HOT sauce....is it possible we don't have a hot sauce thread?

Hey guys, I'm kind of a beast at consuming hot things, but only go for glory on rare occasions because of stomach cramps. I started a journey of increasing my tolerance about 4 years ago. These were some of my favorite sauces I picked up.

This stuff is a good mix of rich flavor and heat. It's so good that I eat it straight from the bottle.

My first "super" hot sauce. Has a fruity flavor and tons of heat.

Probably as close as you'll ever get to eating a carolina reaper without actually eating it. It's very thick and 90% reapers I believe.

This is the hottest natural hot sauce I've ever head. It's like squeezins but with Pepper X, which is around 2.5M SHU.

All of the above can be found at https://puckerbuttpeppercompany.com/

haha you're way above my level but someday!
how long did it take you to go from the stuff you'd consider baby food now to the super hots you can handle and enjoy now?

also do you still feel a ton of pain and if so for how long and to what degree? is it just mouth pain or do you get pain in your digestive tract and on the way out?

was there anything you did to build your tolerance or just slowly suffer thru increasing levels of heat?

oh also do you find these super hot sauces overpower the food to the level that you don't really taste what you're eating besides the sauce?

I'm at the stage where I really enjoy how the sauces I'm using enhance the flavor of the food but aren't so overpowering that it doesn't really matter what I'm eating it's just a vehicle to get the pain in my mouth and can't taste anything besides the sauce.
cheers!

ps: is there some trick to posting images that's quicker and easier than having to upload them to image hosting sites?

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It's hard for me to define the timeline of hot sorcery I performed. For some reason it's kind of a blur in hindsight. If I had to guess it was probably a year of growth and then incremental progress each new super hot thing I tried. The most defining moment was going from really hot fresh jalapenos (which you probably need to go to a farmer's market to acquire) to Habaneros. Unfortunately I hate the taste of them but love the heat. One morning I decided to have a Habanero for breakfast, which wasn't a big deal I could've had 3 or more. But about an hour later it felt like razor blades coursing through my guts. I remember panicking and running to the freezer to luckily find some ice cream which stopped the pain in its tracks. I probably would've called an ambulance if the pain had continued.

I still feel a good amount of burn when I have the sauces I posted, but not enough to induce panick so it's pretty chill. The sauces don't cause much issue with my digestive track, it's solid foods ususally that cause undesirable stabbing feelings in my intestines.

I basically went through all of the hot sauces I could find in supermarkets before sourcing them online. With each new one I would start with just a toothpick's worth of sauce and try to build up to full spoonfulls.

The biggest thing I learned about the process was what I call stretching my tolerance. I figured once I got into the harder stuff, things like jalapenos or frank's hot sauce would be dull to me, which made me kind of sad. But then I learned this was absolutely not the case. I can still sense heat in mild canned jalapenos, and everything upwards, it's just I don't get a rush from them like I do the hotter things.

I haven't pushed my tolerance more than a couple times in the past few years. I have dried ghost peppers that taste awful to me that I nibble on occasion. Would love to get some Reapers someday and eat just a sliver of them. Crack Balls from Johnny Scoville taste great and would be a good way to push your tolerance imo, the hottest ones they sell are almost uncomfortably hot to me....one time I had six in one sitting as a challenge which wasn't difficult, but I had deep discomfort in my stomach and ended up puking really hard.

The hottest thing I've ever had is pepper oil called "The Silencer", it comes in a dropper and is a legit 1.6M SHU. I did 3 drops on a spoon with a buddy of mine, his brother took a video of us, and I was bouncing around the room for about 5 minutes until it started calming down. That's about as far as I'd like to go and can only see myself doing that again once a year or so. I'll never be one to eat raw superhot peppers unfortunately, that was my goal from the beginning but I truly can't imagine digesting them even with propper preparation.

I don't find the sauces overpower the food unless I use a lot of it.

Also, I use an app called Gyazo to post pictures. Real simple to use.

I'm looking forward to following the thread, and might aim to try some of the sauces in the OP. Even if they aren't killers, something really good tasting with just a little heat still makes me happy.

that's awesome thanks for sharing all that info, I really have no desire at all to experience stomach pains or puking so while I would love to one day be able to eat the really hot stuff just not sure I have the stomach for it (yes pun intended).

I would def recommend the sauces in my collection they are all super delicious and a few of them (zabs st augustine probably the hottest with melindas garlic habanero 2nd hottest) have a real good kick to them.

let me know if you end up trying any and what you think and if you have any favs that are on the milder side pls post em!

also for anyone else curious turns out you can click the icon 5th from the right that looks like a little mountain with sun/moon just to the left of the quote icon and that will allow you to post a picture straight from your device.

I did a search in OOT and I don't think we've had a thread of this ilk before.

I enjoy spicy food and am a bit eager to try spicier things. However what is holding me back is the next day's trip to the toilet.

so far I haven't had any issues with any of the sauces in my collection and they're all super delicious just take it slow and you should be fine.

Kinda surprised your search didn't find this thread, but it's been quiet since 2020. Glad to see the subject renewed.

Tried a habenero vodka on Saturday that was absolutely brutal to drink, but would make an amazing cooking ingredient. It was just fresh habeneros stuffed into a vodka bottle and let steep for a few weeks.

Take picture with phone. Either send it to your computer or post from phone. Right click and "copy image." Paste in your post. Done.

ty ty. I also found that clicking the icon to the direct left of the quote icon allowed me to post a picture directly from my phone was super easy!

ya not sure what I did wrong to not find this but appreciate the link will def read that thread but hopefully this will generate some more current discussion.

cheers.

Tell us about this one. Never thought of sushi as a hot sauce food, if you don't count wasabi paste.

it's really delicious tho not that spicy.
that's actually the sauce I got most recently and so have only tried it straight off a spoon so not sure what dishes it will go best on but I'm excited to find out.
will report back when I have tried it on some different dishes but just going by the flavor of the sauce on its own I'm very optimistic.

seed ranch also had a sauce called nashseoul that is a combo of nashville bbq+korean bbq and I'm def gonna get some of that to try.

spicy korean q is my fav flavor at wingstop absolutely love it on their sandwiches with their GOAT ranch and I love korean sauces in general (asian is my fav cuisine in every aspect) as well as japanese sauces, the melindas spicy japanese bbq sauce is so good I literally would just squirt it into my mouth by itself and ate about half the bottle that way facepalm.gif so always looking for any interesting Asian style sauces.

So it's a sweet and spicy? Related to teriyaki, or?

not a big fan of melindas, feel like the sauce dominates and takes over the flavor of what you eat rather than complements it

althought melinda's cayenne is great for oysters and my preferred sauce for that

you can buy lao gan ma online, but even a lot of supermarkets have it now as well

best hot sauce around

I like chili crisp, but I don't consider it a hot sauce. Also, the oil level = calorie bomb, so I've pretty much stopped using it except when I need oil for frying, etc.

I just got some ghost chili Salsa from the China Ranch Date farm in the middle of the desert about two weeks ago... The stuff has really very good flavor, but it isn't as hot as most gringos would have you believe.

I am still of the mindset that home made is best... specially when My Chica makes it for me.

actually isn't at all like teriyaki (I was expecting it to) its really a hard flavor to describe but has a large umami bomb...I'll ask my wife to try and describe it later today she has a much more sophisticated palette and I'll report back.

the melindas japanese BBQ was much closer to a teriyaki.

fwiw not a hot sauce at all just a straight teriyaki sauce but teriyaki is probably my all time fav sauce and I've tried a ton of different brands and my fav BY FAR is east west sweet ginger teriyaki (can get it on amazon) and it's just the most amazing teriyaki sauce I've ever tried by a large margin and it's incredibly versatile can go on almost everything.

rickroll,

I totally get what you're saying about the sauce taking over and im guessing that's much more the case with the hotter sauces but with a reasonable amount of the milder sauces it doesn't overpower the food it just gives it a nice kick.

I would highly recommend the garlic habanero.

Melinda makes good stuff, but also not great stuff. All the Maria Sharpes stuff I've tried has been delicious.

I pretty much despise all vinegar based hot sauces. Most pepper/water based sauces are good.

i dig this thread... very much so.. love me some good hotsauce that doesnt taste like tobasco

YES I AGREE MY best hot sauces didnt have that tobasco taste...

I still go to Tapatio as my 'bottled' brand...