What's your favorite salsa?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Straybow, you're supposed to wash the peppers before you use them.

You'd think that was self evident.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Habanero sauces are . Damn good. I couldn't imagine having a salsa made up of it, unless it isn't as spicy as the sauces are.

[chequita guevara]

You'd have to use less chilis. There's a "Mexican" place near here, which sells a zillion different hot sauces. My favorite is habeñero & garlic (kiss me! ). They sell two sauces which are so hot that you must sign a waver before buying them, since they are too hot to be used straight. They are flavoring additives. One is Slap My Ass and Call Me Sally: Chet's Gone Mad and the others is Pure Cap. The first has 1.5 million Scoville units (jalepeño has about 500). The latter has a "mere" half million. Suffice it to say, even putting them on your skin would cause blistering.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'd assume so . Habenero extract sauces can be VERY hot. I had a 350,000 Scoville sauce that was mouth burning.

[SlowwHand]

I knew a guy from Michigan who thought regular yellow mustard was hot.
Now, that's bad.

[Straybow]

I don't like Chi-chi's salsa. I used to like to eat there before they changed their menu several years back. They had a great white sauce on their chimis. Then they made their chimis smaller and put some icky sauce on it.

But even when I liked eating there I didn't like their salsa. I'd just munch the chips raw.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I had a 350,000 Scoville sauce that was mouth burning.

That must have been like putting a live charcoal in your mouth.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Verto
I make my own. It's the best. Now if I could only find decent tortilla chips.

Que Pasa (The red ones are especially good - beat powder [which is what makes it red, obviously] and lime is added to them.


Garden of Eatin' makes some good ones, too.

[GePap]

The only one I buy at the supermarket is Mrs. Renfro's, which counts as specialty.

[Straybow]

A regular jalapeño is 5000 Scovilles; a bell pepper would be under 500. Habanero is about 100k-250k, depending on where its grown and such.

I tried Dave's Insanity and Endorphine Rush. Like the Slap My Ass sauce above, the store wouldn't sell Endorphin Rush to my friend without a waiver. He got Dave's Insanity from a mail order company called Mo Hotta Mo Betta (sadly no longer with us).

Endorphine Rush was the first habanero hot sauce back around '95. It made some official tasters at the Great Texas Chili Cookoff puke, and was banned from the competition. So naturally my friend had to find some.

I had a blob of Insanity less than the size of a dime, and it was all I could take. I had a dab of Rush about a third the volume and felt like I couldn't breath!

[Imran Siddiqui]

That must have been like putting a live charcoal in your mouth.

It was pretty bad. You REALLY have to put ONE drop and spread it around your whole plate... and even then it's hard to finish, and I'm known for eating spice .

[SlowwHand]

http://gourmetsleuth.com/chiliscale.htm

[Straybow]

Hasn't anybody else tried Laredo & Lefty's? I like the lime in it, and I don't know any other decent commercial salsa with lime.

I once tried a Sam's Club lime salsa. It left somewhat to be desired, but it got me searching for a good lime salsa.

[Jaguar]

Rojo's is awesome. And the stuff that they serve for free in mexican restaurants is generally really good.

[Straybow]

Well, for people who think Pace's is too tomatoey the Mexican restaurant stuff would be too tomatoey as well. I like it, but more as a change from what I get for myself at home.