Awesome! I love spicy stuff, I go through multiple bottles of hot sauce every week. I do have some "Ass Blaster" brand hot sauce that has lasted a while though, it has capsaicin extract and is maliciously spicy. That Calabrian pepper paste looks pretty tasty!
I like a sauce called Hellhound. It tastes like hinz 57 but is made with ghost pepper. Fantastic on brats and burgers.
I haven’t made any in quite a while, but sometimes I make a similar sauce and mix it with pulled pork for sandwiches when I smoke a hog. Just something different than traditional barbecue sauce for a change of pace.Nope. Can't do hot stuff like I used to. Hottest I can take now days is Jamaican Scotch Bonnet sauce with mango and spices.
When I was a kid my dad had a buddy from Trinidad that would make awesome Scotch Bonnet sauce like that with mango and stuff, very spicy, but also flavourful enough to balance it out.Nope. Can't do hot stuff like I used to. Hottest I can take now days is Jamaican Scotch Bonnet sauce with mango and spices.
I crumble a pinch of dried Carolina Reaper into my chili.
Yes. Good point. My mouth can handle it, but oftentimes it means I’m going to have heartburn all night long if I eat something like that too late in the evening. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.I cannot handle a lot of ?. My mouth can to some extent , but my stomach cannot. But I do like to shock myself time to time.
I don't mess with the pure pepper stuff but it's a fantastic ingredient in a sauce.I have not tasted that , but I have had sauces that had Glost Pepper earlier. This is in a different league though compared to the sauces I had earlier. 100% dried Ghost Pepper powder and 100% pure Carolina Reaper! I had some more with dinner, and I am sweating, crying and burning at the same time.
I like spicy food, too. I always have, but I received a new understanding of “spicy” about 20 years ago. We use a fair bit of cayenne here in Louisiana, so I thought I was well-versed in the ways of capsaicin, but my wife and I met, and eventually became good friends with, a Laotian family that owned a Thai restaurant that we used to frequent at the time. The first time we ate there, I had no idea what any of the dishes were, so I asked our friend-to-be to just bring me whatever she recommended. She said “Do you like spicy?” I said “Yeah, I love spicy.” ?
She brought me a green papaya salad that must’ve been nine parts chilis, and one part papaya! ?
I got schooled! ?
Strangely enough I became addicted to it, and I would almost always order that salad and a bowl of pho. We ate there at least once a week, sometimes twice, and I elevated my spice tolerance pretty considerably. I don’t think I’m at ghost pepper levels, but I do enjoy truly spicy food now, and there isn’t a dish at an Indian or Southeast Asian restaurant that I can’t handle now. ?