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My sister-in-law, who's originally from Iowa lived in Carolina, and now lives with my brother back in Iowa, has inadvertently raised my hackles and caused me to promise to bring down a reign of hot chili pepper hell on her tounge. (The blasphemous witch claimed they have real picante sauce in Iowa!)

I am currentlt threatening to unleash my Yankee Killer Chili on her the next time I'm home unless she recants.


In that spirit, what are your favorite hot and spicy foods?

Anything hot and spicy. Really. I can eat anything if it is hot an spicy.
I usually get a good cry in, too.

Clears up the sinuses if y'all are sick.

"Do you like your food hot and spicy? In what way?"

Oh, absolutely! She was really ... uh ... nevermind. :D

I grow habanero peppers, I keep plenty of pickled tabasco peppers handy, and even use them instead of olives in my martinis sometimes. I keep a nice assortment of hot sauces in my kitchen. Yeah, I like spicy food.

The only time I ate a Phall I was disappointed. It wasn't even as hot as the previous Vindaloo I'd eaten :(

Still, if you've got a cold a decent curry or a raw (decently hot) chilli will unbung your head nicely.

My chili is pretty spicey, so spicey in fact that when it's cooking if you come into the kitchen your eyes water, it tastes great though.

I like to make enchilada's that are pretty spicey too, the spice hits you after you swallow those though.

My heartburn spaghetti is mildly spicey but comes with tums as a side dish, you don't really realize how spicey it is until about 25min after you eat it and the heartburn sets in. ;)



did I mention that my kids had thier first jalepenos at 6 months, and that my 2 year old can pop habenero's like they are candy? it's freaky really.

I'm an ametur chef, and I just dreamed up a new recipie! its a variation of hot & spicy ramen noodles, exept with small shrimps and a bit of aged cheddar melted into the broth.

Sound good?

I love very spicy peppers with mild or agreeable flavors. Habanero for example. Scotch Bonnets are good too. Chipotle(a smoked jalapeno) has a wonderful flavor and is very mild.

However, I hate regular jalapeno peppers. I don't care for the flavor and they aren't spicy enough to impart their power to a recipe without dominating the dish with their flavor.

I cook with this:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/hotsaucecatalog_1881_9079048

Or with fresh peppers when I can get em. Hard to find.

I love very spicy peppers with mild or agreeable flavors. Habanero for example. Scotch Bonnets are good too. Chipotle(a smoked jalapeno) has a wonderful flavor and is very mild.

However, I hate regular jalapeno peppers. I don't care for the flavor and they aren't spicy enough to impart their power to a recipe without dominating the dish with their flavor.

I cook with this:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/hotsaucecatalog_1881_9079048

Or with fresh peppers when I can get em. Hard to find.
You should grow your own. Just six Habanero plants, well cared for, will produce a shitload of peppers all summer long. I dry those that I don't give away or have made into sauce or use fresh. That way I've got habaneros year round.

I enjoy hot and spicy food, but only to a certain point.
A mixture of flavors and spices is what makes a dish good, or how certain flavors blend with others.

Making something so hot, all you taste is napalm, isnt good cooking, its a lack of skill.
Hot is fine, as long as I can taste everything else in the dish.

Making chili so hot you have to soak your ass in a cold tub the next day, isnt.

My two personal favorites have both high heat and great flavor. Heat is pretty useless if you can't taste the food.

I like Thai curry, a great combination of hot and spicy with good textures and flavors. Cocnut milk makes it perfect.

Jamaican style jerk is really good too. Hot and spicy, but preserves the flavor of the item, very good on chicken served with rice.

You should grow your own. Just six Habanero plants, well cared for, will produce a shitload of peppers all summer long. I dry those that I don't give away or have made into sauce or use fresh. That way I've got habaneros year round.
my kids and I are planting a veggie garden for homeschool this spring, we were going to do tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, ect. are peppers easy to grow?

it would save us a lot of grocery $$ and I really wanted 1 more plant.

I enjoy hot and spicy food, but only to a certain point.
A mixture of flavors and spices is what makes a dish good, or how certain flavors blend with others.

Making something so hot, all you taste is napalm, isnt good cooking, its a lack of skill.
Hot is fine, as long as I can taste everything else in the dish.

Making chili so hot you have to soak your ass in a cold tub the next day, isnt.

Exactly. Heat that overpowers flavor is just masochism. I want flavor AND power. *nod*

You should grow your own. Just six Habanero plants, well cared for, will produce a shitload of peppers all summer long. I dry those that I don't give away or have made into sauce or use fresh. That way I've got habaneros year round.

I'm considering it. My wife and I are considering a small garden. Do rabbits eat peppers? They sure did a number on our strawberries last year. :p

the type of spice (or blend of spices) I really like is curry... i absolutely adore curry.

my kids and I are planting a veggie garden for homeschool this spring, we were going to do tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, ect. are peppers easy to grow?

it would save us a lot of grocery $$ and I really wanted 1 more plant.
I've never had any problems with them. They're easier than Tomatos IMHO.

I've never had any problems with them. They're easier than Tomatos IMHO.
cool. Tomatoes are a pain when you are getting them started, but the reward is worth the work LOL

I'm considering it. My wife and I are considering a small garden. Do rabbits eat peppers? They sure did a number on our strawberries last year. :p
I don't know. There aren't many rabbits in the part of town where I live. People have small yards and fences and walls abound. It's kinda urban. My mom's house is in the suburbs, and she's got rabbits that visit, but she doesn't grow hot peppers.

I do know that some bugs nibbled at the leaves, but they didn't do much damage. The plants produced just fine without any pesticides.

I like slightly spicy food. More than some people can eat, but less than a lot of people. However, I certainly don't know how to measure spiciness in terms of peppers. Are peppers really the only source of hot spiciness anyway?

I don't like spicy foods...


infact, I'm leaving this thread... it's giving me heartburn... :(

I like slightly spicy food. More than some people can eat, but less than a lot of people. However, I certainly don't know how to measure spiciness in terms of peppers. Are peppers really the only source of hot spiciness anyway?
Peppers contain capsaicin, which causes the burning sensation. AFAIK no other plant produces it.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f293/DubyaGoat/hotsauce.jpg


And others here:
http://www.firegirl.com/hot-sauce.html

I don't know any of the terms so I voted for Jalapenis

Last Christmas, me and my sisters boyfriend (who is, oh, 15 years older than me) had a series competitions: Who could the most /hot salsa dip on one chip/peppers/jalapeno/red cabbage (never got that one). I have never seen a grown man cry as much as he did. I seriously haven't seen that, I was too busy being tear-eyed myself to see anything.

I don't recommend it.

I like some mildly spicy food. General Tso's is about as spicy as I get, though. Much past that, and after a few bites I don't taste anything. My husband, on the other hand, just LOVES extremely spicy food. So I just improvise. For instance, I make tacos, and I use about half the seasoning the recipie calls for initially, and then after I've taken my taco meat out, I put all the rest onto his meat. So mine is nice and mild, and his is extra spicy, and we both come out happy.

Except he has to go brush his teeth before he can get a kiss.

I don't know any of the terms so I voted for JalapenisThe burning cock pepper, also known as the clapfruit. Very nice.

The burning cock pepper, also known as the clapfruit. Very nice.
Put it in your mouth. It's HOT!

I like slightly spicy food. More than some people can eat, but less than a lot of people. However, I certainly don't know how to measure spiciness in terms of peppers. Are peppers really the only source of hot spiciness anyway?

One of the best, but not the only one.

You can use ginger(or galangal), mace, peppercorn (not the same as chiles), to name a few.

the type of spice (or blend of spices) I really like is curry... i absolutely adore curry.
Curry? Care to get any more specific? There are like a bajillion kinds from quite a few regions...

Anyway, I love hot food, I reckon the chilli makes the food taste better. As long as it's not too hot. Like... bite down on a Thai bird's eye chilli hot. My parents actually get special chillis at the local Indian grocery, hotter than the usual ones they sell. *shudder* I bit down on one by accident and i was hiccuping and crying for twenty minutes. :p

For my boyfriend, the hotter it is the better. He's been buying habanero sauces and phall curries from eBay (and is searching for hotter stuff there), and if he can get such things in a restaurant, he almost without fail will.

I'm a little bit calmer; I like medium spiced curries such as baltis and chilli masallas. Also love jalapenos, both in Mexican food and additional to pepperoni on pizzas. Fantastic!

My sister-in-law, who's originally from Iowa lived in Carolina, and now lives with my brother back in Iowa, has inadvertently raised my hackles and caused me to promise to bring down a reign of hot chili pepper hell on her tounge. (The blasphemous witch claimed they have real picante sauce in Iowa!)

I am currentlt threatening to unleash my Yankee Killer Chili on her the next time I'm home unless she recants.


In that spirit, what are your favorite hot and spicy foods?
Depends on my mood. Born in Texas, so I was gnawing on jalapenos from an early age. Moved to Louisiana when I was six, so I transferred over to cayenne peppers and Tabasco sauce, and Tony Chachere's seasoning. Spent some time in New Mexico so I have a fervent love for green chilies.

I have to be careful when I cook, though. I have to tame it for company, because otherwise they cry, and it's sad to see them weep between bites. It doesn't stop them from eating it, mind you--they just bitch a lot.

I'm strange (I know, big news story there). I dislike peppers and onions. I won't even eat bell pepers. I like my salsa mild and go for the non-spicy stuff.

But then I turn around and eat kimchi and curry so hot that everyone around me is left gasping and I prefer four alarm chilie. Actually, Smunkeeville's cooking sounds wonderful.

Sadly though, I'm in a land of people who's only outlet for spicy is wasabi. I don't know how many times I've been warned against a food (Because it's supposedly so spicy) just to find out it barely gives a tingle. :(

And once, when I worked at the Mexican restaurant, we had a pepper eating contest for Cinco de Mayo. We had some old jalapenos that had been in a jar for years and we pulled them out to get rid of them. The winner(?) ate something like 92 peppers in 2 minutes. When we rang the bell, he swallowed one last time, then did this little "hunh" thing, and pepper juice and seeds came out of his nose. It was nasty.

My sister-in-law, who's originally from Iowa lived in Carolina, and now lives with my brother back in Iowa, has inadvertently raised my hackles and caused me to promise to bring down a reign of hot chili pepper hell on her tounge. (The blasphemous witch claimed they have real picante sauce in Iowa!)

I am currentlt threatening to unleash my Yankee Killer Chili on her the next time I'm home unless she recants.


In that spirit, what are your favorite hot and spicy foods?
I don't actually like tobasco sauce but i like that level of heat usually. Sometimes more, sometimes less. My dad and I like the heat.
I'm from Oklahoma so I get some decently hot foods here. Not the best but what can you do?

I live in the Asian food capital of the world, Hong Kong.
So it's fair to say I've had my share of spicy foods and enjoyed them all, especially Thai and Indian (Southern Indian, Nepalese and Goan isn't that spicy). Morocan's quite nice as well.

I've only ever come across one that I couldn't handle:
Sichuan hotpot I ordered when in Shenzhen (southern China).
Mongolian hotpot (as nice as it is) is bland and uninteresting by comparison. The chief ingredient of Sichuan hotpot is chilli. If you find anything else in there, it probably fell in by accident. Any chicken pieces I'm certain were thrown in as a whole live chicken but just disintergrated due to the chilli in there.

Me and my ex (who's Chinese) ordered the mild and stressed 'mild'. They brought out a large wok with at least 1/4 inch of chilli oil floating on top of the broth. We started picking out the chillis (fresh and dried - the fresh were tiny, so I assume haberno or something similar). I counted over 100. This was a hotpot for two. My ex complained and said we wanted mild. They told her that was mild (!), which almost made me want to order the hot to see if it was possible to cram even more chillis into an iron wok without them melting through the base (and prob continuing til it got to Earth's centre).
I managed to eat a bit, of which I feel proud. Meanwhile locals were sitting round us wolfing theirs down. How I have no idea.

This site has a good description of it:
http://www.gluckman.com/SichuanFood.html

So if you like spicy and consider yourself of good consitution, I recommend (gleefully) trying authentic Sichuan Hotpot. It's the ultimate challenge.

I don't actually like tobasco sauce but i like that level of heat usually. Sometimes more, sometimes less. My dad and I like the heat.
I'm from Oklahoma so I get some decently hot foods here. Not the best but what can you do?
someone else from Oklahoma :eek: that makes like 8 of us now......maybe more.... weird......