Booyah Yinz!
There’s something going around about hot sauces these days. Information seems to be everywhere. You’ve got online stores, local grocers, specialty food stores, and even national retailers like Le Gourmet Chef carrying all types of sauces. Heck, when the HOTTEST sauce (ingredient!) was released, Saturday Night Live had a small Weekly News skit to honor it. Hot sauce and all things peppered are becoming more and more main-stream and the retail streams offer nothing but the marketing hype written on the label.

With the availability of all things hot becoming easier to come upon, there’s a need for a place to go to find reviews, information and stories that are from some experienced hot sauce tasters. That’s where you are now, and that is what this site has been dedicated for.

I’m going under the name -thakswet and I intend to provide you with honest, unbiased reviews of hot sauces, all types of commercial rubs and seasonings, mustards, dips, salsas and even apparel and decorative accessories. You’ll get straight forward talk with a candid 100-point scale based on packaging, coloring, consistency, heat level and taste.

Top 5 Hot Sauces:
• Blair’s Salsa de la Muerte with a dash of After Death
• Sizlin Solution’s Burned at the Stake
• Brother Bru Bru’s African Hot Sauce
• DEFCON #2
• Tie. Mt. Vesuvius Fire Sauce / Kalahari Pepper African Rhino Sauce Extra Hot

Hottest Sauce Ever Eaten: Satan’s Blood mixed in a classic beef chili. In short, my father made some chili, and added about a tablespoon of Satin’s Blood. I tasted it and an hour later, after recovery, we added 2lbs of beans to compensate for the heat.

Worst ever experience with fiery food: Cutting and cleaning over 100 habaneros for a hot sausage sauce without gloves. I was extremely cautious not to touch my eyes, nose, or pee-pee but never assumed my hands would burn so much I wanted to chop them off. My ex-girlfriend had to call poison control. After 4 hours of macerating my hands in milk and corn husker lotion, they only stung another 3 hours. It was pure hell. Now I wear double layer latex gloves when cutting and cleaning green peppers.

Number of Hot Sauces Owned: 150 in collection. I have 15-20 open in the refrigerator at any one time.
Some of Note: Blair’s 2AM, 3AM, 4AM, 5AM, 6AM, Caldera, 16 Million, 2004 / 2005 Halloween Reserve, Le Million Reserve…

Number of Hot Sauces Eaten in Lifetime: I can estimate I’ve spent over $5,200.00 in purchases over the past 4 years in hot sauces and fiery food products. I can guess I’ve consumed about 700 bottles of hot sauce from 1999 through 2005.

Other Info: I make about five batches of hot sauce per year from peppers usually grown from seed. Every spring I online-order a variety of seeds to and keep one pepper plant per year to nurture over the winter indoors. I currently have an orange habanero plant that is 4+ years old.

Enjoy Life.

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