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Coming off his high from winning the cutting room floor contest, Ryan was kind enough to send us his entry to the contest and images of his collection. I think it was the pink helmet that sealed the deal for him
I want to start off by thanking you for not only giving all of us chiliheads a shot at “The Cutting Room Floor”, but more so for making the most kick ass sauces and reserves around. With that said, onto part 1.
I typically use your sauces any way I can. I put it straight on anything that’s not sweet (or that has a brown gravy), mix with mayonnaise, ranch dressing, ketchup, soups, gumbo, and jambalaya. Once in a while I bring out the 3 AM to really kick things up a notch and watch my friends and family cry when I coax them into trying it. My alternate use is (please don’t let the ASPCA read this) cat repellant.
As for Part 2…I have attached pictures of my small and modest collection, but I love it anyway and it will continue to grow. My collection consists primarily Blair’s products, my favorite being my 6 AM. I love the color combination, the fact that it is the hottest LIQUID chili product out there, the over all look (as with all the reserves) and the fact that it’s the last of the AM line. The rest of my collection is made up of various hot sauces that I come across that I think look cool, taste good, or are just given to me. I also have 1 of only 2 bottles of my own recipe.
I have been collecting for a year now. I have always loved hot food, particularly hot sauce. Years ago I had a subscription to Maxim Magazine. Therein was an article about the “Hardest” things in various categories. Featured as the hardest hot sauce was none other than the 3 AM. After seeing the picture of it and reading the article, I decided that I must have one. Unfortunately, I was not internet savvy at the time and I could not find a any place that carried it. after a while I kinda gave up my search, but always kept it in the back of my mind.
Forward 3-4 years later, I got married, moved to a town on the Oregon coast. There I Helped open the first Starbucks on the Oregon coast where came upon a girl with valuable information. We got to talking about our previous work experience and she told me that she used to work at a small shop called “Hot Stuff”, a seller of all things hot and spicy. Her telling me this sparked my memory, so I told her about this hot sauce that I always wanted but could never find. I described it to her and she told me that they had it, and others like it. I went there and felt like I had found the Holy Grail. I picked it up, took it home and showed my wife. She was not thrilled that I had spent $40 on a hot sauce, but was glad I had found something to make me happy as we did not have much money at the time and never spent any money on myself. I then went on a search for the rest of the AM line and discovered the beauty of Ebay.
To shorten an already long story, in June of 05 we moved back to my home town of Portland, OR, have a better job now and can afford to splurge a little bit on my hobby. My collection is just starting to take off and I hope to see it grow very rapidly. My friends and family all think I’m crazy when I tell them how hot some of this stuff is in comparison to Tobasco. I’ve managed to get my one of my brothers to try three drops of 3 AM in tomato soup, which he succeeded in finishing, and my other to try Sudden Death on some Chinese pork (I had to do it 5 times before he would) and declared that he would never do it again. My son and I will once in a while do a sampling of what I have in the cupboard, and just last night got him to try a drop of sudden death. Turns out my son is more of man than my older brother.
Just for shits and giggles I wanted to share this picture with you. This is the pumpkin I carved this last Halloween. These days, so many people take the easy way out by purchasing ceramic/electric pumpkins, use stencils, etc… I on the on the other like to keep things real and unique. Each year I look for inspiration to create my personal masterpiece (I carve 4 every year for my entire family). This time around I got frustrated and went to get a snack. After grabbing a cold slice of pizza I headed for the cupboard (can’t have pizza the way it is) and there I found my inspiration…a Blair’s Death Sauce Skull! After closely examining the skull, I tried my best to replicate it on the pumpkin. I hope that I did it justice, and that you enjoy the pictures.
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Posted by: Nick Lindauer - Categories: Uncategorized
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how many different types of tobasco……..we can only get 2 types here
oops ….I meant tabasco
MattUK go to there web site. I think (in hot sauce) there’s like 6 or 7. The also have all the tobasco lables for all over the world - which is pretty cool (got em)
Thanks Mad and congrats on winning the cutting room floor
Tobasco is nice to have on hand for cooking. My family doesn’t have near the tolerance for hot stuff that I do, so I use the tobasco for flavoring and mild bite that they enjoy…still put it on my eggs though. There’s a couple tobascos I haven’t tried yet, but I will soon. I wasn’t too impressed by the garlic one though.
Matt - Thans man, its a modest collection at best, but it is rapidly growing. I too believe the pink helmet helped, and for that I have all of you to thank. Never would have done that had Nick not put up the comment counter, or if I hadn’t received so many comments about having no life 
and a special shout out to Eman for coming up with the idea for taking a pic such as this. ALL HAIL CAPTAIN CAPSICUM!
Hey Ryan, In one of your pics I see you have some glass enclosed display boxes stacked up for some of your Reserves- That is a great idea, I am quickly running out of room to display and have tossed around the idea of a curio cabinet- but feared just not having the space, I think that is a reasonable soultion for me- hopefully you don’t have a patent on it.
lol Vic - no patents. those are actually plexiglass, and they’re football display cases. I picked those up at a clearence store for $10 a piece. I’m needing a curio cabinet, just can’t find one cheap enough for me
Hey Tracy, just reply.
I wanted to break the tie…lol
Damn that’s a great price- I have seen them in hobby shops and craft stores for between $25 - $35 each, I’ll have to keep my eyes peeld. You know I find as the collection grows and the search for more and more sauces continue so does the search for shelves, cabinets, and any thing else I can find to display them on- I guess you can say I’m a shelf collector too.
Love the helmet. The collection is nice, too.
Thanks Lee, that’s what happens when you devote a good portion of your life to posting on the HSB
The helmet or winning the contest? I’ve only been posting for a couple of weeks and my wife is already making Napoleon Dynamite “I have a chatroom at 4″ jokes directed at me.
Nick I think sound effects could be really funny
Lee-unfortunately I was referring to the helmet Fortunately, my wife understands the whole chatroom/blog thing…That’s technically how we met
Well done Ryan, you must be stoked!!
Jezza - you have no idea.
Yeah I think the pink helmet put you over the top! I like you adding the pumpkin to the story and all adds a little personal touch and that couldnt have hurt in the contest!
I submitted the pumpkin long after I sent in my entry. It was when I received my B-99. I sent Blair a thank you e-mail and later sent the “just for shits and giggles” part with the pumpkin pics. I never intended for those to be a part of my entry, but Blair put it there anyway. Same thing with the helmet pic. I made that for the HSB and Blair posted on here a request for me to send him a copy of that pic. I couldn’t tell you for sure why I won, but I guess Blair had his reasons. I don’t think my stuff was any better than anyone else’s, we all had great stories, great collections, and are just good people doing what we love. Even Blair himself said he had to choose 10 from a pool of winners (meaning all 371). It must have been a real hard decision, one I would not like to have to make.
Ryan, sent you an e-mail….
Chris, just got home and reading the e-mail. I’ll get back to you in a few
Ryan - Great collection and congrats on your victory! My gal has a really nice curio cabnet that I am trying to steal, but it is currently occupied by her collectable Barbies! It seems like an easy decision here - but I guess I have to respect her collectables too!
Thanks Adam, congrats to you as well. My wife and I are currently looking for some king of diplay case for my sauces (and helmet). She collects metal purses with various stones bezel set into them. They’re actually pretty cool. I’m giving up my plexiglass display cases so she can put her purses in those.
Well, you are much more generous than me
Her Barbies are very close to having an incounter with my G.I.Joes
LOL. I’ve just learned over the years that marriage is all about give and take. In this case, I’ll be giving 3 small football display cases and TAKING 1 big curio cabinet. I’d say I’m coming out ahead on this one, but I’ll probably pay the price later Just make sure your G.I. Joes are armed with plenty of saltpeter (however its spelled). Don underestimate the power of anitomically perfect plastic women
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Nice collection - definately the pink helmet must have helped!!