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Posted May 17, 2016
I'm a HUGE lover of spicy things. Mainly cause it adds a lot to the whole eating experience. In some cases when the food is tough to eat, it can also help you eat it.

Be it tabasco sauces, black pepper, weird potato chips, ginger, onions, or a plain old greed/red spicy pepper, i will down it.
Just the mere thought of eating a pepper provides me a "Pavlov's Dog" effect with saliva flooding my mouth.

I recently started buying tabasco sauces just to test them out.
From the picture you see below i've tried the 1st, 3rd and 5th sauce.

The first one is the classic. It burns a lot.
The third one is a mix of spicy and the Hickori BBQ sauce. It burns a bit less than the first.
The fifth one is the most spicy of all. Just bought it and will test it thoroughly.

What other spicy stuff is to be tried out there?
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Posted May 17, 2016
Anything related to the Ghost Pepper or the Carolina Reaper should do ya.
Posted May 17, 2016
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Epitaph666: I'm a HUGE lover of spicy things. Mainly cause it adds a lot to the whole eating experience. In some cases when the food is tough to eat, it can also help you eat it.

Be it tabasco sauces, black pepper, weird potato chips, ginger, onions, or a plain old greed/red spicy pepper, i will down it.
Just the mere thought of eating a pepper provides me a "Pavlov's Dog" effect with saliva flooding my mouth.

I recently started buying tabasco sauces just to test them out.
From the picture you see below i've tried the 1st, 3rd and 5th sauce.

The first one is the classic. It burns a lot.
The third one is a mix of spicy and the Hickori BBQ sauce. It burns a bit less than the first.
The fifth one is the most spicy of all. Just bought it and will test it thoroughly.

What other spicy stuff is to be tried out there?
i'm a huge fan of thai style curries. green is my favorite.

and on the subject of spicy food.... everything i cook is spicy. i LOVE spicy food. in fact i tend to think of things without a little spice as quite bland. makes it difficult with a wife and kids who seem to love bland, spiceless food. these days i just cook for myself and let them figure their own dinner out. :-D
Posted May 17, 2016
I love Valentina hot sauce with a passion. Compared to many other hot sauces out there, it's not particularly spicy (I'd say more or less like your average tabasco), but it's actually very tasty.
Posted May 17, 2016
Ever had Takis? They are little spicy sticks that are sold in the same part of a store as potato chips. Pic is attached.
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Posted May 17, 2016
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Smannesman: Anything related to the Ghost Pepper or the Carolina Reaper should do ya.
wow! Had to google those! They actually have a metric system for spicy stuff?
When i read this :

"In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. " i was blown away.

But then i also googled Carolina Reaper.... Yep, don't think i'll try that one... I might choke!


@fortune_p_dawg : that's the opposite of what i do. i always grab a pepper for my plate!
Posted May 17, 2016
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Epitaph666: wow! Had to google those! They actually have a metric system for spicy stuff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Posted May 17, 2016
I like #2 and #6. Milder sauces like those two accentuate rather than override the taste of food (and green is fun). #1 or #5 I pour into cheapass ramen.
Peri Peri is great.
There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
Posted May 17, 2016
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Starmaker: I like #2 and #6. Milder sauces like those two accentuate rather than override the taste of food (and green is fun). #1 or #5 I pour into cheapass ramen.
Peri Peri is great.
There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
Is Peri Peri related to Piri Piri?
Posted May 17, 2016
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Starmaker: I like #2 and #6. Milder sauces like those two accentuate rather than override the taste of food (and green is fun). #1 or #5 I pour into cheapass ramen.
Peri Peri is great.
There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
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Smannesman: Is Peri Peri related to Piri Piri?
Alternate spelling, apparently.

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Oh, and I also have a "traditional" Capsicum potted plant of an unknown variety. Russians put it in vodka and homemade preserves for flavor. I haven't yet tasted a store-bought hot sauce which caused me discomfort (I can't stand hot onions and garlic, though), but this stuff is vile.
Posted May 17, 2016
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Smannesman: Anything related to the Ghost Pepper or the Carolina Reaper should do ya.
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Epitaph666: wow! Had to google those! They actually have a metric system for spicy stuff?
When i read this :

"In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. " i was blown away.

But then i also googled Carolina Reaper.... Yep, don't think i'll try that one... I might choke!

@fortune_p_dawg : that's the opposite of what i do. i always grab a pepper for my plate!
i used to do that. but i got sick of the 'disembodied heat' of not having the actual spice cooked within my meal.

that said, i'll munch on plain old fresh peppers too.
Posted May 17, 2016
A spoonful of Sambal Oelek into every serving of food unless alredy spiced in some other way, is a must.
Posted May 17, 2016
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Starmaker: There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
I came to say I really like Sriracha, but got distracted reading The Oatmeal for a few minutes...

I'm not a huge fan of super spicy stuff, I like a little heat, but I find anything too spicy makes my nose run (and generally spoils my enjoyment of the meal). But Sriracha is just the right amount of spice and flavour that I like (plus it's got the perfect consistency to squeeze on pizzas in interesting patterns)
Posted May 17, 2016
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Starmaker: There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
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adaliabooks: I came to say I really like Sriracha, but got distracted reading The Oatmeal for a few minutes...

I'm not a huge fan of super spicy stuff, I like a little heat, but I find anything too spicy makes my nose run (and generally spoils my enjoyment of the meal). But Sriracha is just the right amount of spice and flavour that I like (plus it's got the perfect consistency to squeeze on pizzas in interesting patterns)
yes! i do that with my sriracha too! last night i was eating sriracha on tortilla chips and i was writing daedric letters on my chips with the sriracha squeeze bottle. hah!

my wife was like "wtf are u doing man?!"
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Themken: A spoonful of Sambal Oelek into every serving of food unless alredy spiced in some other way, is a must.
that stuff is wonderful on grilled meats.
Post edited May 17, 2016 by fortune_p_dawg
Posted May 17, 2016
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Starmaker: I like #2 and #6. Milder sauces like those two accentuate rather than override the taste of food (and green is fun). #1 or #5 I pour into cheapass ramen.
Peri Peri is great.
There's of course Sriracha, which at some point had a cult rivalling that of bacon. I wasn't impressed.
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Smannesman: Is Peri Peri related to Piri Piri?
They are both dancers over at the hula club...
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