As in wine tasting: use white bread (sourdough, french, plain crackers) I've seen shops/stores use pretzels sticks The bread will also cleanse the palate Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com <mailto:sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com> Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 srund@svl.ems.lmco.com <mailto:srund@svl.ems.lmco.com> LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi <http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi> [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 ---------- From: MiltonCHILEHEAD@aol.com [SMTP:MiltonCHILEHEAD@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 12:28 PM To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com Subject: [CH] sauce tasting Our new local fire-eaters club has decided to have a 'home-made' hot sauce contest. What are the best ways of 'tasting' sauces - we're trying to think of something that won't impart any strange flavors on the sauce. We were thinking of just using teaspopns but thought that there might be something better (my choice - turkey slices!) Any help or suggestions (including items that cleanse the palate for the next round) would be greatly appreciated! Steve miltonchilehead@aol.com