Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: songbird Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: hot sauce... Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:04:35 -0500 Organization: the little wild kingdom Lines: 31 Message-ID: <33408l-b611.ln1@anthive.com> References: <213h7l-tdn.ln1@anthive.com> <4251153ca8f390b99caa780fa98db18b@www.novabbs.org> Reply-To: songbird Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:05:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b6045bc17eaf170971a67d1d02f85885"; logging-data="2764578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/QFroFemuSJ0cx5uNEr/+nn3iy78byjI4=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bnZ+mWBtCj9eCU5i7gByyh+5O9k= Bytes: 2281 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