We're Approved!!!

[Suzy]

We finally got our USDA stamp for our beef jerky. phew, I need a vacation!!!!
Ordering should commence in approximately 1 month. I hope  ::)

[catman]

Congrats - sounds like a difficult endeavor, anything to do with government  oversite - love those blueyes-like my new haircut?

[Court Jester]

congrats.
and just a side note: i'm a huge fan of free samples.

[Xian_13]

'gratz Suzy


XIII

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Hot is HOT!  Yum!

[Suzy]

Thanks much, appreciate it. We'll work on that Teriyaki.  No Paypal yet, I'll let you know when ordering can start. Still is going to take a few weeks to get the website up and other office stuff too.  Bags are also getting printed. 

[Suzy]

Congrats - sounds like a difficult endeavor, anything to do with government  oversite - love those blueyes-like my new haircut?

Let me guess, by the looks of your avatar you are in the broadway play "CATS".  

[catman]

You discerned that WITHOUT my makeup? 

[Super Dave]

Nice, Suzy!   

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Let me guess, by the looks of your avatar you are in the broadway play "CATS".  

And anyone who's seen the movie "Team America, World Police" would know JUST how disturbing an idea THAT is....

[Burt Munro]

We finally got our USDA stamp for our beef jerky. phew, I need a vacation!!!!

Whoaaaa!!!  Glad I reread that.  When I first glanced at it I thought it said,  "phew, I need a vaccination!!!!"   


Had me wondering what all the USDA approval process involved that you had to get shots once it was over....for food poisoning?  hoof and mouth disease?

Oh, and I am available for organoleptic testing!!  (go ahead, look it up!!)

I are a graduate of an A-pproved Fuud Inspektion Skool!

Have you ever read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?  Story about the meatpacking industry in Chicago in the early 1900's.....acknowledged as the reason why food inspection laws were developed in the USA!!

[Suzy]

You funny guy. I found this on organoleptic.

List of Scoville ratings
Pungency values for any pepper, stated in "Scoville units," are imprecise, due to expected variation within a species—easily by a factor of 10 or more—depending on seed lineage, climate and even soil (this is especially true of habaneros). The inaccuracies described in the measurement methods above also contribute to the imprecision of these values. When interpreting Scoville ratings, this should be kept in mind.

Scoville rating                                  Type of pepper

15,000,000 - 16,000,000                  Pure capsaicin
9,100,000                                         Nordihydrocapsaicin
2,000,000 - 5,300,000                      Standard US Grade pepper spray
855,000 - 1,041,427                         Naga Jolokia
876,000 - 970,000                            Dorset Naga  
350,000 - 577,000                            Red Savina Habanero
100,000 - 350,000                            Habanero Chile  
100,000 - 350,000                            Scotch Bonnet  
100,000 - 200,000                            Jamaican Hot Pepper  
50,000 - 100,000                              Thai Pepper, Malagueta Pepper, Chiltepin Pepper  
30,000 - 50,000                                Cayenne Pepper, Ají pepper  
10,000 - 23,000                                Serrano Pepper  
7,000 - 8,000                                    Tabasco Sauce (Habanero)
5,000 - 10,000                                  Wax Pepper  
2,500 - 8,000                                    Jalapeño Pepper  
2,500 - 5,000                                    Tabasco Sauce (Pepper)
1,500 - 2,500                                    Rocotillo Pepper  
1,000 - 1,500                                    Poblano Pepper
600 - 800                                          Tabasco Sauce (Green Pepper)  
500 - 1000                                        New Mexico pepper  
100 - 500                                          Pimento, Pepperoncini  
0 No heat,                                         Bell Pepper  


So, you wanna test our peppers, YA?   Never knew about this. You did make me look it up. We use Jalapenos, and a secret HOT HOT ingredient.  

I'll have to look up that book, interesting.  We have been put through hoops to get this done. But our FDA Inspector is very cool. He rides a Harley and took some home with him.