A guy at my work was bragging about how he can handle ANY hot souce. I brought in a bottle of Da Bomb for him to sample. I got a small plastic spoon, and told him to take just the tiniest spec of a taste on it.
He poured and ate an entire spoonful of it. I was in shock. I had never even imagined anyone tasting that much. I half-expected to have to call in the medical team.
He rolled it around on his tongue, and showed me all trying to act brave and cool about it.
Then the hiccups started.
Suddenly, he runs away from me and goes to drink a tall bottle of spring water…the worse thing you can drink to relieve hot sauce pain.
I yelled for him to drink milk, and then he ran into the back of the kitchen, after apologising to a customer that he couldn’t serve him lunch just yet. He returned with a tall carton of milk, downing the whole thing. ALl the while, he’s red as a beet, sweating profusely, and cannot talk due to the pain.
“It hurts… I’m in pain” was all he could manage to gargle out.
Other employees came up to ask me what I “did to him”. I showed them the bottle. SOme of them tried it too, and agreed that a full spoon was beyond rational thinking.
The funniest thing appears on the label:
“Serving size: 2 teaspoons”
My fridge is full of hot sauces. I have to say that the hottest sauce I have ever tasted is PureCap. It comes with a medicine dropper in a large medicine bottle. I had to sign a waiver in order to purchase it. I also have Da Bomb and that is plenty hot but not as intense as PureCap. I really like Buffalo wings with Daves insanity or Endorphin Rush. Hot sauce is really a very slowly aquired taste and not for the faint of heart. I have read that hot peppers kill bacteria on food and in your gut. Some types of stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria and can be partially resolved by hot peppers. If anyone knows if anything is hotter than PureCap, please let me know.
Check that link in the OP, Pure Cap is the 12th one down. QtM could you elaborate on that Broncospasm a bit please? What are the chances of it happening due to the ingestion of extremely hot foods? Does it happen often? Is it an absolute death warrant or does it just mean call 911?
I doubt the Tabasco bit - about it shutting down your respiratory system. All the vinegar might make you puke, but as far as hotness, in my subjective scale, it ranks in the lower range of medium, if not upper-mild.
One of my favorite chiles are these tiny little dried Vietnamese chiles I bought. I have no idea what they are - they’re maybe a centimeter long, but three of these little buggers can spice up a couple cups of tomato sauce to the medium-hot range. They are absolutely amazing! I have a bunch of dried habaneros at home and I swear these little chiles seem hotter.
That said, my parents had a bottle of that Dave’s Insanity sauce when I came home; I didn’t find it particularly that insane. Then again, I’ve probably burnt off all my taste buds in these past few years eating spicy Thai and Indian food. (Mexican food really is quite mild compared to Far East/Indian cuisine. It took me a couple years of finally conquering it, but it was an enjoyable challenge.)
The link in the OP says that Habenero 750 has been discontinued! That sucks! It’s already $14.50 a bottle at the only shop that I can find it at!
So that I can add something more than whining about the loss of my favorite capsaicin extract-
Have any of y’all tried Possible Side Effects? It’s insanely hot, but has a carrot-like flavor and makes a killer fire-hot gumbo (1/4-1/2 teaspoon PSE to 8qts finished gumbo)
Someone with bronchospasm (asthma) could have an attack triggered by capsaicin if enough molecules get aerosolized and inhaled. The airways spasm tight, and I hope someone got an inhaler or epi-pen nearby.
Is it common? No. Does it happen? Yes. I’ve had some of my asthmatics tell me their latest attack was triggered by ingestion of hot sauce. Now, moe often it’s triggered by cleaning fumes, cat dander, or one of the more traditional allergens, but it does happen.