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I made chili which is currently simmering in the crockpot and like me, my chili often causes chaos and screaming. :)

So, how do you like your chili? Mild, Hot, Very Hot, Superheated Plasma or Goofballian Hot?

((poll forthcoming))

I like it nice and hot, hot enough you have to drink something with it.

Goofballian. But if I'm really really in the mood for spicy, it might need some more heat.

Me and my dad have done cookoffs to see if we could make the other cry. I came close on him once. Mom and sister were in tears just from the smells

Poll options are overpowered. They need to be nerfed. :p

There is onyl one way to judge chili. If it burns more coming out then it did coming in, its fine.

There is onyl one way to judge chili. If it burns more coming out then it did coming in, its fine.

Thanks for sharing! So much for having chili for dinner tonight.

Superheated Plasma for mahself. Although I once got some in my eye, which was Super Pains.

ive never seen the point of chili so hot that you cant eat it and so hot that it covers all other flavor

i like my hot food just hot enough to feel the heat in my stomach to remind me of what i ate.

Just to throw out this factoid ... capsaicin, the active ingredient in the active ingredient in all these chilis, acts directly on pain-sensing nerves in your skin and mouth and throat and wherever. While the peppers do have taste, the heat is actual pain.

Ain't Nature wonderful? :D

Just to throw out this factoid ... capsaicin, the active ingredient in the active ingredient in all these chilis, acts directly on pain-sensing nerves in your skin and mouth and throat and wherever. While the peppers do have taste, the heat is actual pain.

Ain't Nature wonderful? :D

Yeah and the pain releases endorphins which are natural pain killers.

Just to throw out this factoid ... capsaicin, the active ingredient in the active ingredient in all these chilis, acts directly on pain-sensing nerves in your skin and mouth and throat and wherever. While the peppers do have taste, the heat is actual pain.

Ain't Nature wonderful? :D

It's also great for arthritus and blood pressure

ive never seen the point of chili so hot that you cant eat it and so hot that it covers all other flavor

That depends on the recipe. My chili, first you taste the chili. Then, shortly after the point of no return, the heat begins to build. By the time you are swallowing, the heat has reached it's peak. Then your head bursts into flames. But after you smother your skull with a rug, calm down, eat about three dozen crackers to kill the burn and say a brief prayer of thanks for surviving the ordeal, you can't help but take another mouthful because it's so good! :)

don't like spicy foods... :(

I sweat when I eat spicy food and I also get tears coming out but I LOVE eating hot food so I keep eating. After that I finish it off with a bucket of water :D

I made chili which is currently simmering in the crockpot and like me, my chili often causes chaos and screaming. :)

So, how do you like your chili? Mild, Hot, Very Hot, Superheated Plasma or Goofballian Hot?

((poll forthcoming))

Goofballian hot is understrength. I'd tell you about NASian hot, but so far, the test sub- I mean tasters have all developed a peculiar case of post life.

:p

I have foregone ketchup packets in favor of Taco Bell Fire Sauce as my condiment of choice. It's pretty mild, so it makes for a great addition. As for salsa, I regularly chow down with Dave's Insanity Sauce. Eaten with corn, it makes the egress nice and cool.

don't like spicy foods... :(So you live in Europe?

I love the taste of masochism.
How does Goofballian hot compare to a scrambled egg sandwich with a few habaneros? From personal experience, that's about my upward limit (maybe a bit past it, considering the fact that I had to eat roughly half a pint of vanilla ice cream immediately afterward to calm myself down).

Hot as hell...so I can die eating it.

I'm Norwegian by descent. Sometimes ketchup is too spicy.

don't like spicy foods... :(
I don't really like spicy food either. Too hot!!:)

Goofballian eh? Sounds hot. Just the way I like my food.

It's also great for arthritus and blood pressure

HEAD ON--APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!!!

I made chili which is currently simmering in the crockpot and like me, my chili often causes chaos and screaming. :)

So, how do you like your chili? Mild, Hot, Very Hot, Superheated Plasma or Goofballian Hot?

((poll forthcoming))

Somewhere between Very Hot and Superheated Plasma. If the cook's eyes water while he's making it, it's hot enough.

Bring on the habaneros :D

I kid you not, I had a "chili adventure" with a friend.

He went to the green grocers and brought back this wicked looking chili. That thing was light green and that sucker was glowing. I think I saw a spider bite into it and then hurry off to a superhero origin.

He started chopping it up and I, as ever the voice of reason, said: "Hadn't you better taste that first? That's an awful lot of pepper if it's really hot."

Says friend, "I know what I'm doing, it's a cooking pepper, it's not that hot." And tossed the tip into his mouth -- oil, seeds, and all.

Cue friend racing around kitchen howling in pain, then diving for the sink.

Me: "NO!"

Friend gulps water -- and spreads oil over whole inside of mouth. Howls some some.

I hit him in the back of the knees with a chair, and hand him a roll. "Eat that, it will soak up the oil!"

So he eats it, and it's working, and of course his eyes are tearing from all the heat. So what does he do? Rub his eyes. With what? the fingers covered with hot pepper oils.

Cue more screaming and yelling and running around until I shove him back in the chair, and put a sopping wet cold dishrag over his eyes.

Guess who finished making the chili. :D

Guess who got the credit. :(

It has to be truly Goofballian in magnitude to even pose a challenge. 19 years of spicy foods has given me a resistance to all but the most blasphemous spawn of the capsicum genus.

As hot as is humanly possible. :) I like to use jalapeno and habanero peppers stright from the garden, rather than the pickled stuff at the supermarket which is weaker due to months in pickling solution. Peppers straight from the bush have basically no flavor - just heat, which is okay as long as the chili is otherwise flavorful.

It really depends on my mood.

Right now I need insanely spicy chili.

I kid you not, I had a "chili adventure" with a friend.

He went to the green grocers and brought back this wicked looking chili. That thing was light green and that sucker was glowing. I think I saw a spider bite into it and then hurry off to a superhero origin.

He started chopping it up and I, as ever the voice of reason, said: "Hadn't you better taste that first? That's an awful lot of pepper if it's really hot."

Says friend, "I know what I'm doing, it's a cooking pepper, it's not that hot." And tossed the tip into his mouth -- oil, seeds, and all.

Cue friend racing around kitchen howling in pain, then diving for the sink.

Me: "NO!"

Friend gulps water -- and spreads oil over whole inside of mouth. Howls some some.

I hit him in the back of the knees with a chair, and hand him a roll. "Eat that, it will soak up the oil!"

So he eats it, and it's working, and of course his eyes are tearing from all the heat. So what does he do? Rub his eyes. With what? the fingers covered with hot pepper oils.

Cue more screaming and yelling and running around until I shove him back in the chair, and put a sopping wet cold dishrag over his eyes.

Guess who finished making the chili. :D

Guess who got the credit. :(

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:)

I have a collection of dry, paste, liquid types of chili and peppers.

Most of the time I mixed them to suit the current dish.

Probably I ate around 350k SR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale) typically and up to 800k SR if I'm feeling suicidal.

(Which usually ends in sweats and tears.)

At the very least, it has to make you sweat profusely and get teary-eyed.

At the very least, it has to make you sweat profusely and get teary-eyed.

That, and generous quantities of corn. I've heard the arguments on both sides, but really, it's just gotta be there.

Kat... that's epic. I need to have my friends read that.

Yay for the Scoville Heat Unit!

I love chilli but have an unfortunate condition that stops me from having anything spicy. If I do have anything, it has to be so mild you could smear it on your eyes and not feel anything. :(

ive never seen the point of chili so hot that you cant eat it and so hot that it covers all other flavor

i like my hot food just hot enough to feel the heat in my stomach to remind me of what i ate.
totally agree - for me a chilli or curry have to be hot enough to tingle and at the end make your mouth go 'ooh i just ate spicy stuff', but not too hot or the other flavours get washed away

I like it nice and hot, hot enough you have to drink something with it.

hmm... i drink something with every meal :confused:

yyyuuuuummm chili with crips, or in an indian meal, korma, madras ahhhh the wonderful memories, my mouth is watering. I'm off to buy some chili, you are an inspiration to me.

My idea for "hot" is something in between Krakatoa and the Tsar Bomb.

I made chili which is currently simmering in the crockpot and like me, my chili often causes chaos and screaming. :)

So, how do you like your chili? Mild, Hot, Very Hot, Superheated Plasma or Goofballian Hot?

((poll forthcoming))I've never considered pain a very good flavor. It's not because I can't handle it it: I've discovered your tongue goes numb with higher amounts of spiciness, and that detracts from the taste overall.

That depends on the recipe. My chili, first you taste the chili. Then, shortly after the point of no return, the heat begins to build. By the time you are swallowing, the heat has reached it's peak. Then your head bursts into flames. But after you smother your skull with a rug, calm down, eat about three dozen crackers to kill the burn and say a brief prayer of thanks for surviving the ordeal, you can't help but take another mouthful because it's so good! :)

I'm not going to harp on about curries but rather that for me it is hard to graps you temp scale as I have nothing to compare it to...except for curries.

I don't really eat phals or vindaloos because most are awful. My home cooked curries though are not. Hot enough to ignite your lungs but delicious on the tongue.

I kid you not, I had a "chili adventure" with a friend.

He went to the green grocers and brought back this wicked looking chili. That thing was light green and that sucker was glowing. I think I saw a spider bite into it and then hurry off to a superhero origin.

He started chopping it up and I, as ever the voice of reason, said: "Hadn't you better taste that first? That's an awful lot of pepper if it's really hot."

Says friend, "I know what I'm doing, it's a cooking pepper, it's not that hot." And tossed the tip into his mouth -- oil, seeds, and all.

Cue friend racing around kitchen howling in pain, then diving for the sink.

Me: "NO!"

Friend gulps water -- and spreads oil over whole inside of mouth. Howls some some.

I hit him in the back of the knees with a chair, and hand him a roll. "Eat that, it will soak up the oil!"

So he eats it, and it's working, and of course his eyes are tearing from all the heat. So what does he do? Rub his eyes. With what? the fingers covered with hot pepper oils.

Cue more screaming and yelling and running around until I shove him back in the chair, and put a sopping wet cold dishrag over his eyes.


...at which point Johnny Cash appeared in coyote form and he went on a spiritual journey to find their soulmate.

I didn't think the Insanity Pepper actually existed...

Did something similarly stupid, rubbed my eyes at work once after chopping up some jalapenos. Disappear for around 15 minutes, lose both my contacts, and my ever-caring boss' first question is "can you still work?"

I looked like I'd been maced for the rest of the day.

I don't eat much chili. Of course, no one up here knows how to make it properly (beans go on the side not in the pot, goddamit!)

I like my chili trans-goofballian hot. Which happens to be what I am cooking tonight. Please disregard any mushroom clouds that may appear over upstate New York for the next 24 hours. Thank you.

So you live in Europe?
*Looks at location on the left side of the screen.*
er...

no. ;)

I kid you not, I had a "chili adventure" with a friend.

He went to the green grocers and brought back this wicked looking chili. That thing was light green and that sucker was glowing. I think I saw a spider bite into it and then hurry off to a superhero origin.

He started chopping it up and I, as ever the voice of reason, said: "Hadn't you better taste that first? That's an awful lot of pepper if it's really hot."

Says friend, "I know what I'm doing, it's a cooking pepper, it's not that hot." And tossed the tip into his mouth -- oil, seeds, and all.

Cue friend racing around kitchen howling in pain, then diving for the sink.

Me: "NO!"

Friend gulps water -- and spreads oil over whole inside of mouth. Howls some some.

I hit him in the back of the knees with a chair, and hand him a roll. "Eat that, it will soak up the oil!"

So he eats it, and it's working, and of course his eyes are tearing from all the heat. So what does he do? Rub his eyes. With what? the fingers covered with hot pepper oils.

Cue more screaming and yelling and running around until I shove him back in the chair, and put a sopping wet cold dishrag over his eyes.

Guess who finished making the chili. :D

Guess who got the credit. :(

LOL!

Our local curry shop had the following on their menu.

Spice chart
level 1 = mild (for the kiddies.)
level 2 = Normal (Some spice)
level 3 = Hot (mild burn)
level 4 = very Hot (yes, that's the reason why there is a pitcher on the table)
level 5 = not recommended for first time curry eaters
level 6 = must provide proof that you are a seasoned curry eater
level 7 = causes heart palpitation and respatory problems
level 8 = a waiver must be signed before this is served
level 9 = Don't worry, an ambulance will be called for you.

So you live in Europe?

Statement makes... no sense... must... resist... exploding head...


I'm not much of a chili (the dish) eater, however, my personal recipe for tomato sauce says that enough pepper should be added to make the sauce visibly darker. Then chili (the spice) is added.

level 8 = a waiver must be signed before this is served

I had to sign one of those once - for chicken wings. Thanks to copious amounts of water, Pepsi, and insanity, I survived ten of them.

On the Scoville scale, I believe they were 150,000 Scoville units in heat.

I had to sign one of those once - for chicken wings. Thanks to copious amounts of water, Pepsi, and insanity, I survived ten of them.

On the Scoville scale, I believe they were 150,000 Scoville units in heat.
Ooh, was that a place where if you eat ten of the atomic wings then you get your name on a plaque on the wall? I just read about that in New Scientist. Also, they mentioned the hottest chili in the world called the Bhut Jolokia with a Scoville Heat Unit rating of over a million. One of those in your chili, possibly topped with some pepper spray, and I think you may die.

Also yes, this is what the New Scientist has reduced itself to.

On the Scoville scale, I believe they were 150,000 Scoville units in heat.

:confused:

Funny, that I could withstand easily, yet I simply have little tolerance for hi-sweet foods. To add perspective, I consider a glazed donut deadly sweet and twinkies are headache inducing poison (Room goes spinning, gums like it has gone through a recently sharpened grater).

Ooh, was that a place where if you eat ten of the atomic wings then you get your name on a plaque on the wall? I just read about that in New Scientist. Also, they mentioned the hottest chili in the world called the Bhut Jolokia with a Scoville Heat Unit rating of over a million. One of those in your chili, possibly topped with some pepper spray, and I think you may die.

Also yes, this is what the New Scientist has reduced itself to.

I don't know about a plaque on the wall, but I ate ten wings (yes, they were called Atomic wings) and I got a bumper sticker on my car, so people passing me can tell I'm a masochist.

Trust me. The Atomic Wings Survivor bumber sticker right next to a Miami Dolphins sticker tells everyone on the road I have a very high tolerance for pain.

As for that chili...I read about some kind of pepper that's a specially-grown habanero in India that reaches above a million Scoville units. That could be what they use for that chili. Whatever it is, pass the crackers and ice water.

:confused:

Funny, that I could withstand easily, yet I simply have little tolerance for hi-sweet foods. (Room goes spinning, gums like it has gone through a recently sharpened grater).

I can empathize with sugar buzzes...strangely I can tolerate soda in large quantities, but after a night of drinking sparkling grape juice (I don't drink alcohol but never did mid sugar) I started getting dizzy spells the next morning. It wasn't fun.

I don't know about a plaque on the wall, but I ate ten wings (yes, they were called Atomic wings) and I got a bumper sticker on my car, so people passing me can tell I'm a masochist.

Trust me. The Atomic Wings Survivor bumber sticker right next to a Miami Dolphins sticker tells everyone on the road I have a very high tolerance for pain.

As for that chili...I read about some kind of pepper that's a specially-grown habanero in India that reaches above a million Scoville units. That could be what they use for that chili. Whatever it is, pass the crackers and ice water.
Oh no, I meant the chili pepper itself, not a chili con carne. The place mentioned is in Pennsylvania, it's called Quaker Steak & Lube. It sounds awesome, though your average vindaloo will destroy me and that's only 20,000 SHUs. I fail :(

Oh no, I meant the chili pepper itself, not a chili con carne. The place mentioned is in Pennsylvania, it's called Quaker Steak & Lube. It sounds awesome, though your average vindaloo will destroy me and that's only 20,000 SHUs. I fail :(

They have those here in Ohio, where I'm from - and that's where I ate them. My wife almost became ill watching me.

As for the chili pepper...it must have been the one I read about. I found it on Wikipedia - the hottest pepper known to man.