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#1 User is offline   Aptorian 

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 10:50 AM

I've been invited to a chili eating contest.

It's basically spicy food themed event, where various dishes are served that get increasingly more hot. Like dunk your head in a bucket of milk kinds of hot.

On top of that they have an actual chili eating event where they have gotten a hold of Ghost chili and the like. I think the strongest chili is several million scoville's or some sort of craziness.

Friend of mine got offered 500 crowns if he eats a ghost chili. Now he's challenging me to do the same. I've told him to please go fuck himself.

I am wondering, what is the hottest food/chili you have eaten? What is the hottest chili you would willingly eat? I don't think I would eat a Ghost chili for a million crowns.

The past couple of years people really seem to be going crazy with the chili stuff. I can barely suffer through chili in my kebab. The idea of eating some mutant habanero just seems ridiculous to me.

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 10:54 AM

I tried the Aftershock at 8oz in Barnsley. The sauce is mostly extract. Got halfway through and then nearly passed out. I've got Scorpion sauces so I'd probably eat one of those. Ghost chili isn't usually so bad, it's only up to about 900k - 1million scovilles.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:00 AM

I don't eat spicy hot food. Why eat something that causes you pain? Might as well eat ground glass. It's a sure sign of masochism, because it hurts going in, and from what I've heard it hurts just as bad coming out.

Also, spices were used in the middle ages before refrigeration to cover the scent of rancid meat. We no longer have that problem, so why use hot spices?

There is just no reason I can come up with to use that stuff, besides "I was raised with it". :p

To answer the question, the "hottest" thing I have ever eaten and not immediately spat out is peri-peri chips from Nandos.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:08 AM

I love spicy food, and as I live in an area with a lot of asian immigrants I have excellent access to fresh chillies of all kinds.

I think the spiciest meal I've eaten was in Ethiopia. They have a kind of stew there, Vot, that contains a lot of the local curry (berberi). I had aldready been there for a while, and on a trip with stopped at a local eatery for dinner. Some way out of the city, down towards the coast. The vot there was so absurdly spicy my lips started cracking up and began bleeding. I have never encountered anything like that anywhere else. A thai soup I had once came close though.

Cpt Needa - you sadly have no experience of the flavours that chilli provides. Sufficient to say your understanding of what it does to the food and its flavours is severly lacking.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:12 AM

See I will agree about chili being able give something different to the taste experience but it needs to be something that doesn't just overpower everything else and makes you feel like you scolded your mouth. As soon as a I start sweating and my nose begins to run, I know it's time to abandon ship.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:22 AM

View PostMorgoth, on 08 August 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

I love spicy food, and as I live in an area with a lot of asian immigrants I have excellent access to fresh chillies of all kinds. I think the spiciest meal I've eaten was in Ethiopia. They have a kind of stew there, Vot, that contains a lot of the local curry (berberi). I had aldready been there for a while, and on a trip with stopped at a local eatery for dinner. Some way out of the city, down towards the coast. The vot there was so absurdly spicy my lips started cracking up and began bleeding. I have never encountered anything like that anywhere else. A thai soup I had once came close though. Cpt Needa - you sadly have no experience of the flavours that chilli provides. Sufficient to say your understanding of what it does to the food and its flavours is severly lacking.



View PostApt, on 08 August 2016 - 11:12 AM, said:

See I will agree about chili being able give something different to the taste experience but it needs to be something that doesn't just overpower everything else and makes you feel like you scolded your mouth. As soon as a I start sweating and my nose begins to run, I know it's time to abandon ship.


Exactly. Hot spices not only cause a horrible physiological reaction but overwhelm all other tastes. So what is the point?

I prefer to have the option of not having spicy food, so IMHO spices should be "on the side", or you just have a mix of spicy and non-spicy meals. What I hate is when you pay money (generally for someone's special occasion, so you feel like a shit if you don't want to go to their favourite Indian/Thai/Mongolian/Mexican/whatever restaurant) and all you get is a succession of meals with 1 or more chili peppers next to the meal in the menu and you're looking in vain to find something you can stomach ... :p

Anyhoo, different strokes and all that. I'm waiting to see if anyone here has an anecdote that can come close to Homer's Guatemalan Insanity Pepper. :p

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:47 AM

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 11:52 AM

View PostCaptain Needa, on 08 August 2016 - 11:22 AM, said:

View PostMorgoth, on 08 August 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

I love spicy food, and as I live in an area with a lot of asian immigrants I have excellent access to fresh chillies of all kinds. I think the spiciest meal I've eaten was in Ethiopia. They have a kind of stew there, Vot, that contains a lot of the local curry (berberi). I had aldready been there for a while, and on a trip with stopped at a local eatery for dinner. Some way out of the city, down towards the coast. The vot there was so absurdly spicy my lips started cracking up and began bleeding. I have never encountered anything like that anywhere else. A thai soup I had once came close though. Cpt Needa - you sadly have no experience of the flavours that chilli provides. Sufficient to say your understanding of what it does to the food and its flavours is severly lacking.



View PostApt, on 08 August 2016 - 11:12 AM, said:

See I will agree about chili being able give something different to the taste experience but it needs to be something that doesn't just overpower everything else and makes you feel like you scolded your mouth. As soon as a I start sweating and my nose begins to run, I know it's time to abandon ship.


Exactly. Hot spices not only cause a horrible physiological reaction but overwhelm all other tastes. So what is the point?

I prefer to have the option of not having spicy food, so IMHO spices should be "on the side", or you just have a mix of spicy and non-spicy meals. What I hate is when you pay money (generally for someone's special occasion, so you feel like a shit if you don't want to go to their favourite Indian/Thai/Mongolian/Mexican/whatever restaurant) and all you get is a succession of meals with 1 or more chili peppers next to the meal in the menu and you're looking in vain to find something you can stomach ... :p

Anyhoo, different strokes and all that. I'm waiting to see if anyone here has an anecdote that can come close to Homer's Guatemalan Insanity Pepper. :p


I think an important distinction is that over time, people adjust to spiciness and also some people just handle spice better than others.

When I was in high school I could eat the hottest chili served at any given kebab place, now I start crying if it doesn't taste like spicy ketchup.

Still, when you're talking about something that is hundreds of thousands of scovilles or more, we're past normal enjoyment and into crazy masochist rituals.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:20 PM

On one of my first visits to the UK I was offered a chicken tikka vindaloo, extra extra spicy, somewhere on the Manchester curry mile. I'm not embarrassed to say that I sweated. My eyes sweated as well. It took a lot of cucumber raita to cool it down.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:21 PM

People who think spice obscures taste are weepers, and we will ask Sarl "WHAT IS THE RULE?".
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:25 PM

Yeah, it's a myth that spice obliterates your taste. The only thing is that more stuff starts tasting a bit bland if you enjoy spicier food. but in the spicy range there is a whole spectrum of flavours that people who don't like spicy food will never sample, so swings and roundabouts.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:26 PM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 08 August 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

People who think spice obscures taste are weepers, and we will ask Sarl "WHAT IS THE RULE?".


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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:29 PM

Thought that was RISK...
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:30 PM

The hottest, spiciest?

I present to you, THE HOTSAUCE OF DEATH!!

Pepper King Hot Sauce that damn near burned my insides out!
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:37 PM

I've had food hotter than this - https://www.firebox....lli-Vodka/p7377 - but that drink was my worst spice experience.

My mate brought some for New Year celebrations 2014 - never again - if I close my eyes even now I can still experience the taste... it's like drinking fire that lives with you for about a week... grim!

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 12:52 PM

Depends on the food, depends on the spice. In fact calling hot food spicy is ridiculous as there are a number of spices which don't actually make the food hotter.

I don't understand this idiotic trend of trying to eat near volcanic levels of chilli. It will hurt and you will not enjoy any food. Too hot chilli can and will make you sick.

But without chilli and spices a lot of food will simply be bland and unappetising. I mean Hilsa fish in a rich mustard curry with green chilli, or hot mutton chaap curry - you can't eat these things without chillis. Imagine eating Italian without the cheese.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 01:04 PM

View PostApt, on 08 August 2016 - 12:26 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 08 August 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

People who think spice obscures taste are weepers, and we will ask Sarl "WHAT IS THE RULE?".


Never begin a land war in Asia?



I think he means the rule only slightly less well known.
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Posted 08 August 2016 - 01:49 PM

View PostSlow Ben, on 08 August 2016 - 01:04 PM, said:

View PostApt, on 08 August 2016 - 12:26 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 08 August 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

People who think spice obscures taste are weepers, and we will ask Sarl "WHAT IS THE RULE?".


Never begin a land war in Asia?



I think he means the rule only slightly less well known.


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Posted 08 August 2016 - 02:05 PM

I'm not a huge fan of spicy food. Then again, I also love my food plain and don't use catchup/mayo/mustard, and my salad dressing. of choice is grapeseed oil. I also tend not to notice if smth has any salt in it or not. I'm weird like that.

At the same time I can eat garlic raw, and consume high quantities of honey vodka with "spicy" pepper, because that's what I grew up with.

I never "challenged" myself to see what's the hottest thing I can eat. I used to work with Caribbean people for a prolonged period of time, so when I order wings, I usually ask for caribbean jerk, which is like "mild hot" from what I understood, and I don't get any digestive problems from that. But I never went "exploring" to try and find my limits.

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 09:06 PM

Sounds neat, and nobody deserves to eat a series of increasingly hot pepper dishes more than you, Apt. Congrats!
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