🔥 Measuring the Heat of a Retail Fuego Sauce with Food Sense Generation 4 🔥
- martinpeacock13
- 4 days ago
- 1 min read
In my latest test, I walked through the full process of measuring the capsaicin content — and therefore the true heat — of a standard retail hot sauce using the Food Sense Generation 4 system.
🌡 What I measured
A Chipotle-style Fuego hot sauce.
Retail sauces like this are usually intentionally mild — supermarkets avoid very high-Scoville products due to customer safety and complaints.
🧪 How the test works
1. Setup
Food Sense Gen 4 meter
Fresh chili sensor
Mobile app (Bluetooth-connected)
2. Sample preparation
100 µL of sauce
900 µL buffer (1:10 dilution)
Mix and clean pipette
Take 50 µL for analysis
3. Running the test
50 µL added to the sensor
Peaks appear in the app as capsaicin is detected
Data is processed and uploaded automatically to the cloud
📊 The result
484 Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
A very mild, flavour-forward sauce — as expected for a retail product. For comparison, specialty “extreme” sauces can reach tens or hundreds of thousands of SHU (e.g., The Bomb claims 175,000 SHU).
🖥 Cloud dashboard features
Immediate upload of results
Access to raw data (Peaks 1, 2, and 3)
Downloadable certificates of analysis
Exportable datasets for manufacturers and QC teams
✅ Summary
The Food Sense Generation 4 makes capsaicin measurement straightforward:
Simple sample prep
Fast testing
Live phone results + cloud synchronisation
Raw data transparency and reporting tools
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