Scorching Ones and Firehouse Subs Launch Spicy New Sandwiches

For individuals who actually love spicy meals, it may be onerous to seek out one thing sizzling sufficient. My mother wants nearly each dish she eats to be fiery, so she’s taken to easily asking for a facet of recent chiles when consuming out to make sure she will add ample warmth.

When you, too, are the type of one who’s on the hunt for a meal that’s simply as sizzling as it’s scrumptious, then Scorching Ones has a shock for you. The celeb speak present and its host, Sean Evans, are teaming up with sandwich chain Firehouse Subs to ship a collaboration that’s simply as spicy because it guarantees to be, that includes two new sandwiches and an excellent spicy pickle that probably the most daring prospects can style by itself.

Obtainable now for a restricted time, the partnership consists of two riffs on certainly one of its traditional subs: the Spicy Dill Hook and Ladder for severe spice lovers, and the Zesty Garlic Hook and Ladder for individuals who desire a smaller hit of warmth.

Like the unique Hook & Ladder sandwich, these will function smoked turkey, honey ham, and melted pepper jack cheese, together with lettuce, tomatoes, and onions. Nonetheless, the Zesty Garlic may even embrace garlic chips, mayo, and Scorching Ones’ The Traditional Garlic Fresno Scorching Sauce, whereas the Spicy Dill will add Firehouse Hero Sauce, and the Final Dab Dill Pickle — a pickle plank marinated in Scorching Ones’ Final Dab Reaper Version sizzling sauce.

The duo of 1 much less spicy sandwich and a notably fiery one was intentional. “We type of created our personal little summation of the new ones gauntlet with it,” Sean Evans tells Meals & Wine. “You may have your actually spicy difficult sub with the spicy dill after which one thing that is somewhat first half there with the zesty garlic.”

This debut marks the primary time Scorching Ones’ Final Dab Reaper Version sizzling sauce has been featured in a menu collaboration. When you’re curious about simply how spicy it may be, Evans says, “That is quantity 10 in our lineup, our hottest sauce. And it is fairly sizzling… So even should you’re an skilled chile head, that is one thing that’ll ring you up somewhat bit.”

This sauce will get its excessive warmth — and its title — from the world’s second-spiciest pepper, the Carolina Reaper. These chiles had been initially developed in South Carolina, the place plant cultivator Ed Currie spent a decade creating the distinctive hybrid of a La Soufrière habanero and a ghost pepper.

On the Scoville scale, a system of measurement used to convey how sizzling a chile is, the Carolina Reaper averages about 1.64 million Scoville Warmth Models (SHU), with a peak SHU ranking of two.2 million. 

This degree of spiciness has solely been crushed by one other of Currie’s creations, Pepper X, which ranks as the most popular chile on the earth with a mean of two.69 million SHUs.

As a degree of reference, jalapeños sometimes fall between 2,000–8,000 SHUs, and habaneros are sometimes rated within the vary of 100,000–350,000 SHUs. These numbers may look massive, however bear in mind we’re speaking 1000’s versus hundreds of thousands. 

Consequently, the Final Dab Reaper Version and the brand new sandwich it’s featured on are for severe spice lovers. However this sauce doesn’t simply deliver the warmth, it additionally provides taste. Evans explains to Meals & Wine that “I feel that there is a actual type of backyard freshness taste profile to that exact pepper.”

Though be warned, he additionally notes that “It is somewhat deceptive. While you chew into it, it will probably virtually have the freshness of an apple that you just’re biting into for the primary time, however then what you will have is on the opposite facet a construct that retains going and retains going and also you type of do not know the place it should cease.”

Combining the new sauce-marinated pickle with the bread, cheese, and meat of the sandwich does assist tamp down somewhat little bit of its hearth. However those that actually wish to check their spice tolerance can ask for a lone pickle on the facet — you simply may wish to have a glass of milk useful for whenever you attempt it.

The Scorching Ones crew, Sean Evans, and Firehouse Subs culinary crew labored collectively carefully to find out what taste profiles would work effectively with every sizzling sauce, to make sure the spicy condiments complement the general sandwich. Evans additionally says that “We selected to companion with [Firehouse Subs] as a result of there’s simply such a pure synergy between us. I can not inform you what number of firefighters over time have informed me tales about how they will do the Scorching Ones problem within the firehouse. They in fact have the new sauce bar famously within the restaurant.”

He’s proper, the sandwich chain does have a sizzling sauce bar with 13 completely different spicy choices to select from, so should you one way or the other determine these new sandwiches want much more warmth, you’ll be able to merely add some your self.