottle promised

 

[Jonny69]

I took a trip to Tesco and got some Dave's Insanity. I see what you guys mean, it just tastes like incredibly hot paprika and not a lot else. Will be good for chilli boosting though!

Nando's mild/medium/hot sauce are on half price to 99p if anyone is interested.

 

[Jonny69]

I made a (much) more tame version of Glaucus's insanity burger the other night and it tore my guts out the morning after. Absolutely delicious though, quite hot and left me burning, but not ott.

250g lean steak mince
1 tbsp dry breadcrumbs
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Approx 1-2 tsp insanity sauce

This is the first time I've had a hot sauce from capsicum extract. I can take my chilli heat but this is a strange different experience. You get the burn in the mouth but it goes all round the inside of your mouth spreads all over the outside of your lips and the bottom of your nose. Most strange. I liked it until the morning where there was fire in the hole / that Johnny Cash song / rumble in the jungle / etc etc you get the idea