So today was a tasting day for me, with a range of interestingly flavoured extracts and even a hot rum syrup. But that wasn't all. No, I also had this:
Hell.... Unleashed, as it calls itself, is the product of two major UK chilli retailors, www.hot-headz.com and The Chilli Pepper Company (www.chileseeds.co.uk) getting together and deciding that none of the previous "world's hottest sauce"s were hot enough. And, so that there could be no debate on the matter, they made it with the express intention of surpassing every record thusfar, something that scoville ratings confirm it does. The makers' quoted values are 5,322,531 dry or 2,584,498 wet for the sauce and 1,569,300 dry or 235,395 wet for the carolina reaper. Obviously these are average values for the reaper but even its world record dry scoville rating of little over 2.2 million doesn't meet the sauce's wet value and no other sauce I've seen comes close either. These are some big claims they're chucking around. Does it meet them?
Well, before we get into that, let's check the presentation.
The lable is white with a flaming skull I find oddly reminiscent of that in The Fifth Element, one of the best comedy sci-fi films in my opinion but not the most original imagery and, even in their official product shot, you can tell it's poorly printed, with tiny rainbow artifacts appearing in the darker parts. The company logos are lazily cut out and superimposed onto this, with a black square around chileseeds' as though the labler wasn't even trying. And then the name is above and below in generic itallic font. Nothing special at all, just black on white.
The sauce looks good though, right? Such a lovely vivid orange. Looks wonderfully fruity and flavourful.
Well, there's a reason both sites use the same picture. It's probably the only good one they could get. The colour of my bottle's contents was more of a murky brown but not just that. It was full off so many flecks and splodges of extract that you wouldn't believe. They must have used an industrial strength paint blender or something because I could not for the life of me get it to mix properly. Infact, you can tell it's just been shaken from the position of that bubble.
But lets overlook all that, it's the flavour and the heat that matters, right?
I'd just had a drop of 1 million extract before this so I was feeling somewhat prepared, if a little worried by the pre-release reviews I'd witnessed. I wasn't going to be a fool like those guys and spoon this down though. I was going to do a cocktail stick tip and savour the flavour. After all, it was a mango scorpion sauce, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, it didn't taste of mango. Nor did it taste of scorpion. It tasted of brown, mushy cooked fruit of no specific type. That and extract. Mostly extract. That was, after all, the main ingredient.
After about 3 seconds, amazingly quick for an extract sauce, the heat kicked in and boy was it strong. Stronger than the million extract. Strong enough to make me cough and splutter. And that was just the start.
Moments later, I began to sniffle, then my nose truly ran, then the hiccups set in and it didn't end there. Before long, I was reaching for the milk, something I'd never had to do with less than 6 million extract. This little beastie delivered on its promise and then some. Truly wow!
So does that mean Hell.... Unleashed really is the world's hottest sauce?
No.
If you want that title from me, you're gonna have to make something I can pour. As is, all I can call this is 30ml of the world's hottest paste. So hot you'll never get through it, despite the tiny volume.
All in all, I'd reccomend this over trying pure 3-4 million extract but wouldn't advise it if you want a good tasting food additive.
Hell.... Unleashed, as it calls itself, is the product of two major UK chilli retailors, www.hot-headz.com and The Chilli Pepper Company (www.chileseeds.co.uk) getting together and deciding that none of the previous "world's hottest sauce"s were hot enough. And, so that there could be no debate on the matter, they made it with the express intention of surpassing every record thusfar, something that scoville ratings confirm it does. The makers' quoted values are 5,322,531 dry or 2,584,498 wet for the sauce and 1,569,300 dry or 235,395 wet for the carolina reaper. Obviously these are average values for the reaper but even its world record dry scoville rating of little over 2.2 million doesn't meet the sauce's wet value and no other sauce I've seen comes close either. These are some big claims they're chucking around. Does it meet them?
Well, before we get into that, let's check the presentation.
The lable is white with a flaming skull I find oddly reminiscent of that in The Fifth Element, one of the best comedy sci-fi films in my opinion but not the most original imagery and, even in their official product shot, you can tell it's poorly printed, with tiny rainbow artifacts appearing in the darker parts. The company logos are lazily cut out and superimposed onto this, with a black square around chileseeds' as though the labler wasn't even trying. And then the name is above and below in generic itallic font. Nothing special at all, just black on white.
The sauce looks good though, right? Such a lovely vivid orange. Looks wonderfully fruity and flavourful.
Well, there's a reason both sites use the same picture. It's probably the only good one they could get. The colour of my bottle's contents was more of a murky brown but not just that. It was full off so many flecks and splodges of extract that you wouldn't believe. They must have used an industrial strength paint blender or something because I could not for the life of me get it to mix properly. Infact, you can tell it's just been shaken from the position of that bubble.
But lets overlook all that, it's the flavour and the heat that matters, right?
I'd just had a drop of 1 million extract before this so I was feeling somewhat prepared, if a little worried by the pre-release reviews I'd witnessed. I wasn't going to be a fool like those guys and spoon this down though. I was going to do a cocktail stick tip and savour the flavour. After all, it was a mango scorpion sauce, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, it didn't taste of mango. Nor did it taste of scorpion. It tasted of brown, mushy cooked fruit of no specific type. That and extract. Mostly extract. That was, after all, the main ingredient.
After about 3 seconds, amazingly quick for an extract sauce, the heat kicked in and boy was it strong. Stronger than the million extract. Strong enough to make me cough and splutter. And that was just the start.
Moments later, I began to sniffle, then my nose truly ran, then the hiccups set in and it didn't end there. Before long, I was reaching for the milk, something I'd never had to do with less than 6 million extract. This little beastie delivered on its promise and then some. Truly wow!
So does that mean Hell.... Unleashed really is the world's hottest sauce?
No.
If you want that title from me, you're gonna have to make something I can pour. As is, all I can call this is 30ml of the world's hottest paste. So hot you'll never get through it, despite the tiny volume.
All in all, I'd reccomend this over trying pure 3-4 million extract but wouldn't advise it if you want a good tasting food additive.
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OMG! Hybrid,,,,that's cracking me up!!! 
