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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de āØ3ā© āØweeksā© agoIām the āspicy guyā of my circle of people I know, so I always get brought in the challenge things and hottest x to try. Had the gummies and jerky, and beer, and all sorts of things. The chip has been the only one that Iād actually say was hot. Mouth was fine, but it made my stomach hurt for like 10 minutes.
There are worse experiences.
One Chip challenge was no big deal to me. 9M Scoville Lil Nitro Gummy was much hotter but I did it without regret. 16M Scoville CaJohns Trouble Bubble bubble gum felt like it was roughly the same heat as the gummy. I completed the challenge blowing a bubble, but soon after started puking lava. There was regret. š
Trouble bubble is another one of those BS lies. Pure capsaicin is 16 million scoville. The gum uses a tiny amount of it in the gum. Itās the smallest added ingredient in the gum. Diluted from the gum itās nowhere near 16 million scoville anymore. They still left it extremely hot, but nowhere near 16 million. Iām surprised it made you vomit since you donāt swallow much of the heat juice. Make your lips hurt though from blowing that bubble.
Iām not sure how the Scoville system measures it exactly since of course no pepper or anything else is going to be pure capsaicin. Is it based on the number of milligrams of capsaicin within a serving or what? Certainly a tiny sliver of Carolina Reaper is different than eating the whole thing but itās considered a 2.2M pepper regardless.
In any event Iāve eaten straight reapers and done the 2022 One Chip challenge - the blue tongue one - without issue. The Lil Nitro gummy is way, way hotter than a reaper or the One Chip challenge, and the Trouble Bubble seemed about the same as the Lil Nitro gummy and its the only thing Iāve ever eaten that got a reaction out of me so I wouldnāt call it BS. Can your taste buds really distinguish between an unnatural 9M or 16M scoville anyway? The gum is devious in that you have to chew it a long time to get the sugar out of it and make it pliable enough to blow a bubble. You make and swallow a lot of saliva filled with lava during that time. Iām sure thatās what made me puke. Whatever itās rating should be - if the 16M is inaccurate - thereās nothing mild about it. I can guarantee you eat it and you wonāt call it BS. š
Scoville is measured by blending or breaking down what the capsaicin is in and analyzing what percentage of that is made of capsaicin. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville. Half capsaicin is 8,000,000 scoville, and so on. Since the gum has like 8 ingredients in it and the ingredients are legally required to be listed in order of amount the food contains, and the pepper extract is listed as the 8th ingredient, the absolute highest scoville the gum could have is 2,000,000 and thatās only if all 8 ingredients were in equal amounts, which is pretty much a zero chance. In all likelihood the gum is between 300,000 and 800,000 if I were to make agood guess of it.
They must be kind of inconsistent with the chips and the nitro gummy bear, because when I did the nitro gummy it was a lot less hot than when I did the chip.
JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works āØ2ā© āØweeksā© ago
Lucky you. My experience was the first 20 minutes were bad, but tolerable, then my stomach hurt like a mother fucker for an hour, then I projectile vomited and sat in the shower for like an hour+. Went to bed after that. It was like 5PM.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de āØ2ā© āØweeksā© ago
Yeah. I do very hot sauces on about everything I eat. Love the stuff and I think I donāt react to capsaicin like most people. I ate that chip on a completely empty stomach in the morning and thatās what caused my stomach to hurt, I think. I just popped it in my mouth expecting it to be not really any hotter than all the other spicy challenge stuff. I was surprised they made a āchallengeā chip actually that hot.