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Hot pepper vs pepper sauce

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mcdizzle

This is a question I have pondered about and was wondering if any of you know the answer.

If I ate a half teaspoon of something like mad dog 357 and compared that to eating a whole fresh jalapeno for some reason I end up in the same amount of burning agony even though the 357 is supposed to be much hotter than the jalapeno.

I know there must be other factors here, one of the more obvious to me being water content of the pepper. We all know what water does for you when eating spicy things. Perhaps it is also amount of pepper vs amount of sauce. Maybe I am confused in how the scoville heat unit actually works or scales? There has to be a factor I am missing. I feel like I've worked my way up the spice ladder in sauces and am starting at the bottom of the spice ladder with peppers which just seems odd. For instance, I just bit off the meat of a banana pepper and the sweat glands are opening right up. And banana peppers are weak!!! How will I ever be ready for that ghost! :D

Your thoughts/opinions?
 
Hi McDizzle- welcome!

capsaicinoids are capsaicinoids, and there's a pretty good explanation around here somewhere. (I'll try to find it).
edit- here's some good info- http://thehotpepper.com/topic/23569-difference-in-extractpure/page__hl__capsaicinoids#entry484076

Generally, the hotter the chile, the more capsaicinoids there are in the flesh of the chile. Theoretically, you could distill/extract enough jalapenos to get a 1 million extract. It would take a (huge) amount of pods to get enough extracted capsaicin, but I think, theoretically, it could be done. You could take about 5% of that jalapeno amount of scorpions or habaneros and get that same 1 million extract.

Individual chile varieties have a huge variations depending on where they're grown etc. Some jalapenos just tingle, some jalapenos are WOW!. How the plants are treated before harvesting the chiles does affect the heat of the chiles.

Then you have to consider the concentration level of the capsaicinoids in the flesh of the chile. And water content does affect that.
 
A few more things to be aware of....

First, ++ with romy, in that absolutely nothing beats the flavor of a fresh pepper.
Next, heat tolerance is something you build up over time, don't think you're going to go from banana peppers to ghosts overnight!
Also, individual pods even from the same plant can vary greatly in the amount of heat each one has.
Finally the sauce may have used a pepper that's hotter than what you're used to (I don't generally eat sauces, so am not familiar with that one), or it may have included extract. Extracts usually up the heat without really adding anything beneficial to the flavor, IMO.
 
The capsaicinoids are dependent on the color of the cap that your garden gnome is wearing at the time that fruit had sex.

I find when my garden gnome is wearing his plaid tartan red and black cap that the peppers get really hot. The type of cap also affects the cap in the pepper to a varying degree. A beanie skull cap produces a lot more cold weather Dihydrocapsaicin ; you know the stuff that makes your tongue feel like it was stuck to a pump handle handle at 30 below. This name of the active compound comes from the old slag in pre-ipod times that means "da water snatch me cap". It has been latinized for to confuse non-biology/chemistry people.

Now the newspaper boy cap; the one that can be seen in turner classical movies, with the knob on top leads to a high percentages of Nordihydrocapsaicin. This type of cap has a roof of the mouth heat; like the roof of your mouth is going to blow you to kingdom come; or blow you north to Alaska. Which is how this cap got it's name.

If your gnome is wearing a baseball cap then you get a lot more Homocapsaicin which is like it says is for people. This is the kissing cap. The one that smacks you back like a kiss of death and makes your lips feel like they are two inches of burning fat in a frying pan. You know that feeling and never-never kiss your sweet heart when you do this cap.

Finally there is the top hat. I find that the height of the top hat also increases the heat of Homodihydrocapsaicin which is the big bad human cap that swells your tongue to fill your mouth and tries to run and hide down your throat while your lips curl up to your nose and the nose tries to put out the fire with a water flood and your fore head starts leaking all over your face. You know that feeling. Like that time when you dad slammed his car door on your fingers when you were 4 or the time that the 2000lb bull stepped on foot and would not move. That is the feeling. This is the baddest meanest cap that a gnome can were and if you see him in you garden with a top hat on run the The Hot Pepper and make a new bigger badder pepper announcement that you have a new pepper coming out from your garden.

Make a killing on the sale of seeds to the pepper heads and get your name in lights for a few weeks and retire to tobago.

Now I know some of you guys don't believe in garden gnomes but you have to believe or nothing off this will come true. But I have a solution for you guys. I am willing to rent out my garden gnome for a limited time and a very reasonable rate of $1000/hour and he will come with a magic shield so you will not have to look at him while he is working in your garden. And if you act now; within the next 15 minutes; I will include at no charge his plaid top hat so the pepper that have sex will be hotter than they ever were before.
This is a one time exclusive offer and it will not be offered again so act now---send $1000 to GonomesForYourGarden and get those peppers fertilized with the best cap available. Act now before it is too late
 
BALAC :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: This post is priceless.. omgggggggg............ It should be quoted and posted as the top post of every forum.... Thank you Balac... Thank you
 
I think jalapenos are pretty jumpy in heat considering they are ranked pretty low..> They seem to sting more than other ones ive tried which burn.
 
My gnome is a ninja! He makes the peppers stealthy and hot.

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Sauces are usually not rated PEPPERS are rated, and peppers are IN sauce so the Scoville is diluted.
 
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