Fiery Hot Ice Cream Lives Up To 'Cold Sweat' Name

The Indy Channel ^ | July 5, 2006 | AP

[Abathar]

ANGIER, N.C. -- Cold Sweat ice cream is hot. In fact, it's so hot customers at Sunni Sky's ice cream shop in Angier, N.C., have to sign a waiver stating that they’ve been warned.

Sunni Sky's makes its Cold Sweat-flavor treats with milk, sugar, three kinds of pepper and two kinds of hot sauce. It's so spicy that just touching it makes your fingers feel hot, according to the News and Observer.

The waiver for the fiery mixture has dozens of signatures. Pregnant women and people with health problems are not supposed to eat it. Anyone younger than 18 needs the consent of a guardian.

The shop's owner, Scott Wilson, started out experimenting with jalapenos in vanilla ice cream to appeal to Hispanic customers. That didn't catch on, but Wilson kept going and worked his way up to Cold Sweat.

The final version of the fiery treat contains a blend of Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce and Blair's Megadeath Hot Sauce, a secret ingredient, chili peppers, habaneros and Thai chilis.

Among the first to try Cold Sweat was Justin Smith, a woodworker. The 22-year-old went to the restroom and vomited after a spoonful. But, he's had about five samples since, and wants to go for the record of 14 ounces in a sitting.

[Abathar]

Ye Gads!! I have a bottle of Daves Insanity Sauce in my desk, I use a toothpick to get the required amount out to spice something up. Who in their right mind would ever pay to eat something like this ?!?!?

[AppyPappy]

The world is full of idiots

[JimSEA]

Perhaps the same people who, in Thailand, eat fish ice cream. Yummmm!

[Abathar]

If this stuff was available back when I was younger every fraternity house in the state would have a gallon or two on hand for those "special occasions"...

[Lx]

You've got that right. My stepdaughter gave me some and being the idiot that I am, I poured a bunch on my scrambled eggs and proceeded to eat the whole thing. That's the last time I do that.

[Paperdoll]

Icey-hot?

Sounds like something John sKerry would go for!

[Hegemony Cricket]

Yikes! I like hot & spicy, but I'm not crazy about stuff that is gratuitously hot with no regard for flavor.

[ClearCase_guy]

The 22-year-old went to the restroom and vomited after a spoonful.

He throwed up real good!

[70times7]

If you eat ice cream in Angier and and then not pay for it is that a hate crime?

[fivecatsandadog]

popular with bulemics?

[Kirkwood]

Chili-flavored ice cream is great, but clearly this is not about making good ice cream, but free publicity.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"It's so spicy that just touching it makes your fingers feel hot, ..."

New pain rub??? Capsaicin (derived from peppers) has also shown promise in prostate cancer treatment. Now that's coooolll.

[Abathar]

Had a horse that was a "cribber" once, liked to chew her way right out of the stall. I coated the top of the door with the stuff and walked away, she just about kicked the back of the stall out that day, oh well, live and learn...

[sageb1]

Another extreme sport - eating.

[djf]

I think it has also been used successfully in women with endometriosis, and a few other various female woes.

[Abathar]

If you have never had that stuff all I can say is that it burns going in and just as bad coming out, gives a whole new meaning to the word "Firestones".

[reagan_fanatic]

Why not just swallow some Draino? Same effect, and it's probably cheaper to boot.

[Froufrou]

Try the Megadeath sauce. Made in NOLA, I believe. Ever have jalapeno jelly? Great stuff, but it's best to slather on some cream cheese first...

[Rte66]

The late "Jalapeño Sam" Lewis of San Angelo, TX, did jalapeño ice cream first - a long time ago. It was good - I liked it. He also made jalapeño lollipops which are good, and most people like regular old jalapeño jelly.

This guy's "Cold Sweat" would be too hot for me - I can't do habañeros - but other than that, I bet the taste is probably pretty good. My favorite chocolate cake was a slice I had in a restaurant in Austin that was made with red chiles.

Peppers are very good for us, too!

[Yo-Yo]

I'll second that. I love hot sauces, but Dave's Insanity Sauce is just that, Insanely hot. I think there are milder Mace sprays out there.

[Rte66]

Haha - I just said that about jalapeño jelly! I should give y'all my recipe, as my homemade is my favorite. I'll see if I can find it.

[70times7]

I have heard that giving some hyperactive kids stimulants will calm them.

Do you suppose if I applied this to my wife's tongue...?

[fivecatsandadog]

Yup. I ate candied ginger one time for nausea. Holy cow.

[Abathar]

I tried some stuff a couple of years ago that was just utterly insane, but I can't think of the name of it. In all honesty you could rinse your mouth out with Tabasco sauce to try and cut the burn it was so hot.

[Froufrou]

Oooh, I've never made jelly...is yours green? I hope you find the recipe, as it's hard to find even here in Texas!

[Ingtar]

Peppers are very good for us, too!

And my doctor still won't believe me when I say that I eat hot peppery foods to settle my reflux. LOL - it works quite well.

[djf]

Dunno. Give it a try!

[Froufrou]

Once you've had something like that, it's easier to appreciate a really good hot sauce. One that's hot, yes, but still has flavor.

[Rte66]

Yup, it's green. For Christmas, when I make it for friends, I float a few pieces of red bell pepper in the top of it. I'm looking.

[Abathar]

I agree, chipolte is good and some of the green pepper sauces are good also, but I don't get into that gratuitous heat like some people do. Habaneros are totally out of my ability to handle unless they are really well blended with something else, and by then you can't taste them anyway.

[evets]

Dave's makes Blair's taste like Tabasco.

[70times7]

I used to frequent a place in Blair Merlin (if you don't know, you don't need to ask) called CR Wings. They had about 12 levels of hot - the top two were rough but very good; I enjoyed 'em often – they made their hottest sauces with a habañero extract. What they didn't post on the menu was that there was one additional level, and it was quite a jump up. Tried them one day. The guy asked me about four times if I really really wanted to try the "hottest" – he said quite a few had ordered them and quit after 1 or 2 wings. I did it, and ate all twelve. They were very good but brutal hot. Wouldn’t do it again - it was just too hot to enhance flavor (hot aficionados know) but I liked it once. Feel the burn, baby!

[Froufrou]

I agree about habaneros. Gratuitous heat is like gratuitous horsepower. So what if you have a $150,000 Lambourgini? You can't open it up unless you live on the Autobahn or a race track. What's the point?

[ecurbh]

Yikes! Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer eats the chili pepper and starts hallucinating.

[Froufrou]

The shop's owner, Scott Wilson, started out experimenting with jalapenos in vanilla ice cream to appeal to Hispanic customers.

That's actually pretty racist, isn't it?

[Abathar]

LOL I thought of that episode when I posted this, thinking I would have to coat my tongue in wax like Homer did to get it down.

The bigger problem is what goes in must come out, THATS when you can separate the real men from the boys. Real men don't scream and cry the next morning....

[Rte66]

I'm no longer in "hot" form, as I haven't "worked out" lately. My ex ate hot and when I did it regularly, I could eat heat with the mid-level best of them, lol. Now that I'm out of shape, I can't do it anymore.

I am a big pepper promoter, however. Former competition chili cook, long ago. That's where the idea of jalapeño ice cream came from - chili cookoffs.

We would always tell new judges that to counteract the heat, you needed dairy, not water or even beer. Ice cream was best - after tasting the chilis, you needed to eat some ice cream ... and umm, a little later, you would want to yell, "Come on, ice cream!" when attending to delicate "afterburn" matters.

[SAJ]

True, but not applicable here. Dave's Insanity and Megadeath are both made with redistilled habanero essence. The chemical in question is oleoresin capsicum, a relative of capsaicin, but way higher in Scoville units.

Just drink a big glass of fresh buttermilk with this goofy ice cream, and you'll be fine. Both capsaicin and oleoresin capsicum, while not soluble in water and only mildly soluble in alcohol, are readily soluble in fat.

[Abathar]

I don't know, its more like believing in a stereotype I think. Not all Mexicans can handle spicy foods, most would just laugh at the guy for trying to appeal to them while they order the chunky monkey or pistachio nut crunch.

[evets]

Capsaicin may prevent prostate cancer.

[70times7]

Gratuitous heat is like gratuitous horsepower. So what if you have a $150,000 Lambourgini? You can't open it up unless you live on the Autobahn or a race track. What's the point?

I don't live near a racetrack or the autobahn, and I can open up my hot sauce any time I want.

I am rather confident that you enjoy something that I can't relate to - it must be gratuitous then, right? ;>)

[discostu]

I would. I consider spicy foods one of the last refuges of the hunter instinct in modern over civilized man, the return of food that fights back.

[Xenalyte]

I would SO try this.

[Drawsing]

Had a horse that was a "cribber" once, liked to chew her way right out of the stall.

There's a memory for you. My first job as a 14 year old was stableboy. There were several horses in that group that the owner called "stumpsuckers". They would grab the top of the stable door, bite it and inhale mightily. He would coat the wood with creosote to try and stop them.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

If you've never made jelly, it is really quite easy ... just a little time consuming. I learned from recipes on the net, but had my best results following the recipes given on the instructions inside a package of Sure-Jell. Try doing a Yahoo search for "pepper jelly recipe" and you will find many, utilizing a wide range of pepper variaties.

Unlike typical fruit jellies, pepper jelly usually gets an intense red or green color using a little food coloring.

[Froufrou]

The food in Mexico isn't hot, anyway. Tamales are likely to have raisins. And there's no hot sauce on the table. It's a stereotype alright, but of Texans more than Mexicans! What most people think is Mexican food is really Tex-Mex.

[Froufrou]

Thank you, from another dumb blonde! ;o)

[discostu]

Jalapeno jelly is just a training exercise preparing you for the true glory of habanero jelly. One of the folks at the farmer's market near me makes pineapple habanero jelly, hot and sour, good cure for clogged sinuses.

[Xenalyte]

Thank me later. ;)

The jalapeno jelly is great. The onion-garlic pepper jelly is amazing. The jalapeno-mustard jelly has to be tasted to be believed.

[Lazamataz]

I feel that Blairs makes Dave's taste like milk.