[Yo-Yo]

Many years ago I thought I could handle any hot sauce. The hotter, the better. I can drink Tabasco straight like it's ketchup.

Then one day my Wife found Dave's Insanity Sauce, and just a toothpick-full had me on my knees.

I went back to it and tried it several more times over the next couple of weeks, but just a small toothpick of the sauce had my mouth on fire. It wasn't even remotely fun.

Dave's Insanity sauce is only 180,000 Scoville, and this was the beginning of the "Scoville Wars." Now there are sauces that rate in the millions.

Nowadays, I stick with Frank's Red Hot...

[jdsteel]

I went through a phase where mo’ hotter, mo’ better and that included Dave’s Insanity Sauce (and others).

Then the day came when my body told me “ok, that’s enough of that”.

[Red Badger]

When I was young I could eat anything hot, even Thai hot.

But not any more...................

[Slyfox]

I was visiting family in San Francisco and they took me to a very nice Chinese restaurant in downtown. My cousin suggested I try the spicy dish with the Sichuan chili peppers. (Sichuan's are 50,000-75,000 SHU, where a Jalapeno is between 3500 and 8000)

I ate the dish and everything burned, my eyes and nose started running and my cousin said, "Don't put your fingers near your eyes!" Okay, I said.

Once I got past the intense feeling of sticking my mouth in hell, ya know, the dish was pretty tasty. And I ate the whole thing. But then of course, as it went thru me it burned like hell.

I won't have to do that ever again, but I can truly say that I tasted hell and lived to tell about it.

[Don W]

This

is my personal favourite.

[Noumenon]

I like Cholula and Tabasco Chipotle sauce. I can still taste those. Tabasco habanero is great on eggs.