Okay, so the other day my mom and little sister went for a drive to look for "craft supplies", they stopped at a gift shop which coincidentally sold specialty hot sauces. My mom knows i'm a hot food fanatic, and she's sick of me ordering suicide wings at restaurants and complaining about how they "aren't hot enough" So she asks the cashier which sauce is the hottest, and picks up a bottle of CaJohn's Fatalii Fire for me on the way out (Isn't mom awesome?)
So for a first test, I put a little dab of it on a hamburger, take a bite... it's not that hot. I remove the lid, put a few more dabs on, take a bite... It's a bit warm, but not terrible. Lid comes off again, more hot sauce goes on, take a bite... It's fairly hot, not bad.
Sometime between when I finished the first burger and started assembling a second one, the heat catches up with me. This wasn't the normal kind of "ouch my tongue burns" hot that the hot sauce from the grocery store gives, this was more of a "hurts so bad that you don't want to breathe because air passing over the inside of your mouth is painful" hot. I sit there trying to keep my poker face on for a while, then I finally say screw it, and run over to the refrigerator, pour a glass of milk and start nursing it.
Actually, it was about this hot --->
To sum it up, Fatalii fire is awesome. I love the flavour (it's kind of bitter and salty... hard to describe), the color (brownish-yellow, cool), The intense heat, and I love offering it to everyone at the table when we have guests, and pouring it all over my food after they all turn it down. The hottest sauce that I tried before stepping up to this was... probably Frank's Red Hot Extra Hot. I'll never go back. (I've had habanero pepper flakes before which were hotter, i'm not counting them as sauce).
After I discovered the awesome existence of this gift shop that has a whole wall dedicated to hot sauce, I went there the next day to have a look at their selection. Amid all the bottles, the bottle of CaJohn's 10 caught my eye. The label was shiny, red, and modest looking, and mysterious (10... who wouldn't try that?
). It was also one of the priciest bottles there. After switching bottles of sauce a few times (I couldn't make up my mind), I ended up walking out of the store holding the mysterious bottle of 10.First thing that I did when I took it out of the bag was read the ingredient label. Fatalii peppers, two kinds of habanero (Red savina, orange), and something that i'd never heard of called naga jalokia (Up until just then, I wasn't aware of a pepper with more kick than habaneros).
The first thing that my 10 sauce went in was a bowl of chili. Not wanting to miss anything, I poured a LOT of the sauce into the bowl (in retrospect, I still think it was a good idea). It has good flavour, similar to my older Fatalii Fire sauce (I think alot of the flavour comes from the fatalii), but in my opinion, a little bit better tasting. It's heat is also comparable to previously stated sauce (HOT.), maybe a little hotter (I'm not a machine capable of telling exactly how much hotter or less hot once sauce is than another, it's just hot, ok?).
In conclusion, CaJohn's makes kickin' hot sauce. Next time I get out to the gift shop i'm going to buy a bottle of CaJohn's Magma (Ingredients: Vinegar, Salt, Oleoresin of capsicum), What's Oleoresin of capsicum? I did a google search for it, and all I get is pages about pepper spray and non-harmful weaponry. It's gonna be fun.
. I like the ingredients I here. Sounds like a winner to me.
. I like the ingredients I here. Sounds like a winner to me.
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