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OT - The Truth About “Hot Ones” Sauces

GrateEggspectations
GrateEggspectations Posts: 10,302
edited December 2024 in EggHead Forum
I am a big hot sauce enthusiast and like to dabble in the painful stuff quite regularly. Kinda neat to see your tolerance build up over time. 

Da’Bomb Beyond Insanity is generally my daily dipper, but I actually just realized it’s the much hotter Da’Bomb Ground Zero offering that I have open in the fridge right now. I first had Beyond Insanity with friends at a Mexican restaurant at 16 years old and still remember the experience like it was yesterday. Only two of us tried it out, one being me, and we both had coughing and hiccuping fits and lost our voices upon tasting it. This was after applying a minuscule dab to a corn chip.

Having seen some episodes of “Hot Ones” over the years, I was always curious as to why guests seemed to lose their minds when getting to Beyond Insanity, while subsequent sauces in the lineup with much higher purported Scoville ratings didn’t seem to illicit nearly the same response. I’ve had many of the sauces from the show reported to be much higher on the Scoville scale than Beyond Insanity at home, and have always felt that they actually seemed tame by comparison. 

This video provides some good info on Scoville ratings as they relate to the sauces featured on “Hot Ones”. Definitely answered a lot of my questions. Quite interesting and worth watching, IMO. 

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