What is the hottest thing you ever intentionally put in your mouth?

[onejayhawk]

By this I mean spicy and I mean theoretically a human edible food of some kind. This is a 0-10 scale, at least in theory. I'll add my thoughts presently.

J

 

[cgannon64]

Tapioca. Seriously, probably really hot pizza.

 

[napoleon526]

I'm not proud of this, but when I was a stupid kid, my friends and I found some jalapenos growing on a jalapeno...bush (or whatever it is they grow on). We took turns taking a bite out of the peppers and seeing how long we could keep a straight face without gagging or vomiting.

 

[Stile]

My wife and I are fond of spicy foods. A couple of years ago we grew a garden with Jalepenos and Habeneros. The Jalepenos were awesome, and we canned a bunch that we still use.

The habeneros were impossibly hot. I once added 2 to a sausage with red beans and rice dish. It was excruciatingly hot and not in a flavorful way like the Jalepenos. I think the peppers we grew were several times hotter than those available in stores. Stuck with more than a peck of piping-hot peppers, my wife dared me to eat one. I bit into it, but couldn't get it down. I had to put my mouth under the faucet and let the water flow over my poor tortured tongue.

I still like hot sauces, and just tonight put some Tabasco Sauce onto my Cheese-Nips.

In a related topic, I recently was researching foods and plants to see where they came from. All peppers, chocolate, sugar cane, tomatoes and potatoes (and other plants that are 60% of the domesticated crops used today) came from the Americas (mostly Central and South). Food must have been pretty boring in the Old World. My main goal was to gather evidence to find anachronisms in movies.

 

[onejayhawk]

Originally posted by napoleon526
I'm not proud of this, but when I was a stupid kid, my friends and I found some jalapenos growing on a jalapeno...bush (or whatever it is they grow on). We took turns taking a bite out of the peppers and seeing how long we could keep a straight face without gagging or vomiting.

Obviously you were young and did not know that it was good for you. Green hot pepers are a nutritional powerhouse. Tons of vitamin C for starters.

And yes a bush. Peppers are often grown in warm climates as ornamentals. All the ornamentals are edible, but the flavor is lousy. I have several Piquin bushes on the property (and the birds keep adding more). They rate 8 on my scale.

Originally posted by Stile
My wife and I are fond of spicy foods. A couple of years ago we grew a garden with Jalepenos and Habeneros. The Jalepenos were awesome, and we canned a bunch that we still use.

The habeneros were impossibly hot. I once added 2 to a sausage with red beans and rice dish. It was excruciatingly hot and not in a flavorful way like the Jalepenos. I think the peppers we grew were several times hotter than those available in stores. Stuck with more than a peck of piping-hot peppers, my wife dared me to eat one. I bit into it, but couldn't get it down. I had to put my mouth under the faucet and let the water flow over my poor tortured tongue.

I also have raised Habeneros. Beautiful plant. I think the flavor is distinctly fruity. Many of the Carribean fruit salsas work very well with Habenero instead of Jalapeno. You might have tried vinegar. Jalepenoes are used for flavor though. You can put in a handful without making the dish unapproachable.

J

 

[ozscott75]

Enhanced Habenero Pepper sauce with "Fire" in the name.

Yummy!

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by Stile
In a related topic, I recently was researching foods and plants to see where they came from. All peppers, chocolate, sugar cane, tomatoes and potatoes (and other plants that are 60% of the domesticated crops used today) came from the Americas (mostly Central and South). Food must have been pretty boring in the Old World. My main goal was to gather evidence to find anachronisms in movies.

Why do you think Columbus and company were so eager to get to India? East Indies spices were hot commodities for a region whose food consisted of wheat products.

 

[Stile]

I also read that Jalepeno peppers are now so tame that they are unable to reproduce themselves without help. Maybe onejayhawk can confirm or deny it.

 

[onejayhawk]

Originally posted by Stile
I also read that Jalepeno peppers are now so tame that they are unable to reproduce themselves without help. Maybe onejayhawk can confirm or deny it.

Had not heard that one. As hot peppers go, they are definitely G rated though.

Originally posted by cgannon64
Tapioca. Seriously, probably really hot pizza.

New Yorkers. Humph.

J

PS Besides I know of a couple of NY transplants who put pepper flakes under the kraut on their Bratwurst.

 

[TubaGuy]

I was at a friends house and he found some sauce called "Da Bomb" or something along those lines. Now I've eaten Habeneros before, plain and otherwise and I did fairly well with that. This sauce however was insane. My mouth burned for a good 30 mins, in which time I drank nearly a gallon of milk. Never again will I try any thing like that.

 

[Siegmund]

I rather enjoy the heat of cayenne or serrano peppers. But I absolutely can't stand the taste of jalapenos - it isnt that they are hot, but that they leave this awful half-sweet-half-indescribable aftertaste that absolutely ruins anything they touch

And yes,I had to bite my tongue very hard to make my answer to this thread G-rated.

 

[ZultanofZex]

Must...resiste...to...answer...remember...this is a...non adult..site

 

[Pillager]

Pepper. Spicy foods are foul.

 

[CurtSibling]

You are asking for it with that thread title, you know that, Hawk?
The curse of having the British skill for double entendres! Wait till Mr Rodgers sees this!

And yes, er...hot soup!

 

[Mikoyan]

A Ripe Chile Piquin, ouch, and then i accidentally rubbed my eyes.

 

[MrPresident]

You are asking for it with that thread title, you know that, Hawk? The curse of having the British skill for double entendres! Wait till Mr Rodgers sees this!

That is exactly what I thought.

My answer would be porridge.

 

[Quokka]

Big Daddy's Emergency Room BBQ Sauce

You had to sign a waiver abolishing any responsibility for harm before you could buy the stuff. After a taste its easy to see why. Actually the guy who helps in the shop but can no longer eat solids should have been a red flag but alas....

 

[nixon]

I remember I once ate dried chili, my friend brought back home from India. I will never do that again!
It wasn't chopped or anything, I just ate the whole chili!

 

[Perfection]

I enjoy Thai peppers and numerous on the "hot range" but nothing like a habenero, I like a slight burn not "It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyones a pyromaniac!"

 

[Bamspeedy]

Some stuff called 'Da Bomb'. Supposedly it's so strong that it can literally take wax off of floors. You are only supposed to add a couple of drops of the stuff to other sauces to make them hotter. At work one time we were daring people to take a toothpick and dip it into the sauce then put the sauce directly on their tongue. One guy started getting all red-faced and teary-eyed and literally could not work for 15 minutes because of the stuff.