I was fooled about 30mins ago to taste a small piece of Habanero pepper. Oh my god, my mouth and tongue is burning now. Hot onion or garlic is nothing compared to it. I wasn't able feel my mouth for several minutes. It was like a fire burning in my mouth.

Where on earth can you use it properly? Some ancient torturing method?

Have you been fooled to similar kind of stupid tests?

The thing is, there are people out there who eat them as a whole, or even much much hotter things than that. What the point of that is? No idea, it's not like you taste anything but "hot" anyway - probably has to do with compensating for something or so...

However, I can share the best methods to get rid of the hotness, which are
1) Milk, and/or
2) Chocolate

Don't ever try water, it will just spread the hot stuff in your mouth and not make anything better.

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The thing is, there are people out there who eat them as a whole, or even much much hotter things than that. What the point of that is? No idea, it's not like you taste anything but "hot" anyway - probably has to do with compensating for something or so...

However, I can share the best methods to get rid of the hotness, which are
1) Milk, and/or
2) Chocolate

Don't ever try water, it will just spread the hot stuff in your mouth and not make anything better.

I like spicy foods and eat hot peppers and such raw. My mouth doesn't go numb so i actually taste the pepper. I love the tingly feeling you get when you eat a spicy food. Thats my reason for liking them

I haven't been fooled, but my family is big on hot foods. We have a whole cabinet just for hot sauce, and a gallon jug in the basement. We had buffalo wings once, and ordered the hottest level. They were called "radioactive". It was the most disgusting thing i've ever eaten. The wings were red, like ferrari red. They had almost no moisture. It took a half gallon of milk(said to be the best at cooling your toung off) to wash away the taste until it was bearable.

I love spice. Almost every meal i have includes hot sauce. My mouth doesn't go numb, usually because i'm enjoying the flavor so much

I didn't know I should drink milk instead of water. Of course I tryed water, but it really didn't help. I just ran around the house cursing and occasionally drinking water directly from the tap (:tilt.

I usually like spicy food, but this didn't taste spicy or fun to eat. It was just pure pain. It was really of the scale and nothing what I have eaten in any restaurant (BBQ, eastern, etc). I have eaten jalopeno before which was ok. This must have been LOT hotter.

I don't know if the pepper was exceptionally hot or is it just me not being used to it.

Most people who like hot peppers do so because they release endorphins in your brain, getting you stoned.

I used to open clams for a living (steady!) and had a collection of 50 hot sauces that the local guidos would try and out-macho eachother with. The top ten made Mexicans cry, so it was funny watching New Yorkers try to cope with them.

Guacamaya Sauce and Güichol Sauce, Yummi , I couldnt go to school one day because I ate too many sauce and my stomach was killing me, but hey I love "Picante".

I like to eat Hot cheetos to the point that I can't speak. My mom cooks really spicy too, I think thats the reason what I like it.

I have some powdered Jalapeño pepper that I love sprinkling on my steaks...gives them a lovely zing!!

mmm...dunno why, but I suddenly fancy a nice Chicken Jalfrezi for dinner tonight

You want some of this.

Or even this.

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You want some of this.

Or even this.

2 million....shouldn't you need some kind of a permit from police to carry such a lethal weapon?

I googled some peppers and it seems habaneros are the hottest from all the peppers (200,000-550,000). The sauces can be hotter.

http://www.mojavefarm.com/pepper_scale.htm

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I didn't know I should drink milk instead of water. Of course I tryed water, but it really didn't help. I just ran around the house cursing and occasionally drinking water directly from the tap (:tilt.

Indeed do the milk or chocolate thing. Eating bread also helps as the bread will soak up the oils inside the mouth from the pepper.

We have a place that has wings. They have their Atomic wings (I think those are the ones) that you have to sign a waiver before they bring them to you. I've had them and didn't think they were as much hot as they were disgusting tasting. But then, I had them after someone brought them home and it is said they lose a lot of their pain if they sit. That, and back then, I did like the hot stuff. The hotter the better back then .

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I googled some peppers and it seems habaneros are the hottest from all the peppers (200,000-550,000). The sauces can be hotter.

Some chips with habanero sauce... and a littler of some liquid to help you out... Lovely.

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It was like a fire burning in my mouth.

Something like this then? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ip5oGlMfU&NR=1

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You want some of this.

Or even this.

Cracking stuff that Blairs Reserve.

Add a few drops to a jar of pickled onions and leave for a week or so before consumption...luuuuuuuuuuuurvly.

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I didn't know I should drink milk instead of water. Of course I tryed water, but it really didn't help. I just ran around the house cursing and occasionally drinking water directly from the tap (:tilt.

Its because the spice is contained in an oil, which doesn't mix with water. This is also the same reason that you, erm... 'experience' it again the next day....

Milk however, can dissolve the oil containing the spice which not only cools your mouth down, as it also helps you digest the spice and turn it into other things, stops you getting a sore bum in the long run.

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Milk however, can dissolve the oil containing the spice which not only cools your mouth down, as it also helps you digest the spice and turn it into other things, stops you getting a sore bum in the long run.

Disgusting as it is, goats milk is probably the best.

ive not really been tricked, but had a bet on once about which one of us could eat the most of these incredibly strong chiles. Nearly burned a hole in my chin. Drank water straight away like a right fanny and couldnt feel my face for about 10 minutes.

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Most people who like hot peppers do so because they release endorphins in your brain, getting you stoned.

Is that really true?

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Have you been fooled to similar kind of stupid tests?

I wasn't fooled, but I did use a Habanero in some spaghetti sauce once- which was good, except that I somehow managed to touch my eye after cutting it up. That was not a happy time.

Those little things are deadly!

LOL I never really imagined many Europeans eating hot peppers.
But I guess the world is going global. But for relief? Milk, Ice cream and sour cream will work. I imagine cottage cheese and ricotta might as well, but I don't really know. But water? it doesn't work too good.
And as spicy and hot as what Tex-Mex and Mexican foods are, I think Thai food is probably hotter - or can be.

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Is that really true?

I don't know about that, but researchers in Canada are studying if Capsaicin could be a cure for Diabetes.

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Is that really true?

Yeah. The pain receptors go "Ouch", and the pituitary gland goes "No worries, I got some good shit right here", and you get all smacked up.

It even says so here.

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Capsaicin (the active chemical in chili peppers) also has been shown to stimulate endorphin release. (Ref: http://www.chronogram.com/issu ... /11/wholeliving/index.php)

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I did use a Habanero in some spaghetti sauce once- which was good, except that I somehow managed to touch my eye after cutting it up.

Oh yeah, definitely wash your hands well after touching them, or touching a bottle of hot (hot) sauce - it might have traces on the outside of the bottle or crusted around the cap. It can cause some embarrassing scenarios if you're having someone special over for dinner that evening and you got some stuck under a nail or something.

Embarassing scenarios eh? ....
Uh, well, in that same evening.... Let's just say that one of us had recently (within an hour) had breifly accomodated a tiny peice of this deceptive orange menace in mouth, and then some time after, there were... other activities utilizing the same orifice.... Truly it was not good news. :hide:

Havent seen the Naga Jolokia pepper get mentioned yet.
It is said to get ratings of up to 855k on the Scoville scale
(not that i eat it as my intestins simply can't stand spicey food)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper

I buy one brand of cheese, every piece I buy seem to taste different.

Salt is burning my mouth so that tears will come up.

I certainly am not friend of hot food, my tasting sensitivity is so high that often I can't eat pizza from those pizza places as those are too hot.

These I like, are good for pizza, but anything hotter than that starts to burn

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I certainly am not friend of hot food, my tasting sensitivity is so high that often I can't eat pizza from those pizza places as those are too hot.

These I like, are good for pizza, but anything hotter than that starts to burn

I feel sorry for you, especially tomorrow then...