{"id":180474,"date":"2007-04-03T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2007\/04\/03\/day-7-of-hot-sauce-mad-dogs-revenge-habanero-chile-extract\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"day-7-of-hot-sauce-mad-dogs-revenge-habanero-chile-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2007\/04\/03\/day-7-of-hot-sauce-mad-dogs-revenge-habanero-chile-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 of hot sauce &#8211; Mad Dog&#8217;s Revenge Habanero &#038; Chile Extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mad-dog-s-revenge-large.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2007\/04\/mad-dog-s-revenge-large.jpg?resize=212%2C385\" width=\"212\" height=\"385\" \/>I&#8217;d assumed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicchile.com\/site\/image.html?sku=mad-dog-s-revenge\">Mad Dog&#8217;s Revenge Habanero &amp; Chile Extract<\/a> would be the spiciest &#8220;sauce&#8221; of the bunch. I put sauce in quotations because it isn&#8217;t a hot sauce, it&#8217;s a food additive.  The label warns not to use this as a hot sauce because it is way too spicy. How spicy?  The label says, &#8220;1,000,000 Scoville units Mad Dog&#8217;s Revenge is 450 times hotter than Tabasco Sauce.&#8221;  If you don&#8217;t know about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_units\">Scoville Scale<\/a>, here&#8217;s a sample:<br \/>\n<i>2,500 &#8211; 8,000<\/i> \tJalape\u00f1o Pepper (which I chow down like Bell Peppers)<br \/>\n<i>100,000 &#8211; 350,000<\/i> \tHabanero Chile<br \/>\n<i>2,000,000 &#8211; 5,300,000<\/i> \tStandard US Grade pepper spray<br \/>\nWell, this is &#8220;Seven Days of Hot Sauce,&#8221; so I decided to put a drop of the stuff into my pasta. It was spicy&#8230;but, I wanted just a little more.  Unfortunately, I slipped in many, many, drops (I&#8217;d already decanted the extract into a hot sauce container). I tried it anyhow.  I survived&#8230;it was spicy, and I&#8217;ve had worse, but it was serious shit.  That said, it <b>tasted like an extract, not a condiment<\/b>.  My problem cropped up again in that to get the spice that I want, that is sufficient for my palette, it seems that you have to drain a concoction of all its flavor!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicchile.com\/site\/image.html?sku=mad-dog-s-revenge\">Mad Dog&#8217;s Revenge Habanero &amp; Chile Extract<\/a> gets a 6 out of 10 because it is spicy, but it used &#8220;brute force&#8221; methods and lacks any subtlety or texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d assumed that Mad Dog&#8217;s Revenge Habanero &amp; Chile Extract would be the spiciest &#8220;sauce&#8221; of the bunch. I put sauce in quotations because it isn&#8217;t a hot sauce, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawqfx-KWS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}