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By HEATHER BROWNE
A NEW chilli sauce goes on sale today that is so hot it could KILL. Ultra-concentrated “16 Million Reserve” is the hottest science can make. The sauce is 30 times hotter than the spiciest pepper and 8,000 times more fiery than Tabasco. Diners must sign a disclaimer recommending “protective gloves and eye wear” — but even sweating testers in safety gear were blinded by tears for 30 minutes. Just 999 bottles of it are on sale at £105 each. Medical experts fear it could kill asthmatics or hospitalise a user who touches a sensitive part of the body afterwards. It is made of pure capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers “hot”. It takes tons of peppers to make 1lb of capsaicin. Creator Blair Lazar, 35, specialises in “extreme food” in New Jersey, US. After trying it, he said: “It’s like having your tongue hit with a hammer. Man, it hurt.” The sauce is named after its score on the chilli heat measure, the Scoville Unit. Reserve scores 16 million units, while a Red Savina, the world’s spiciest pepper, measures just 570,000. LINK |
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I don't even understand the point of eating something that spicy. I love spicy food if it actually adds something to the flavor, but something like this would just suck. I'd try it once, but just to see how it feels like to put pure capsaicin on my tongue.
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It's a dick size thing. "Check me out, I can eat hotter [censored] than you!"
That being said. That's enough capsaicin to probably just cause like a few minutes of serious pain and then you just go completely numb. As far as hot-sauce goes...viva Melindas! |
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I don't even understand the point of eating something that spicy. I love spicy food if it actually adds something to the flavor, but something like this would just suck. I'd try it once, but just to see how it feels like to put pure capsaicin on my tongue. [/ QUOTE ] I think it's just to see how far the human threshold can take it and this seems like the threshold. You might as well put poison on my tongue at this point as it would probably be less painful. Lawrence |
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It could conceivably be used in trace amounts while cooking. I've used a few drops of Dave's Insanity, which is a pretty damn potent hot sauce, in this style in the past with pretty good results. Many people prefer a hot sauce flavor to just raw heat, though, so I don't think this would be particularly popular for that. Maybe people will purchase it for torture purposes.
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Many people prefer a hot sauce flavor to just raw heat, though, so I don't think this would be particularly popular for that. Maybe people will purchase it for torture purposes. [/ QUOTE ] Or for a real sick practical joke..lol Lawrence |
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Or for a real sick practical joke [/ QUOTE ] By law, if you give anyone this stuff without them knowing, you can be held liable. b |
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I tried a drop of Dave's Insanity and it burned my tongue, I think literally. It wasn't that fun but the pain went away in 10 minutes.
I can only imagine what the sauces many times hotter are like. |
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I tried a drop of Dave's Insanity and it burned my tongue, I think literally. It wasn't that fun but the pain went away in 10 minutes. [/ QUOTE ] It's pretty brutal stuff, but I was curious where it sat on the almighty Scoville chart. Dave's Insanity weighs in at a paltry 51000 Scoville. They do make a couple of hotter sauces, but even the hottest seems to top out at 150000 or so. Seeing this, I can't even really begin to imagine what the hot sauce that is the focus of this thread is like. |
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I don't think I'm that curious. This just seems insane.
Maybe I'd use it to assassinate some dictator, or sprinkle on a dog if I was a mailman. Or put on someone's vibrator if I were a crazed ex-boyfriend. Or put on my boss's coffee cup. |
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