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From: songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
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Subject: Re: hot sauce...
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:04:35 -0500
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Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-02-12 12:34 a.m., songbird wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>> ...
>>> Sriracha has a moderate amount of heat? I use a number of different hot
>>> sauces and I would say that Sriracha is very hot.Given the range of hot
>>> sauces in North America I would put it closer to the high end of hot.
>> 
>>    no, it is very wimpy in comparison.  it is enough for me
>> and i'm acclimated to it where it isn't a challenge at all
>> unless i've not had any for a month or longer (very rare
>> i would go that long as i probably use some every other day).
>> 
>>    the Scoville units of sriracha might get up to 5k or so.
>> some of the super hots get into the millions.
>
> Of the most common hot sauces Franks is 450,Tobasco is 700 Cholula is 
> 1000. Sriacha is 2200.  Sure there are some hotter ones for the die hard 
> heat fans but I will stand by my comment that Sriacha is not a moderate 
> heat.

  oh, geeze, you really need to look around some more.  this
is only one of them and there are plenty of others:

  https://peppergeek.com/hot-sauce-scoville-scale/

  note, i top out at about 50,000 Scovilles and wouldn't even
nibble on anything reputed to be higher.


  songbird