Hot Sauce and Chili Pepper Heads thread

[wobastax]

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the five gods of hot sauce... chipotle sauce, green jalepeno sauce, garlic habenero sauce, original sauce and habenero sauce! all genious!

[anthrobabe]

Made some homemade sauce this week--- with Guajillos--- it's not really firey and has such a sweet smell-- it's great on eggs.

[robotulism]

Oh man, I love me some hot sauce. I have probably tried it all. And I usually rank them on flavor first, then heat.
For example, Dave's insanity sauce is spicy as heck, and I love it, but the flavor is not very nice and compliments only a few select meals.
Sriracha (or Flaming Chicken, as we call it in my home-port) is by far the best, I think. I eat food specifically to use it. In this past week I have used it in burritos, nachos, on scalloped potatoes, burgers, pizza, guacamole, and it won the taste test in bloody marys. It is definitely my favorite.
Otherwise, Cholula, with the wooden cap, is good for its heat and flavor, but pretty much only on mexican food and pizza, not near as versatile. And good ole tabasco rules the breakfast table, but not many other places.

this smilie is fitting.

[TwistedSister]

Hey Robo back. I was hoping you'd turn up again.
Pop on over to fun and games and meet some of the gang!

[PKMKII]

So a few nights back I decided to order some Chinese food from this new-ish place here in Bay Ridge. Now they do normal American-style Chinese food, but they also have a separate section of authentic Sichuan food (Menu here for anyone interested). I had heard that Sichuan food is spicy, so I decided to go for the Spicy Chengdu Dumplings and the braised beef in chili sauce. Now I'm a guy that's got a pretty decent tolerance for el picante. I can throw a few drops of Sudden Death sauce into a pot of chili and barely break a sweat, while my girlfriend has to fan her tongue. This Sichuan stuff, however, kicked my ass around; I had to down two glasses of milk, I was sweating like mad, my sinuses completely emptied out, my lips tingled and burned for like 20 minutes afterward. Still managed to finish it, though

[Ubi Dubius]

I love Sichuan food. We had a wonder place near us when we lived in Roanoke, Virginia. I had to twist the manager's arm a couple of times to bring me the spicy dishes (he didn't think an Anglo could handle them). We really liked the place. The manager even ordered ingredients for us we couldn't find in the local stinky store (Oriental grocery). Yes, there was only one.

Sadly, the restaurant closed a few months after we moved away. The closing involved INS raiding the small apartment where about 20 restaurant employees lived.

[anthrobabe]

I pickled some jalapenos 2 weeks ago- been waiting on them to sit and season a while, I put garlic in mine-not alot just a smidge, I like the flavor it imparts. Oh and just wee pinch of sugar. I found a 2 pound bag of raw ones at the farmers market for a dollar (USA) and snapped them up.
Well I opened the jar today and they are good- they have mellowed nicely but still have enough heat and flavor- I left them whole, just poked a few holes in them so they absorb the brine.

Jalapenos not only tast good they are pretty good for you- low in cals but have some good calcium and even fiber in them for such a small bit.
Nutrition Facts -note this is for 90grams which is about 3 ounces so divide according to how you eat them. But it adds up.

[Cardinal Fang]

Just planted my chilli plants in for the year - growing jalapenos, hungarian hot wax, fresnos and chocolate habaneros this year. Jalapenos already flowering - woo hoo.

CF

[bacon]

tried fresh jalapenos and ice cream this weekend - delicious!

[TwistedSister]

^you aren't expecting a wee one are you????

[bacon]

that, my dear, would be a miracle

[Scott the Pirate]

Has anyone mentioned my favorite yet?

[bacon]

i have a bottle of that in my fridge
use it to add a little extra kick to my chili or anything else that calls for it

[Scott the Pirate]

There are two steps "up from there. "Beyond insanity" is about 120,000 scoville units. There's "Ground Zero" that's 234,000 scoville units and "The Final Answer" that's 1.5 million.

[PantyGnawer]

I pickled some jalapenos 2 weeks ago- been waiting on them to sit and season a while, I put garlic in mine-not alot just a smidge, I like the flavor it imparts. Oh and just wee pinch of sugar. I found a 2 pound bag of raw ones at the farmers market for a dollar (USA) and snapped them up.
Well I opened the jar today and they are good- they have mellowed nicely but still have enough heat and flavor- I left them whole, just poked a few holes in them so they absorb the brine.

Jalapenos not only tast good they are pretty good for you- low in cals but have some good calcium and even fiber in them for such a small bit.
Nutrition Facts -note this is for 90grams which is about 3 ounces so divide according to how you eat them. But it adds up.

How'd you pickle them? Pretty soon I'm going to be up to my ears in peppers and I need to start planing on what to do with them.

Do they taste like the pickled jalapenos you get at the store? Cause I've been likeing those less and less these days.