Hot pepper sauce

[Emoire]

I have just purchased some Tropical Sun Jamaican Hot pepper sauce and was wondering whether anyone has tried this and just how hot is it? I am halfway through the Hot version of Nandos PeriPeri sauce but this Jamaican sauce contains Scotch Bonnets which I have never had before, how much hotter is it likely to be??

[~max~]

Why don't you just taste it?

[lajohn]

you will not know unless you taste it. so go on ... taste it.
scotch bonnets are not hot, they only have a little zing to them.

[frankofile]

what is the fixation withhot pepper sauces? Mr F happily gives himself an asthama attack eating HOT HOT sauces, the best being one that No. 2 brat brought back from a school exchange to the Gambia. What is the point of eating something that is so hot you can't taste it. It makes me cross that I cook good food to have it drowned in Tabasco, lime pickle etc. Is it a man thing?

[puddicat]

I am not particularly into hot sauces,but a girl i work with slaps tabasco sauce, any sauce the hotter the better!!! i worry about the lining of her stomach,i hate when people pour sauce over the food that i have cooked, that includes ketchup and brown sauce, dont mind it occasionally on certain food, but to pour it over everything arrrgh!how the hell do they know what they are eating!!!!!!!

[whiffey]

I believe I can claim to be a connoisseur of most things chilli, and I have tasted every chilli sauce I can lay my hands on (certainly over 100). Tropical Sun is at the hot end and is similar to the widely available Encona. Both partner hot kippers very well. The best EVER, should you see it, is a Scotch Bonnet sauce from a company - or rather one woman working from home - called Pickle and Spice Co, in Harrow, NW London. It's a simple sauce, little more than scotch bonnets mashed up in vinegar (which type though?) with lemon juice, but it has a magical hot hot hot taste and pronounced effects on intestinal motility!

If you want a painful experience, go for the purified capsaicin sauces, with colourful names such as Dave's Insanity Sauce, but beware, they can cause severe pain, leaving you gasping and really really "I wish I hadn't done that".

The hottest chilli in the world is the Dorset Naga, grown near Dorchester. I have 3 boxes in the freezer, and just one of these things chopped into a vindaloo gives it an extra sparkle.

I just counted, my stocks are low but even so I have currently 12 different brands of chilli sauce - have you heard of brands such as African Farms (not too hot, but very tasty), Linghams (very sweet), Baron (look out for the Blazing Hot one), and Kanda (available in some ASDAs and very hot).

Chilli, arguably one of life's greatest pleasures.

[joggerjayne]

Do you have a special chilled dispenser for your loo paper, Whiffey?

[whiffey]

jj in Brighton there is a small shop which specialises in chilli sauces, I wish I could get down there more often. I think it is near the Pavilion, and some way in from the sea.

[joggerjayne]

Deli India?

[Emoire]

Many thanks for the answers, I am fairly new to the delights of hot sauces but really enjoying trying new things so thank you for the suggestions.

[funnygirl]

This sauce is very hot, so sprinkle carefully on your food.

We use this at home and I can handle about 10 splashes of this sauce dotted over my food, but Mr Funny can handle only about 4 carefully placed splashes. The wimp!!

[Sir Alec]

Scotch bonnets are the 2nd hottest pepper on the Scoville scale. I'd use with precaution!

[whiffey]

I'm glad this lovely thread is still going!

Just more idle chit-chat, scotch bonnets are hot, make no mistake, but they are also very flavoursome. It is a different kind of heat from the hot green Kenyan chillies typically used in jalfrezis.

Any chilli sauce from a mainline manufacturer (Heinz, HP etc) calling itself hot is most unlikely to be. Heinz Extra Hot Salsa I can eat from the bottle.

There are thin liquidy sauces along the lines of Tabasco, these are cheap and best thrown over kippers or added liberally to tomato juice.

There are the thicker more homogenous sauces, brick coloured, and very much a chilli-powder sauce rather than a chilli sauce.

You are unlikely to find the hottest sauces in the major supermarkets. Search around the ethnic shops instead. Having said that, Fox's and Conimex sambals, from the posh shelves in Sainsburys (and you will pay �2-�3 for them) are god, very red and VERY salty. These go well with Vesta Paella.

I do lead an interesting life....... Good luck, enjoy your chillies.

[Emoire]

What happened to Whiffey's answers, they seem to have disappeared?

[Jugglering]

I suspect a few anti whiffey folks got together in order to ban his user name. There is a bit of a conflab going on at the moment in Chatterbank, rather childish, with lots of toys being thrown out of prams etc....

[whiffy]

This once lovely site is being taken over by fat drunks.

Big fat giggles, big fat slimy turds.

Sorry emoire, I hope my answers helped but the fat drunk Scotsman has taken over. He is the most popular man on here, and not in any way a big fat c--t.

[Jugglering]

Hiya there, Mr e-less...... how was dinner ?