Re: [CH] El Yucateco Hot Sauces
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:07:18 -0400
I've had them and agree that they are quite passable hot sauces. The
company gave me a complimentary bottle at one of the Fiery Food Shows after
I sampled a goodly sized portion without crying... I do admit the coloring
is rather off putting.
They also do a decent Chipotle sauce.
=Mark
At 08:48 AM 9/25/2003 -0500, terrabyte@tds.net wrote:
>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?)