When I ask for hot and I specify, double indian hot or double thai hot, or on a 1-10 scale, make it a 10, I expect a burn! If they do not come through, that is it (and by the way, I am thehotpepper.com wimp). It amazes me that some places do not even make an attempt. The only time I was overwhelmed (to the point of not eating it, and I did not complain) was at a place in akron/tallmadge in which my friend and I specified, make it as hot as you possible can, we will not send it back if it is too too hot and the idiot in the kitchen poured 1/4 bottle of dave's insanity sauce on the food.
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I'm confused. You're disappointed because it's never hot enough so you stress this and say you won't send it back and to make it brutal, but the chef who added Dave's Insanity is an idiot? Huh? I don't get it.
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I did not send it back, but I was unrealistically expecting something loaded with hot peppers or a few drops of something extremely hot, just my opinion, but the flavor of dave's (and many extracts) is rather gross. Also, there are a few restaurants in NE OH that can make things quite hot but they use habs or thai peppers.
That's true but when you ask for insanely hot and you get insanely hot you can't really complain when it comes that way, just because they used extracts. 
Most restaurants are not prepared to make dishes this way, and most chefs would think you ruin a dish once you pass medium, so if you get extreme that's pretty good no matter how they made it.
Most restaurants are not prepared to make dishes this way, and most chefs would think you ruin a dish once you pass medium, so if you get extreme that's pretty good no matter how they made it.thehotpepper.com said:That's true but when you ask for insanely hot and you get insanely hot you can't really complain when it comes that way, just because they used extracts.
LOL, I remember telling my friend, at least it's hot. I cannot tell the number of times I have said to places, double this hot, 10 etc and it was less hot than a drop of tobasco. For whatever reasons, most chinese places will not make it spicy (you live in NY, that is a cultural mecca, so this chinese restarant comment probably does not apply where you live) and I have learned that most Indian restauarants will bring you out spicy chili powder if it is not hot enough.
There was an anthony bourdain show where he was in szehuan (sp?) and had something called szehuan hot pot that looked enticing.