How hot is the hottest food you've ever eaten?

J.A. Raptor · #1 02-03-2010, 08:16 PM

I'll get started here. I make a chilli I call "The Widowmaker". I take a pound of Ground Bison and season it with paprika, cumin, and mace as I brown it, and throw in some garlic, celery seed, and a bit of onion. I use about 12 ounces of black beans, dice up the biggest tomato I can find and throw it in there and then add water as needed (it varies depending on how much stuff actually goes in the pot), and use both chilli seasoning and taco seasoning packets as needed to thicken it.

Then I throw in ten ghost snake peppers.

That puts hair on your chest if nothing else.

KeithBMI · #2 02-03-2010, 08:27 PM

I ate some Thai food that was uncomfortably hot!

gold_member_321 · #3 02-03-2010, 08:30 PM

Fresh grown Naga Jolokia peppers from my garden this past summer. All I have to say is, they're basically beyond useful as far as cooking goes for most people. I basically grow them just to see how many people I can bait into trying them! haha. Although I did put one into a big pot of chili towards the end of summer and it wasn't to bad, but definitely not for the faint at heart or those who don't like EXTREME heat that lingers for hours after your last bite.

I can't wait to grow them again this summer! They'd probably be a lot better with the ribs and seeds removed and slow smoked and made into a salsa or something. I'm going to experiment with them this year.

Edit: By the way for anyone who is interested in growing some Ghost Chilies themselves I get all of my pepper (and other ) seeds from this website http://seedrack.com/08.html?gclid=CN...FWpd5QodnE9tHA

They have a great selection and decent prices.

TAOspeedwagon · #4 02-03-2010, 08:33 PM

my family owns a local thai restaurant.

so yea...i've eaten some fiya

J.A. Raptor · #5 02-03-2010, 08:33 PM

Yeah, those peppers aren't to mess with. I picked up one of the seeds that fell on the floor barehanded; I couldn't do anything with that hand for an hour it burned so bad. Those things mean business. I pull that chilli out of the fridge (overnight mind you) and the glass is still kinda warm.

doktorfeelgood · #6 02-03-2010, 08:36 PM

I used to live in New Mexico so I have a fair idea of what hot food is. I have had very hot Thai and Indian food but the hottest thing I have eaten lately was an Italian sausge dish that a friend of mine makes up special when we get together
for big football games. She uses sausge, black mushrooms, small white grapes and Scotch Bonnet peppers. Them baaabies is REAL hot and they do stay with you for quite awhile after you take a bite into one. I'd love to see somebody try and eat a whole one. Prolly pass out. Hottest thing I can remember eating. )-(

fdeck · #7 02-03-2010, 08:36 PM

I made myself some coffee this morning that was almost boiling.

J.A. Raptor · #8 02-03-2010, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

I made myself some coffee this morning that was almost boiling.

...lame... couldn't say I wasn't expecting it though.

waleross · #9 02-03-2010, 08:43 PM

I remember eating an "El Scorcho" Burrito, took one bite and threw the rest out.

gold_member_321 · #10 02-03-2010, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by doktorfeelgood

...but the hottest thing I have eaten lately was an Italian sausge dish that a friend of mine makes up special when we get together for big football games. She uses sausge, black mushrooms, small white grapes and Scotch Bonnet peppers. )-(

That sounds really good haha.

Any idea on preparation?

HailCorduroy · #11 02-03-2010, 08:51 PM

First time I went to eat Thai food. A co-worker and I went and the waiter asked "mild, hot or native Thai?" We both said "oh, we love hot stuff. Tell the chef not to be a sissy!" The waiter brought the food and it looked evil. I swear it would have eaten through the plate if we had left it long enough. It was so good, but so hot. Strangely, our waiter never came by to bring us more water either. We were about to fight over the last ice cube. We ended up visiting this restaurant weekly for the next year.

nutso42 · #12 02-03-2010, 08:56 PM

My dad has won several hot sauce making contests at festivals.... if you want really hot stuff, take the cores out of the peppers, and use THAT for the sauce.

Most people use the body of the pepper, not the core. Hence most store-bought sauces are really wimpy.

Disraeli Gears · #13 02-03-2010, 08:59 PM

I'm not terribly well-versed in spicy foods. I enjoy something moderately spicy and can handle things that get to be what I consider to be very spicy.

I was at a friend's house watching a movie a while back when his dad brought in a plate of homemade buffalo wings. Tasted great, but not only was the burn pretty killer, it also lingered in my mouth for a good 10 minutes. And those were apparantly his mild wings

Waterpilot · #14 02-03-2010, 09:00 PM

Whole Habanero peppers is the hottest I've gone so far.

john_martin_sai · #15 02-03-2010, 09:01 PM

Chicken McNuggets in a Shanghai, China McDonalds

J.A. Raptor · #16 02-03-2010, 09:02 PM

Hot is relative to the person. My Dad and Sister eat Habenero's and Tai Dragon's like candy. None of us can really stand the Widowmaker, though. I tell people i'll give them $5 if they can eat that and not cry, or they can get $30 if they keep a straight face.

I haven't lost a dime yet.

gold_member_321 · #17 02-03-2010, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by J.A. Raptor

Hot is relative to the person. My Dad and Sister eat Habenero's and Tai Dragon's like candy. None of us can really stand the Widowmaker, though. I tell people i'll give them $5 if they can eat that and not cry, or they can get $30 if they keep a straight face.

I haven't lost a dime yet.

I like the way you think haha.

ADbassman · #18 02-03-2010, 09:29 PM

Some 1 million scoville unit hot sauce from New Orleans.

Word to the wise: Wash your hands before you use the bathroom.

sloasdaylight · #19 02-03-2010, 09:37 PM

Thai food.

My dad is a regular @ a local thai place here in Tampa, has been for nearly 20 years now, so the cooks and what not all know him, and they make his food the way they do, which is to say take the top of your mouth off hot. I enjoy some heat with my food, but some of this stuff is just out of the world.

SoonerMatt · #20 02-03-2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

I made myself some coffee this morning that was almost boiling.

I've accidentally done this a few times, but it's a risk you run when you use a French press.

The most painfully hot thing I've had was when I tried Mad Dog 357 Silver at a Pepper Palace, which was the hottest they'd give samples for. I.... ow. Just thinking about it is giving me a headache and making me sweat again.