If you’re not feeling ready to run through the doors of your favorite restaurant just yet, the Northside Yacht Club and seven other Cincinnati chefs are teaming up to deliver an experience dedicated to one thing — the consumption of hot wings.
If you can handle the heat, you can enter the “Yacht Ones” online wing-eating and question-answering competition. Think of it like that one YouTube hot sauce show where that one guy asks celebrities different questions while they eat chicken wings dabbed with hot sauce on an escalating Scoville scale until they get to that one sauce at the end that's so spicy that everyone cries or tries to barf into a bucket or throw milk on their eyeballs.
Chefs from the NSYC, Che, Longfellow, The Pony OTR, Seoul Hot Chicken, Mazunte, Django Western Taco and Moerlein Lager House will be whipping up a brand new hot sauce, each with a heat ranking on a sizzling scale of 1 to 8 (not based on official Scoville units, just like mild to really spicy in numbers).
The chefs were given complete freedom to create their sauce, along with a specific heat ranking.
- 1 will be made by Che chef Mandy Carlos
- 2 will be made by Longfellow chef Casey Hopkins
- 3 will be made by The Pony OTR chef Adri DeFisher
- 4 will be made by Seoul Hot Chicken chef Pedro Rangel
- 5 will be made by Mazunte chef Eduardo Gervacio
- 6 will be made by Django Western Taco chef Josh Campbell
- 7 will be made by Moerlein Lager House chef Miguel Richards
- 8 will be made by Northside Yacht Club chef Austin Tepe
Chef's will be announcing their creations as the week progresses. So far, we know that the No. 7 spicy hot sauce from the Moerlein Lager House will be a black garlic ghost pepper Buffalo sauce.
Patrons of the NSYC will remember Tuesday Trivia with host Justin Schafer, the CityBeat award-winning trivia MC. Schafer has been commissioned to write questions to come with your meal. (These appear to be more like interview questions than trivia — like we initially called them — based on a recent post by the NSYC.)
So what do you need to do to enter the Yacht Ones competition? You’ll put $40 toward 16 wings — eight for you and eight for a friend — with all eight sauces coming in at different heat levels.
Once you and your partner have the wings, all you have to do is take a video of you, or you and your friend eating the wings and answering the questions written by Schafer. You can submit your video on the NSYC’s Instagram page, or by tagging them on Facebook live. The best video will win a $100 gift certificate to Northside Yacht Club and the honor of overcoming the gauntlet of the newest and hottest sauces coming out of Cincinnati.
Vegans and vegetarians need not to worry: You can enter the Yacht Ones challenge, too, with a plate of the house-rubbed cauliflower wings and the same sauces.
To order the Yacht Ones challenge, go online at northsideyachtclub.com or call 513-541-0528 or 513-429-0359. Carry-out is for Friday and Saturday night online with pick-up from the back bar. Pay online.
Northside Yacht Club, 4231 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com.
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