Hi Dave,I have been a fan of your site for quite a while and was wondering if you could give me some help. I love hot food (now there is a surprise for someone regularly visiting your site) and eat fairly serious heat levels. Here is the problem; I sweat way too much. My mouth can be loving what I …
Seeking Everglades Hot Sauce
Dear Dave:Please help us find a missing hot sauce. I’m not a hot sauce person like my wife and friends but, love "Blaze Hot Sauces Everglades Brush Fire" and we can no longer find it..:(. It came from Everglades City, Florida and we used to buy it by the case. We loved it so much we would give bottles of …
Hot Food and Health
Hi Dave,First off, great web site! My question is this: Is there any evidence, clinical or anecdotal, of ill effects from a diet rich in very, very hot food? Some people have told me that eating too much spicy food (what’s too much?) can increase the risk of stomach or other gastrointestinal cancers. Is there any evidence of that, or …
Hottest Pepper?
Hi, I need one name for the hottest pepper. Can you help me?Thank youDavid FacklerDavid:The hottest pepper ever measured is the Red Savina Habanero at 577,000 Scoville Heat Units.This measurement was from a single lab test that was never duplicated. Other tests showed this particular variety averages about 300,000 S.H.U.–Dave
Capsaicinoids determine Heat Sensation
Hi Dave,I have learned a lot from your book, "The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia", which I purchased a few months ago. A subject of great interest to me is to understand exactly how one pepper type is hotter than the next. From your book I have learned that the crystalline alkaloid makeup of all chile peppers is exactly the same with …