What was your spiciest food ever?

3-09-2008 @3:12AM TDawgardener said... My friends there is no heat like Mexican heat. About 30 miles south of Mexico City there is a little cafe' that serves a smoked cayenne pepper Chilli. That will blister the atomic wing, turn suicide BBQ sauce into ketchup, and smother all other hot sauces. It is a beanless Chilli, just ground beef and sausage, onion, some green pepper, cellery simmered in the hottest red sauce I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. It is served with all the straight from the oven cornbread you can eat, and napkins a plenty. But no sour cream. Some salad and a nice glass of wine. For dessert just a few bittersweet chocolates. Just the thought of that meal makes this American's mouth water.
I go to Mexico City two or three times a year. The short drive to the cafe' is one that I always look forward to. One day ( by hook or by crook) I will get the recipe for this delictable dish, and bring it back to the states.
Then my hot pepper eating brothers you are invited to Ohio. For it will be there and Ol' Mexico that you will find the spiciest pepper dish in the whole world.
Understand though, when your done and you think your butt is on fire and you head is a cetchin'. DO NOT blame it on the TDawg. Give your thanks to Ol' Mexico.
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3-09-2008 @5:06AM chuck said... There was a small Vietnamese restaurant in San Pedro that had two glass jars of hot sauce at each table. The green stuff was hot, but not nuclear. The red sauce was flat-out scary. It looked like strawberry jam, with seeds, and it even smelled sweet. But holy cripes was it HOT! The owner/cook warned customers not to bite down on the seeds, for good reason. If you did, it felt like a soldering iron on your tongue.

One afternoon this biker and his buddies came in for lunch. The place served burgers for lunch, which they all ordered. One of the biker's friends warned him about the red sauce, which only made him want to show how tough he was, and he smothered the burger with the red sauce. Everyone else in the place was a regular customer, so we all knew what was coming next. After a few bites, the biker's face went beet red, he started sweating, and tears were running down his face. He tried to play it cool for about ten seconds, then gagged and ran to the bathroom. He was still in there when I left a half hour later. Hell, he may STLL be in there.
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3-09-2008 @3:21PM Numb said... Two things:
-First off, my girlfriend and I tried a *tiny* sliver of raw scotch bonnet (habanero) once just to be able to judge the heat and flavor. Wow it was hot - but we both agree that the actual pepper flavor we got before the heat kicked in was absolutely the best of the peppers/chiles we'd tried.

-Secondly, a small buffalo wing chain near us sells a "flatliner" wing that you have to sign a waiver to be able to order. It's unholy hot, instantly scorching every inch of your mouth and throat (and continuing to burn for hours)... but sadly the flavor is pretty terrible. It tastes much more of 'chemical heat' than any actual pepper. :(
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3-09-2008 @3:22PM Numb said... Two things:
-First off, my girlfriend and I tried a *tiny* sliver of raw scotch bonnet (habanero) once just to be able to judge the heat and flavor. Wow it was hot - but we both agree that the actual pepper flavor we got before the heat kicked in was absolutely the best of the peppers/chiles we'd tried.

-Secondly, a small buffalo wing chain near us sells a "flatliner" wing that you have to sign a waiver to be able to order. It's unholy hot, instantly scorching every inch of your mouth and throat (and continuing to burn for hours)... but sadly the flavor is pretty terrible. It tastes much more of 'chemical heat' than any actual pepper. :(
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3-10-2008 @7:27AM Mike said... Last summer I was curious and took a sizeable bite of a habeñero. Probably the spiciest (most stupid) thing I've eaten.

I use vanilla ice cream.
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3-10-2008 @12:12PM Jason Levine said... My hottest dish was a single bite taken years ago of horseradish during Passover. We were over at a friend's house for the Sedar and they served horseradish. Now this looked just like the jarred stuff which tends to be extremely mild. So I took a large forkful of it and stuffed it in my mouth. Turns out it was fresh!!! My eyes watered, my muscles spasmed, I barely kept from spewing it all over the table. In other words, I fell in love instantly. ;-)

After that, I became known at college for doing "Sedar shots" at our annual mock sedars. I'd take the tiny cups of white jarred horseradish (a bit hotter than the beet juice mixed variety) and would down it in one gulp while my peers cheered me on.

I also tried to make fresh horseradish once but it was a disaster. Between the horseradish fumes making my father and I flee the kitchen every minute and the air mixing into the resulting horseradish, the resulting horseradish had no kick at all. It was even milder than the jarred stuff.

A runner up for my favorite spicy food would be the Hot and Spicy Pickles from NYC Pickle Guys: http://www.nycpickleguys.com/pickles.php
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3-12-2008 @12:24AM Eric said... hottest thing i have ever eaten was this hot sauce called Satins Blood chile pepper extract it is THE hottest thing you will ever eat it has a rating of 800,000pu on the pepper scale, this is much higher than even habenero peppers which have an average rating of 200,000-300,000pu if u love hot things try it if u hate them this is hell on earth lol my mouth was on fire for 3 hours!!!
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