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There was another one similar to this that had a message for the cooks like βmake him regret being born.β
I NOW CRAVE PAD THAI
It's a beautiful thing.
Iβm not in the office for a while but thereβs a place near my office that makes pad Thai that melts my face off and their flavoring is the best Iβve ever had. I canβt be bothered to leave the house but I am so very tempted. I wish I could have it delivered!
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This shit is like me. If I'm going to a Thai place I'm not a regular at, it's pretty much impossible for them to serve some white guy the hot stuff. Even actual "Southern Thai hot" isn't hot enough for my screwed up tastes to catch a real heat buzz, so normally what I get served seems heatless to me.
What usually gets the point home is telling the waitress its good tasting, but bland, and asking if I could have some birds eye pepper to put extra on it. For all the talk about how hot Thai food is, all they actually use are birds eye peppers (fresh, or dried and ground), which are around as hot as a Serrano pepper, or about half to a third as hot as a habanero. So for someone who can just eat a habanero, them going weak on the birds eye means I'm really not getting the kick I crave. Asking specifically for the hottest thing they put in their food (just me knowing what peppers they are) usually takes care of it.
I enjoy eating habanero peppers! Good flavor! Makes good salsa too.
We have a lot of tourists and "Thai hot" still doesn't get you anywhere. You have to make (good natured) threats to get the real deal.
"The only way I will send this back is if it isn't spicy enough. Tell the chef he has a weak little Denmark pallette who thinks a bell pepper will burn his lips off."
This is dumb. Pad Thai is not a spicy dish in Thailand.
Ask for some som tam with that text.
I question the choice of sauce bottle. That's clearly sriracha, and as someone who doesn't consider themselves a hot sauce person, it's not hot, it just contains chillies. I don't think anyone who goes back for seconds after melting their face would melt their face with sriracha.
Different people have different levels of heat resistance. My dad will abort mission, if you shake the pepper shaker more than once. Obviously, he doesn't have it in him to go back for seconds. I do, but having grown up in that household, it takes a while for the same heat resistance to build up. I bought sriracha for the first time a few months ago, and you could certainly still melt my face off with it, despite me using it again and again.
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Some people say that peperroni pizza is too hot for them.
This mayonnaise is spicy.
Had the same thought. Kinda ruined effect for me
Yeah this isnβt even gatekeeping spiciness. He might as well be using a ketchup bottle
I'm convinced Sriracha is different in different places. Obviously, different brands have varied heat but the classic one available worldwide is definitely hot, it's not extreme but definitely hot. I wouldn't call myself a hot sauce person either but I do enjoy hot foods and condiments, I'd say about average on heat sensitivity. I know several people who just can't have Sriracha because it's too hot for them, and it's easy to make something too hot with a lot of it IMO.
Their might be ghost pepper Sriracha? But yeah, normal Sriracha is a sweet pepper sauce, not a hot sauce.
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if there is a sriracha sauce somewhere in the world thats actually this hot I want it, but normally its nothing like this.
Since Huy Fong completely fucked over his pepper suppliers every batch is now wildly different so you never know how spicy a bottle is going to be!
Yea, what a dickhead. I never understand the mentality of a successful collaboration going to someones head getting them to think, let me just squeeze the supplier of this critical ingredient.
Case study as to why you can't let a single customer monopolize your business income.
I am constantly surprised by the variation between bottles, I thought it was just my perception!
oh man, I had heard there were shortages, but I never knew there was drama that went as deep as it did. That was a fun read.
I'm a big chili fan and can handle some decent heat, this comes closest: https://www.flyinggoosebrand.com/product/sriracha-blackout/
But it kind of defeats the point if Sriracha, for me at least, which is slightly hot garlic ketchup-like red stuff :)
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I remember our first bottle of Sriracha lasted about two years because we thought it was so spicy. Now they are lucky to last two months and we always add something spicy to give it some kick because we find it too bland now.
EDIT: For context, when we eat Thai or Indian we ask for "thai hot" or grandma's style (the cook is the owner's grandmother). Thai hot is perfect. Grandma is trying to kill me.
My friends told me they changed the recipe, so that might be why
Same recipe, different suppliers because they tried to screw over their biggest pepper supplier (Underwood Farms) who now make their own brand of Sriracha. In 2022, it was hard to find the Huy Fong brand and they said it was due to draught in Mexico, but they would have had plenty of they weren't trying to cut out their original supplier who has now gone their own way.
I believe it. I get a Sriracha like red pepper sauce at Korean market and it is significantly hotter. I would not be surprised if Sriracha may have reduced its spice level for a wider audience.
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Where I live (Norway) there's 3 different bottles available, they're all exactly the same and you have to look at the ingredients to find out which one it is (chili content %)
There's one in grocery stores, it's not spicy at all.
There's a different one available for wholesale (the ones restaurants have) which has some heat.
Then there's the import one I find in Asian grocery stores which actually has some spicyness to it.
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You challenged Grandma. Grandma doesn't fight fair, and she's heard about packing heat and made it her own. You have to see it through now. Eat enough of her food and you'll be inducted into a secret order of endorphin lovers.
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I like that his fork melted. Thatβs a nice touch.
I know someone exactly like this. Frequently complains about the burn and heartburn, and keeps doing it anyway.
Chip from Megas XLR
After Sriracha stopped producing, I found a big ol' bottle of the sauce I had accidentally hidden behind some protein powder in my pantry. I enjoyed the hell out of it. slathered pizzas, spiced soup, made sriracha aoli for sandwiches. Just ran out the other day. The new tobasco brand just doesn't have the same balance between sweet and spicy that real sriracha does. It's a shame. I enjoyed it while it lasted, at least
Not that they need me to advertise for them, but my understanding is that there's quite a lot of flavor variety in the "Hot Ones" sauces. I do not enjoy spiciness, so I cannot comment on their quality beyond that.
The Kent Survival YouTube channel does also frequently reference the many tastes in their sauces, but again, I cannot personally comment on quality.
One of my old co-workers literally carries around an unlabeled bottle of white sauce that he claims is both flavorful and spicy. Our other erstwhile co-workers disagree and say that the spiciness overwhelms everything else, but he swears by it. I can see if he'll disclose what it is.
Regardless of whether you pursue any of my suggestions, I hope you find the balance you seek!
As someone who loves spicy to the point of literally sweating, do NOT get The Bomb from Hot Ones. That shit is not fit for human consumption. Literally 2 drops for a plate of food is a risk. When I first got it, I put a dab on a chip and tried it directly. The head high felt like I was on actual drugs. Once in a while, I'll bust it out just to know I still feel. It's not for food though.
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I've seen original Huy Fong Sriracha on the shelves again recently, you should see if you can find it.
I think the biggest concern is if they're still using the same chilis as before. There was some falling out between Huy Fong and its supplier over payment. Not sure if they settled it though.
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I also did not care for the Tabasco version, but couldn't articulate the reason. Melinda's is what I finally switched to after I couldn't find Sriracha brand. I like many of their other sauces as well, particularly their Black Truffle Hot Sauce.
*) The only socially acceptable way for a man to cry. /s
This is so me. I absolutely love Sriracha! I find it to be just the right level of spiciness for every day food. Doesn't bother me at all. There's plenty of other hot sauces out there that are just stupid hot and aren't nearly as enjoyable
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I've always believed that eating really spicy food is a form of masochism.
No. Itβs the only way men can experience pregnancy contractions. At least I have, once, when doing a spicy challenge. I did win it, but about 6 hours later I got some rumbly in my tumbly, then, another 3 hours later, all broke loose. The only feeling I had was pain. My stomach hurt, my intestines hurt, my butthole hurt. My body pressed itself free from this spicyness. Over an hour of contractions and pain. I was sweating, I was crying. Every time I thought it was finally over, another contraction. The heat started. It felt cold at times, before becoming hot again. And what did I do this for? Well, I got a shirt I got too fat to wear. And I got to say the best pickup line in my life: I only got this because youβre even hotter than that.
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This is literally my dad lol
Pretty much.
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