[CH] Melindas Jolokia question

Punto (punto@inch.com)
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:18:31 -0400

Today, as I was shopping at a most excellent emporium of chiles, spices 
and other good stuff, I saw that Melinda's hot sauces now has a jolokia 
sauce. I always associated Melinda's sauces with better than average 
flavor, but never were they linked up in my mind with those producers 
whose product bore names with the words "death", "agony", "ultimate", 
"insane" and so on. I did not feel like parting with the $8.99 that it 
would have been necessary to come up with at the time, but I am curious 
to know if anyone on this list has succumbed to the temptation and 
sampled the beast.

I sometimes consider myself an extremist when it comes to hot, but I 
guess I've seen too many videos of foolhardy consumption of Naga Morich 
(or whatever the Jolokia is calling itself at the time) to summon up the 
cojones to give it a go. I am curious, though, about the taste and maybe 
there are concoctions that can give some idea of the flavor without 
sending me to places I'd rather not visit. Maybe this is one.

Finally thawing out a bit in the great northeast,

Peter Hirsch