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Hot sauce is not just heat its taste and we have tried so many other peppers to make a different sauce and just cannot match the taste of scotch bonnets. Reaper verde is an award winning medium hot fire roasted pepper blend hot sauce using serrano, jalapeno, green habanero, cayenne, and the carolina reaper. Yes its a hot sauce but chasing the heat for us misses the point. Our sauce is based on scotch bonnets slow aged to develop flavour not heat. What does Ooft! think of all this? Well we don’t follow fashion. LINK to The man who developed this hybrid Carolina Reaper Our Opinion In Carolina a man hybridised a pepper plant and got an amazingly hot pepper and called it Carolina Reaper and that’s the one that caused all the headaches! In fact it looks a lot like a Trinidad Scorpion, but then they all come from the same stock. Now we move to the technicians, people who breed plants and hybridize them.
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After all the scotch bonnet got its name because it looked like a tam o’ shanter hat. One farmer found a variety growing with a tail and named it Scorpion as that’s what it looked like. Later another farmer found an even hotter and named it 5 pot and later still a hotter named 7 pot. So a 3 pot could be retrieved and used again. If it doesn’t burst then its mostly flavour with a little heat. So to get this, cooks in Trinidad pop a whole pepper into a stew or soup to add flavour. So farmers noticed over time natural hybrids and began to name them, so in Trinidad there was a kind of blistery looking pepper and boy it was hot so they called it 3 pot as it could be used three times “in the pot”. Hot peppers are grown all over the Caribbean the most popular being scotch bonnet which we use in our Ooft! Aged Hot Sauce. In fact as I often tell people on farmers markets if you go into KFC or Pizza Hut in Trinidad they offer you three sauces, ketchup, mustard and hot sauce all in sachets.
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In the Caribbean hot sauce or pepper sauce is used daily on almost all meals. How did we get here? Well starting with Tabasco people have loved hot sauce for over 100 years. Doctors seem to think the pepper constricted the blood to his brain. Extreme hot sauce are we going too far? In a report on the BBC in April a man ate a Carolina Reaper pepper and ended up in hospital with a massive migraine.