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Post by dvg on Feb 9, 2011 1:46:11 GMT -5
Haha, that's a crazy collection you got there DVG! hb Thanks HB! We do aim for CRAZY!!! ;D Vraev, my wife and I went grocery shopping tonight and I just happened to find myself in the hot sauce aisle. Imagine that. And I saw the Nando's hot peri-peri. My wife said "Do we really need another hot sauce? Maybe we should clean up the ones we have first". Long story short, I got the sauce home and tried it out on a teaspoon. It has a very lemon citrusy flavor to it. About an hour later I decided to try a bit more on a teaspoon, and read the ingredients list. The reason it has such a strong citrus flavor is because one of the ingredients is lemon puree. And vinegar is listed as the second ingredient. But the lemon puree balances out the vinegar and doesn't let the vinegar overpower the sauce. So I liked it much better than some of the vinegary hot sauces out there. But that is probably why we never bought this sauce before. Both my wife and I read labels, and if vinegar is one of the first few ingredients listed, we usually will give the sauce a pass. And Nando's is made in South Africa, according to the label. Then I noticed that there is still the hotter Xtra Hot version, the one that you have. Guess I'll have to still keep an eye open for that one. But my favorite hot sauce is still Acid Rain by Hatari Bros., and it is made in Calgary. The first six ingredients in it are six different types of hot peppers. It also uses lemon, lime and orange juices in it with vinegar being the last item listed on the ingredients list. If you ever see this one on your store shelves, buy it. You will not be disappointed. ;D dvg
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Post by vraev on Feb 9, 2011 3:00:20 GMT -5
lol! wow!! The Nando's here in mississauga is managed by Indian/Pakistani management. So I personally never figured that it was South African. On that thought..thinking about it, peri-peri sounds something foreign than Indian. lol!! Well...I personally am a label reader too...but not for sauces etc....and if I do..I Look for ones which exclude things like sugar. LOL! So....that is my selective reading. ANyways.... thanks for the observations on the sauce flavor. I suck at determining flavors. Your observations will be useful for me to figure out other sauces to try. I must say though.... nando's hot sauce, Wendy's chilli seasoning is my fav hot sauces. Damn!! Seriously...I know this sounds wierd...but I actually get like extra seasoning packets and I just go to Wendy for this sauce and after finishing the meal, down the sauce plain as is. Gives a nice jolt. Thats my ""alcohol shot" per se. LOL! Acid Rain eh? Sounds interesting. Where can I get it? Fortinos? Metro? I'll definitely keep an eye out. What do you think of the Nando's hot sauce? You clearly seem to be a bigger connoisseur here. How would you rank it in your list? Do you also hate sauces like Frank's Red hot sauce?
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Post by dvg on Feb 10, 2011 2:08:36 GMT -5
Vraev, peri-peri is a type of pepper.
If you have a hot sauce shop in Hamilton, you might be able to find Acid Rain there. We found it at some of our local grocery stores.
The Nando's sauce was okay. But as I said, I'm not the biggest supporter of the vinegar based sauces.
But undertand, that is only my taste preference. And in some types of cooking, a vinegar based hot sauce is desirable because it blends in well with some foods and helps in attaining certain flavors.
Actually, I've never tried Frank's sauces of any kind.
They obviously must be popular to some though, because with the amount of Frank's on display in almost every grocery store, you'd have to think that someone is buying it.
There are some interesting hot sauces being made by independents that are quite unique.
I have a few of those, with some consisting of such diverse ingredients as blueberries and Naga Morich peppers and another from Australia that has Yellow Trinidad 7 Pods and Wild Turkey Bourbon as ingredients. Both are excellent.
And because taste, both in food and style, is such a personal and subjective area of judgment for everyone, if someone likes a hot sauce, I at least respect their choice, because everyone, as you well know by now, has different tastes.
dvg
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Post by dvg on Feb 11, 2011 23:25:13 GMT -5
Pet, you might want to look for the Nando's hot or Xtra hot Peri-Peri sauces. My wife really likes the hot one. She went back to it three times at dinner tonight. Also keep your eyes peeled for any of the Sriracha hot chili sauces, especially the Tuong ot Sriracha (rooster) brand. It's the middles sauce in the photo below. Sriracha is made by www.huyfong.com and is very hot and tasty. You should be able to find it locally in Superstore or any of your larger Supermarkets. dvg
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Post by vraev on Feb 12, 2011 12:01:22 GMT -5
OFcourse, everyone's taste buds are different. everyone likes a different set of flavors. I personally hate FRank's red hot sauce, tobasco etc.... for the same reason pet mentioned. w0w!!Bluberries eh? would never conceive to try hot sauce made with them. I think I am a bit too old fashioned or perhaps better put, indian to eat sweet spicy food. LOL! But hey....everyone has their own choice. All the more power to ya. Yeah pet....check it out.Try the Nando's sauces. You may like them. If you can't find them let me know, I can send a couple of bottles to you. (ofcourse, may be a little while as I have to go back to mississauga when I can and go to the Indian store and stock isn't always available.) BTW Doug...the same brand above also has "chiili and garlic" and "chilli" paste. Those are awsome for cooking various Indian dishes like "Chicken65." LOL! Used to love it when I was back in India. Check out this recipe video if you guys like Indian food, thats where I learnt how to make it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEaYngbp4w
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Post by dvg on Feb 13, 2011 14:50:32 GMT -5
w0w!!Bluberries eh? would never conceive to try hot sauce made with them. I think I am a bit too old fashioned or perhaps better put, indian to eat sweet spicy food. LOL! But hey....everyone has their own choice. All the more power to ya. Actually, the Tongue Wrapper hot sauce isn't that sweet at all. The ingredients list reads: Carrot, Naga Jolokia, Lemon Juice, Blueberry, Sugar. I can only taste a hint of blueberry for one or two seconds and then a wall of heat from the Naga kicks in, finishing with a very nice burn. It's so good in fact, that I'll eat this one off of a teaspoon to first get the pleasant berry flavor, which doesn't last long before the heat rushes in and dominates the initial taste. BTW Doug...the same brand above also has "chiili and garlic" and "chilli" paste. Oh, and thanks again for recommending the Nando's hot peri-peri sauce. My wife really likes that one. We had a scrambled egg omlette for breakfast, and she again requested that I put out the Nando's for her. She says she really likes the flavor, and that it has just that bit of heat, so she can still enjoy the flavor of the sauce and her food, at the same time. dvg
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Post by vraev on Feb 14, 2011 12:24:06 GMT -5
hmm...sounds like an interesting flavor combination. But personally...lol...as I mentioned before, I cannot fathom a combination of burn/spice with fruit. LOL! ALthough...I am open to trying it....heck..the first time I heard of using a strawberry dressing on a salad..I was kinda against it...but once I tried it...it was awsome. Oh! You're welcome.Iam glad your wife enjoys it. Lol! Yesterday after a disappointing day at the lab, came back with a pack of wendy's fries for the sake of the burn with Nando's extra hot peri sauce.
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Post by dvg on Feb 14, 2011 14:21:23 GMT -5
But personally...lol...as I mentioned before, I cannot fathom a combination of burn/spice with fruit. LOL! Really??? Well fathom this...the hot chile pods from the Capsicum plant are, botanically speaking, fruits and the these fruits are technically berries. So every time you are downing that yummy Nando's Xtra Hot Peri-Peri sauce, you are already mixing a combination of burn/spice with fruit. Just thought it might help to approach the argument from a rational scientific standpoint to overcome that aversion/bias you have to fruity hot stuff. ;D And just for information's sake, some peppers are very fruity tasting, with one variety, Cumari tasting like the fruit loops cereal, but still having the ability to pack crazy heat with that fruity taste. dvg
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Post by vraev on Feb 15, 2011 18:07:26 GMT -5
Lol! Thats the same argument as Tomato being a fruit, while its used widely as a "vegetable" in curries. LOL! I guess to be more accurate, my issue is with spicy food that is sweet. Its kinda funny, but perhaps I am among the few in this world who would rather get chips, spicy food than chocolates or ice cream. LOL! A funny thing in that context is that within our lab, we have lab meetings every week and if a person's Bday falls within that week, that lab meeting there is a cake. For my Bday, my lab mates got me salsa and nachos as they realize that I wouldn't enjoy the cake as much as they do.
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Post by dvg on Feb 15, 2011 19:05:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I was just ribbin' ya there. You're right that in conventional cooking and in the culinary world the tomato, pepper and eggplant are all considered to be vegetables, but botanically they are all considered to be fruits. And I have to agree that my taste choices run similarly to yours...I'd rather have saltier and spicier hot food instead of the sweeter snack choices. ;D dvg
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Post by lloyd on Feb 15, 2011 22:11:00 GMT -5
Actually there's a number of chile-accented chocolates available.
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Post by dvg on Feb 15, 2011 22:44:20 GMT -5
I have tried at least three of those chile powder spiked chocolate bars.
They are usually found in the darker more bitter chocolate with the higher percentages of cocao in them.
I much prefer the bitter real chocolate to the sugar sweetened varieties.
dvg
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Post by dvg on Mar 6, 2011 15:37:45 GMT -5
One of the ways of storing and using your hot peppers is to first dehydrate them and then grind them into pepper powders. These powders can then be added to food dishes to spice them up to the desired heat level. But just beware, these dried powders pack a real punch and are gram for gram some of the hottest food additives available out there. I was fortunate to have an accomplished hot pepper grower in the Atlanta, Georgia area send me some of his fine ground pepper powders. And because a little powder goes a long way, it will take me a while to burn through these. ;D dvg
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Post by lloyd on Mar 6, 2011 19:10:38 GMT -5
That's quite a collection.
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Post by dvg on Aug 22, 2011 23:21:39 GMT -5
Okay, so i've tried the hot sauces and Chile powders, but not the fresh Super Hot pods... ...at least not yet, but hopefully that'll change within about a week's time from now. A good friend of mine from down in the Atlanta, Georgia area, who is a mighty fine peppa grower in his own right, is sending me a (s)care package, that is due to arrive next week sometime. Here is the box he is sending me with these Super Hots...including Douglah, Chocolate 7Pot, Yellow 7Pot, Brain Strain, Jonah 7Pot, Yellow Bhut Jolokia, and Trinidad Scorpion Morouga Blend. And if that wasn't enough, he also topped the box off with some interesting accensions, including a cherry flavored one, a lemon flavored yellow bouquet and also some nice Creamsicle flavored peppers. Though i'm looking forward to trying all of these, i am honestly having a fair amount of trepidation with sampling some of those supers. ;D dvg
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