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[jonahfinn]

So I've always thought I could handle spicy food, being able to consume habaneros with a fair amount of ease.
but then I stumbled upon the Trinidad Scorpions, a variety of chilli which has two strains that is the current and former world record holder for most piquant pepper.

Trinidad Scorpion (Morouga) being at #1 as of
Trinidad Scorpion (Butch T) at #2

I have yet to eat the fruit itself as my plants are still are only a few weeks old, but this site is the one that got me started wanting to consume higher levels of chilli.

thechillifactory.com, their sauces are made from fresh chilli which makes it taste that much more potent

watch this video for an idea of how hot the #2 chilli can be



oh and for those of you who aren't aware, the piquancy of chilli is measured by scoville units (http://en.wikipedia..../Scoville_scale)

The highest I've gone on the scoville scale is 15 million and boy does it burn. My stomach was in pain for hours.


Can any of you handle your heat?

[Nymh]

Hell yes

The hottest I have had is the Naga Jolokia (ghost peppers). I have some friends that grow them so I have had a couple. I usually just use hot sauces made from them, or if I can't get that I will settle for habanero (ugh). I havent had scorpion peppers yet, I will need to try them!

Also - damn that white chick was a badass

[Sage]

Never heard of scorpions, I've always heard the ghost pepper's the record holder. But then, my wussy mouth can barely handle tabasco.

[Rocket]

That was painful watching them eat the peppers, for me I can hardly stand mild hot sauce, my mouth is such a pussy.

[Adam]

As much as I love spicy food there's no way I could handle a scorpion pepper. I can hardly eat the Buffalo Wild Wings blazing wings x.x

[luvsmyncis]

That was painful watching them eat the peppers, for me I can hardly stand mild hot sauce, my mouth is such a pussy.

Great. Now everyone wants to put their dick in your mouth.

I thought this was a Red Hot Chili Pepper's fanclub thread. Man. I can't eat spicy food. It makes brown lava erupt from my butthole.

[Jewbert]

I love spicy food, but nothing that is -extremely- spicy. I can't enjoy food if it makes my mouth hurt from being overly spicy.
I think I had HALF of a ghost pepper peanut, and that was enough for me. It leaves like, a burny spot on your tongue. No thanks.

What I DO love, love love, is some boiled crawfish that is seasoned just right. Not too spicy, not too mild. The corn is my next favorite part of a crawfish boil. Then the potatoes. Oh god I want some now. >__<

[Strategist]

and then there was this cracker of a video Starring our very own ToxicS

[Georgina]

Ha good old Tox!!

I like spicy food, but I don't feel the need to test how much pain I can take by eating raw chillies. Here in the UK we have an affinity with Indian food and my local does a "chicken delight" Its like their hottest curry, and its bloody lovely

[ToxicS]

and then there was this cracker of a video Starring our very own ToxicS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rVI5oLUKwI

Awesome Strategist, I'm glad you posted it

also:

[Pilot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9BVX2Aalc

This is the video I think about every time potent chilli is mentioned, I nearly died when I first watched that

[ToxicS]

This is the video I think about every time potent chilli is mentioned, I nearly died when I first watched that

This video is insane; I watched the extended version. Also, does anyone notice how awesome this new version of IPB is; how it makes a much bigger youtube picture than before? Lovin it.

[luvsmyncis]

Starring our very own ToxicS

Let's be real... his obnoxiously patterned shirt is the REAL star of that video.

[Norava]

Awesome Strategist, I'm glad you posted it

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9BVX2Aalc

I could not stop laughing.

And I don't eat anything hotter than Franks Red Hot. Or Louisiana hot sauce since they taste the same.

[Steve]

I get excited over hotsauces.
I got Blair's the other day, 2nd hottest sauce he makes.
It's amazing.
Brutal, but amazing <3

[Kat]

I love spicy food! I really love hot southern chili with rice. I really prefer hotter spices than peppers, though.
The hottest pepper I ever had was a ghost pepper, holllyyyy fucking shit I thought I was gonna die
and later I learned why they call them ghost peppers...

[Kuragehime]

I've grown up with spicy foods so I'd like to think my heat-tolerance is pretty high. I'm not sure if I would just eat a whole pepper though... I feel like I could do it if it was cooked into something. My favourite spicy foods are Korean stews (soon du bu chigae!), Jamaican jerk chicken, Buffalo wings, and that Sichuan chili oil and peppercorn dish with fish that numbs your tongue. Love 'em all!

[Aethaeran]

I love spicy food. Don't think I've ever eaten anything quite like one of these peppers though, seems like too much of a good thing.

Oh also, I won't touch anything with tabasco peppers in it.
My parents would put Tabasco sauce on my thumb when I was a child to detour me from sticking it in my mouth.

Oh the inhumanity.

[Steve]

I love spicy food. Don't think I've ever eaten anything quite like one of these peppers though, seems like too much of a good thing.

Oh also, I won't touch anything with tabasco peppers in it.
My parents would put Tabasco sauce on my thumb when I was a child to detour me from sticking it in my mouth.

Oh the inhumanity.

You think those are spicy, I can't get enough of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habenero

[Aethaeran]

It's not that the tobasco peppers are too hot. I just have terrible repressed memories of the exact flavour. It makes me want to gag just thinking about it. Let alone tasting it.

[Aard]

I like Frank's but I run through about a Costco bottle every three weeks, so... I use so much, but it's soooo good. I don't have a very strong sense of smell due to constant allergies, so I'm a big fan of the big five (spicy, sour, salty, bitter and sweet), but spicy food is probably my favorite after sour. I love how strong it is, but my family never eats my cooking because I make it too hot.

On a scorpic sidenote, when I was in Georgia, they had this really excellent gumbo, that used scorpion meat instead of shrimp, and mango salsa. It was pretty spicy, and really good. They put one of those spiky flowers and a boiled scorpion perched on the side of the bowl, too, so it was really cool.

I'll post the pics if I can find them. They're somewhere in my 4-ter work harddrive, though, so it'll take a bit.

[ToxicS]

I love red rooster and that chili sauce that is always at pho that I can't remember the name of.

[Beeboobop]

I love red rooster and that chili sauce that is always at pho that I can't remember the name of.

Sriracha?

[Nymh]

It's not that the tobasco peppers are too hot. I just have terrible repressed memories of the exact flavour. It makes me want to gag just thinking about it. Let alone tasting it.

I have that same problem with those red and white circular peppermints. I choked on one when I was a kid and puked all over the carpet. I haven't enjoyed them since. Though I finally told myself that gagging when I try them is stupid, so now I just hate the taste of them without the displeasure of feeling like I'm going to vomit.

Also, if you're going to hate a pepper, Tobasco is a good one. It's not very spicy and it's so widely used it's kind of boring, so you're not really missing out on much.