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Hey all, New guy here from florida. Have a question that I am sure you have gotten before. How do you get a rating on a new hot sauce?
 
Welcome! It's relative, go with your own.
 
You can send it to certain labs and have the sauce chromatographed to find the SHU content. It's expensive, $4-500 per shot. Don't bother, if it's hot to you, it's hot.
 
gday Burgdog, welcome to THP

gather ten occasional chile sauce consumers, ask them all to take a taste and rate the heat out of ten, then work out the average score. or just guess - if you think it's super hot, make it a ten, if it's hotter than that then it's a 10+, wimpy heat with no burn at all 1. the great danger in making a 'guesstimate' rating is that if you are a season chilehead and can handle megaheat you will most likely under-rate, so when Joe Public comes along he will get his ass burned off and you have rated it an 8.

maybe instead of a numerical rating you could go with: mild, warm, hot, very hot, super hot, look the f*** out!!! just a thought.
 
Hello Burdog, and welcome!

My first pepper of the day pretty much lights me up. If I eat another of the same pepper a half hour later it won't seem near as intense. By doing this and mixing it up I can tell that my hot banana's are hotter than my tam jalapeno's and the habs pretty much put me in tears no matter when I eat them. If I had to put a number to my peppers it would be hot banana-4, tam jalapeno-3, orange habanero-8.
 
welcome! yea, i'd just get a handful of sauces and compare them all...see where your sauce, or the sauce in question, places amongst the rest.

another floridian huh? are there any florida hot food gatherings?
 
chilliman64 said:
gday Burgdog, welcome to THP

gather ten occasional chile sauce consumers, ask them all to take a taste and rate the heat out of ten, then work out the average score. or just guess - if you think it's super hot, make it a ten, if it's hotter than that then it's a 10+, wimpy heat with no burn at all 1. the great danger in making a 'guesstimate' rating is that if you are a season chilehead and can handle megaheat you will most likely under-rate, so when Joe Public comes along he will get his ass burned off and you have rated it an 8.

maybe instead of a numerical rating you could go with: mild, warm, hot, very hot, super hot, look the f*** out!!! just a thought.

This is soooooo true. Everytime I honestly try to tell people my chili or something isn't to hot they are sweating and run for the fridge!!LOL!! I also noticed that when I kiss my fiance after eating I just barely feel a slight burn. I have kissed her 5 minutes later after eating though and she call's me an A hole!!:lol::) Guess her lips were burning. Oh well:rolleyes::lol:
 
Kissing her eh? You could have done a lot more damage believe me! Not to be crude, but get that burn on her hoo ha, and it will transfer to your thingy, and damn it is uncomfortable for like 45 minutes!! Forget going to sleep.
 
cheezydemon said:
Kissing her eh? You could have done a lot more damage believe me! Not to be crude, but get that burn on her hoo ha, and it will transfer to your thingy, and damn it is uncomfortable for like 45 minutes!! Forget going to sleep.

:lol::shocked::lol::lol: I got her there once before as well. Didn't want to bring it up though.......man capacin will stay on your hands and it shows itself at the worst of times!!..LOL!!
 
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