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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 05/29/2006 : 11:42:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
P.S. I would dearly love to see them name the one single mutation that would separate a proto-chicken-egg from a chicken-egg.
DNA of Proto-Chicken: "This is the blue-print of a Chnicken"
DNA of a Chicken:"This is the blue-print of a Chicken"
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 11:51:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
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Someone pass the Tabasco please, for after all, an egg without Tabasco is nothing more than another dead chicken...
Amen brother!
When consuming egg, my taste-buds insist I stick with an equal amount of tabasco and egg. Which means that I don't eat egg that very often.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 11:59:22 [Permalink]
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| Ok... what is Tabasco? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/29/2006 : 12:07:57 [Permalink]
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Tabasco is both a state in Mexico, and a popular hot chili sauce named after it.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 12:47:13 [Permalink]
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Tabasco chilis.
"I've hell on the inside as well as the out!" But damn do they taste good when made into a sauce! I like 'em best when they're still green.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 13:24:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Siberia
Ok... what is Tabasco?
A hot sauce so powerful it's been known to cause hallucinations.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 13:43:40 [Permalink]
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On our trip to Disneyland a few months ago, we discovered that if you ordered food in the hotel lounge to take to your room, they'd give you miniature bottles of condiments, rather than little squeeze packs like you'd expect:
So we have a few little 5.5 cm Tabasco bottles now. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 14:44:36 [Permalink]
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MRE (meals ready to eat, aka US army field rations) also have the mini glass bottle of tobasco. Atleast they did when I was in. But only with certain meals. They were often used as trade goods when we were on field duty.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 19:29:35 [Permalink]
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A hot sauce so powerful it's been known to cause hallucinations.
The "hotness" of food is measured using the "Scoville" scale. Hotness is determined by watering down a sample of a substance until the burning sensation disappears (it's subjective, I know, I know). From memory, tabasco scores somewhere around 10,000. The hottest chilli ever grown (somewhere in the south of England funnily enough) got over 900,000!!!!! When used in food, you only have to dip it briefly. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 19:36:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
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A hot sauce so powerful it's been known to cause hallucinations.
The "hotness" of food is measured using the "Scoville" scale. Hotness is determined by watering down a sample of a substance until the burning sensation disappears (it's subjective, I know, I know). From memory, tabasco scores somewhere around 10,000. The hottest chilli ever grown (somewhere in the south of England funnily enough) got over 900,000!!!!! When used in food, you only have to dip it briefly.
Yeah, as hot sauces go, Tabasco is no more than medium hot, I'd say. I've tasted only a drop of some others that turned my tongue numb (after hurting like hell first, of course).
Any of the painfully hot sauces I've tried have all used habanero peppers. From Wiki:
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Most habaneros will rate between 100,000 and 350,000 Scoville units. Several growers have attempted to selectively breed habanero plants to produce hotter, heavier, and larger peppers.
The Red Savina pepper is a cultivar of the habanero pepper, and has been tested and certified as the "World's hottest spice" and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
And about the Red Savina pepper it says:
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Samples of Red Savina have been measured as high as 580,000 Scoville units. For comparison, that is twice as hot as regular Habanero chile (100,000–350,000 Scoville units), and 65 times as hot as Jalapeno pepper. A Cayenne pepper rates only 30,000–50,000 Scoville units.
Recently the Red Savina chilli was reported to be displaced as the hottest chili in the world by the Naga Dorset pepper, though the Guiness World Records still lists the Red Savina as world's hottest chili.
So almost 600,000 Scoville units, but not as hot as the Naga Dorset pepper.
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Samples sent to two different laboratories in U.S. reported heat ratings of 876,000[3] and 970,000[4] Scoville units. For comparison, the hottest chile pepper listed in the Guinness Book of Records (a Red Savina pepper) only has a rating of 577,000 units, and pure capsaicin rates at 15,000,000 units.
Pure capsaicin? I can't even imagine.
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 19:38:19 [Permalink]
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| I use Tabasco more for the taste than the hotness. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 19:49:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
From memory, tabasco scores somewhere around 10,000.
H. should have wikied it for you while he was there:The original, classic red variety of Tabasco pepper sauce measures 2,500 to 5,000 shu on the Scoville scale. The habanero sauce is considerably hotter, rating 7,000-8,000 Scoville units. The garlic variety, which blends milder peppers in with the tabasco peppers, rates 1,200 - 1,800 Scovilles, and the green pepper (jalapeño) sauce is even milder. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2006 : 21:23:21 [Permalink]
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Dave's Insanity Sauce was always my standard for good hot sauces. According to here: http://www.thescarms.com/hotstuff/HotSauces.htm Dave's is 80,000 scoville units.
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Dave's Gourmet says Dave's Insanity is The Hottest Sauce in the Universe. It was the only sauce banned from hot sauce competitions for being too hot! Although it is excruciatingly hot and once was the standard by which all others were judged, Dave now has plenty of competition.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2006 : 22:44:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
H. should have wikied it for you while he was there:The original, classic red variety of Tabasco pepper sauce measures 2,500 to 5,000 shu on the Scoville scale. The habanero sauce is considerably hotter, rating 7,000-8,000 Scoville units. The garlic variety, which blends milder peppers in with the tabasco peppers, rates 1,200 - 1,800 Scovilles, and the green pepper (jalapeño) sauce is even milder.
Shhhhhhhhh! Medium hot, I said. Don't make me look like a wuss in front of the guys.
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2006 : 01:13:23 [Permalink]
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| The important thing that we have learnt from this thread is that eating really hot stuff is cool. |
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