Need an opinion from the back of the house. Last night I had this dish (not the exact picture) but upon eating with some of the mole sauce I was hit with 11/10 spicy. I eat lots of spicy foods and this was off the charts the bomb beyond inanity hot. Needed a jug of water and 10-15 mins to recover. Owner took it back and apologized and removed it from the bill. They explained there was some habanero in the mole but it was not intended to be spicy at all and they make a big amount of this sauce at once. My question is how could this big of an error happen? Was it actually sabotage? Were they trying to get me? I felt like I was being pranked.
by donniedumphy
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Super hot mole? That doesn’t sound norm to me. But I’m white so I have no fucking opinion of value. Sorry chef.
idk about all of you but i can smell this photo. I am hungry now
I’ve been out of the industry for a while, but I suppose someone could’ve missed a decimal point in the recipe? Like .5 cups vs 5 cups, or whatever. Just a guess.
You could have gotten the bite with the seeds, maybe you overestimate your spicy tolerance. A lot of people who enjoy spicy foods could tank some habanero without missing a beat. Not that mole SHOULD be that hot. Just saying about your heat tolerance.
Holy mole!
11/10 spicy? Send me some.
Mole can have up to 50 ingredients, and take a couple days to make. It’s usually a savory dish, and a lot of mole most people have had isn’t actual mole, it’s from a sauce base. Actual mole takes a couple days to make, and often is done by eye with oral recipes. They could have fucked up making a mole from scratch because it’s difficult to source all the ingredients fresh and spend two days cooking it invited a lot of time for errors in technique. Likewise they could be using a premade sauce and a brain trust in the back decided that they would jazz it up with a habanero. Also, just like how there’s thousand of kinds of mustard, there’s a lot of kinds of mole for different dishes. You also might over estimate your spice tolerance. I grew up on Mexican food and some regions recipes can make me cry.
The mole incident of 2024. I can’t even talk about it.
Dang it, now I want to eat spicy beef mole. I just had mole made with chicken breast, and the chicken breast kinda ruined it even though the sauce was delicious.
By the looks that type of mole recipe should NOT have habanero, so its deffinitely a fuckup from the kitchen, pretty sure this time of year the main staff goes out on vacation and you tend to receive food from the most inexperienced people of the staff (the newer ones or the bad ones)
99% of Moles are not that spicy.
It probably wasn’t blended well, and you got all the habanero intended for the whole batch in one bite.
Sabotage? Dude, accidents happen. A late addition, missed measurement or someome inexperienced making the sauce are all much more likely.
Not sabotage.
The mole sauce wasnt tasted well enough to check for spiciness yeah sometimes it can come out very spicy. But unless you are serving a straight spicy mole you want to even out for everyone to tolerate it
Just wanted to say that looked so good and man I would have loved to try thst spicy mole
wait yall out here eating moles?
Chilies do vary in intensity from season to season and farm to farm
Adding habanero and expecting it to not be spicy is a CHOICE
Also, moles vary in spice levels, depending on region and ingredients. Some are mild, others are 5 alarm.
If others had it and no issues I doubt it was an issue with measuring, guessing you got a seed or vein that wasn’t fully molcajeted (or blended). Happens with salsas.
I have a good guess!
Used to work at a bar making big batches of my own Bloody Mary mix. What I found is you can take a small recipe and try to scale it up, and most things will work out, but something about spice just compounds itself. If half a pepper was good for 1 gallon that doesn’t mean 3 gallons needs one and a half peppers. I’m guessing someone just got a little over confident in their ability to scale and probably (obviously?) didn’t taste the final product.
braised beef is brilliant
Which mole?
My question is… Where the fuck can I eat that it looks delicious
Sounds like the either the recipe was messed up and/or someone didn’t taste as they went
I think you just git unlucky. You definitely got a seed that made it through the emulsifier from the sounds of it. You’d be surprised how a seed can light yo ass up.
Hanlon’s Razor
I’m Mexican and this is not fuckin Mole. Is that fuckin mash potatoes what the fuck
I can’t think of a mole, specifically a dark mole, that contains habaneros.
Why do you think you might have been targeted? Did you have a dispute with a staff member earlier in the night? Are you a regular that someone in the kitchen might not like?
What is this? A meal for ants?
Should do stuff in grams