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The Scoville Rating System

4/28/2016

I enjoy a little spice in my life and for the longest time I was really unaware of the differences between one pepper or another. There are some serious differences and that's where the Scoville Rating system comes in.

The Scoville Rating of a pepper determines the level of heat you can expect from the pepper. It breaks everything down into a chart that groups peppers within a general category. Hot, Medium, and Mild. Every RATED pepper on the market falls within those three titles.

For example, a common hot pepper such as Jalapeno falls somewhere between 2,000 and 7 or 8,000 Scoville Units. They vary wildly but you can expect a tolerable heat.

Somewhere in the middle we have the Cayenne Pepper which can climb up to 50,000 Scoville Units. That's could essentially be up to 25 times hotter than a Jalapeno pepper.

Right up at the top we have the Carolina Reaper. This pepper has an unimaginable Scoville rating of up to over 2 million. Can you imagine how spicy that is?

Always keep in mind the rating system when you're shopping for Hot Sauce. Look into which peppers are used to make the sauce and this will kind of fill you in on how hot it's going to be.

The more I learn about hot sauce the more excited I am to try and create my own. I still have a lot of tasting and feeling the burn left before I start creating but I feel like I`m already finding clues to creating the perfect hot sauce. I can't wait to try more.

HAPPY VEG

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Great Value - Sizzlin' Hot

4/19/2016

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HEAT LEVEL - 6.5 / 10
TABASCO - Up to 50, 000 SCU
HABANERO - Up to 350, 000 + SCU

With its contributing peppers being Tabasco and Habanero, it is definitely Sizzlin' as its name suggests! Habanero is definitely one of the hotter peppers on the Scoville Scale and even a little packs a punch! It starts off with a familiarly vinegary flavour that leads into a mildly smoky taste before leaving a nice, lingering burn.

Depending on how you enjoy this sauce will determine just how spicy it is. It's almost the perfect heat level. Straight on my tongue I found it tasty with a lovely, tingling heat. When I poured it on my mac and cheese it was a wonderful flavour contribution and not so much heat. Really, it's a great sauce!

The only downfall was I found it slightly runny especially compared to the Valentina sauce I previously shared which was thick like a Barbecue sauce.

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Valentina Hot Sauce

4/10/2016

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HEAT LEVEL: 4.5 / 10
http://www.pepperscale.com/hot-pepper-list/

My first time trying this was at a restaurant and I remembered it to this day. It was amazing and I couldn't wait to bring it home and test it again!

Valentina Hot Sauce is a Mexican brand of hot sauce that uses chili peppers as the heat. This particular brand is recognizable for its size. The bottle is 12.5 ounces and comparably priced to other varieties that are significantly smaller. Great value!

I tested the sauce on its own as well as dousing my bean dip in it. The flavour is spectacular! It started off almost like a barbecue with a smokiness I absolutely loved with a very mild heat that followed. It's delicious and so flavourful.

It was also nice and thick so there wasn't a lot of mess! Between my friend and I we polished off a quarter of the bottle in one sitting. This sauce has so much flavour that we were actually just pouring it on our chips and eating it that way.

It's mild in comparison to a Jamaican brand for example because the peppers used are lower on the SCOVILLE scale. I've attached a link at the top of this post that basically gives the Scoville rating of every pepper on the market.

Long story short, you can pour this on just about anything and enjoy it. It's just the right viscosity, flavour, and heat level to compliment any meal. Keep an eye out for this amazing product!

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Grace - Hot Pepper Sauce

4/5/2016

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HEAT LEVEL 8 / 10

Grace Hot Pepper Sauce is a Jamaican Hot Sauce with a blend of peppers to create what they call a "Very Hot Sauce".

What I initially loved about this sauce was the flavour. Instantly as it hit my tongue I tasted a welcome sweetness and a nice tangy note but that was short lived. This is definitely a "Hot Sauce" by name AND by flavour.

I tested the sauce two ways; as a garnish on a dish and on its own. When it was paired with my hash browns I found the spice tolerable and the flavour enjoyable. When I sampled it on its own, my face instantly got warm and my tongue started to heat up.

This sauce is one of the warmer sauces I've had but what is it they say when you're vigorously working out, "feel the burn" ?

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Introduction

4/1/2016

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If you looked in to my fridge right now you would see at least 6 or 7 open bottles of hot sauce. I can drown just about anything in hot sauce and devour it which is why I decided to dig a little deeper and attempt to find the very best hot sauce on the market.

When we eat hot sauce we are generally looking for 3 things;

Flavour
Contribution to a dishes overall flavour
Spice

With that in mind, I am going to try every hot sauce I can get my hands on and share with you all my results. I intend to learn as much about the peppers and flavours that make up the perfect hot sauce in hopes of creating my own line of hot sauces one day. In the meantime, let's spice things up together and find the perfect hot sauce on the market!

I look forward to getting spicy with y'all!

HAPPY VEG

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