Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

[Bea-FL]

My heat rankings. I have all of these and use all of them except #1.

1. Trinidad Scorpion powder. I've had a 1 oz jar for 2 years and haven't opened it... I'm too scared.
2. Chipotle powder. I tried it for the first time today. It's hotter than I thought it would be.
3. Chile de Arbol powder. Still quite hot.
4. New Mexico chili powder. Ditto.
5. Hot Hungarian paprika. Medium hot.
6. Red pepper flakes.
7. Frank's Red Hot sauce (cayenne).
8. Trappey's Red Devil hot sauce (cayenne).
9. Smoked Spanish paprika powder.
10. Four (or five) peppercorn melange.
11. Sweet Spanish paprika powder.
12. Good old black peppercorns.
13. Grains of paradise.
14. Ketchup. I include it since it does have enough tang that it qualifies to be on the tail end of the heat rankings.

Then I have mustard powder and horseradish powder. I can definitely make stuff hotter than I can stand with the horseradish. I haven't yet tried to make a strong mustard with the mustard powder.

You don't really plan to try the Scorpion do you? You could hurt yourself considering until recently it's been the second hottest pepper in the world after the Carolina Reaper.

Of course you could try the new even hotter pepper known by its temporary name "pepper X". This pepper clocks in at 3.18 SU compared to the C Reaper's 2.1 SU.

This Is the World's (Newest) Hottest Pepper, and It's Stupidly Spicy

 

[bigbells]

The e-card my niece and her husband just sent me:

 

[DavidOck]

Is anybody watching the Winter Olympics? They just had the first Gold of this years Olympics won...

I am not going to make the same mistake I made with the game score and say who won it...

Off and on

Yep, it was

 

[pwmeek]

My heat rankings. I have all of these and use all of them except #1.

1. Trinidad Scorpion powder. I've had a 1 oz jar for 2 years and haven't opened it... I'm too scared.
2. Chipotle powder. I tried it for the first time today. It's hotter than I thought it would be.
3. Chile de Arbol powder. Still quite hot.
4. New Mexico chili powder. Ditto.
5. Hot Hungarian paprika. Medium hot.
6. Red pepper flakes.
7. Frank's Red Hot sauce (cayenne).
8. Trappey's Red Devil hot sauce (cayenne).
9. Smoked Spanish paprika powder.
10. Four (or five) peppercorn melange.
11. Sweet Spanish paprika powder.
12. Good old black peppercorns.
13. Grains of paradise.
14. Ketchup. I include it since it does have enough tang that it qualifies to be on the tail end of the heat rankings.

Then I have mustard powder and horseradish powder. I can definitely make stuff hotter than I can stand with the horseradish. I haven't yet tried to make a strong mustard with the mustard powder.

Cool (???) list! I have a few other "hots" and would be interested in where you would rank them. (These are in no particular order)

1. Dave's (of Dave's Insanity which is pretty hot) Ghost Pepper (Jolokia) Sauce (contains "pepper extract" which I suppose is pure capsaicin, as if Jolokia peppers aren't hot enough.) Very hot! (Maybe not quite as hot as Trinidad Scorpion, but up there.)
2. Wasabi Powder (I suspect it is really a mix of mustard and/or horseradish powders with a bit of green dye.)
3. Coleman's Prepared Mustard (is this the mustard powder you have? It is what I use to make hot mustard for use with Chinese take-out. A tablespoon of powder; add water drop by drop mixing continually until you get a paste about like regular mustard or just a little thinner. Let sit for at least a half hour to develop flavor.) Use this by the drop until you determine how you like it.
4. Tabasco™ Sauce (which I used to think was hot, many years ago)
5. Yucatan Gold™ (a Jalapeño based hot sauce; just a little hotter than Tabasco, IMO. Nice flavor.)

For comparison, I'd rank Frank's as much milder than any of these in my list. Barely useful as a hot sauce.

I suppose that ranking non-capsaicin heat (heats not from chili peppers) like those from mustard or horseradish against chili heats is not really useful, but I am curious about your opinion. I use the Dave's Ghost Pepper Sauce at the rate of 4-6 drops per egg, per bowl of soup, or per saucy dish (like spaghetti) to get enough heat for me to enjoy it. (One drop will wreck a bowl of soup for my wife who is considered by her friends to have an insane tolerance for heat.) I take a little bottle with me when we eat in restaurants.

It is possible to injure yourself with horseradish. We once got a jar of grated horseradish that was really hot. (Every jar of horseradish or hot sauce is different; taste with caution every time you open a new jar.) I ate it on a couple of pork chops at the rate of about 1/2 teaspoon per bite. I scarred the little valve at the top of the stomach and suffered from acid reflux for about 5 or 6 years before the scarring healed up enough to make a good seal again to keep the stomach acid where it belongs.

 

[Flowersoul]

 

[bigbells]

Cool (???) list! I have a few other "hots" and would be interested in where you would rank them.

Your preferred heat levels are so much higher than mine that I'll probably never even try the mildest of the sauces that you like to use. Here's a useful list ranking peppers and pepper sauces by Scoville units: Scoville Scale. Almost every pepper and pepper sauce that you or I have mentioned is on the list. To me, Frank's Red Hot sauce is completely useful as a hot sauce but it's WAY down on the list.

These days, I buy all my non-liquid spices and herbs from only one place. The variety is fantastic, the quality is excellent and the prices are very good, particularly when you wait for temporary discounts on specific items that you want: Spices and Seasonings at Wholesale Prices - Shop My Spice Sage

The pepper powder that I've really taken a liking to is this Chili de Arbol, which the site says is around 30,000 Scoville units. Spices and Seasonings at Wholesale Prices - Shop My Spice Sage.
I think that the brown chipotle powder I tried recently may well be a little hotter, but to me it's not as tasty as the Chili de Arbol, which I do use fairly liberally in or on just about anything. (Same with Frank's Red Hot sauce and Trappey's Red Devil sauce... they add not just heat but a lot of flavor and I'll use 10 to 15 good shakes off the bottle on a sandwich, burrito or a couple of eggs).

Methinks you're right about wasabi being horseradish and food coloring. I selected wasabi powder as my free sample with an order from the above source. When I got it, the packet listed horseradish as the only ingredient, so when I'd finished off the sample I ordered horseradish powder instead because it's lower in price. That's all fine and good, but the green powder that was in the "wasabi" packet had tasted like what I've come to think of as wasabi taste (even if I've never had real wasabi), while the off-white horseradish powder tastes like horseradish (which I love)..... insert shrugging shoulders here. I read an article, on Huffington Post I think. It said that virtually no one in the US has ever had wasabi, that even in Japan, what is served as wasabi is actually horseradish, and that the chance of encountering actual wasabi is remote, even in the best sushi bars and restaurants in Japan.

The hottest "wasabi" I've ever had comes in packets inside plastic trays of supermarket sushi from Food Lion, a chain in this part of the country.

Edit: real wasabi isn't quite as rare as I thought I had read. I just reread the article I had read a while back: Think You've Been Eating Wasabi All This Time? Think Again. | HuffPost. However, a perfunctory Google search led me to believe that real wasabi is still hard to find and requires preparation using actual wasabi root just before eating.

 

[Diver9543]

Ok, how about a house sitter to stay with the pup and you go to Ginny's mother's? We check a local site called Nextdoor and have found helpful info and recommendations. Dog sitters and dog walkers are often looking for work and they're more trustworthy if they're local. Just ask on the site. We have a neighbor's daughter come here to bring in mail, water plants, take care of the house and our cats while we're gone and she's wonderful.

When my wife and I were in the Navy, we would ask coworkers who lived in the barracks to housesit for us. It allowed them to have a few nights of something different. Sort of a win win situation.

You know Janet read this and it reminded me of an old Bill Cosby record talking about his parents. His parents didn't believe in babysitters, he said their idea was, What leave my kid at home with a stranger I'd rather leave him by himself. It was a pretty funny record. He really was a pretty funny comedian back in the 60's. Some of his stuff, others meh.

My folks had an old album of Bill Cosby. One of the tracks that I enjoyed the most was "Noah". I always liked him, he could make you laugh and not have to rely on vulgarity.

The e-card my niece and her husband just sent me:

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Congratulations on becoming a "Great Uncle".

 

[Semiretired]

Cool (???) list! I have a few other "hots" and would be interested in where you would rank them. (These are in no particular order)

1. Dave's (of Dave's Insanity which is pretty hot) Ghost Pepper (Jolokia) Sauce (contains "pepper extract" which I suppose is pure capsaicin, as if Jolokia peppers aren't hot enough.) Very hot! (Maybe not quite as hot as Trinidad Scorpion, but up there.)
2. Wasabi Powder (I suspect it is really a mix of mustard and/or horseradish powders with a bit of green dye.)
3. Coleman's Prepared Mustard (is this the mustard powder you have? It is what I use to make hot mustard for use with Chinese take-out. A tablespoon of powder; add water drop by drop mixing continually until you get a paste about like regular mustard or just a little thinner. Let sit for at least a half hour to develop flavor.) Use this by the drop until you determine how you like it.
4. Tabasco™ Sauce (which I used to think was hot, many years ago)
5. Yucatan Gold™ (a Jalapeño based hot sauce; just a little hotter than Tabasco, IMO. Nice flavor.)

For comparison, I'd rank Frank's as much milder than any of these in my list. Barely useful as a hot sauce.

I suppose that ranking non-capsaicin heat (heats not from chili peppers) like those from mustard or horseradish against chili heats is not really useful, but I am curious about your opinion. I use the Dave's Ghost Pepper Sauce at the rate of 4-6 drops per egg, per bowl of soup, or per saucy dish (like spaghetti) to get enough heat for me to enjoy it. (One drop will wreck a bowl of soup for my wife who is considered by her friends to have an insane tolerance for heat.) I take a little bottle with me when we eat in restaurants.

It is possible to injure yourself with horseradish. We once got a jar of grated horseradish that was really hot. (Every jar of horseradish or hot sauce is different; taste with caution every time you open a new jar.) I ate it on a couple of pork chops at the rate of about 1/2 teaspoon per bite. I scarred the little valve at the top of the stomach and suffered from acid reflux for about 5 or 6 years before the scarring healed up enough to make a good seal again to keep the stomach acid where it belongs.

I had a buddy in Texas, back in my youth that used to talk to his ulcer and tell it to shut up or he was going to eat another one... LOL

 

[DavidOck]

I had a buddy in Texas

Operative word being "had." He went up in flames, right?

 

[clnire]

My folks had an old album of Bill Cosby. One of the tracks that I enjoyed the most was "Noah". I always liked him, he could make you laugh and not have to rely on vulgarity.

I remember that one! It was very funny. All I remember of the Noah routine is "NOAH, HOW LONG CAN YOU TREAD WATER?" Then there was the dentist routine, trying to talk with a mouthful of Novocaine "My blip is on the bloor", and, of course, Brain Damaged Children!!!!

 

[yiddleboge6]

It saddened me to see a dark side of Cosby surface... What I remember about him was so entirely different....
Whenever he played Harrahs showroom...he would take time to go to Wittenberg Hall Juvenile Detention Center in Reno and spend time entertaining the kids there....and....he was the only person not a blackjack dealer, who was allowed to walk into a pit and take over dealing the game in a most funny and entertaining way, ignoring all the rules...

 

[bigbells]

 

[3mg Meniere]

Fame = power, and power corrupts.

 

[clnire]

Yep, that's it! Can ya find Brain Damaged Children? On my phone so links are tricky.. Same album.

 

[misswish1]

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

 

[MikeE3]

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

But of course ... maybe even 4 x 4 to make up for forgetting it.

Congrats to you @misswish1

 

[MikeADore]

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

Yes. It's a rule. Don't break it and spoil things for the rest of us. Do your duty, please, and buy at least four presents for yourself.

 

[DancingHeretik]

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

 

[bigbells]

Yep, that's it! Can ya find Brain Damaged Children? On my phone so links are tricky.. Same album.

Cosby did the same routines on multiple albums. This is from a different album than the one where I found "Noah".

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

You have my permission. I wonder if I'll forget my 5th, this coming Friday.

 

[Flowersoul]

I missed my own vapeversary yesterday! It's my 4th, do I get to order 4 gifts for myself?

Silly girl! Of course; but of course! Congrats!!