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Thursdays are my 'quiet day' after we get the paper out the door on a Wednesday. Thursday lunchtime in my village local is therefore a pleasant couple of hours chilling in front of a huge fire.
Today had assorted delights of conversation with fascinating folk - all of which got blown out of the water by the chef letting me sample a hot chilli sauce.
Not actually a condiment, it is an ingredient for a sauce but the chance to try something that hot can't be turned down can it?
Years of eating the hottest Encona can produce plus a lot of eating hot food helped but Regret is possibly the hottest spice Ive put in my mouth, it makes even chewing on a Dorset Naga seem pleasant.
Try it, I've ordered a couple of pots. The pain was quite high but you could sense that somewhere in there was a flavour that would come out with a bit of buffering from a sauce base.
https://www.justchillies.co.uk/?product=regret
Dunno about that one, tbh it looks like a well marketed little bottle of pain and suffering.
As a benchmarch, how does it compare to my old favourite Dave's Insanity Sauce?
Try it, I’ve ordered a couple of pots.
No thanks, you must be a glutton for punishment!
Used to buy quite a lot of this kind of stuff ont internet about 15 years back (including Dave's Insanity above), quite surprised you can still get it. Still love heat, but I lost my tolerance somewhat.
No thanks, you must be a glutton for punishment!
Dropped into a big pot of chilli I reckon it will be excellent. I'd never try it 'raw' again.
it makes even chewing on a Dorset Naga seem pleasant
Hmm, I'm yet to find anyone else that has managed to eat one of the Dorset nagas I grew. One lad left in an ambulance.
Hotter than any of the scorpion/ghost/reapers I've been offered. Will see if I've got any left in the freezer.
Did he see you coming ...
caspsiasin .... the hot ingredient in chillies ....
oil soluble ____
Won't be trying that! Far too hot for me. For cooking I'd rather chop up a fresh chilli, preferably home grown. This year only had a couple of plants, a lemon drop and a chocolate habanero. Love the flavour of the lemon drop chillis, so nice, which is a good job as the plant gave us loads. Frozen loads of them. Chocolate habanero are interesting flavour and very hot by my standards. A couple of years ago I tried them in everything and their flavour can be a bit too much in some dishes.
This thread forced me to buy a naga curry last night, with keema rice, garlic and chili naan, onion bhajis, poppadoms and a peri-peri chicken starter.
There were no leftovers.
I like hot sauces but steer clear of anything with capsaicin as it tastes artificial and slightly metallic to me Whereas a bit of naga chilli gives great depth of flavour as well as a lot of heat.
I admire your bravery for trying it neat though.
Regret is possibly the hottest spice Ive put in my mouth, it makes even chewing on a Dorset Naga seem pleasant.
Try it
Er no.
I love spicy food but I think this one-upmanship is absurd. Jackass for hipsters. Fresh chillies have a vegetable taste, sweet, hot and delicious. Silly hot sauce is just heat. May as well drink petrol, it has a similar effect.
I do like the packaging...... Looks like something Death just knocked up in his kitchen.
As a benchmarch, how does it compare to my old favourite Dave’s Insanity Sauce?
Ahh yes, Dave's Insanity Sauce.
A mate at the jail I was in (he was called Dave as well) had some & he offered a small taste to another mate, Richie, who had recently won a bet at eating prison soap. Richie had a whole spoonful (small plastic spoon obs cos metal spoons aren't allowed in prisons)
He actually caught fire* & was ill for a week.
True story.
*apart from that bit.
Lots of willy waving about how much hotness people can eat/stand/endure/enjoy, as usual.
I like hot sauces but steer clear of anything with capsaicin
Wait, what?
Guessing he means the extract as opposed to non-extracted capsaicin.
Lots of willy waving about how much hotness people can eat/stand/endure/enjoy, as usual.
I sweat so much from chillis, the hottest curry I've eaten is a Jalfrezzi, never even tried a vindaloo or phaal.
One day of unplanned drinking and deep in our cups some friends kindly* offered me chilli sauce with homemade chips.
Looked like posh tabasco so I sloshed it on. I like vindaloo or chilli verde hot, but this turned out to be made partly from chilli 'resin' whatever the hell that is. The ensuing drama that unfolded inspired them give me the bottle as a gift for not having relinquished my chip-wrap even at the outer edge of pain and tears. Some may call this 'willy-waving' but it was simply booze + hunger + fatboy = stupid. All we had were these homemade chips and I wasn't go to give them up for anything 😂
The bottle lasted years. Literally a drop was enough to spice up a pot of food to madras or vindaloo level depending on portions. It also did a fair few rounds of 'teaspoon of torture' challenge party tricks. Bargainous!
It was labelled Blair's Sudden Death and seems you can get it imported from online retailers. It did have a good honest Scotch Bonnet 'fruit' taste to it tbh, and I dont like flavoured chilli sauces so much. But Christ on a bike.
*With friends like those who needs enemas? etc
I went through a phase a few years ago of eating the hottest stuff that I could lay my hands on, this was the hottest sauce that I ever bought - https://www.chilliworld.com/chilli-pepper-petes-dragons-blood-xxx-ultra-hot-sauce . For references dave's insanity sauce and the blairs above seem to check in at 100,000-200,000 scoville and that claims 800,000-1,000,000. That's not willy-waving - one bottle lasted me, literally, years (I could only use it when i wanted a really hot chilli or something and added a couple of drops). It was stupidly hot, I never met anyone who could bear it until a friend of my girlfriend's came over one day, tried some and didn't even flinch.
16,000,000 scovilles of one-upmanship!
A snip at $5k 😂 I wager someone is optimistically holding out for a testosterone-addled millionaire to happen along and be caught ebaying under the influence...
Hotter than pepper spray.
It's like weight lifting for your mouth! 🙂