Hottest food you have eaten

[SpencerPJ]

I like my cheese and crackers as a snack. Let me tell ya, for $1.99 a pack, this brings a tear with every cracker.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

Fiery foods show here in ABQ one year. Guys in fireman suits handing out samples, a single drop on a crouton. It was a good 20 minutes before I regained composure. Now I know how bear spray works. I grow habaneros, jalapenos, anaheims and serranos, but the extracts now are ridiculous.

My salsa garden doing OK this year, another batch this weekend.



Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[JudyJB]

Mine was take-out Thai food when I worked in an office. Coworker made the run that day and did not remember i wanted my food mild with the spices on the side, so he ordered mine "hot" which I managed somehow to eat. (If you ever get too hot Thai food, a fix is to put a teaspoon of brown sugar in it. It reduces the heat.)

 

[DonTom]

What is called "Thai Hot". The tongue will burn for a good hour!

I like spicy, but "Thai Hot" is way over my limit.

-Don- Cherokee, CA (where?)

 

[Tulecreeper]

Dave's Insanity Sauce - 180,000 Scoville Units

 

[ferfer]

Mark, are the red small round Chiltepin Peppers?

As far as hot spicy food I have trouble getting it hot enough. Yes, I realize I am way outside the bell curve population comfort zone with spice, including my husband.

Jennifer

 

[Ray-IN]

I like hot sauces, but they must also have a taste, otherwise they are an exercise in foolishness. IMO.
At 82 I'm about done with hot sauces, well_ my stomach is anyway. This is my fare these days.

 

[DonTom]

I like hot sauces, but they must also have a taste, otherwise they are an exercise in foolishness.

I agree.

But to me, Tabasco is hot and tasteless. I won't use it on anything.

I like curries the most, ever since the very first time I tried it in an Indian Restaurant in San Francisco around 50 years ago. Tommy's idea to go there. At the time, I didn't even know curry existed!

Since then, I have had perhaps every type of curry made. I like them all very much.

But I think Thai curries top my list.

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[8Muddypaws]

Dave's Insanity is hot but actually edible if you're a crazy pepper head like me. I use it with restraint and respect. I have a half bottle of Dave's. I can't believe I've actually used that much.

But 'this' stuff is way hotter IMHO.

I collect hot sauces.

 

[old_toys]

everything past black pepper!!!

 

[Larry N.]

When I lived in Albuquerque I occasionally ate hot stuff at certain restaurants, to the point that the top of my (bald) head was perspiring heavily (milk helps reduce the discomfort) but it all had an excellent flavor, New Mexico style, which is generally different from most other areas that I've been. That wonderful combination of great flavor with the spicy heat spoiled me for "Mexican" food in other styles, but the "505" brand of green chile sauce is very reminiscent of those days and we use it a lot.

Unfortunately we don't dare go past the "medium" hot these days, since the old bods are much less tolerant.

 

[Oldgator73]

When we lived in Japan we would go to a curry restaurant downtown. Thay only had curry and it numbered 1-25. I being the mildest and 25 the hottest. I would order maybe a 5 and it was screaming hot. Guy in our shop order a 25 one day and the owner said no, Americans cannot handle anything that hot. I think he ended up with a number 10 and he could barely eat it.

 

[rjshiflet]

I love spicy foods, but I dislike pain. Jalapeno is about my limit...I steer clear of habanero and anything with "reaper" in the name.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

The veggies in my photo above aren't all peppers, there are also tomatoes that go with the salsa recipe. The little roma's have the "body" but I had so many of the little red and yellow cherry tomatoes this year I decided to mix them in and man, is it good. Not shown are onions, cilantro, and the spices I add in.

I too am in the camp that the goal isn't pain. That's why I don't like most extracts, I like how the peppers themselves contribute their own unique flavor. Larger peppers like the big jim, anaheims and jalapenos I'll roast sometimes, toss 'em right onto hot wood coals until they blister, then peel. Nothing better. Chile season is well underway here and you can smell the roasters going at the grocery stores. That's the smell of fall for me.

the "505" brand of green chile sauce is very reminiscent of those days and we use it a lot.

505 sauce is pretty good. Look for Young Guns chile in the small jugs, I'll bet you can find it in CO. It's just roasted chile (not a sauce or salsa) and the closest thing I've found to growing and roasting my own. Their red is good too.



Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[Oldgator73]

Jalapeno is about my limit.

Jalapeño’s are hit and miss. Some are no hotter than a bell pepper and some almost equal to habaneros. I was making pico de gallo the other day and added one medium sized jalapeño. It was super hot.

 

[Tulecreeper]

I like hot sauces, but they must also have a taste, otherwise they are an exercise in foolishness. IMO.
At 82 I'm about done with hot sauces, well_ my stomach is anyway. This is my fare these days.

I agree.

But to me, Tabasco is hot and tasteless. I won't use it on anything.

I like curries the most, ever since the very first time I tried it in an Indian Restaurant in San Francisco around 50 years ago. Tommy's idea to go there. At the time, I didn't even know curry existed!

Since then, I have had perhaps every type of curry made. I like them all very much.

But I think Thai curries top my list.

-Don- Auburn, CA

No disrespect to Ray, but I agree. Tabasco is, to me, just vinegar with cayenne pepper added. Maybe I got 'burned out' on it in my Navy career because every dang MRE had a little bottle of it included. You have to use it otherwise there wasn't much flavor to your meal.

 

[DonTom]

I like curries the most, ever since the very first time I tried it in an Indian Restaurant in San Francisco around 50 years ago. Tommy's idea to go there. At the time, I didn't even know curry existed!

I just now realized that was the only restaurant that I know of that lasted longer than Tom & I were together. Early 1970s for Gaylords. Still in business today. Tommy died in late 2016, and we have been together since late 1974.

Not counting the very first McDonald's I watched them build in Belmont, CA when I was around 10 years old. It is still there on the same lot, but much larger than then when the sign said "more than a million served". I still recall asking my buddy how can they claim they sold a million when they were not even open yet. I had no idea then it was a large chain franchise, and that they were open in other areas. Foster Freeze was the burger joint before McDonald's took away around 99 percent of their business.

MCD: 522 El Camino Real, Belmont, CA, 94002.

No way would a reasonable person wait in the MCD line back then. But it helped that they came out to take orders from the line that was probably more than a half mile long down El Camino Real after they first opened. No credit or debit cards back then (1959). Cash or checks were normally required everywhere to pay for things.

However, I cannot be sure if Gayloard's in SF is the same place. I think it used to be right on Broadway, 1.5 miles away. Now 620 Jones's Street, if the same place.

Tom & I were always looking for an anniversary restaurant close to where we lived at the time in South San Francisco, CA.

SSF is in a different county than SF with a few towns in between. San Mateo County. We refused to use our legal marriage date of July 5, 2013. We used the day we met, one day after Xmas (Dec 26, 1974).

The paper marriage was useless to us other than for the countless benefits which, are more than a thousand. I saw the list back then.

This even includes after he died, because, until the end of the year. I was able to avoid tax for up to 500 K$ when married, and only over 250 K$ if not married after Jan 1, 2017. This was from selling the house in South San Francisco. I had to sell it by the end of the year or pay tax on another 250K$.

When I sold the SSF house then and started to live mainly here in Reno as I was buying the house in Auburn, CA. I still had the house in Cold Springs Valley as well, but I sold that house when the HOA there gave me trouble and I purchased my Class A with some of that cash.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[DonTom]

You have to use it otherwise there wasn't much flavor to your meal.

If no taste to me, I would rather eat the MREs with nothing on anything. But I enjoy the cheese for the crackers.

When I was in Vietnam, it was only C-rats when in the jungles, 3 meals a day of C-rats. It was very rare for us to run out of food or water, but it has happened a couple of times. We had a very strict rule--- "he who humps the food and water gets to eat or drink it." All the others who ran out can all starve unless unless a serious emergency of some type.

When the supplies came in (by choppers like the one @HueyPilotVN flew). We normally could get as many C-rats as we want. I always stocked up on my cans of Ham & Eggs. Not great, other than when food supplies are very low. Usually because of the choppers being shot at and they leave, unlike in some movies. The same goes for rain. They do NOT fly choppers in the rain.

The canned ham & eggs I could tolerate, unlike many others. A very small can that was easy to "hump" as we called it.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[John From Detroit]

Hottest I ever had was some Chili I made following a recipe for award winning chili Vino was the name Alas can not find on that reminds me of it.

Entered my version of it in a camp ground cookoff.. Won 2nd prize (too hot for 1st) But I watched one man take a bite of assorted chili. No major facial changes.. he got to mine.. He broke out in a sweat. Grabbed his drink... Got the most beautiful look I've ever seen on a man's face.. And had some more (That was my real prize.)

It was almost too hot for me. I liked it hot back then.

Today I don't like the Real Hot so much... I'd rather taste the underlying flavors.
But hey.. IT's fun.

My daughter ... well she makes me look like a piker when it comes to hot food.,

 

[Onyrlef]

If no taste to me, I would rather eat the MREs with nothing on anything. But I enjoy the cheese for the crackers.

When I was in Vietnam, it was only C-rats when in the jungles, 3 meals a day of C-rats. It was very rare for us to run out of food or water, but it has happened a couple of times. We had a very strict rule--- "he who humps the food and water gets to eat or drink it." All the others who ran out can all starve unless unless a serious emergency of some type.

When the supplies came in (by choppers like the one @HueyPilotVN flew). We normally could get as many C-rats as we want. I always stocked up on my cans of Ham & Eggs. Not great, other than when food supplies are very low. Usually because of the choppers being shot at and they leave, unlike in some movies. The same goes for rain. They do NOT fly choppers in the rain.

The canned ham & eggs I could tolerate, unlike many others. A very small can that was easy to "hump" as we called it.

-Don- Reno, NV

You are literally the first human being I have ever heard say he liked the ham & eggs. Thing I liked about them was they were zero sum, packed with them were canned peaches, currency for trading.