hi!
i found this site a few years ago but decided to pass on it because at the time i was just barely beginning to tolerate eating tabasco sauce and we all know that isn't exactly all that hot. so the content here was way beyond my needs and i figured it wasn't for me.
funny thing happened, i trained myself to tolerate heat. initially 1 drop of tabasco in anything and my mouth would break out in sores and they lasted for a day or so, very uncomfortable and unpleasant. but i really liked the taste of tabasco sauce so i tried to get used to it a little at a time. i found after a week or so i could tolerate a drop in something and then i added 2 drops. within a few weeks i was able to put a splash of tabasco on a dish and actually enjoy it without suffering! i was hooked!
so i decided to grow 1 cayenne pepper in my garden just to see if i could handle it. i started with long red slim cayenne. that plant produced probably 70 to 85 peppers! i dried some and froze the rest. these babies were hot! but i was able to tolerate them tho my head was wet and sweat was breaking out on my face and neck. i ate more at one sitting and i was amazed that i was ok, no sores in my mouth and i loved the heat and flavor.
i then got cocky and looked for a hotter hot sauce. i bought habanero tabasco sauce and whewie that was hot but if i didn't over do it it was good. then i lost my mind and did not realize what i was getting into. i bought a bottle of dave's insanity sauce! i just couldn't handle it. so for about 2 or so years it sat in the fridge, it's rated at 180,000 SU and even today i have to use it carefully. this past winter i tried putting a drop on a salsa chip with salsa and i was able to do it but man it burned and thankfully the yogurt cooled things down.
i can handle some heat now as i've been eating hot peppers a few years but i still respect that insanity sauce, it is wicked hot. the sad thing is it is all burn but very little flavor, the taste is not all that great really kinda thick and nasty.
so this year i decided to up the ante and grow real hot peppers and see if i could handle them. i bought 3 not 1 long red slim cayenne plants which i knew i liked but they turned out to be long red thick cayenne - they were mislabeled and have about as much heat as ice cream! but the other 2 i bought were a fatalli and a scotch bonnet. i was certain that i had lost my mind and would have to give the fruits away, i mean i can't handle that heat. but i picked the 1st fatalli a couple of weeks ago and was careful cutting off just a sliver avoiding the pith and with yogurt and sour cream ready i ate that sliver raw with nothing else. NICE flavor! sort of like the insanity sauce for heat but a better fruitier flavor. the yogurt (whole not low fat) didn't really put out the fire but the sour cream did. i had some edy's coconut pineapple ice cream so i cut up the fatalli into small pieces and added the whole pepper (no pith or seeds) to a dish of that ice cream. it was excellent, great taste but not real hot just right. i ate a scotch bonnet a few days ago and it was hot but not too bad, again yogurt and sour cream at hand just in case.
so i decided to come back because maybe i'm ready for this site now and i have a problem to boot so i hope to get some guidance. look forwards to reading and learning!
oh btw, is there a control panel to set an avatar etc, i looked but i can't seem to find it. never mind i just found it.
tom
i found this site a few years ago but decided to pass on it because at the time i was just barely beginning to tolerate eating tabasco sauce and we all know that isn't exactly all that hot. so the content here was way beyond my needs and i figured it wasn't for me.
funny thing happened, i trained myself to tolerate heat. initially 1 drop of tabasco in anything and my mouth would break out in sores and they lasted for a day or so, very uncomfortable and unpleasant. but i really liked the taste of tabasco sauce so i tried to get used to it a little at a time. i found after a week or so i could tolerate a drop in something and then i added 2 drops. within a few weeks i was able to put a splash of tabasco on a dish and actually enjoy it without suffering! i was hooked!
so i decided to grow 1 cayenne pepper in my garden just to see if i could handle it. i started with long red slim cayenne. that plant produced probably 70 to 85 peppers! i dried some and froze the rest. these babies were hot! but i was able to tolerate them tho my head was wet and sweat was breaking out on my face and neck. i ate more at one sitting and i was amazed that i was ok, no sores in my mouth and i loved the heat and flavor.
i then got cocky and looked for a hotter hot sauce. i bought habanero tabasco sauce and whewie that was hot but if i didn't over do it it was good. then i lost my mind and did not realize what i was getting into. i bought a bottle of dave's insanity sauce! i just couldn't handle it. so for about 2 or so years it sat in the fridge, it's rated at 180,000 SU and even today i have to use it carefully. this past winter i tried putting a drop on a salsa chip with salsa and i was able to do it but man it burned and thankfully the yogurt cooled things down.
i can handle some heat now as i've been eating hot peppers a few years but i still respect that insanity sauce, it is wicked hot. the sad thing is it is all burn but very little flavor, the taste is not all that great really kinda thick and nasty.
so this year i decided to up the ante and grow real hot peppers and see if i could handle them. i bought 3 not 1 long red slim cayenne plants which i knew i liked but they turned out to be long red thick cayenne - they were mislabeled and have about as much heat as ice cream! but the other 2 i bought were a fatalli and a scotch bonnet. i was certain that i had lost my mind and would have to give the fruits away, i mean i can't handle that heat. but i picked the 1st fatalli a couple of weeks ago and was careful cutting off just a sliver avoiding the pith and with yogurt and sour cream ready i ate that sliver raw with nothing else. NICE flavor! sort of like the insanity sauce for heat but a better fruitier flavor. the yogurt (whole not low fat) didn't really put out the fire but the sour cream did. i had some edy's coconut pineapple ice cream so i cut up the fatalli into small pieces and added the whole pepper (no pith or seeds) to a dish of that ice cream. it was excellent, great taste but not real hot just right. i ate a scotch bonnet a few days ago and it was hot but not too bad, again yogurt and sour cream at hand just in case.
so i decided to come back because maybe i'm ready for this site now and i have a problem to boot so i hope to get some guidance. look forwards to reading and learning!
oh btw, is there a control panel to set an avatar etc, i looked but i can't seem to find it. never mind i just found it.
tom
the tolerance of heat is directly related to the killing of nerve endings....
