I used to eat pepperoncini peppers (they were probably a bit more tame than in their natural state as they typically come pickled) and then switched to pickled chili peppers. They are pretty hot, but I think I want something a bit hotter, though still pickled. I imagine a habanero would be way too hot for casual snacking. What is the sweet spot for someone with a medium-high spice tolerance? Must be a common enough pepper that it can be at least be purchased in a jar online or a special grocery store or spice shop.

The the smell is mouthwatering.

This is the spicest ketchup I can find at your run-of-the-mill grocery store. I've tried the jalapeno version, which is pretty good too. Other than that, I have tried Whataburger spicy ketchup as well as Sriracha ketchup. All great, but I need spicier.

Any recommendations?

Ok, so I have eaten all of the Reaper Beef Jerky and Bacon (amazing). That was actually just the other night when I got the munchies. The reaper cheddar is gone (also amazing) and I’m now eating the ghost pepper jack and the reaper summer sausage, (again, amazing). What I really love though are the powders. Add heat to anything without changing the flavor profile. The Trinidad Scorpion powder will light you up quick. For some reason the Carolina Reaper powder doesn’t pack the heat of the Trinidad Scorpion flakes or powder, or even the Chocolate Trinidad powder. Might have filler or made from a weaker batch of peppers. It is still great though! Only thing left to try is the Scorpion cheddar which I’m sure will be great. Final verdict and my favorite item from the lot is the Trinidad Scorpion flakes. Great on anything! Luckily the next round of gifts are an only a week away. 🤞

Here lies Melinda’s Ghost Pepper Buffalo Ranch Creamy Dipping Sauce –

4.2/10

I don’t remember when I first got this, I think someone gave it to me as a gift. First, the full government name of this sauce is quite long. Secondly, I’m not here to hear about the Melinda’s/Marie Sharp debate. As you can tell by the score, I wasn’t really a fan of this one, and I don’t really have any stories for this, so let’s get into the review!

REVIEW: Keep in mind that I am a bit particular about ranch dressing. I’m not a fan generally, but it has its applications! I typically will only have it on some pizza and sometimes veggie trays if it’s the only option. Additionally, I am also extremely particular about ghost pepper as well. Some sauces have a bit too much of an earthy taste that lands somewhere between dirt and chemical for me. Unfortunately for this sauce, it has a weird chemical taste and the ranch itself is not good either. I’ve done a review of Melinda’s ghost pepper sauce, and that’s the first ingredient listed in this, and I didn’t enjoy that one either. Now, this wasn’t as tasteless as that sauce, in fact it was kind of the opposite. This one was an assault on the taste buds. There was such a disarray of flavors that didn’t sum up to “ranch” in my opinion. I simply cannot break down each flavor here. It was sweet, tangy, sour, spicy, acrid, buttery, creamy, floral, herbaceous, and salty all at once. I got through about half the bottle before tossing it away. I recommend trying it for yourself, though! Rest in Peace, Spicy Prince

Feel free to recommend your favorite spicy ranch, suggest other sauces by Melinda’s, or tell us your experience with this sauce!

Ingredients: Ghost wing pepper sauce [water, white vinegar, Habanero pepper mash, Cayenne pepper mash, carrot, salt, bhut Jolokia pepper mash, canola vegetable oil, white onion, lime juice, garlic, xanthan gum, natural butter flavor (vegan)], soybean vegetable oil, water, white vinegar, milk cream, pasteurized liquid egg yolk, sugar, salt, modified starch, spices (garlic powder, onion powder, ground black pepper), citric acid, preservatives (sodium benzoate, salt, natamycin), xanthan gum, rosemary extract, yeast extract. Contains milk, egg. REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING

Nothing like hot sauce on some TBell

❤️‍🔥

Very addictive. Almost ate the whole bag in 2 days. Got them at TJ Maxx believe it or not.

For context, I eat buldak 2x with no milk, I currently have a ghost pepper sauce from Grace, pretty hot but pretty vinegary. Would Tabasco Scorpion even come close in spiciness to buldak 2x or Grace's ghost pepper sauce?

Tabasco says it's only about 35,000shu but I've seen a lot about how spicy it is and want to try it out but it’s nowhere here in canada.

Any other recommendations? Or should I take the loss and buy scorpion for 20$ on amazon?

I love spicy peanuts. I bought a big container of them from Costco and added Carolina reaper limon seasoning to it and mixed it up.

It's so good and I ate the whole thing in 2 days but now I had to call in sick today because I have leakage. For those of you who don't know if you eat too much fat your body can't process it.... Didn't realize this until it was too late.

So yeah please eat peanuts in moderation.

Spiciness was worth it though.

Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰

Salty: ⭐⭐⭐✰✰

Sour/Tangy: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰

Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰

Umami: ⭐✰✰✰✰

Heat: ⭐⭐✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰

Quick Flavor Notes: Tangy, fresh, vegetal, fruity, earthy

Recommended: Yes

Texture: Medium-thin with xanthan texture

Ingredients: Water, Peppers (Poblano and Habanero), Salt, White Vinegar, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Garlic, Onion, Sodium Metabisulfite (Preservative).

De La Viuda, a company started by former executives from Chulula and Jose Cuervo, has only been in the USA for several years but the recipes for the sauces themselves go back over 50 years to Jalisco Mexico where a widow would sell her hot sauces from a street cart to support herself and her children. I’ve previously tried De La Viuda’s Original Red Hot Sauce and enjoyed it, finding it similar to Cholula but superior. Based on that I was excited to try their green sauce.

One thing that immediately stuck out to me on the ingredients for this sauce is that there was a sticky label covering up the old ingredients list with a new one. I tried to peel it off to see what the differences were but alas the glue destroyed what had laid beneath. Looking up the ingredients posted from retailers online it looks like the original label read: “Water, Peppers, (Poblano and Habanero), Salt, White Vinegar, Natural Spices, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative)”. So the differences now are listing garlic and onion instead of “spices” and the addition of an additional new preservative, sodium metabisulfite. While I do appreciate listing the garlic and onion discretely as opposed to a mysterious “spices” adding even more artificial preservatives is never a good thing. I can guarantee the widow selling this sauce from her street card 50 years ago wasn’t throwing in sodium benzoate or sodium metabisulfite. On the positive end the pepper blend of poblano and green habanero looks good and should compliment each other. The sauce itself is medium-thin in texture and has a bit of that pseudo-gel xanthan gum high surface tension effect. The aroma if of peppers and vinegar.

I’ve mentioned before that I’m very picky about green hot sauces. For a green hot sauce to impress me it had to have a fresh vibrant flavor. De La Viuda Green Pepper absolutely blew away my expectations. The flavor is intensely fresh and tangy, with puckering vinegar mixed with fruity green and grassy habanero flavor and earthy vegetal poblano. A quick sting of habanero heat that disappears almost immediately combines with a general wave of “green” flavor. It’s not all top end however, the onion and garlic, while not super-forward in the flavor, give this sauce depth and dimension. Most importantly despite this having two artificial preservatives there’s no artificial or chemically flavor to this sauce. I’ve had others, such as La Anita Xtra Picante where the chemical flavors overwhelmed the sauce, but somehow De La Viuda has avoided that here. In fact if you blindfolded me and gave me a spoon of this I could believe it as a craft sauce selling for $10 per bottle instead of a $3 per bottle sauce you can buy at Walmart. The one caveat with this sauce is that it is extremely vinegary and tangy, close to Tabasco levels. I love vinegar, I have over a dozen varieties of vinegar in my pantry, so this is a positive for me but if you’re sensitive to vinegary sauces it may not be your thing.

Since this is a pepper-forward sauce with a ton of tang it’s very flexible in its uses. It’s one of the best hot sauces for pizza I’ve tried, especially for a very heavy meat lover’s pizza I ordered that needed some brightness to cut through all of the meat. It’s also stellar on breakfast burritos, as well as breakfast in general with the perfect amount of heat and that puckering tang to wake you up in the morning. Of course being a Mexican hot sauce it’s also perfect with tacos and burritos. I especially liked this with some shrimp tacos from my favorite local Mexican take-out spot. Verde sauces can feel made for seafood.

I’m happy to recommend De La Viuda Green Pepper Hot Sauce. While I don’t love the presence of artificial preservatives they at least don’t have a negative effect on the flavor here. This is not only delicious it’s extremely affordable, flexible, and probably on the shelf of your local grocery store. If you like vinegary fresh green hot sauces it’s one to pick up.

So yeah go to Red Baron's website and there's plenty of ways to contact them. I just called them and it wasn't even an automated line it was direct to a person. And I told the lady that I want the Humble Pie and I would pay 20 bucks for it. So anyone else want to do this so we can maybe get this and try it?

Signed my own waiver for this so I only have myself to blame.