pacio said:
I would like to know which is the hottest sauce in world.
I thought it was "Blair 16 million reserve" but a friend of mine says that "That is not a sauce but only an extract. So we can't consider it the hottest sauce."
I think : "But if I add that extract to a normal sauce, then I have the hottest sauce ?"
Can anybody explain me this issue ?
Thanks
Andrea
I have to agree with your friend about Blair's not being a sauce. I personally don't consider extracts to be sauces either. For that matter, if anyone were to make a sauce with an extract, they wouldn't be eligible for the taste contests at the Scovie awards either. So, the short answer to your question is, no, if they used an extract, it's not a hot sauce; it's a capiscum extract sauce or an oleoresin sauce or whatever else they're calling the extracts these days.
As for having the hottest sauce. I personally think our Goat Pepper (Hurricane) Mash is the hottest sauce.
But, not to seem overly self-centered about it, let me explain. We specifically choose the Bahamian Goat pepper for this mash, because we have yet to taste a pepper that is hotter. When we can't get the goat pepper, we use a mix of scotch bonnets and habaneros to make the sauce, but it's still not as hot as the Goat Pepper is. The Red Savina Habanero, incidentally has been measured at almost 600,000 scovies, and until some other pepper clocks higher, it holds the Guinness record. I personally believe that the Goat Pepper is possibly a hybrid of the orange habanero because our Peppermaster can rarely tell the difference between the two until he tastes them.
Needless to say, about the only way that we could make this sauce hotter would be to add an extract (which we absolutely refuse to do -- why make a sauce that tastes like chemicals even if you can handle the heat?), or hire a goat to individually sniff out the hottest peppers on the bush and wrestle them away from the goat before it has a chance to eat them. There is a great heat variance from one pepper to the next, even on the same bush.
The Peppermaster, although joking about having goats going around our greenhouse sniffing out the hottest peppers, doesn't think the idea is as silly as it sounds.
We have heard that the Tezpur is the hottest pepper and that it clocks in at well over 700,000 scovies, but fwiw, we have yet to even see a picture of one. Rumours abound; they include it being supposedly under Indian Army guard because they want to use it for chemical warfare -- Who knows.
Now whether or not the Tezpur actually exists, remains to be seen, but until its existence is proven, I believe that the Goat Pepper is the hottest pepper and short of taking a liquid chromatographic analysis of them, the Red Savina rules. (The Peppermaster's tongue though, in our kitchen, has the final say.)
Of course, we do sensory perception tests on our sauces in order to determine our heat scale, so we haven't done the official scoville unit tests, mostly because they also are sensory perception tests but primarily because we don't believe they are necessary, we're all about the flavour; and even without the tests, our tongues tell us our sauces are hot.
I get a kick out of people telling me that so and so makes the hottest sauce, because invariably whichever sauce that is, it often turns out to be an extract sauce or it isn't even close to as hot as the Mash. Ideally, we have often challenged people to produce the natural sauce that they believe is hotter than the Mash, and nobody has done so yet. One guy actually came to us with a sauce made with cayenne peppers, in which we could easily taste the ketone flavour of the extract.
Fwiw, aside from Peppermaster, some of the hottest natural sauces I've tasted include Matouks, Walkerswood, Ring of Fire, but they don't even come close to our fresh Goat Pepper Mash.
T.
Guess I'll have to make another trip. Meanwhile, I am going to try to get some of your goat pepper mash on line today, along with the fusion sauce. I'll drop you a line.
