Mundane Thoughts or Comments

[fronobulax]

Tabasco and Frank's use different peppers and taste completely different to me.

I checked the web sites for ingredients before I posted so if the basic pepper is not the same in the basic, original version of both then I need to revisit my reading and searching skills. However it is true that most of what I taste and remember is the pepper so you could be reacting differently. A lot of wine, liquor and beer connoisseurs talk about initial taste impressions and then how something finishes. Since the finish is what lingers for me, that's what I am really comparing.

 

[davismanLV]

The only spicy thing I have is that Thai chili paste. Siracha and Tabasco aren't even in my house. They don't taste good to me. I've lived my whole life without them just fine.

 

[FNG]

I checked the web sites for ingredients before I posted so if the basic pepper is not the same in the basic, original version of both then I need to revisit my reading and searching skills. However it is true that most of what I taste and remember is the pepper so you could be reacting differently. A lot of wine, liquor and beer connoisseurs talk about initial taste impressions and then how something finishes. Since the finish is what lingers for me, that's what I am really comparing.

Franks is closer to Tabasco brand cayenne sauce..which is pretty good. Franks uses cayenne pepper and has garlic, Tabasco uses Tabasco peppers, and just salt and vinegar.

Cayenne Garlic Sauce

TABASCO® Cayenne Garlic Pepper Sauce enhances the flavor of any dish. This hot sauce has a zesty blend of cayenne pepper and aged red pepper mash, infused with savory garlic.

www.tabasco.com

I have regular Tabasco, Chipotle, Cayenne garlic, and Habenero Tabasco sauces in the fridge, along with some Sriracha and Cholula .

 

[Midnight Toker]

I've been making my own hot sauce for close to 10 years. I've gotten pretty consistent w/ it. No written recipe....all by taste and tinker... and all from hot peppers I grow on my side yard every year. (habanero, serrano, jalapeno, cayenne, Hungarian wax, hot red cherry.) I make a big pot of it every late fall. About 5-6 mason jar's worth. I keep 2, the rest I give to friends that refill their own bottles with it. Plus, I give one mason jar to the guys at my local liquor store, as one of the main ingredients is about 3 cups of Jim Beam Red Stag (cherry flavored bourbon). Every year, the liquor store GIVES me a 5th of Red Stag in exchange for some sauce. I'm quite proud of it. It's pretty much, chop up a crapload of peppers, add apple cider vinegar, bring to a simmer, then add spices....let that go for hours. The whole house kind of takes you breath away for a day every time you walk in. Then I press and strain several times to get all the flesh from the peppers, but none of the skins and seeds. Then I add the cherry bourbon. Cook that off for a while. until it's less consume, and more a deep red puree! Then I add a few table spoons of chopped garlic that will float in the finished product...and jar.

It has a sweet cherry liqueur nose and taste right up front....then it quickly settles in and cranks up the thermostat, leaving a hint of that cherry goodness behind! I put it on eggs, chicken, burgers, spaghetti!! You name it!

 

[Teleguy61]

Decades age we received one of those sampler packs with different hot sauces. My son and I went through them and discussed the taste (and eventually finished all of the bottles with a month or two of opening them). I learned three things. First, you have to stay through the burn. Second, if you stay through the burn you can usually identify which peppers are used in a sauce. Finally, red or cayenne pepper based sauces are pretty mundane and often have nothing to offer after the burn. I'll gladly use Franks or Texas Pete or Tabasco in their basic form if nothing else is available but if I want taste and not just burn none of them are my first choice.

(Since an aging digestive tract is less tolerant of peppers than it once was I don't tend to have a preferred brand name now. I just go into an ethnic food store or the ethnic section of an anglo store, read the labels and pick a sauce that has a pepper I remember what it tastes like).

Exactly one of the reasons that Frank's rules.
It will not cause taste bud or digestive death.
There are plenty of other excellent sauces, and we like many of them, but Frank's is always on hand.
Reliable product.

 

[5thumbs]

I've been making my own hot sauce for close to 10 years...

It has a sweet cherry liqueur nose and taste right up front....then it quickly settles in and cranks up the thermostat, leaving a hint of that cherry goodness behind! I put it on eggs, chicken, burgers, spaghetti!! You name it!

Damn, that sounds good! If you ever decide to market it, put me on your list.

 

[gjmalcyon]

I've been making my own hot sauce for close to 10 years. I've gotten pretty consistent w/ it. No written recipe....all by taste and tinker... and all from hot peppers I grow on my side yard every year. (habanero, serrano, jalapeno, cayenne, Hungarian wax, hot red cherry.) I

Three guys from South Jersey did something similar, working out of a garage, creating Hank Sauce and going commercial with it:

Hank Sauce

Hank Sauce is an alternative to boring pepper sauce. It may not burn a hole in your tongue, but don't be surprised when you burn through the bottle!

www.hanksauce.com

At the moment I have 5 different bottles on hand as do my offspring.

Their stuff is pretty good.

Yours sounds better.

 

[Opsimath]

I wonder if the Queen of England has ever eaten barbecued chicken with her fingers and gotten sauce on her face. For some reason I can't imagine that ever happening.

 

[fronobulax]

I wonder if the Queen of England has ever eaten barbecued chicken with her fingers and gotten sauce on her face. For some reason I can't imagine that ever happening.

There was a funny scene on TV. Dad has to take baby girl to club where he is playing music. Band takes a break and dad is eating barbecue at a table with daughter sitting at table in a stroller. Dad is sort of ignoring daughter until he looks up and she has grabbed a nozzle topped bottle of sauce, is shown sucking on it and her face and clothes are lathered in sauce. However, that girl has not grown up to be the Queen of England, yet.

 

[Guildedagain]

Guilded, what model and year is that guitar? Very cool!

walrus

1968 Silvertone that is a Coral Danelectro, but with some mild mods like vintage Gibson bridge/tailpiece, SUNN amp knobs, ugly original PG long gone. The body was made by Kawaii in Japan featuring "English Maple" and a gorgeous Spruce top, a thick veneer, the coolest looking top, that grain, burst is great also. The neck is the last of the Danelectros, Fender like headstock, sealed tuner uprgrade that is not only tolerable but appreciable.

Unplugged, it's throwing sound like there's amp somewhere.

Plugged in, it's bright, the neck p'up is HUGE, Middle position seems to work for everything, Bridge only cuts through like a knife, better than a Strat if you can believe that.

It's got some wicked mid range, really cuts through as a rhythm guitar as well.


The guitar is over the surgery now, and even more fantastic with trimmed and rolled frets, frets gone over finishing with Gorgomyte, the lighter strings intonate better. With 10-46 I was maxing out a couple of the intonation screw, the usual suspects, the G and low E.

I attribute some of the fab tone to the ABR-1 bridge, on heavy brass inserts and thumbwheels.


It's quite modded from stock to some/all purists, the bridge part in particular, which happily made it more affordable, but better IMHO than the stock monstrosity that graced it originally.

How often are you lucky enough to find a guitar that is perfectly modded to your liking, but consequently cost half as much as a nearly not as likable "original" piece. Spruced top grain nicely visible in photo of original.

Another mod I forgot about. A simple brass body reinforcing plate for output jack. Under the jack is a shocking but very convenient neatly cut rectangular hole, so very convenient for spraying out a scratchy pot. I sourced the SUNN amp knobs after a lot of knob deliberation. The import knobs on the guitar when I got it had splines that didn't jive with these, but luckily no one had hammered the ugly little buggers on there to replace the original someone lackluster knobs, that were somewhat obviously pitched at time of conversions, someone definitely fussed over this guitar.

 

[Opsimath]

Sometimes squirrels fall out of trees. I saw it happen once. Must be terribly embarrassing for them.

In a flurry of rapidly moving squirrel parts and snapping tail he ran back up the tree, faster than any squirrel has ever gone. When he got back to his squirrel buddies, who were no doubt laughing their little squirrel butts off, I wonder if he said, "Oh, I meant to do that."

 

[FNG]

I have a squirrel whose back two legs are white. The dog barks like crazy at the squirrels so I go out and chase them off. Except for White Legs...he isn't impressed. I have gotten within jumping distance of the little hoodlum and he ain't budging. He also has figured out how to get on my woodpecker seed cake which has a baffle, which defeats all the normal squirrels. Not sue how he's doing it since I haven't caught him in the act.

 

[Opsimath]

Squirrels are odd little things. My dad used to travel a lot in his motor home and would stay in camper parks. He had the door open and a squirrel came in and wouldn't leave so he looked around for something to give it hoping it would scamper off. He found a candy bar, opened it and broke off a little piece for the squirrel and gave it to him. The squirrel looked at his little piece of candy and looked at the big piece my dad was holding, then put his little piece on the floor and stared at the big piece of candy until my dad gave it to him, and then he left.

 

[PreacherBob]

Yeah they are also ferocious. In the late 60’s when I was 7, there was a squirrel that would often come close. I started laying on the ground and put a pecan on my chest. Eventually he would crawl up and get that pecan and run. Well one day I put that pecan on my chest and whe he got it, he just sat there a few seconds. So I grabbed him to hug him, and he TORE ME UP!. My dad laughed but my mom got mad at me. I never saw that squirrel again. I named him Herbie because the movie “The Love Bug“ had just come out and I loved that little car.

 

[walrus]

Squirrels and chipmunks are a PITA.

walrus

 

[Opsimath]

Yeah they are also ferocious. In the late 60’s when I was 7, there was a squirrel that would often come close. I started laying on the ground and put a pecan on my chest. Eventually he would crawl up and get that pecan and run. Well one day I put that pecan on my chest and whe he got it, he just sat there a few seconds. So I grabbed him to hug him, and he TORE ME UP!. My dad laughed but my mom got mad at me. I never saw that squirrel again. I named him Herbie because the movie “The Love Bug“ had just come out and I loved that little car.

Hmmm. Never hug a squirrel.

 

[mushroom]

I saw a possum fall out of our palm tree once.
He (and I am guessing it was a ’he’ due to its size) casually untangled itself, looked around as it there was nothing to see here, and calmly climbed back up.

 

[Opsimath]

Designated drivers.

Why do they exist? To drive you to drink.

 

[walrus]

Designated drivers.

Why do they exist? To drive you to drink.

Wait, isn't that what in-laws are for?

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

When I was a kid (4-12) we lived in Woodland Hills CA and we had huge trees out by the parkway by the street. The squirrels love to run around and they were fairly tame and used to humans. One day someone saw Charlie (my favorite) and said, "OMG! Why is that squirrel so FAT?" I told them I fed him and he'd get food out of my hands when I sat in the front yard. They said, "What the hell do you feed him?" "Chocolate chips" I replied. "Well no wonder he's so fat!!"

He liked them as much as I did and I always shared with Charlie. I never tried to hug him, though. Thank goodness!!