Conference turris::cooks

Yes, I saw a new product from McIlhenny (the Tabasco folks) recently. 
Unfortunately I don't remember either where I saw it or the details 
of what it was.

--PSW

    Thanks for the info. I have tried a BUNCH of supermarkets
    and specialty stores. Will keep on the prowl.
    
    Mac
    
    

.2 is correct, it's a jalepeno sauce.  It's not nearly as hot as the red
Tabasco sauce, and of course tastes different since it's made from a
different pepper.

-Hal

     The stuff's not bad.  I have had to experiment with various foods on 
which to use it.  Being a lifelong McIlhenny's customer (visited Avery Island),
it didn't take much to sell me.

                                      Greg

    Check out http://www.hot.presence.com/hot/ for lots of mild to
    hot-hot-hot sauces/chillies you can order from this www page.
    
    Angus

   This looks really cool!!!   :^)

    Also see:
    		http://eMall.Com/Chile/Chile1.html
    
    Which is more gift-oriented than shelf-oriented. They say:
    
    "Chile Today - Hot Tamale's Chile of the Month Club and Hot Sauce of
    the month Club is a unique personal gift idea for friends, family,
    business associates or even yourself! Be remembered every month, all
    year long, by giving a Chile or Hot Sauce of the Month Club gift
    membership. Let us know the occasion and the date, and we will send out
    a letter explaining the new gift membership. In addition, along with
    the letter, we will include any personal message you would like to say."
    
    I've ordered stuff from the other www page (HotHotHot) and had no problem.
    No experience with these folks. Yet.
    
      John

    try jabanero (not sure if its spelled  right) sauce if you want real
    hot.  If you can't find here in the great northeast, E-mail me I am
    from Phoenix and I have contacts.

   >> try jabanero (not sure if its spelled  right) sauce if you want real

	habanero

    Also see notes 269.35 and 3204.10 for places to order many different
    kinds of hot sauces, salsas, and spices.
    
    
    Steve
    

When I visited my oldest daughter in Lafayette, LA (Capital
of Cajun Country) this past fall, I was amazed at the variety
of hot sauces available on shelves down there. I have contact
info for several mailorder supply places down there which I will
try to post soon.

    I have some of the best hot sauce I've ever tasted. It's called Gater
    Sauce. Heard of it?? It's from florida.
    
    mark

 Head down the Horse-shoe pub in Hudson. Order the nachos and ask for the 
 tray of hot suaces. There are many!

 My favorite is ---> Iguana XXX

 My co-herts are pretty found of --->Ass in the tub

 I'll have to try the gator.

 -Dave

    
    Hmm, I've tasted this briefly...and it was HOT, and I only dabbed a
    teeny bit on my tongue...Steve's gourmet insanity sauce...kinda thick
    stuff.
    
    Also, something I like to use when I make chicken tenders is:
    
    Hot Shot crushed red & black pepper (in baking section of markets)
    And my new favorite for adding more zip to tenders is...
    Texas Pete's Buffalo wing barbeque sauce found in market baskets up
    here in mass (at least near my house!). 
    Put hot shot into beaten egg, put more into bread crumbs, dip tenders
    in egg, roll into crumbs, drop into skillet and add even more hot shot
    to it while cooking! Then add Texas Pete's by basting the chicken! Good
    stuff!
    
    

    Having been enjoying hot stuff for many years, I recently found the
    hottest sauce by far.  Dave's Insanity.  Its made from Red Savinas (a 
    cross breed of several types of Habanero's) and is undoubtedly the hottest
    I've ever had, and I've had alot of 'em.  I test all sauces using a spoon 
    right out of the jar; this is the first one in recent memory that
    literally took my breath away! 
    
    Try it, but watch out!
    
    Andy

    
    A couple notes ago, someone mentioned Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce.
        Well, this is without a doubt, the hottest sauce in the world...
        until now...
    
        I was in the French Market down in New Orleans a week ago, and I
        found Dave's Insanity - Special Reserve.  It was wrapped in a wooden
        coffin, and taped off with a yellow caution sticker.  They wanted
        (no lie) $28 for this bottle....!!  So, when I got back to Mass.,
        I pulled my bottle of regular Dave's, got his e-mail, and fired
        away as to why this stuff is so expensive.
    
        He replied that when you get into this caliber of heat, and the
        means to harness this heat, production is very expensive.  He said
        this Reserve stuff was 3 times hotter than the regular Insanity Hot
        Sauce.  (!!!).  Each bottle is numbered and signed by Dave himself.
    
        Would anyone in here spend that kind of cash on hot sauce?
    
        Kev --
    

    	Not me. It would be cheaper and have the same effect to take
    regular Dave's Insanity sauce, mix in some 151 rum, ignite it, and
    consume it while it's still burning out of control.

    
    While visiting Syracuse for the NCAA East Regionals, I picked
    this up at a place called The Hot Shoppe in Armory Square.
    They were selling it for $18 a bottle.  To each his own, I 
    wouldn't spend what some people spend on wine, either  :^)
    
    This place was great, btw - literally every hot sauce known
    to man.  The owner is very amenable to letting you try samples,
    as well. 
    
    I'm sort of afraid to try it, having never mastered Dave's
    regular Insanity yet...
    
    - Sean

Sean's right!  I visited The Hot Shoppe a few months back and I can attest to the fact that it is heaven for the hot and spicy 
enthusiast.  I would dearly love to see a similar shop open up in this (Nashua, NH) area.  It wasn't just the sauces either...lots 
of stuff for making them spicy delights.  And the staff was terrific!

BTW Sean, did you get to the Dinosaur Barbeque restaurant while you there.  It's absolutely incredible...if you can handle the 
standard two hour wait to get in :^)


dave

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Sean's right!  I visited The Hot Shoppe a few months back and I can attest to
the fact that it is heaven for the hot and spicy enthusiast.  I would dearly
love to see a similar shop open up in this (Nashua, NH) area.  It wasn't just
the sauces either...lots of stuff for making them spicy delights.  And the 
staff was terrific!

BTW Sean, did you get to the Dinosaur Barbeque restaurant while you there.
It's absolutely incredible...if you can handle the standard two hour wait
to get in :^)


dave

There's a similar sort of place called Le Saucier in Quincy Market in 
Boston.

--PSW

    
>                                                               I would dearly
> love to see a similar shop open up in this (Nashua, NH) area.  It wasn't just
> the sauces either...lots of stuff for making them spicy delights.  And the 
> staff was terrific!
    
    I talked to the owner for a while and he said he plans on opening a
    branch of The Hot Shoppe in Providence, RI this year sometime!  I guess
    this doesn't help you too much, but I hit Union Station enough to
    be down that way fairly often.
    
> BTW Sean, did you get to the Dinosaur Barbeque restaurant while you there.
> It's absolutely incredible...if you can handle the standard two hour wait
> to get in :^)
    
    I couldn't convince my compadres to wait the 2 hours (you're right!),
    but I *really* wanted to eat there.  The place looked totally great.
    I did buy a CD from local guitar dude Tino Gonzalez *recorded* at the
    Dinosaur, though :^)
    
    As an aside, this place destroys any of the places I've been to in
    Braintree/Cambridge/Boston....
    
    - Sean

I know, of course, that this isn't the proper conference for discussing restaurants so, 
mea culpa.  But for those who read the last couple of replies in this thread and are 
wondering what all the fuss is about concerning Dinosaur Barbecue, here's a brief 
description.

Dinosaur Barbecue was written up in Chile Pepper magazine about a year ago.  So when 
I delivered my daughter to Syracuse University last August I knew where I was having 
dinner that night.  I was lucky.  It was a quiet Thursday night, most of the students hadn't 
arrived back on campus yet, so I "only" had about an hour's wait to endure...but they let 
you wait in the lounge...although "lounge" may give one the wrong impression of this 
place.

It is a rat's maze.  It's old and funky and a jumble of dilapidated, interconnected rooms 
from which immenate some of the most marvelous aromas you can imagine.  Once 
inside you see biker's clad in leather and chains mingling cheerfully with junior 
executives in suits and ties, sipping their beers while listening to terrific blues music.  
It's pretty much shoulder to shoulder, but no one minds.  The walls are covered with 
great antique junque interspersed with hand painted murals that are witty and wonderful 
and are, of course, all about dinosaurs.

Bawdy barmaids glide through the room with trays of drinks, laughing and cracking 
jokes with the patrons and never seeming to spill a drop.  Finally your name is called.  
You've been drooling for some time now and you're ready!  The menu has everything a 
barbecue lover could possibly want, with combo platters that allow you to sample more 
than one thing.  The waitresses are smart, hip and funny.  They contribute a lot to the 
atmosphere and truly love their jobs.  They tell you stories about how the place started 
out (the owners were bikers that use to tour around from biker convention to rock 
concerts to bike shows making barbecue they sold out of modifed carts they pulled 
behhind them...they eventually opened the place in Syracuse a few years ago and expand 
the joint about once a year) and funny anecdotes about some of the famous people that 
have been patrons.

The table is festooned with DB's own hot sauces and pepper blends.  The cooks, in 
leather caps and vests, stand before the grills at one end of the room slingin' meats and 
sides to the blues beat (all the meat is smoked during the day and warmed on the grills 
before serving).  And the food is fabulous.  Barbecue heaven.

I've go back everytime I find an excuse to drive out and visit my daughter...I don't mind 
the wait.

Next time, Sean, wait the two hours.

cheers,
dave

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I know, of course, that this isn't the proper conference for discussing
restaurants so, mea culpa.  But for those who read the last couple of replies
in this thread and are wondering what all the fuss is about concerning
Dinosaur Barbecue, here's a brief description.

Dinosaur Barbecue was written up in Chile Pepper magazine about a year ago.
So when I delivered my daughter to Syracuse University last August I knew
where I was having dinner that night.  I was lucky.  It was a quiet Thursday
night, most of the students hadn't arrived back on campus yet, so I "only" had
about an hour's wait to endure...but they let you wait in the lounge...although
"lounge" may give one the wrong impression of this place.

It is a rat's maze.  It's old and funky and a jumble of dilapidated,
interconnected rooms from which immenate some of the most marvelous aromas you
can imagine.  Once inside you see biker's clad in leather and chains mingling
cheerfully with junior executives in suits and ties, sipping their beers while
listening to terrific blues music.  It's pretty much shoulder to shoulder, but
no one minds.  The walls are covered with great antique junque interspersed 
with hand painted murals that are witty and wonderful and are, of course, all
about dinosaurs.

Bawdy barmaids glide through the room with trays of drinks, laughing and
cracking jokes with the patrons and never seeming to spill a drop.  Finally
your name is called.  You've been drooling for some time now and you're ready!
The menu has everything a barbecue lover could possibly want, with combo
platters that allow you to sample more than one thing.  The waitresses are
smart, hip and funny.  They contribute a lot to the atmosphere and truly love
their jobs.  They tell you stories about how the place started out (the owners
were bikers that use to tour around from biker convention to rock concerts to
bike shows making barbecue they sold out of modifed carts they pulled behind
them...they eventually opened the place in Syracuse a few years ago and expand
the joint about once a year) and funny anecdotes about some of the famous
people that have been patrons.

The table is festooned with DB's own hot sauces and pepper blends.  The cooks,
in leather caps and vests, stand before the grills at one end of the room
slingin' meats and sides to the blues beat (all the meat is smoked during the
day and warmed on the grills before serving).  And the food is fabulous.
Barbecue heaven.

I've go back everytime I find an excuse to drive out and visit my daughter...I
don't mind the wait.

Next time, Sean, wait the two hours.

cheers,
dave

    There is a shop in Concord, NH called Turtle Dreams that has an
    incredible selection of hot sauces, salsas, mustards, relishes,
    shake/rubs, salad dressings, BBQ/Steak sauces, etc.  And a wonderful
    collection of hand-screened t-shirts, dresses, etc.
    
    The picked garlic is to die for!
    
    
    Address is: 3 Pleasant St (on the 2nd floor)
    Phone: 603-224-7899
    Web: http://newww.com/turtle_dreams/
    
    
    
    
    This is what his intro on his web page says:
    
    "Turtle Dreams is a specialty store with a focus on hot spicy foods.
    Thai Indian and other cuisines are  also represented. Lots of
    cookbooks. Great source of quality products for New England and the
    rest of the country. We have good prices and superb service. "
    
    The owner is Stefan Mattlage.