extreme-heat Your thoughts on sauces with extract

[The Hot Pepper]

 

[RobStar]

I just find that it's close to impossible to balance the "chemical" flavour and fake intense heat with traditional flavours

 

[DementedWelder]

Ever since the first time I tried Dave's Insanity sauce I absolutely hated sauces with extract. To my palette extract's overpower all other flavors and leave an after taste I can't stand.

 

[HeckinHot]

I generally avoid extract sauces because I have a preference for all natural hot sauces, preferably with ingredients sourced from local farms or home grown by the producers.

Marie Sharp's Belizean Heat and Beware do apparently use a bit of extract, but those don't have the typical extract bitter chemical taste, so it's possible they're just using a tiny bit or that it's not an extremely concentrated extract. Both sauces are still only medium in heat so I suppose it makes sense they're not using much.

I've heard heard Hellfire Double Doomed still tastes good, but I haven't tried it myself.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

I've seen it in snacks like chips, and it's in a popular supermarket salsa, Desert Pepper (Hot), and I cannot distinguish it. I think balance is key so I guess that's what I'll vote for.

Tomatoes, Jalapeno Peppers, Tomato Paste, Salt, Dehydrated Garlic, Chili Pepper Extract.

 

[salsalady]

In snacks and such, the amount of extract is probably such a small percentage of the ingredients that the extract flavor is indiscernible. Those items are prolly 1-2/10 on the heat scale. Dave's, Satan's Blood, DaBomb, etc have a lot higher concentration of extract to other ingredients. I used to make a hot sauce using PureCap (500,000 shu) which was, backintheday, the hottest stuff you could find. That sauce has been retired, mostly because of the recipe using extract.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

So balance is key

 

[Grass Snake]

Is extract to add heat, flavor or both?

 

[salsalady]

Imho, heat only, oleoresin has bad taste.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Is extract to add heat, flavor or both?

That Aji Amarillo spice you just mentioned in another thread has extract in it. If you get it let us know how it is!