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ummthatguy@lemmy.world âš8â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Much as I love spicy foods/hot sauce, this weapons grade shit is just silly.
I once signed a waiver to purchase a spicy chicken sandwich and will never do so again.
I find it hard to understand how a potentially hazardous to health food item is even allowed.
What is this obcession with ever increasing level of spice in food, lately?
Because at some point it all the flavour just goes away, replaced by a hefty dose of pain.
I realize Iâm a special case, but my nose is essentially non-functionalâI donât smell food. While my sense of taste is more sensitive than your average person, I suspect I still miss out on some kinds of flavour. I believe my impairment is why I am drawn towards strong tastes like cheeses or, indeed, extremely spicy food. Theyâre the âonlyâ flavours that I really experience strongly.
my dad says this same thing but like, capsaicin isnât flavourful, it just hurts?
you can get peppers with loads of flavour and very little capsaicin
Itâs about the experience for me. Iâm not sure how to explain it because itâs all subjective. Spice doesnât really hurt me because I have a high tolerance, but it makes me feel⊠something? Perhaps itâs just like when other people eat a bit of wasabi?
Ha! Never thought of that!
Iâm very sensitive with smells, while my wife isnât.
Although I do like spicy food, I still want to be able to taste anything else than hot pain.
My wife though enjoys chilli chips, where I couldnât even stomach one of them.
Cases like yours are unfortunate and I understand and respect those. Iâm a fan of spice myself. Just not to the point it hurts me. I put spice in food to enhance flavours, not to cover it with a dose of pain.
If you can find it, try portuguese goat cheese or Azores cheese, long cure. Very flavourful but incredibly intense.
It can be fun to safely experience sensory extremes. Many people get an endorphin/dopamine rush from it.
Other than some gut irritation itâs not a significant hazard. Like yeah keep it safely stored from sensitive people and poets also itâs probably not the best road trip snack or whatever. Certainly less dangerous than alcohol, fireworks, cigarettes or texting while driving.
I can get sensory extremes by walking outside, right now. Iâm good on that front.
Itâs clear Iâm on the minority side here, no problem on that, but is it that weird to expect food to have flavour and not hurt me while Iâm eating it? It seems reasonable.
Itâs totally normal to like or not like spicy and i doubt anyone would judge you for that. I think your commentâs wording is a bit reactive though.
I think the problem lies with calling things like the 1 chip challenge or âmelt you wussy buttholeâ varieties of spicy challenges âfoodâ.
I mean I guess you ingest them, but thatâs kinda like calling magic mushrooms food or ipecac syrup food. They are things that you eat for a specific purpose that is not nourishment.
self inflicted pain with no scars or prema damage, as long as itâs below pepper spray.
in the past i thought eating spicy food made me look cool and manly, but then i realised iâm missing out on the flavour of foods and understood i was being silly. so now i mostly stick to mild foods, with the occasional spicy food for varityâs sake but only if i can actually taste the flavour of said food through the spice
but thatâs just me
Because itâs fun. Live a little.
I do, thank you the concern. But self imposed torture is not something I enjoy. Nor recommend.
Donât kink shame, ffs.
Spice will give you an approximation of a ârunnerâs highâ without the tedious mucking about of exercise. There is, of course, an upper limit which too many products tip past.
There are too many bad taste jokes to be made on that.
Make the joke a bit spicier and the taste should disappear.
A guy after my own heart. Do you like vinegar based hot sauces? If not, which sauces do you go for? Iâve struggled for years to find decent sauces and have only found Melindaâs and my own sauces to tolerate.
Ah, a fellow Melindaâs enjoyer! I love theyâre Ghost Pepper sauce in particular (though itâs fairly mild for a Ghost Pepper sauce). My only complaint with Melindaâs, is that they consistently use too much carrot in their sauces. But otherwise theyâre really great!
Iâm really not picky about the sweetness. As long as itâs got a little kick and doesnât taste like a shot of vinegar, Iâm happy. I usually go for the habanero, but itâs getting to be a bit pepperminty, so I might jump ship for one of the other brands mentioned here.
I donât like vinegary too much (or smoke/fermented flavor etc), I like El Yucateco Red*.
Though it is a bit expensive for a tiny bottle. So I made a few big bottles trying my own spin* from garden habaneros (orange) and liked how it turned out.
* I see the key ingredients: distilled white vinegar, citric acid, xantham gum
You people and your terrible looking bottles are going to send me into debt.
Not the guy you responded to, but I also love hot sauce. I usually stock franks, yellowbirdâs red jalapeño sauce (forget the name), and cholula or Valentina if I donât feel like paying for it. I also had this really awesome green hot sauce from El Pato brand, but I havenât ever seen it again. Hopefully someday!
Dude, this el pato sauceâs packaging looks like absolute dog water. Which, for anyone who has ever gone on a sauce tasting spree, means itâs either horrific or ambrosia. There is no in-between. Youâve piqued my interest more than I can properly describe.
Their canned red sauce is always a gamble between mild to decently hot. Would recommend.
Vinegar tends to be too forward. I go for the stuff youâll find in a Mexican market or âethnicâ aisle of a grocery store. Peppers being an ingredient higher than most others beyond water catch my eye. Melindaâs is alright, though Iâve seen them branch out quite a bit from their more humble beginnings.
I have an international market right by my place, so it never struck me to go to a Mexican shop. Hope they have some good stuff!
I had the same sandwich (Daveâs Hot Chicken reaper sandwich). I assumed it was just a marketing stunt. After one bite I had to go back and get a milkshake so I could sip it between bites to finish the damn sandwich.
Oh was it made with Daveâs Hot Sauce? I had a customer bring in his own Ultimate Insanity hot sauce to use in a Prairie Fire shot (tequila+hot sauce). Shit looked ROUGH. He let me keep the hot sauce after though and it became one of my partnerâs favourites.
alcohol an capsaicin hits hard. the alcohol acts as a surfactant and your throat just gets obliterated. even vodka+tabasco can be pretty rough.
Yeah itâs totally a mistake.
I bought some stupid hot sauces out of curiosity a few years ago (last dab kind of sauces, they are fairly hot but still edible) but was not prepared for the heat. I tried some milk and bread and whatever and it didnât help clear my mouth. It was on my tongue and my lips and I wanted it OFF.
So having watched some of the âplutoniumâ hot sauce videos I put my obviously very big brain to work. In some of those videos, capsaicin crystals are dissolved in alcohol. I thought to myself, âalcohol dissolves capsaicin, my mouth is hot from capsaicin, I have an ideaâ. It was not a good idea.
I swished and swallowed a shot of vodka.
As you say, it really helped the spicy coat my ENTIRE mouth and top of my throat. If you have never had spicy pain in between your teeth and coating your entire gumline, it is really something else. 2/10 would not recommend.
In any event, a lesson was learned that day that I doubt I will forget.
I took a shot of everclear one time and felt my throat close up immediately. I couldnât breath and felt panic for what felt like 2 minutes but was actually just 10 seconds. I imagine adding hot sauce would have ended me.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de âš8â© âšmonthsâ© ago
My mouth is broken and I love really spicy stuff. Like, still havenât met someone in person who likes things as spicy as I like them.
FYI to the Flaming Anus chocolate bar: itâs advertising hype BS. Like most hot sauces yelling out some high scoville number. All that big â2.2 million scovilleâ on the packaging here is actually just referencing that it has Carolina reaper pepper in the chocolate, and that those peppers can be up to 2.2 million scoville.
But the peppers are dead last on the ingredient list. Each bar has very little in it. If I ate a Carolina reaper pepper rated over 2 million even I would hate it and it would burn and Iâd feel like my insides wanted to die. But the chocolate bar here is just a spicy little snack.