How hot do you like it?
I can remember growing up with hot sauce seemingly ever present in my life. Its been a friend to spice up boring days and warm cold nights; to help down the beverages of amber persuasion and to top off a great night out.
See when I was a child, hot sauce was used, not sparingly I might add, as a deterrent to my fingernail biting (sorry, gross habit, but whatever). To the best of my knowledge the only hot sauces used on me were Tabasco and Pete's. Now, I'm not saying this was the first line of defense for my nails; I had been subjected to bitter apple, cinnamon, and at lest one other medicinal gooey crap that either I cant remember the name of or I've shoved so far down in my subconscious it would take hypnosis to get it back. As you must have surmised by now, none of these worked...actually quite to the contrary. My favorite flavored candy is cinnamon, I LOVE bitter apple, BUT the gooey crap...not happenin'!
I do however have an affinity for hot and spicy sauces and food. It started with those sauces that we in the spicy food club (not really a club, but I started typing it and just ended up there-go with me here, huh!?) consider MILD. I graduated to jalapeno sauces and a myriad of other combinations. Until one day, may years ago, I happened upon a company called Dave's. I called (yes, not point and clicked) and order a bottle of Insanity Sauce! It just sounded so good and hot and, well, hot! Could this be it? Could this be the sauce that ends my search?
A week or so passed and the parcel arrived at my door. It was beautiful! I couldn't wait to open it and dab some on my finger to taste! So I did. DAMN, that was hot! I used it on EVERYTHING...much to the displeasure of many unsuspecting dinner and/or party guests! Sorry! (You know who you are.) I couldn't get enough of the stuff. But as with most spicy addicts this too soon became tame, so this time I went on line and found Dave's. This time he was offering Totally Insanity and Ultimate Insanity sauces. Well, damn, why choose, so I ordered both.
Again a week went bye and my precious box arrived. I went through the same process of cursing the bubble wrap and packing tape and opened it to find two stunningly simple yet ominous looking bottles. I respectfully twisted open the Total Insanity sauce and found it to be quite hot and spicy but not obnoxious. Then came the time to try the Ultimate Insanity Sauce...holy shit! This stuff could be used to clean the rust off of your car! Don't get me wrong, after my taste buds got out of the ICU, the taste was very good, but WTF!?!
Not too long after that I was amazed to find a tv show, on Discovery I believe, about the making of Dave's sauces. They went through the usual processes for most of the sauces, BUT then they came to the Ultimate Insanity sauce. These workers were wearing clean suits, goggles, and respirators for fudge sake!!! No wonder that stuff tooled my world!
So now I just use habenero sauce and count my taste buds lucky to still be alive!
See when I was a child, hot sauce was used, not sparingly I might add, as a deterrent to my fingernail biting (sorry, gross habit, but whatever). To the best of my knowledge the only hot sauces used on me were Tabasco and Pete's. Now, I'm not saying this was the first line of defense for my nails; I had been subjected to bitter apple, cinnamon, and at lest one other medicinal gooey crap that either I cant remember the name of or I've shoved so far down in my subconscious it would take hypnosis to get it back. As you must have surmised by now, none of these worked...actually quite to the contrary. My favorite flavored candy is cinnamon, I LOVE bitter apple, BUT the gooey crap...not happenin'!
I do however have an affinity for hot and spicy sauces and food. It started with those sauces that we in the spicy food club (not really a club, but I started typing it and just ended up there-go with me here, huh!?) consider MILD. I graduated to jalapeno sauces and a myriad of other combinations. Until one day, may years ago, I happened upon a company called Dave's. I called (yes, not point and clicked) and order a bottle of Insanity Sauce! It just sounded so good and hot and, well, hot! Could this be it? Could this be the sauce that ends my search?
A week or so passed and the parcel arrived at my door. It was beautiful! I couldn't wait to open it and dab some on my finger to taste! So I did. DAMN, that was hot! I used it on EVERYTHING...much to the displeasure of many unsuspecting dinner and/or party guests! Sorry! (You know who you are.) I couldn't get enough of the stuff. But as with most spicy addicts this too soon became tame, so this time I went on line and found Dave's. This time he was offering Totally Insanity and Ultimate Insanity sauces. Well, damn, why choose, so I ordered both.
Again a week went bye and my precious box arrived. I went through the same process of cursing the bubble wrap and packing tape and opened it to find two stunningly simple yet ominous looking bottles. I respectfully twisted open the Total Insanity sauce and found it to be quite hot and spicy but not obnoxious. Then came the time to try the Ultimate Insanity Sauce...holy shit! This stuff could be used to clean the rust off of your car! Don't get me wrong, after my taste buds got out of the ICU, the taste was very good, but WTF!?!
Not too long after that I was amazed to find a tv show, on Discovery I believe, about the making of Dave's sauces. They went through the usual processes for most of the sauces, BUT then they came to the Ultimate Insanity sauce. These workers were wearing clean suits, goggles, and respirators for fudge sake!!! No wonder that stuff tooled my world!
So now I just use habenero sauce and count my taste buds lucky to still be alive!
posted by buster at 2:19 PM
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