Carrot puree! When my wife and I vacation in touristy places, I always search out the little tourist shops selling "hot sauce". I like to sample the hot sauce's for sale by asking for their hottest sauce. They usually have small pieces of bread or small crackers which are drizzled with a few drops of the sauce. It always seems the hottest sauce is a bright orange color and I couldn't figure out why because most hot peppers are not orange. I started looking at the ingredients list and learned the first ingredient listed is usually carrot. They dilute the heat of the peppers with a carrot puree to make the sauce. I can normally detect the flavor of the different peppers, but the intense heat isn't there.
I read an article last week about a guy who was sampling hot sauces and wound up with a ruptured esophagus from retching intensely after eating a hot sauce. He required emergency surgery to repair his esophagus.
Ted
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