Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2008

$310 hot sauce

If money were no object you could spend $310 to buy a 1 ounce bottle of Blair's 16 million reserve chili powder. At 16 million scoville units it is the world's hottest chili powder - made from pure capsicum crystals. From a hotness comparison Tabasco sauce is 1,200 to 1,800 scoville units and a 'deadly' hot sauce is typically rated between 500,000 and 1 million scoville units.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

$210,000 truffle

If money were no object you could try to outbid a Truffle lover from Hong Kong who paid $210,000 for a 750 gram white truffle from Alba in Italy. This was the highest amount ever paid for a truffle. Alba is world-renowned for it's odorous white truffles.