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What is a cheap way to get heat (spice heat)?
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Ok, I sometimes get a craving for hot (piquant) foods. I'm not satisfied unless I'm gasping for water and my mouth is on fire!
BUT. The hot sauces are quite expensive. So far I've only found one hot sauce which is adequately hot (a Jamaican one from the world foods aisle in Tesco). 70p a bottle and I go through a bottle in no time (days, if not shorter), so it adds up quickly.
Chili powder is the obvious solution. But the problem with that is chili powder has taste. There comes a point when you just can't add any more chili powder, because of the overwhelming taste.
Any ideas?
BUT. The hot sauces are quite expensive. So far I've only found one hot sauce which is adequately hot (a Jamaican one from the world foods aisle in Tesco). 70p a bottle and I go through a bottle in no time (days, if not shorter), so it adds up quickly.
Chili powder is the obvious solution. But the problem with that is chili powder has taste. There comes a point when you just can't add any more chili powder, because of the overwhelming taste.
Any ideas?
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Chilli flakes?
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As opposed to not getting any more taste because of the overwhelming heat?Chili powder is the obvious solution. But the problem with that is chili powder has taste. There comes a point when you just can't add any more chili powder, because of the overwhelming taste.
My personal recommendation to you is to visit a foreign country and sample their food. And then a Scandinavian country for the trolls.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Chilli flakes for sure.******** Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity *******"Always be calm and polite, and have the materials to make a bomb"0
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If you have access to an asian supermarket, some sell extra hot chilli powder, which you need much less of for the same effect.
Maybe that would give you the heat without the taste."We could say the government spends like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money."
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Or dried bird's eye chillis. They have a kick. Just make sure you don't actually eat one.******** Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity *******"Always be calm and polite, and have the materials to make a bomb"0
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Cayenne pepper ?0
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This is simmed we're talking about - I'd like to see it but doubt we ever willIf you have access to an asian supermarket Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Ok, I sometimes get a craving for hot (piquant) foods. I'm not satisfied unless I'm gasping for water and my mouth is on fire!
BUT. The hot sauces are quite expensive. So far I've only found one hot sauce which is adequately hot (a Jamaican one from the world foods aisle in Tesco). 70p a bottle and I go through a bottle in no time (days, if not shorter), so it adds up quickly.
Chili powder is the obvious solution. But the problem with that is chili powder has taste. There comes a point when you just can't add any more chili powder, because of the overwhelming taste.
Any ideas?
I bought jamacian hot sauce called dunns river in tesco 52p maybe it's the same one must of gone up in price. There's a website called Dr. Burnorium’s Hot Sauce Emporium.
Can buy from their website and they also have a shop in bristol.0 -
All supermarkets tend to have an frozen ethnic section, go pick up some frozen green chillies, chuck them in either the cooking process or defrost them & stir in viola heat!.
Otherwise have seen fresh green chillies in the veg sections, make sure they are the thin ones. Take the black bit of at the top, slice them open, keep the seeds, chuck in when cooking, or like me, chop them up small with raw shallots, dash of lemon juice (from the bottle, i ain't fussy!) & bit of salt, stir in off you go
yummy & lovely heat!!!! No one said it was gonna be easy!0 -
cayene powder or try and get some ghost chillis online!People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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