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JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Lunch break with leftover pizza. A little spice for the win. 

A “little spice” eh?  I believe that’s the hot sauce that tends to pack the biggest punch on that hot wings show.  Do you use that stuff a lot?

I have been a big hot sauce guy for years. This past year, my wife got me a Hot Ones sauce pack including a lot of the sauces used by the show - some relatively mild and some on the wilder side. I had had Da Bomb before, but never used it on the regular. Through habituation, it has become my daily dipper. I am really looking forward to opening the Last Dab sauce, as it carries a much higher scoville rating than Da Bomb. This being said, as you note, Da Bomb seems to be the one that gives guests on Sean’s show the most trouble. I can report back with a comparison if ever you’re interested. Are you a spice guy, John?

Had recently seen this episode for the first time. It is worth a watch. 

https://youtu.be/9k-SBpElcWA

I appreciate spicy foods, yeah, but I suspect that stuff would be much more heat than I’d care to use on the regular.  

You’d be surprised what you can get used to if used on the regular. It’s really just a matter of knowing what to expect, I think. I feel like @lousubcap’s Zoom sessions would be a good forum for some hot sauce tomfoolery. 

Oh I know it’s about building up a tolerance.  I’d just have to be motivated to get there, and I’m not sure the first couple of tries would be all that much fun.  For now a bit of gochujang provides all the extra zip I need.

WeberWho

I sold the Weber Smokey Mountain to my buddy that I picked up last fall off Craigslist. I spent a good three plus hours cleaning it up. Once cleaned up I set it off to the side and winter hit. I came across a different used smoker that I ended up purchasing a few weeks back and something had to go. I knew my buddy was interested getting into smoking. A quick text and it was sold. 

I stopped over this afternoon and showed him the ropes. He did burgers, spatchcock chicken, and a pork roast. It was fun playing around with that type of smoker again. 

alaskanassasin

@GrateEggspectations I climbed that ladder, until, I didn’t. I enjoy the heat on my taste buds however the day after my guts feel like they are digesting thermite. I have dialed it back considerably as a result. 

GrateEggspectations

alaskanassasin said:

@GrateEggspectations I climbed that ladder, until, I didn’t. I enjoy the heat on my taste buds however the day after my guts feel like they are digesting thermite. I have dialed it back considerably as a result. 

Sounds like you had some fun. 🙃 I’ve never found hot sauce to give me much trouble beyond the palate, but perhaps I am just being propped up by my *relatively* young age - I’m really an old man and have always been. I feel the burn only one time, though. 🙂

alaskanassasin

I’m sub 40 but I have the guts of a 60 something 

GrateEggspectations

alaskanassasin said:

I’m sub 40 but I have the guts of a 60 something 

I’m sub-40 too. I’m a really aged millennial, actually. Tell your body it can take on the spice and it will comply. 🙂

TEXASBGE2018

Eating some of this. It's pretty stout.

GrateEggspectations

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Eating some of this. It's pretty stout.

Nice. Haven’t had that one. 50K scoville units or so, right?

TEXASBGE2018

GrateEggspectations said:

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Eating some of this. It's pretty stout.

Nice. Haven’t had that one. 50K scoville units or so, right?

It says 2M but I dunno about that. I think that is the pepper not this sauce.

Botch

GrateEggspectations said:
You’d be surprised what you can get used to if used on the regular. It’s really just a matter of knowing what to expect, I think. 

I grew up in a German/Norwegian household in South Dakota, no real exposure to hot stuff at all.  As a shiny new AF Second Lieutenant, I took my first TDY (business trip) to Orlando, via the Atlanta airport; I wandered into a snack bar and ordered some cheese nachos.  Was asked if I wanted "jalapeños", I said Sure, not knowing what they were.  I finished them, wiped the tears from my eyes, and made my flight.
I did NOT make the first 2 hours of my meeting the next morning, crying on the toilet.  I got better.  
Five years later I transferred to Albuquerque in fall of '87, a particularly dry year and even the locals were burning up on the local chile, another giant step for the sickly white kid.    We had a hot sauce club in my office up at Grand Forks ('92), and three drops of "Insanity Sauce" on my breakfast burrito was too much (for my team too) and that's where I quit trying to "advance".  I'll mince some raw serrano for dishes, and even marinate jerk with two habaneros, but I have no desire to go further.   

nolaegghead

WeberWho said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Lunch break with leftover pizza. A little spice for the win. 

A “little spice” eh?  I believe that’s the hot sauce that tends to pack the biggest punch on that hot wings show.  Do you use that stuff a lot?

I have been a big hot sauce guy for years. This past year, my wife got me a Hot Ones sauce pack including a lot of the sauces used by the show - some relatively mild and some on the wilder side. I had had Da Bomb before, but never used it on the regular. Through habituation, it has become my daily dipper. I am really looking forward to opening the Last Dab sauce, as it carries a much higher scoville rating than Da Bomb. This being said, as you note, Da Bomb seems to be the one that gives guests on Sean’s show the most trouble. I can report back with a comparison if ever you’re interested. Are you a spice guy, John?

Had recently seen this episode for the first time. It is worth a watch. 

https://youtu.be/9k-SBpElcWA

I appreciate spicy foods, yeah, but I suspect that stuff would be much more heat than I’d care to use on the regular.  

I stopped over at my friend's this afternoon and was given a hot sauce his wife had purchased for him. He tried it and said it was way too for his liking. I'll be giving it a try one of these nights with tacos or on some eggs. 

I have gone through a bottle of that.  Delicious, not too hot.

alaskanassasin

Hot sauce is fun, easy to control. The last meal that tapped me out was Thai, the next morning and following 4 hours made me ask myself, why?

saluki2007

WeberWho said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Lunch break with leftover pizza. A little spice for the win. 

A “little spice” eh?  I believe that’s the hot sauce that tends to pack the biggest punch on that hot wings show.  Do you use that stuff a lot?

I have been a big hot sauce guy for years. This past year, my wife got me a Hot Ones sauce pack including a lot of the sauces used by the show - some relatively mild and some on the wilder side. I had had Da Bomb before, but never used it on the regular. Through habituation, it has become my daily dipper. I am really looking forward to opening the Last Dab sauce, as it carries a much higher scoville rating than Da Bomb. This being said, as you note, Da Bomb seems to be the one that gives guests on Sean’s show the most trouble. I can report back with a comparison if ever you’re interested. Are you a spice guy, John?

Had recently seen this episode for the first time. It is worth a watch. 

https://youtu.be/9k-SBpElcWA

I appreciate spicy foods, yeah, but I suspect that stuff would be much more heat than I’d care to use on the regular.  

I stopped over at my friend's this afternoon and was given a hot sauce his wife had purchased for him. He tried it and said it was way too for his liking. I'll be giving it a try one of these nights with tacos or on some eggs. 

If you enjoy that you should try the Walkers Wood Scotch Sauce.  It's excellent.  I put it on my eggs all the time.

northGAcock

I recently took on the local Chinese place with a hot dish. They won.

Canugghead

Gassed red dyed  tandoori chicken, quite impressed with how evenly it cooks. Started direct for the char, finished indirect. Can't beat the convenience. 

ColtsFan

Just got off the roof cleaning gutters. SWMBO walks out on the deck while I’m on the roof, backpack blower on and asks “what are you doing “...
umm....cleaning out the gutters. Starts blower. 

Yup, I’m in trouble 

Battleborn

Got home to find a package on the door step. Got to love when the parents still come through with awesome birthday presents, even if I’m pushing 40. 

ColtsFan

Battleborn said:

Got home to find a package on the door step. Got to love when the parents still come through with awesome birthday presents, even if I’m pushing 40. 

Nice! I’m a fan of Vortex optics

GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

Gassed red dyed  tandoori chicken, quite impressed with how evenly it cooks. Started direct for the char, finished indirect. Can't beat the convenience. 

Looks great, as per usual. A few years back, I toyed between a Napoleon and a Weber. I ended up going for the P500RSIB. I LOVE the infrared side burner, but was pretty disappointed with the longevity off the bat - some rusting parts, failed starters, etc. If I was to do it again, I’d go for the Weber. 

GrateEggspectations

Contemplating whether there really is a God....

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

Hot sauce is fun, easy to control. The last meal that tapped me out was Thai, the next morning and following 4 hours made me ask myself, why?

One of the spiciest things I’ve ever had was an authentic Thai dish.  I tried about half a spoonful, spit it out immediately,  and then spent the next hour washing my mouth out with milk.  It felt like my entire face was hot lava.  

nolaegghead

GrateEggspectations said:

Contemplating whether there really is a God....

OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!

FarmingPhD

GrateEggspectations said:

Contemplating whether there really is a God....

This is what the sink looks like after my 8yo has brushed her teeth.....

nolaegghead

I was going to say...after a Smurf orgy, but that probably would conjure too many bad images in forum members.

alaskanassasin

@JohnInCarolina our favorite Thai restaurant spice level is graded on a scale of 1-10 just tell them what you want.  I started with 7 and have slowly dialed it down to a sweet spot of 4, my wife gets a chuckle out of that for some reason..

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

@JohnInCarolina our favorite Thai restaurant spice level is graded on a scale of 1-10 just tell them what you want.  I started with 7 and have slowly dialed it down to a sweet spot of 4, my wife gets a chuckle out of that for some reason..

That’s about where I am as well at the ones I go to.  Most of these places also have an off-scale “Thai spicy” that you have to ask for, and when you do, the manager comes out and looks at you and asks if you’re really sure you want it that hot, you stupid American.  

Eoin

In Indian restaurants, you often have to have a conversation with the waiter to determine if their very hot curry (typically vindaloo) is Indian hot or hot toned down for English people.

At home, I like to use whole chillies as well as some powder / chopped chillies.  This gives two levels in one dish: background 'hot' and 'very hot' (if you want to eat the whole chillies). The Russian Roulette bit is funny sometimes as well.

ColtsFan

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

@JohnInCarolina our favorite Thai restaurant spice level is graded on a scale of 1-10 just tell them what you want.  I started with 7 and have slowly dialed it down to a sweet spot of 4, my wife gets a chuckle out of that for some reason..

That’s about where I am as well at the ones I go to.  Most of these places also have an off-scale “Thai spicy” that you have to ask for, and when you do, the manager comes out and looks at you and asks if you’re really sure you want it that hot, you stupid American.  

I made that mistake once and only once. Ordered "Thai Hot" and it came out swimming in Thai chili's. I took one bite

fishlessman

roommate in college used to make indian rice with ghost peppers, thats before any one knew what those were. biting into a whole ghost pepper was insane

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

@JohnInCarolina our favorite Thai restaurant spice level is graded on a scale of 1-10 just tell them what you want.  I started with 7 and have slowly dialed it down to a sweet spot of 4, my wife gets a chuckle out of that for some reason..

That’s about where I am as well at the ones I go to.  Most of these places also have an off-scale “Thai spicy” that you have to ask for, and when you do, the manager comes out and looks at you and asks if you’re really sure you want it that hot, you stupid American.  

We have a favorite Indian place.  I made the mistake of mentioning that "hey last time I was in here, I asked for spicy and it wasn't really that hot"

The aftermath of the that next meal was not pretty.