I'm a sucker for a good chilli sauce (who isn't!) -- that wonderful prickly sensation on the tongue and lips, the sudden breakout of sweat beads on the forehead. Ahh. Delectable delights!
So naturally, when i saw Lee-Shawn Chin's posting on PPS, it was a click magnet for me. From it, i found an entry on Wikipedia and learned a thing or two about how "hot-ness" is measured:
The Scoville scale is a measure of the hotness of a chile pepper. These fruits of the Capsicum genus contain capsaicin, a chemical compound which stimulates heat-receptor nerve endings in the tongue, and the number of Scoville heat units (SHU) indicates the amount of capsaicin present. Many hot sauces use their Scoville rating in advertising as a selling point.
via Wikipedia.
Then i went here -- and was introduced to the world's hottest food additive (its too hot to be used as a sauce!!), the Blair 16 Million Reserve.
Only 999 bottles ever produced
On this page there was a link to a review of the Blair 16 Million Reserve on Hotsauceblog.com, which i found incredibly entertaining. Especially this comment:
He put that speck in his mouth and waited and said its not hot, but then all of a sudden his face turned red and he started cussin and goin crazy he was tryin to throw it up but he couldnt he was coughin uncontrollably me and all my friends started laughin onto the floor he started yellin its burnin my whole body i can feel it burnin in my ears this made us almost pass out from laughin. He drank a pop 3 waters and i lost count of the milks he drank he went to the locker room threw up and went home we made him swear he would tell the nurse he had an upset stomach it was worth all 50 dollars we paid him he came back the next day and said his mouth was still hot and he couldnt taste anything that had to be the fuckin funniest thing i have ever seen in my life.
Man, that was funny. I was laughing aloud imagining the agony!
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