The Scoville Scale - Hot, Spicy Sauces!

[Stefan Mikes]

I would ask what the other end looks like after 361 days of the assalt but I dont really want to know.

Properly disinfected

've seen people put a drop or Reaper sauce in a bowl of chili and not be able to finish it. I've seen other people watch the poor guy suffer, and instead wet a toothpick in the sauce and stir the toothpick in the bowl of chili and still have a hard time.

You can get used to extremely hot chilis. Here's the history of my experience with CR:
10/25/23: The first droplet. The sensation was terrifying!
1/9/24: A slice of bread with cheese and a droplet of CR didn't feel as hot as I was afraid.
2/22/24: At some time before, I discovered CR went well with hot fluid meals, such as Chinese Noodles with a lot of boiling water. On the day, 1/4 of the sauce was already consumed.
8/23/24: One-fifth of the bottle contents remained inside as sauce. However, there was a lot of thick chili paste on the inner walls of the bottle. I tried some of the paste alone in a bowl of hot fluid food and regretted that
9/3/24: I recovered the sauce by adding some vinegar and boiling water then shaking the bottle vigorously, which recombined the chilis into liquid
10/17/24: I repeated the process of chili recovery, so the bottle became almost clear.
10/20/24: Finished the bottle contents

I could watch some YT weirdos who could smear a slice of bread with the same CR sauce, eat, and be able to talk and even describe the flavour while eating! As for myself, I'm not buying any extremely spicy sauce anymore!

 

[February]

This is breakfast today (tasting as I add ingredients, and as the flavors meld in the initial heating), lunch when its fully ready and maybe for dinner I will do a chili size, Denny's-style (one patty on each bun half) for the sake of 2am-face-feed nostalgia.

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Typically I wait until its almost done cooking to throw in a mess o' chopped red onions, but this batch tastes so good I think I will leave them out. Haven't decided if I will top it with the usual fresh medium cheddar for the same reason. I have no formal chili recipe so never know what I get until it arrives. I didn't drain the diced tomatoes this time to give it a more soupy texture and to let the juice counteract some of the spices I put in that turned out to be a little overbearing. But the jalapeno's take it to just a nice zing. Maybe too much for a neighborhood picnic where I have to please everyone. This time I had a couple bags of chicken breast strips in the freezer that I thawed and cut up so quite a bit of meat chunks in this batch.

Usually it takes me a couple of days to get sick of eating a freshly-made pot. Then maybe takes a week to finish it off in small lunch servings.

That looks so good. I'd rather have what you are having. What my breakfast resembled:

Mmmmmmm tofu, he said as sarcastically as possible.

 

[Roamers]

but you all know how the story ends, burned as bad coming out as it did going in.

Just eat ice cream after so you know there is something cold coming out next!

 

[sc00ter]

I admire all of you who can eat spicy and/or hot food. My tummy can no longer do it. I ate one of those peppers from a Kung-Pao order from Panda Express and got laughed at by everyone at my job! I turned super red! But we had a lady who has since retired but if I see her I'll ask her. She made her own hot sauce and brought some to work and NO ONE could handle it! All I remember was some kind of ghost pepper was involved. Even the smell was demonic!

 

[February]

Just eat ice cream after so you know there is something cold coming out next!

Have a younger brother who worked at a certain sandwich chain. As a prank his coworkers loaded up a sub with jalapenos. Now at this point in my life I knew, just drink milk, but he didn't. He went straight for the tap and started guzzling before I could figure out what happened. As soon as he told me I told him the water was only going to make it worse and he needed to drink milk. What ensued next was a "Got milk?" commercial in real life. Any other day We would have a couple of gallons of fresh milk in the fridge. On this day, in his finest hour, my little brother opened the fridge to find one old empty gallon container of milk with just a sip left in it. He ran across the street and asked the neighbors for some and they obliged. On another occasion years ago, some Mexican friends of mine had a good laugh, they could handle the hot stuff since they were raised on it. They invited me for dinner and loaded me a salad full of red peppers. They got the sweet bell peppers for me, but let me sweat it out until I told them I couldn't eat it. I love sweet bell peppers and I can handle them, but chilies, nope. My own doctors have told me to stay away from the spicy stuff. I had been watching Hot ones for a couple years before the "Big Sid incident" and never realized I was only seeing half the agony. I never knew what the spicy food fans knew. Again, for those who can handle the spicy, I salute you!