{"id":209,"date":"2008-08-23T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-12-27T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:02:26","slug":"day-66-bushman%e2%80%99s-hot-az-hell-hot-sauce-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Day 66: Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell Hot Sauce Send!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intermixed with all the bouldering projects out on the rocks, another major project that Paul and Mike have been sessioning together over the last week is the small bottle of deadly hot sauce that Mike purchased at the Clanwilliam grocery store: Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell, HOT12<\/em>. This innocent-looking little bottle has proven to be one of the boys\u2019 hardest projects of the trip. An 8 day epic. They\u2019d been hitting it hard, working the bottle pour by pour, sip by sip, with no rest days. <\/p>\n

After the first day\u2019s session, it was readily apparent that this burly little red-hot fighter wouldn\u2019t go down easily. A homegrown Cape Town recipe, rated a \u201c12\u201d on the 0-10 Hotness Scale, Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell <\/em> is not for the faint at heart (as depicted by the sketch on the label: a half-naked, bicep-bulging bushman with hunting bow drawn, ready to release his chili-pepper-speared arrow into his next beta-spraying victim). As Paul and Mike put in their first burns on the bottle, raving about the stellar taste, Raquel decided to give it a few go\u2019s herself. A southwest native with tastebuds honed for this kind of torture, Raquel was absolutely devastated after her first attempt. She got totally shut down. Sadly, she realized this project was out of her league and had to leave the crankin\u2019 to the boys.<\/p>\n

And so it was on. The Boys versus The Bushman\u2019s. Night after night, the boys burled their way through the bottle, sweating and swearing as they slowly inched toward completion. During each night\u2019s session they would discover a new key technique that would get them closer to the send. The first key they figured out was to eat a few bites of the evening\u2019s dinner *before* applying the sauce, to properly warm-up the tastebuds and reduce the risk of flash pump. The next breakthrough they learned was to administer the sauce through the use of \u201cdipping ponds,\u201d thus cutting the portions into smaller, more manageable moves, versus trying to tackle the whole gulp at once. And finally, Paul surprised us all by busting out an amazing link mid-week by means of ending his meal with a giant glass of milk. Mike (also a southwest native and much more of a hot sauce traditionalist than Pittsburgh-born Paul) taunted Paul for this approach, claiming it as \u201cun-pure\u201d style. Paul just brushed this off as mere jealousy of his amazing sporty power. Stupid trad\u2019ies.<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely though, the boys pressed on together. Indeed, there were a couple of nights when we\u2019d all finish dinner with a feeling of dread, staring intently at the half finished bottle, desperately worried that Mike and Raquel\u2019s short stay here wouldn\u2019t be enough time to pull off the send. But our worries soon vanished around Day #6. \u201cThis bottle is GOIN\u2019 DOWN!\u201d And they were right.<\/p>\n

Finally, on Day #8, the send was inevitable. Over a dinner of soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, lit by candlelight and toasted with yummy glasses of Western Cape red wine, the last few drops of the Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell <\/em> went down, smooth as butter. The bottle was at last empty. Woohoo! Way to go boys. Congratulations on your hardest Rocklands send to date.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ll see if they\u2019ve got the nerve to up the ante: Bushman\u2019s Revenge, HOT14! This product is EXTREMELY HOT!!! Keep out of reach of children. Avoid skin contact. <\/em> Watch out.<\/p>\n

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\nPaul sweatin\u2019 out Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell, HOT12<\/em> <\/p>\n

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\nMike working the final moves of Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell, HOT12<\/em> <\/p>\n

The final sequence to Mike\u2019s send of Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell, HOT12<\/em> :<\/p>\n

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Intermixed with all the bouldering projects out on the rocks, another major project that Paul and Mike have been sessioning together over the last week is the small bottle of deadly hot sauce that Mike purchased at the Clanwilliam grocery store: Bushman\u2019s Hot Az Hell, HOT12. This innocent-looking little bottle has proven to be one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}