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hot-sauce Flashbang Hot Sauce - Oh dear god why?

AJ Drew

AJ Drew

Read about the packaging and had to try it.  You can buy the sauce itself for something like $20.00 or the whole display for ten bucks more.  The display is a fake flash bang grenade complete with pin and spring loaded spoon.  Inside the fake flash bang display is a vial.  Opened it for the initial spoon test and decided it would be an eye dropper test.  The capsicum fumes were that frigging strong.

One drop on my tongue and I was done.  Its an extract sauce but there is so much extract that all other flavor is washed away.  Thing is, if you are looking for the most heat for the dollar the stuff is probably a much better deal than most of the high dollar extracts. 

I am thinking that here on in I should just avoid extracts.
 
I saw that same sauce earlier, and was debating on trying it and decided not to ruin my meal I was going to have a few minutes later.

Bart
 
Unless it is as food additive I don't even know why some of these things exist.  I get that you might want to up the heat in a dish without changing the flavor of that dish, but then I have to wonder why they blend peppers, add onions, tomato, garlic and other ingredients like someone is going to be able to taste them.

All I can figure is people read the warning and want to be all macho man or thrill seeker, so they buy the thing but only buy it once.

Hotpepper - Ye the hot sauce saved my life made me break it out and give it a try.  Had it for a bit.  Gift from a friend.  But until that story, all I ever did with it was take the hot sauce out and play with the grenade part.  Not sure if you get what I get, but hot sauce and related products seem to be the only thing anyone ever gives me for a birthday or holiday.  This one was really cool because of the packaging.  More often are the 4 bottle sampler of some commercial junk from Walmart.

Oh thank you, i have never tried hot sauce from the grocery store.

 
 
Capsicum is pepper. He is saying he can smell the peppers, the capsicum. Not sure capsaicin has a smell.
 
I have had flashbang.  In fact, I have a bottle of it on my desk.  A friend brought it back for me from a vacation he took.  I tried a drop, and since then, it has sat in the same place on my desk.  I am not big on extracts.  If I want to heat something up without changing flavor, I will go with pure evil.  True hot sauce should be about enhancing flavor, not eradicating every trace of it, and replacing it with a burning sensation.  Just my humble opinion.  :-P
 
Didn't the fact in comes in a grenade tip any of you off it was novelty?
 
westin said:
True hot sauce should be about enhancing flavor, not eradicating every trace of it, and replacing it with a burning sensation.  Just my humble opinion.  :-P
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I am of the same opinion.  Years ago I thought it was 'cool' to mow down the hottest every damn thang I could get my hands on.  These days I'm far more discerning when it comes to edible fire.  :) 
 
Westin, I feel about the same way.  I think there is a macho thing going on with the over the top sauces.  Its not about the food at that point, it is about showing off.  Same for eating whole pods at the ghost pepper and above level.  I tend to cut the seed and placenta out and rinse with cold water.  That way I can use more peppers in cooking before it gets too hot.  Gets more of the flavor from the pepper into the food.

I think there's more than a few chili heads that don't really know what a lot of the super hots taste like because the burn overwhelms the flavors.  Is why I am often amazed by artisan sauces, by people who can bring the flavor of the pepper out.
 
ajdrew said:
Westin, I feel about the same way.  I think there is a macho thing going on with the over the top sauces.  Its not about the food at that point, it is about showing off.
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There's also people that eat 51 hot dogs, or a 72 oz steak. Or try to skate over the grand canyon. So what? The extreme portion of a hobby is not new my friend. 
It just makes our industry larger. It's a good thing. Don't knock it.
 
Lucky Dog - Yep, Capsicum is a big family.  Not sure the word capsaicin is good for it either because that scent isn't really there in Jalapeno or Cayenne.  Not for me anyway.  Different noses n all.  I would call it the chinense smell, but it is there in things like Ghost Pepper which isn't strictly chinense.  I don't know what the best word is.  Its a smell that say oh my god hot.

I think we all know what it is, but I don't think we've come up with a really good word for it. 
 
Yup, capsicum is all peppers.
 
Capsicum annuum (Bell pepper is in here)
Capsicum frutescens
Capsicum chinense
Capsicum pubescens
Capsicum baccatum
Capsicum galapagoense 
 
Hot Pepper - I definitely agree and the hot dog eating thing is a great way of explaining it.  Now have the blob ghost from the first Ghost Busters stuck in my head.  I -think- the French words are gourmont (72 oz. steak type) and gourmet (fillet mignon type) but I am not so sure about the spelling of that first word.  Same for chili heads and heat I think.

Never been much for drag racing.  Love Baha.

Hot Pepper said: "Capsicum annuum (Bell pepper is in here)"

Maybe you can help me find the word or term.  Yep, bell are in there and they are not hot.  But so is jalapeno and cayenne and they are hot.  But even the hot annuum do not seem to have the scent I am talking about.  Maybe it is a psychological thing.  Like eating yellow watermelon with your eyes open.  Gotta admit something that comes out of a hand grenade might trigger some concern.

But it really seems like I can crack open a scorpion and get a smell that just isn't there in cayenne or jalapeno.  A scent that is not restricted to chinense.  Not sure the word or term.
 
I'm gonna go with pepper fumes. LOL.

"Oh! The pepper fumes just hit me. This stuff smells intense!"
 
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