Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Difference between revisions

== Web Original ==

* The whole basis of the series ''[[The Cinema Snob|Flaming Brian's Kitchen]]''

== Western Animation ==

** Don't just take our word for it. Here's the [http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/CA/capsaicin.html abridged MSDS for the stuff.]

** There are tourist shops that specialize in hot sauces with various interesting labels: one in San Diego makes customers sign a waiver which basically states "I understand this is a "food additive," not a sauce, and I certify that I am not drunk right now" when they purchase the pure capsaicin bottles.

* Consider the Naga/Bhut Jolokia pepper (AKA the "Ghost Chili"), the hottest pepper in the world. It has a Scoville Scale rating of 850,000 to 1,500,000 (compare that to a Jalapeño, which has a Scoville rating between 2500 and 8000, or even the Habanero pepper, which tops out at 350,000). You have to use protective gear to cook with this thing, and that's not a joke: they're literally hot enough to irritate skin. Cooking with them in the traditional sense is impossible. Most people in Bangladesh, from where the breed originates, only dip it into the cooking pot for a ''few seconds'', while smearing the rest of the pepper on their fence as an ''elephant deterrent''.

** It has been upped in March 2011 by [http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/hottest-chili/ Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T"], Guinness World Records attest. And this is already pushing it toward genetic engineering (i.e. not something that grow naturally in some place).

* Mapo Doufu, a Chinese course, which [[That Other Wiki]] describes as "powerfully spicy" (using those exact words). It's popular enough in Japan to show up as the go-to example for hotly spiced food in [[Anime]], [[Manga]] and [[Visual Novel|visual novels]], such as in ''[[Angel Beats!]]!'' and ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]''.

** Several regions in China are known for having extremely spicy cooking due to a combination of weather conditions, availability of spices, attuned palates and the occasional need to mask less than optimal ingredients. Sichuan cuisine in particular is infamous and a local joke says the people there essentially worry that a dish isn't spicy ''enough'', though the peppers responsible for the heat (and the blood red color of dishes that use lots of it) also have a numbing effect.

* In 2007, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7025782.stm part of central London was evacuated] when fumes from a Thai restaurant cooking up a large batch of chilli sauce sparked fears of a chemical weapon attack.