Hey everyone,

I'm in the process of launching a new sauce company featuring a product similar to chili crisp, and I’d love to hear thoughts on the current jar packaging for chili crisp:

• What are your biggest frustrations with the current jar packaging?
• If you could reimagine any kind of packaging to make it easier to use, what would it be?

Thanks so much in advance for sharing your ideas and insights!

Serious question! I know I could probably Google it but I like this community a lot and wanted to hear y'all's thoughts. And also I'll take any recommendations for spicy pickled foods!

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So, saw a post yesterday about scorpion Tabasco and was like ok sweet, let's order. Ordered a 5oz for $6.11 and got this in just now. Fuck. Yes.

I'm a bit of a chili head and i rarely get a real "ring of fire" experience in the backdoor but there is one chili that makes me wanna stick an icicle up my butt and that's Yellow Rocoto.

It's one of my favorite chilies taste wise and the burn is very slow raising but when combined with greasy meat and salsa filling... Next day toilet visit is pure hell.

So... What is the chili for you that makes you grab the shower head to help the poor starfish to survive the aftermath?

It’s been awhile since I was impressed by the heat of a hot sauce, but this one definitely brings it. The taste is simply pepper flavor and HEAT. Love it!

There was about a minute of my intestines making odd sounds and then it was straight to the can. I guess it was out for revenge or something because I actually had to rinse my bottom under a cold shower to relieve it. Does it actually get any better with repetition or do people just have to deal with it and load their bidet with milk?

Anyone know what happened to this hot sauce company? I've loved it for years and just ran out, looking for more and seems the company went out of business?

Bummed if true, and recommendations for similar, lower heat, tasty hot sauce for cooking with?

I used to never be able to handle spice. My mom would make jalapeño poppers and I wouldn't be able to eat them. Her gumbo? Out of the question. Ketchup even had a spice to it and was all I could really handle.

Then I developed migraines. Turns out I have occipital neuralgia. A year after the diagnosis I decide to try a popper, and it wasn't spicy at all suddenly. I just started testing my limits of spice and can now handle spicy foods so much better.

I eat rice, eggs, and gouchajang sauce (from paste from the Asian market) at least twice a week, and use that sauce for just about anything. I make Chipotle chicken soup for work and have made a coworker cry from spice, same with the jalapeño popper soup, and I didn't have the heart to tell them that I toned down the spices for the potluck. I season with ghost pepper salt when applicable. (Scorpian pepper cheese still hurts too much, but maybe one day).

I don't know if it's a connection between the diagnosis and the spice tolerance, but hey, if something positive can come out of chronic pain, I'll take it.

ordered one of the spiciest things on the menu, and asked to make it extra spicy. it was SO good. genuinely 10/10 taste wise. however it still wasn't spicy enough for me lmao next time i go there i'll specifically ask to make it so spicy it make me reconsider all of my life choices.

Hi everyone, im completely now to spicy stuff but I've been trying these buldak spicy hot chicken noodles and I just love the flavour and the burn

problem being, hours later im shitting fire. and it hurts. will this get better eventually as I get used to spice? Or do spice enjoyers just tolerate it every time? thanks

https://youtu.be/7OuExDynf3s?si=S7tXXYO4QvfsbEm6

We've had about 20 x fat 2 inch yellow peppers in the last 2 weeks and plenty more coming.

We've given tons away but keen for some ideas of what I could do with at least some to preserve them.

Ironically I bought these as a novelty not because I'm obsessed with chili, and they are the only thing in the garden that actually grows.

I am not trying to brag, I am genuinely upset that I can't feel spice and that I don't know what the heck is wrong with me.

I have never felt heat from eating spicy food. My first time "letting someone down" after they gave me hot sauce was around 4yo with my grandpa who gave me tabasco sauce after I asked him what it was. I remember he looked a little shocked and proud that I didn't flinch.

I have a lot of Mexican friends, their families all grow peppers in their garden to make salsa. They store the dried pepper powder in jars. In middle school we tested myself to see what a spoonful of it would do to me. Nothing at all. It just tasted dry and it wasn't a cinnamon challenge spoonful more like a half teaspoon which was according to their family a gnarly amount to attempt.

I won a spicy wing challenge at this local place that opened a few years back. They said $100 to whoever can eat 8 of their spiciest wings in under 10 minutes. I cleaned them off in about 3.

I asked my doctor what was wrong with me and this mf just recommended Howling Rays. They had great collard greens but once again their spiciest chicken did nothing to me. Like most hot chicken joints they had me sign a waver which I'm convinced is just for show.

I have ordered hot sauces online, dried peppers online, eaten habaneros from the store, ordered beyond the spiciest dishes at thai restaurants with the staff staring wide eyed as I consume the whole bowl.

The best I can do is tell you if it's really spicy, because I can taste a slight bitterness when it's supposedly really hot. I also respond to wasabi and horse radish and cry when cutting onions since those are common questions when I tell people about this.

So please lmk if anyone out there shares my experience. More importantly recommend me some medical route to discover what is wrong with my taste buds! Every google search lands me results that say "how to increase spice tolerance" or "some people are born with less receptors" which are not what I want to know! I believe I have ZERO capsaicin receptors. I think I am rare, I am reaching out.

Edits:

I found out yesterday that when people ask me about how it feels coming out the other end they mean that your a-hole burns! I thought they meant indigestion.

Horseradish, wasabi, sourkraut, and dijon mustard all have the same effect on me as they do any other person. I also cry while cutting onions.

I will pepper spray myself this week to get to the bottom of this.

I think I lack TRPV1 receptors, according to veryparcel

Very confused how the reaper isnt the spiciest one but they are all very good.

My favorites are on the left, I still have some unopened on the right that I’ve had samples of but still haven’t had it on food yet. I prefer the habenero flavor and nothing crazy with the spice.

It's delicious, but holy shit level of spicy. Especially when you're not expecting it.

This sauce is insane. I’ve always had a weak stomach for super hot sauces, and like just a few drops of this completely wrecks me. This is at least 10x hotter than Xtreme Regret or Fiery Fool.

Is there anyone out there who can stomach this stuff?

This stuff is delicious the Chipotle really adds a nice pepper flavor I don't drink anymore but I bet this would be amazing with a bloody Mary

Solid 8/10 flavor Spice 3.4/10

As the title says, I eat spicy food like crazy. I loved the kick and I would put spicy sauce on every dish I could think of for years. It got to a point where I wouldn't even feel the pain nor the enjoyment I would usually feel. However, in the past few months, my tolerance completely went down. I get unbearable stomach pain with mild spice, and the worst acid reflux ever.

Any body knows why this happened?