[CH] El Yucateco Hot Sauces
terrabyte@tds.net
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 8:48:56 -0500
Has anyone else had experience with the El Yucateco brand hot sauces?
http://www.elyucateco.com/english/products/index.htm
They have 3 main brands. An alien green kind, an alien red kind, and then a natural green/brown kind labeled XXXXtra hot.
Mo Hotta has their scoville units listed as:
red: 5,700
green: 8,910
brown: 11,000
Now, I remember having the green one at the beginning of this year. I had no idea it was so hot, and my tacos were making me jump up and down! The fake food coloring made this sauce look like alien poop, and I didn't like the taste. I decided I just didn't like it once I (finally) finished off the bottle.
7 months later, I pick up the other 2 at a mexican grocery store, and decide to try them out. The red one I tried on my tongue and it felt like tiny cats trying to scratch my tongue off. Front heat? Anyway, besides that small setback, I was still able to finish off half a bottle in my Jambalaya for lunch, and the rest the next day.
2 weeks later and I bring in the XXXTra Hot brown version. But it just doesn't seem to be all that hot. Don't get me wrong, my nose was running like a leaky faucet and my eyes watered a few times. But this is suppose to be twice as hot as the red one? I finished off half the bottle yesterday in my potatos and chicken lunch. Today I look forward to finishing it off.
But with my memory of the green one, I'm wondering if I've just gotten used to the heat within that time. Or if different types of heat have different affects on people. I want to say the red & green version are pure front heat. Intense, but short. The brown one doesn't seem to be as intense, although it's suppose to be 'rated' hotter?? Thanks.
(Any Wisconsin Hot-Lucks out there?)