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So 1498 is my new go to for breakfast. What a delicious hot sauce. I've got some Dawson's XXX Ghost Pepper mash opened as well, also a real contender. It's amazing how much flavor the newer peppers bring to still have good heat.
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They're one of the few straight up legitimately hot salsas available around here at big groceries. Good stuff. Glad to see Secret Aardvark getting big. It's better than sriracha at basically everything.
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Cauterizer from Heartbreaking Dawns. Had it with some leftover fried rice and it's delicious. Really good job getting the sweet pepper flavor forward and then a long bright burn of heat. Trinidad Scorpion ended up being a crazy good hot sauce pepper.
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We cracked open several other bottles over beer and some boring rear end football game the other day: Dirty Dick's - just good old school hot sauce. Great on chicken but overall tame. Kids liked it. Heartbreaking Dawn's Reapercussion - Big fruit forward start and then pretty bright and intense heat. 7 Pot Primo I think takes the cake for just in-your-face up front hot and then this also has Carolina Reaper mash so the heat lingers for a while. Good hot sauce but not for the casual wing eater. Kolohe Kid - Very sweet, very flavorful. Manages to bring out the flavor of a ghost pepper without really trying to just tear your palate up. This would be the poo poo on some good ramen or pho. Zombie Apocalypse - Mostly vinegar at the start then just a sleepy gradual heat. It's hot but it's not offensive. Probably best for wings/fried chicken? Garlic Reaper - Hot. Starts hot. Stays hot. Ends hot. Still hot. I think the garlic is just there so you can pour it. Fear This! - Startlingly hot, startlingly quickly, but not like the old extract based stuff - still flavor, still can taste peppers, but god drat. This is an impressively hot sauce with almost a violent characteristic to it. Thankfully it's kind of like a "gently caress you" light switch, it doesn't cloy or stick around long. Great for brave wing eaters. The Last Dab - Pretty tame. It's obvious that the focus was on flavor and that definitely shines through. This one has the YouTube built rep of being a real scorcher and it really isn't. It would be at home in really any spicy Asian dish and any traditionally hot Southern foods. Going to surprise the family next time I make collard greens. Dawson's Ghost Pepper Mash - It's what's on the bottle. Bright, fruity, then really hot. No real attempt at making a sauce, this is just a good way to experience the basic Jolokia experience. I don't know if I ever posted anything about the Puckerbutt sauces I've got but they're both amazing. Reaper Squeezin's is a ride and the Reaper Mash is similar to what Dawson's did with their Jolokia mash - blended up peppers with just enough vinegar to make it a "sauce". It's only just starting to not burn my unmentionables. Edit: Looking at Heatonist and saw this Fiery Fool... pre:Ingredients: Red 7 Pot Primo pepper mash (Red 7 Pot Primo Peppers and Vinegar), Reaper Pepper Mash (Reaper Peppers, Vinegar), Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Mash(Trinidad Scorpion Pepper, Salt), Jolokia Pepper Mash (Bhut Jolokia Peppers, Salt) Apple Cider Vinegar, Sun-dried Tomatoes, Garlic, Cumin, Himalayan Pink Salt mischief fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Herr Tog posted:THIS ITEM DOES NOT SHIP TO CALIFORNIA I'm sorry you live in a horrible state. Ordered because I have poor impulse control. Culley's Roasted Carolina Reaper Big Fat's 708 Optimus Primo Hellfire Fiery Fool Burns & McCoy Exhorresco HEATONIST #1 mischief fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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Power of Pecota posted:If you had to pick between these two, which do you think is better overall? I've only tried Torchbearer's Son of Zombie which was good, but more like a barbecue sauce than anything and went super fast. I'm split between these two as the next one of theirs on the docket. Zombie Apocalypse is probably the more flexible sauce of the two, especially for fried foods.
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Doom Rooster posted:Thanks for the link. Made these today. Added some smoked garlic shitakes for a little more umami and some meatiness. Freaking great. drat that looks delicious.
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Feb 25, 2019 02:04
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Couple drive by reviews of new ones I opened today- Big Fat's 708 Optimus Primo - really takes advantage of the slow creep from the 7-Pot Primo and loads the flavor with sweet citrus and almost jam like flavors, then a solid slow creeping heat from the pepper. It's good on wings but not a really multi purpose sauce I can figure. They've reworked the formula a few times since I got this bottle to be hotter but it seems like it would just be a sweet/rear end wrecking novelty. Decent wing sauce. Hellfire Fiery Fool - banks hard on being mostly Reaper mash, and I think it suffers for it. Harsh and a little acrid on the nose, difficult to pour, and then just solid heat. It's not extract level misery but it's hot and should be given some room. It is interesting to be able to taste the different front runners for superhot peppers in one mash but I think this one is mostly academic.
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Mar 15, 2019 01:39
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'nother few Exhorresco - drat that's hot. Hot early, stays hot. Slight aluminum finish but that isn't abnormal with these peppers. Feels like it falls victim to the arms race... trying too hard to be too hot. Culley's Roasted Carolina Reaper - Slow burn to an otherwise really flavorful sauce. Really cool to see the roasted reaper peppers, adds a little sweetness and burns off the previously mentioned hot metal nose. Will leave your lips numb for a while.
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Mar 16, 2019 01:01
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The best part of Secret Aardvark is that habaneros taste terrible and they made a ridiculously delicious sauce out of them. It's my go to "gateway" sauce when people ask about peppers and hot sauces.
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Mar 25, 2019 21:54
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The main flavor of a raw hab is aluminum. It's a hot pepper and has earned some respect but they taste like chewing on a soda can.
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Mar 26, 2019 02:44
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 I love peppers, love hot sauce, love all of it. I just really don't think habanero is a good tasting pepper. Scotch Bonnet, sure. Similar heat but so much more flavor. I think the best tasting pepper around at the moment is the various trinidad scorpions. People are weird. It's okay. (You're all still wrong though.) mischief fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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Mar 27, 2019 21:56
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I think Heartbreaking Dawns 1498 is the best egg hot sauce basically in the history of ever. I don't think it would work on a whole hard boiled egg as it's a bit thin but come on....
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You can get it a little cheaper from the source but you have to buy more than one. Amazon is the easiest option. Also check out the other flavor options. Serrabanero and the black bean sauce are delicious.
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Family is out of town this weekend so I got to make dumb chicken wing decisions. Tried the new Pepper X mash from Puckerbutt, dubbed Gator Hot Sauce. Really good job making it pour well but still cling, good heat with some really good fruit. Got me skeptical that Pepper X is the next thing. Tried another with The Last Dab Redux. Hot but sweet. Not uncomfortable. Dug the original Reaper hot sauce that Puckerbutt did and yeah, I don't think anything is toppling the Carolina Reaper any time soon. What a monster of a pepper.
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I usually make salsas when the garden gets out of control in the hot months. You're exactly right, eggs and salsa is magic. There is something to be said for a little bit extra of a good hot sauce though, especially if there are hash browns or something like that involved.
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It's amazing how many ghost peppers are grown commercially now. You can buy a ghost pepper mash or puree in 5 gallon buckets way more affordably than you can grow them. They're actually quite prolific plants in the right conditions. I know Pepper Joe has posted some of his in the past that are just monsters, tall as hell and just covered in peppers. The reaper isn't quite as popular yet but there is definitely a commercial demand for it now. Hell, even DelMonte is releasing ghost pepper hot pickles now.
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Garlic in a mash is bueno. Really anything that won't kill bacteria is fine.
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I've got one of the Last Dabs and the Chocolate Plague and neither one is violently hot in my opinion. All the extract sauces just have no flavor. They taste a lot like pepper spray. It seems like as Hot Ones goes on celebrities kind of self coach the drama.
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Lester Shy posted:I finally used up the bottles of rear end Kickin' Carolina Reaper and Dave's Ghost Pepper sauce I got over the winter and I"m in the market for some new "extreme" sauces. I noticed my local World Market carries Bravado Ghost Pepper and Blueberry sauce, which sounds interesting, but I'm struggling to think of appropriate dishes for it. I'll put regular hot sauce on pretty much anything, Mexican food, chili, hamburgers, sandwiches, etc. Where do you guys like to use fruit-based hot sauces? Heartbreaking Dawns does a lot of super hot/fruit based sauces and they're all delicious. The 1498 Scorpion Pepper sauce is really good on fried eggs.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Shia LaBeouf on Hot Ones. I have always bagged on that douche but that's a really good interview. That show just keeps getting traction.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I think he's just trying to emulate the affect and persona that he sees in so many high-energy, overly-personable interviewers. I find it a little over the top sometimes. I'm sure part of it is a sort of coping mechanism to help him keep it together while his face melts off. I think he's going down the Gordon Ramsay conundrum. In a lot of his old videos and in a lot of his current videos that aren't Hot Ones he's a pretty chill dude that really appreciates good food.
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 Round two. Going to roast these on the grill I think so I don't turn the kitchen into Hong Kong. 7 Pot Primo, Carolina Reaper, Orange Butch T, CP 116, and Chocolate Douglah. I think I'm going to try to go sweet with it but we'll see. I really like the apricot based stuff Heartbreaking Dawn's has done with superhots. mischief fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Wow. Probably replacing this old grill next summer but I'll keep that in mind. I was going to put some good thick foil on a grill pan and go that route.
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A really fine food mill is awesome for sauce purposes.
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I will continue to sing it from the hills, secret aardvark serrabanero is the one true breakfast hot sauce. Their hab sauce is loving banging too. (They're giving away a free bottle of serrabanero with a trio of sauces on their site, just saying. Skip the black bean sauce you can get angry grandma sauce for less and it's waaaaaay better.)
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Beautiful starts! I've always had good luck with their stuff. Jealous you got to check 'em out in person.
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Tried a bottle of Heartbeat Hot Sauce Lion's Mane Piri Piri and holy poo poo, that's a delicious sauce. Lends itself extremely well to anything egg in my opinion. Adoboloco's Kolohe Kid and Secret Aardvark's Serrabanero are still my go to breakfast sauces but this guy is definitely going in the main fridge.
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I thought that Miso sauce tasted mostly of salt. Definitely overpowering.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I will probably end up using my bottle as an ingredient rather than a condiment for this reason. I thought it would lend itself to kind of a gyoza sauce but even then it would still need to be cut somehow. It's just a salt bomb.
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hot-headz.com looks like they have a good selection of thread favorites and might save you some money on shipping. Torchbearer and Heartbreaking Dawn's are two of my current favorite sauce makers.
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Jhet posted:So, I saw this thread mention Secret Aardvark a little while ago and I saw it at the grocery store. I think I’m going to need to order it in bulk. Less than a week and it’s about half gone. I can use it on everything. I will preach the gospel of Serrabanero until my lungs give out. The hab sauce is good, Serrabanero is transcendent.
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Ordered the sauces from the stupid Hot Ones show - nothing mind blowing but the "Constrictor" sauce is a proper hot reaper sauce. One of the ingredients is "reaper distillate" whatever the heck that is but it will definitely get your attention on a wing. For a good fifteen minutes. Also got Wiltshire Chili Farm's trinidad scorpion sauce and Angry Goat's Hippy Dippy Green. Scorpion sauce I think will go well with noodles, ramen type savory dishes. Good heat, scorpion is definitely one of my favorite peppers for flavor. Hippy Dippy is a good breakfast sauce, went well on a plate of sunny side up eggs. I don't think it will displace Angry Aardvark's Serrabanero at the breakfast table but it's a solid sauce. I can see it going well on a good pastor or asada as well.
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To revise my review after beer and some friends over - the Hot Ones game show sauces are hot. Brain Burner is not so bad. Scotch bonnet is a fantastic (and hard to grow) pepper with a little bit of lime. Good on a crispy wing, seems like a good match for any kind of mexican/central american dishes. Eye Of The Scorpion is a ninja. I've said it multiple times here and the garden thread that I love trinidad scorpions. It's a very robust plant with a ton of nuanced flavors. This sauce takes about 30 seconds for your brain to process the garlic then it's just loving hot. I'm a pretty grizzled hot sauce fan and this one had me reaching for some tortilla chips and an additional cold beer. Constrictor needs to go on the Hot Ones line up. It's not "da Bomb" levels of gently caress you but it's getting there. Layers and layers and layers of eye opening Carolina reaper and that's pretty much it. This has an immediate aluminum/ozone nose that fills the room - people notice when it gets opened. Hint of the sweetness of the pepper itself and then about 30 minutes of question why we're here and where is God heat. It's an expensive novelty. I cannot think of a single useful cuisine for this sauce. gently caress.
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 This month's Heatonist subscription. This is the second one I've ordered. The garlic Classic is a legit all day anyone every food sauce. It's up there with Kolohe Kid for top notch egg sauces. The Hellfire cab sauce is a really surprising sauce from them. All the other sauces I have from them have been essentially mashes based on a single pepper. Small bottles, big heat, not a lot of nuance. This is a really interesting sauce with reasonable heat and a lot of complexity. Not sure what it would go best on but it's always neat to see folks trying something new. Maybe with a really funky cheese? Haven't tried the Shaquanda's sauce yet but everything they've done is great. A++ will continue my subscription.
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They use liquid chromatography for scoville, even if it is a really arbitrary unit of measurement.
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Edit: Apparently I revised my opinion. The last two hot sauces in that lineup just feel kind of gimmicky. It's interesting to get an "extract" type sauce without the flavor but the nose is definitely extract on "Constrictor" After a few more folks input and maybe trying it more sober I still maintain that the second sauce is hotter. "Eye Of The Scorpion" starts hot and bright and just stays hot. mischief fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Couple more reviews: Lucky Dog Black Label Special Reserve - This is an impressive sauce. Really strong early sweet flavors from the fig and apple and then that late bright heat of the trinidad scorpion. Very complex and great on wings. Probably wasted as any kind of additive - sauce some stuff up and eat! Shaquanda's Spicier Smoke - Another good wing sauce and a good gateway hot sauce for people with reservations about going up the scoville chart. Would likely be serviceable on a burrito or the like but also seems to be best as the star of the meal.
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Found a use for AKA Miso - ramen. Good slow heat and the saltiness just kinda blends into the sodium bomb that is quick ramen. I'll have to try it in some actual legit pho or soba at some point.
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