• Competitive eater taken to hospital after eating world's hottest chilli pepper
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/09/competitive-eater-taken-to-hospital-after-eating-worlds-hottest-chilli-pepper
thats-a spicy meatball.
I actually worked at a grocery which sold these. On more than one instance I would direct people away from them if they clearly didn't know what they were getting into it. When a group of 5 boys (unsupervised) come up to me and ask me what is the hottest pepper we have, I'd rather not have them end up in the hospital because they didn't know what they were getting into. For instance, if you don't chew them enough, they can burn at your stomach lining.
I've actually eaten one of these before with some guys I worked with, last person to start shotgunning milk won 50$ I was the second to last man standing. Also this absolutely devastates your butthole.
I remember seeing some online store selling 99% pure capsaicin, the compound in peppers that makes them hot, and advertising it as something like twenty times hotter than mace. Way more dangerous than even the hottest peppers available, yet apparently people bought it. I don't really get it, I like spicy food partially for the burn but mostly for the taste, but there comes a point where it stops being enjoyable and it's just painful. I kind of understand people doing it competitively or whatever, but if winning is likely to land you in the hospital, I wouldn't even consider it.
It does have it's uses. While apparently some of the hotter peppers do have a fairly nice flavour, another use of them is a way to make something very spicy without altering the flavour too much.
Why the fuck would you add spiciness for no reason.
Adding spiciness is a reason, though. Like say you want something to be somewhat spicy without adding the flavor of peppers to something. I totally get that, I just don't get these people that compete with each other to eat spicier and spicier foods.
never heard of a thunderclap headache until now but the name alone makes them sound horrid
What in the name of God...
I'd like a source on chilies burning the stomach lining. I can't seem to find one.
Could be the name of the next hottest pepper because it sounds worse than a Carolina Reaper.
I think it's more like irritating the stomach lining, affecting the mucus that stops the stomach acid from eating away at the stomach itself, causing ulcers. Extremely spicy shit has been known to cause/effect ulcers.
I remember eating a ghost pepper (a small one) on an empty stomach plus I didn't fully chew it. Honestly, the worst part of all of it wasn't the initial heat of when you're eating it or even when you shit it out (as bad as that can be). The worst part was it literally felt like a grenade went off in my stomach. I was in so much pain I couldn't talk and was debating calling an ambulance
because endorphins.
I've eaten a Carolina reaper. From what I remember, it didn't feel like I ate something spicy as much as it did like someone had stabbed me through the mouth. It was a unique pain in that I could feel in my skull like a sort of migraine. 10/10 would recommend.
I'm reading these words but they don't seem to make sense.
This was more or less my experience. You say your guts doing somersaults is the worst part, but I honestly wished I had some holy books in my bathroom to recite during the after-shock.
I seem to recall there are a few that are waay hotter than the reaper, just they're the ones that are sold commercially. They're actually making peppers now that are so spicy that they might have medical uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Breath_(chili_pepper) Nottingham Trent University researchers suggest that the pepper's ability to numb the skin might make its essential oil useful as an anaesthetic for patients who cannot tolerate other anaesthetics, or in countries where they are too expensive
I know exactly what you mean. One time my dad accidently made me some beef covered in ghost pepper flakes (I usually use tons of crushed red peppers on everything) and the pain I felt soon after was exactly like what you described. I can't imagine actually eating one of those things let alone a reaper.
I bought 4 of them when I saw them in my local grocers. Kept them in the freezer for 6 months and only ended up using half of a single one that entire time because they were so damn spicy. Threw them out after. I can handle heat pretty well, but I realised that I actually enjoy the flavour of chilies too. I wasn't getting any of that with the carolina reapers because the amount I'd use to keep the heat reasonable in one meal was so minuscule. It was all of the heat and none of the flavour. I seriously doubt anyone can really enjoy the flavour of carolina reapers, seeing as they're just way to hot to make it feasible.
I recall hearing that peppers are also super rich in calcium and Vitamin C, which is why the body chooses to ignore that you've taken a blow-torch to its insides because "herp derp gimme da C!"
The worst ive had was the ghost pepper. One day a coworker had some salsa and said it was ghost pepper salsa.so i tried it and was like, this some pussy shit. So i got a chip and did 5 dabs of the sauce on it and ate it. Then while its starting to heat up, the dude pointed out that he put one drop in a massive bowl of salsa. So immediately im dying because i just has basically a spoonfull when thats recommended for a pot of chili. And to make it worse, i was crying and had snot coming out of my nose and wiped my eyes with chili residue on it. So now my eyes are burning too. I had to go to the store next door and get a carton of milk because i felt like someone was putting a hot iron on my tongue.
I hope none of you ever get thunder clap, it is the worst feeling I've ever had, and I thought I was going to die.
can't it be dangerous in the long run to eat food that spicy?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161020-can-you-hurt-yourself-eating-chilli-peppers https://www.livescience.com/22450-does-spicy-food-really-cause-ulcers.html
Agreed. I love spicy food, but if it's all spice (especially to the point of being painful) and no flavor, then what's the point
reminds me of the fun times i had during the US elections i'd do it again
Ghost pepper jelly the store I worked at sold is delicious. It's barely spicy at all, but it has absolutely no flavour of peppers. Pair it up with brie cheese on a nice cracker.... Yum. I got it a little wrong, and kind misrepresented what I meant on top of that. Besides the irritants (sometimes leading to medical issues), and couple other health issues not chewing the pepper enough means it's going to remain concentrated for some time, rather than dispersed. That BBC article has a good point on it. The physical effects of eating peppers can be seen as reactions to what might be — from the body’s perspective — real burns, says Bruce Bryant, a biologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. Sweating is an adaptation for cooling off. Triggered pain neurons release substances that cause blood vessels to widen, resulting in inflammation, the better to supply the damaged area with blood and the body’s first responders. When that Carolina Reaper hits your stomach lining and you retch, “that response is because there are pain-sensing nerve endings in the stomach”, says Bryant. “The body says, ‘I don't care if it’s a thermal burn or a chemical, but I’m going to get rid of it.’”
That'd probably be Blair's Sixteen Million Reserve, a legitimate collectors-item-only made by the Blair's Hot Sauce company. They basically sold it as the ultimate hotsauce freak collectible and sold it under waiver that you had no intention of ever using the capsaicin crystals for actual consumption. I've never heard of anyone using one for ingestion-- which probably means anyone who did never made it.
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