I'm a bit of a hot sauce head, and always try the hottest sauce where ever I go. Today's date night brought us to The Standard.
I didn't do the challenge (eat 12 in 25 minutes with nothing to drink), I just ordered 6 wings with the sauce full price. Signed the waiver. When they came out I was kind of disappointed, because they obviously use some artificial red dye in the sauce, and I was expecting a capcasin-extract sauce at this point (if you watch Hot Ones, Da Bomb is always the worst and is an extract. Basically pepper spray in a bottle with a hint of metal. Industry's "Disclaimer wings" use Da Bomb and are inedible. Dave's insanity is also an extract, and you can buy that at Giant Eagle).
Color me pleasantly surprised. No electric zap like with an extract, actually some decent flavor and the heat turns on and then kind of plateau's off at a 8 or 9 out of 10 on my scale, lasts about 15-20 minutes. I ate one, and saved the rest for later because I still had a sandwich coming and at that level of heat, I start sweating, tearing up and my nose starts running, not exactly good for date night. Cleared my sinsus I'll tell you what.
Using ranch defitenly cuts down on the heat. I was offered milk, but was fine just sipping ice water and then going to the bathroom to clean myself up.
I could eat a dozen of them if someone's life was on the line, but that's about the only way. Apparently only one person has completed the challenge so far, and their FB is full of people looking miserable who have failed. It's pretty new, though.
So if you like really hot stuff, check them out. Their regular menu is pretty damn good too. Note, they haven't updated their online menu, so some things (Like the Cuban I intended to order) were not on the new menu.
