Spicy food contest

[Pretty Flaco]

So I challenged my friend to a spicy food eating contest...
I can barely handle taco bell fire sauce! How can I train to be able to endure chili peppers and real spicy shit?!

[gorillafuck]

Taco bell fire sauce is great, but it is not very hot at all.

Try eating a spicy pepper, and then once the spicy flavor in your mouth dies down, eat another one. Do this until you are used to the flavor or you can bear it more easily. Also, a great thing to cool your mouth off with is yogurt if it is too hot.

[leftace53]

There is no training required. Just go in there, and chow down on the chili peppers like communism depends on it. Don't let them see the tears of heartburn, swallow your pride and the spicy stuff. :thumbup1:

[Pretty Flaco]

I can survive a heart attack! I'll go buy some peppers and jalapenos and get started...

[leftace53]

jump right to them pure capscaisins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale) (scroll down on link)

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Drink Habanero Sauce until the nerves in your mouth commit suicide. My bro does this so often he's close to only being able to feel the heat of weapons grade capsaicinoids.

[Sasha]

and to quote rowan atkinson; "tomorow your ass will look like you have been sitting on the japanese war flag"

[S.Artesian]

Train on Indian vindaloo.

[Chambered Word]

Drink Habanero Sauce until the nerves in your mouth commit suicide. My bro does this so often he's close to only being able to feel the heat of weapons grade capsaicinoids.

I bought some of that just today, can't wait to have some on food. :thumbup1:

[kalu]

Eat dishes that are spicy and tasty, and then raise the spice level a little bit. Repeat. Honestly, I can't imagine training for something like this by just eating peppers, blah. But I do love spicy food. :)

Oh, and I concur, Habanero sauce is great. Don't waste your time training with Tabasco or even Sriracha!

[Pavlov's House Party]

So I challenged my friend to a spicy food eating contest...
I can barely handle taco bell fire sauce! How can I train to be able to endure chili peppers and real spicy shit?!

lol you stand no chance if taco bell ruins you.

i believe indian food (primarily vindaloo) and really hot chicken wings will get you there, but it's not going to happen overnight. i have a love for food that makes my brow seat, and have probably ruined my mouth and stomach in the process, i'm at the point where the hottest pub wings seem kind of mild to me.

this pub near my house makes "rim reaper" chicken wings where the sauce is made from the world's hottest pepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhut_Jolokia_pepper)and if you can eat 12 of them you get your name on a plaque and a free tshirt, i'm going to have at it soon.

[Chambered Word]

lol you stand no chance if taco bell ruins you.

i believe indian food (primarily vindaloo) and really hot chicken wings will get you there, but it's not going to happen overnight. i have a love for food that makes my brow seat, and have probably ruined my mouth and stomach in the process, i'm at the point where the hottest pub wings seem kind of mild to me.

this pub near my house makes "rim reaper" chicken wings where the sauce is made from the world's hottest pepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhut_Jolokia_pepper)and if you can eat 12 of them you get your name on a plaque and a free tshirt, i'm going to have at it soon.


In 2007, Guinness World Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records) certified the Bhut Jolokia as the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce).

Shit. :blink:

Haha, this reminds me of that time when my sister was playing in the garden when she was about 6 years old. She touched some chillis my mother had been growing in the garden and then rubbed her eyes with her hands. Nasty.

[Pretty Flaco]

The fire sauce was just an exaggeration.
So far I've been working with Jalapenos and habanero salsa with tortilla chips.

I will succeed!
Except for the fact that the majority of foods my friend eats are spicy...

[chegitz guevara]

I eat molten lava on my chicken wings.

[Quail]

Start adding cayenne pepper to all your food sauces. I put it in everything.

[Invincible Summer]

I find Thai food to be waayyyyy spicier than Indian. Every time I go for Thai, I have to ask for very mild, and then it's still a bit spicy.

But if even Taco Bell sauce is too much for you then I think you're doomed. That shit's like water.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

jump right to them pure capscaisins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale) (scroll down on link)
I feel like a pussy after looking at that scale - Tabasco used to seem really spicy to me! Jalepeno peppers even more so.

[leftace53]

I feel like a pussy after looking at that scale - Tabasco used to seem really spicy to me! Jalepeno peppers even more so.
:lol::lol: I find taco bell sauce to be spice, even bell peppers have a tinge of spicyness for me. I can handle spicyness in chicken wings though :thumbup1:

[Dr Mindbender]

jalapenos are too mild.

What you want is a phall curry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaal)

[S.Artesian]

I find Thai food to be waayyyyy spicier than Indian. Every time I go for Thai, I have to ask for very mild, and then it's still a bit spicy.

But if even Taco Bell sauce is too much for you then I think you're doomed. That shit's like water.

Thai food is great, and can be quite spicy, good enough to get a real high endorphin flow going-- but as for Indian food-- depends where you've been getting your Indian food-- how it's prepared-- for ethnic east Indians or for the more general public.

Indian Indian food at high spice I think tops Thai-- although both can blister your lips-- literally.

I remember first time I ate Thai whole crispy fish and with the stupidity and bravado of youth ignored my girlfriend's warning to "don't eat those skinny red peppers."

Thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. Literally blistered my lips. I looked like Angelina Jolie with a collagen injection. You know what worked to reduce the swelling [and pain]? Wet tea bags. Placed the whole wet bags on my lips for a couple of hours. Her remedy. She was a great girlfriend.

Thanks for the info on Phall curry. Think I had it once years ago in London-- on a dare by a British friend. Got less than 2 bites into it and conceded defeat. Didn't know what it was called. Watching me pretending to not be suffering had him giggling like a schoolboy on his first date. I was not, needless to say, giggling.

Yeah scotch bonnets are, literally, the bomb. Thermonuclear fruit.

[S.Artesian]

lol you stand no chance if taco bell ruins you.

i believe indian food (primarily vindaloo) and really hot chicken wings will get you there, but it's not going to happen overnight. i have a love for food that makes my brow seat, and have probably ruined my mouth and stomach in the process, i'm at the point where the hottest pub wings seem kind of mild to me.

this pub near my house makes "rim reaper" chicken wings where the sauce is made from the world's hottest pepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhut_Jolokia_pepper)and if you can eat 12 of them you get your name on a plaque and a free tshirt, i'm going to have at it soon.

Whom should we notify in case of emergency?

[Vanguard1917]

Some West Indian man i know (a friend's dad) apparently backs Jamaican hot sauce from the bottle when he's drunk, and i know a Turk who eats raw Scotch Bonnets* like they're sweet bell peppers (well, almost). Crazy, barbaric foreigners.


* one of the hottest chilies on the Scoville scale, which burns your mouth even if it comes into contact with the knife which you've used to chop the thing.

[Pavlov's House Party]

Whom should we notify in case of emergency?

no one. i will die a martyr.

[mollymae]

Are you disqualified if you throw up?

[gorillafuck]

But if even Taco Bell sauce is too much for you then I think you're doomed. That shit's like water.
It's not spicy in the least but to give credit where credit is due, taco bell sauce is damn good.


The fire sauce was just an exaggeration.
So far I've been working with Jalapenos and habanero salsa with tortilla chips.
Most salsa isn't that hot. There's a decent chance you're gonna get wrecked.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Thai food is great. Lots of taste, and beyond hot. I would say their Mild is the american Hot. I think a lot of spicy american food is too focused on being hot/spicy, and needs more flavor.

[Quail]

Are you disqualified if you throw up?
I think throwing up would probably make it worse. Twice the burn.

[Pavlov's House Party]

i don't think ive ever seen someone physically been stopped by eating spicy food (like vomiting), it's more of a mental thing. im not sure if you'd throw up, unless the food is really acidic.

protip: don't drink water to cool down your mouth, it just makes it worse. keep a pint of milk on hand:thumbup1:

[praxis1966]

I remember first time I ate Thai whole crispy fish and with the stupidity and bravado of youth ignored my girlfriend's warning to "don't eat those skinny red peppers."

Thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. Literally blistered my lips. I looked like Angelina Jolie with a collagen injection. You know what worked to reduce the swelling [and pain]? Wet tea bags. Placed the whole wet bags on my lips for a couple of hours.

Huhuh You tea bagged yourself. Anyway, love the spicy shit. One of my favorite go to hot sauces is El Yucateca XXXtra Hot sauce, although just about anything in Blair's line of sauces is better when I can get my hands on it (usually have to go to a specialty shop for that stuff, though). I've had some pretty effin' hot salsas in my time, but most of those I made myself with habaneros or got in a specialty shop as well.

As an aside, to echo the sentiments of others, Taco Bell Fire sauce probably would have been spicy when I was like 5.

[S.Artesian]

Huhuh You tea bagged yourself. Anyway, love the spicy shit. One of my favorite go to hot sauces is El Yucateca XXXtra Hot sauce, although just about anything in Blair's line of sauces is better when I can get my hands on it (usually have to go to a specialty shop for that stuff, though). I've had some pretty effin' hot salsas in my time, but most of those I made myself with habaneros or got in a specialty shop as well.

As an aside, to echo the sentiments of others, Taco Bell Fire sauce probably would have been spicy when I was like 5.


Hell yes, probably one of the few times real teabags have been used in teabagging. If my lips hadn't been so sensitive, I would have kissed her ass for recommending, and applying, the teabags. After the pain subsided, I did kiss her ass.

[Achara]

Some Thai food can be very spicy. :thumbup1:

[RedStarOverChina]

A taste of some authentic Szechuan food will shut you all up :P

And you thought Thai and Indian food were spicy? Pffff.

[leftace53]

Just wanted to say, I ate taco bell yesterday with mild sauce. I had to wipe some off my taco because I accidentally put too much and it got super spicy.

[praxis1966]

A taste of some authentic Szechuan food will shut you all up :P

And you thought Thai and Indian food were spicy? Pffff.

If only that I could actually find an authentic Szechuan joint around here...

To relate an anecdote about how hot I'm really capable of tolerating:

I once made a batch of salsa ranchero that was designed for my own consumption and not that of anybody else. I actually fire roasted three habeñeros and included them, unseeded and vein intact, in a recipe that produced two cups of salsa. The next day a buddy of mine came over and we started drinking as was our wont and before long he gets hungry. So he creeps to the fridge, discovers my salsa and comes back with it and a bag of tortilla chips in hand. "Be careful," I say, "That shit's pretty hot." "Not really," he says after having shoveled about three chip loads down his gullet, "It's pretty good actually." He then proceeded to cram three or four more heavily loaded chips down his throat rapid fire style before it hits him.

"Motherfuckinsonofa*****assshitholinwhorecocksuckin asshole!!!!" he screams, pounds what was left of his beer and makes for the kitchen where he proceeds to pop the lid on a gallon of milk and drinks about a fourth of the brand new jug all at once. "I told you that shit was hot, but you didn't wanna listen, dumbass," I say. "Yeah, but you didn't say how hot you fuckin' piece of shit," he complains, "it took a minute and then all of a sudden it was like I was being stabbed with knives repeatedly starting at the tip of my tongue and all the way down the inside of my throat and into my stomach." Meanwhile, I'm laughing at him the whole time and casually eating the salsa responsible for all his misery.

EDIT: And keep in mind my buddy is a guy who's a man's man as they say, loves to shoot shit, rides motorcycles, takes his Jeep off-roading, knows how to fix or build damned near anything, and he's about 6'4" and 350 lbs...

[RedStarOverChina]

There's ONE genuine Szechuan restaurant in Toronto---And I have not heard of anything that resembles Szechuan food in the States.

Which almost makes me proud of being (sort of) Canadian.

[praxis1966]

There's ONE genuine Szechuan restaurant in Toronto---And I have not heard of anything that resembles Szechuan food in the States.

Which almost makes me proud of being (sort of) Canadian.

There's actually a bunch of supposedly authentic Szechuan in NYC and LA, although I've yet to find it here in my little corner of Cali. I'm going to check out this place in Oakland's Chinatown tonight, though. If it turns out the place is authentic and my girlfriend [who hates spicy food] wants to kill me for dragging her there, I'm blaming you for putting ideas in my head. I should say, btw, that I'm sure there are plenty of great joints in San Francisco (you know, being that it has the oldest and supposedly largest Chinatown in North America) which serve the real deal, I'm just too damned lazy to cross any of those bridges to eat at them.