champagneinhand
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Joined: 5/30/2011 From: Upstate New York, California born. Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: champagneinhand Heinz 57 and A-1 are some of the worst food products ever invented. Could be but I'll drink them right out of the bottle. Don't do it in public places, however. I knew the mention of Heinz 57 would get somebody fired up.... quote:
I do like Hot Sauces of all kinds. My favorite is homemade scotch bonnet, but I ran out and need to wait untilI go to Florida to retrieve more. You can practically eat anything with enough hot sauce. Even the nasty MRE's (meals ready to eat) from the Army include Tabasco,....as well as laxative gum. David, that "homemade scotch bonnet" sounds like some seriously hot stuff. I like a good "peppery" flavor, and past a point on the hotness scale I find the sauces tend to lose that; it's more just like getting hit in the head with a sledgehammer. I like stuff in the range of Tabasco or El Yucateco Red Chile Habanero - 5000 to 7000 heat units on the Scoville scale - around the hotness of a jalapeño pepper itself, or a little hotter. El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Habanero is 11,600 and it still has a really good peppery essence, but beyond that the heat starts compromising my ability to keep eating it. I don't mind it hot, but it has to be flavorful, and that's why I do Scotch Bonnets over Habenero. You need to use rubber gloves, but you cut open the peppers and carefully remove the white inside connective junk and the seeds. You can put them off to the side and always add a bit if you need it hotter. The white junk is where most of the capsaicin, yet little or no flavor. All the good flavor is in the dotted orange flesh.
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As I age my finger tips seem to be bigger, my iOS keyboard seems to be less kind, and my need for wearing reading glasses has never been greater. I hope you are forgiving and can read between my lines.
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