Wednesday, March 5, 2014

It's how hot?

     As I mentioned yesterday some of the spicy offerings at the Fiery Foods Festival are sadistically hot.  Each year there is a competition at the festival to judge both flavor and heat.  Awards, called Scovies, were given in several categories, in honor of the originator of the Scoville heat index, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville who devised the scale in 1912.  While not extremely accurate it was the first of its kind to measure the amount of capsaicin present in peppers.  Today a more precise index of heat is the HPLC, or High Performance Liquid Chromatography.


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     This year some of those winning the coveted award included:

Barbecue Sauce:  Smacker's Smack Me Hard Hot Smackin' Sauce
Condiments: Citrus Habanero Olive Oil
Fresh Salsa: Garden Fresh Gourmet: Five Pepper Salsa
Specialty Chile Hot Sauce: Palo Alto Fire Fighters Habanero Pepper Sauce
Precooked Packaged Meats: Panty Raid
Wing Sauce: Razbanero  
And the Grand Prize Winner: Lusty Monk Original Sin Mustard
                                

     But I'm wondering if there was a category for this entry:



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