Curiosity may burn me before this is over, but where can these little
bun-warmers be purchased. I just hafta tryem! /jnm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:37 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Chili
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:05:57AM -0700, James N. McBride wrote:
> > I think the hottest sauce sold in the United States is called Dave's
> > Insanity.
>
> Dave's Insanity isn't bad, but there are several hotter.
>
> Pepper hotness is measured in Scoville units. A pepper rated at 1000
> Scoville units (jalapenos are in this range) must be diluted 1000 to one
> with sugar water to remove the perceived burn on the tongue.
> Dave's Insanity
> is rated, according to my fuzzy memory, at around 150,000
> Scoville units. My
> personal favorite is Da'Bomb Ground Zero, rated about 240,000 Scoville
> units, which lends a lot of heat and has a reasonably nice
> flavor. Even that
> is wimpy, however. The Original Juan, makers of Da'Bomb, recently
> introduced
> a much hotter sauce: Da'Bomb Final Answer, rated - by an independent lab
> with a gas chromatograph! - at 1.5 million Scoville units. That's
> extremely
> hot. The bottle cap has a glass rod attached, and it's STRONGLY
> recommended
> that it be used one drop at a time. I understand that there are 3 and 4
> million Scoville unit sauces out there, but I've never tried 'em.
>
> I grew up on hot food, and consider food without noticeable spice
> (well, for
> things that should be spicy; I don't add pepper to cheesecake) to be bland
> and boring. Folks form elsewhere obviously grew up on different stuff, and
> their taste buds differ. I should also add that not all Mexican food is
> intended to be hot, but that which is should be truly incendiary.
>
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