Whats Your Level of Spiciness?

rhinefire said:

There is one in Houston that offers 1-10. I get 3. I can't imagine eating a 10.

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Oh, my--10?! I think I could probably handle a 5, but I've never dared. Much higher and I think my innards would cook.

Thermonuclear.




I've got a jar of powdered Moruga Scorpion Pepper on my desk for meals..... a jar of Carolina Reaper paste in the fridge, which is supposed to be used to make hot sauce but which I simply add directly to things. Also, powdered Carolina Reaper for other applications.

Got a gallon and a half of bagged Ghost Chilis I grew last year in the freezer that I've been going through.

I've got a bottle of vodka in the freezer in which I floated about 40 dried ghost chilis and some other peppers. That was years ago. They've since liquified. I add some of that to a Bloody Mary if I want it to be painful.

But then, I was allowed to grow habeneros in the family garden in 6th grade and I've been steadily eating them since. Tolerance builds...

(Though to be exact, I thought pepper spray was around 5,500,000 scoville....whereas the hottest pepper currently cultivated - Carolina Reaper - averages around 1.5 million with a max of around 2.2 million recorded)





All that said: I add this stuff to food. I'm not one of those people who will record themselves eating a whole pepper and put it online (nor will I eat a whole pepper in prviate). That's just pointless misery.

PoS said:

No, this isnt about your sex appeal, this is about how much spice you can take while eating. :mrgreen:

1 None: cannot eat anything spicy, Bell peppers only.
2 Mild: a few drops of Tabasco sauce and youre out
3 Mild-Medium: Poblano
4 Medium: Jalapeno
5 Medium Hot: Serrano
6 Hot: Cayenne/Thai pepper
7 Very Hot Habanero
8 Nuclear: Military Grade Pepper spray

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Not really sure, all of those peppers have varying degrees of spiciness. I once at a curry that was "Indian hot," from a restaurant (On a scale that went mild, medium, hot, and Indian hot). I was fine (though sweating), but frankly the spice level just detracted from the delicious spices. So while I like spicy things, I think at some point it just makes the dish kind of "meh." So I'll go with (6) in terms of preference, but I can 7, maybe 8.

using the taco bell standard

fire is good

diablo is too much

PoS said:

No, this isnt about your sex appeal, this is about how much spice you can take while eating. :mrgreen:

1 None: cannot eat anything spicy, Bell peppers only.
2 Mild: a few drops of Tabasco sauce and youre out
3 Mild-Medium: Poblano
4 Medium: Jalapeno
5 Medium Hot: Serrano
6 Hot: Cayenne/Thai pepper
7 Very Hot Habanero
8 Nuclear: Military Grade Pepper spray

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I'm not a huge fan of super-spicy food. I've got a sensitive stomach, so it just makes me sick after a certain point.

However, I've been known to eat, and even enjoy, hot wings on occasion, so long as they're paired with beer, ranch, or blue cheese. My range in those tends to be around either "The General," or "Red Dragon" on the Wild Wings Cafe scale.

My friends and I do have a running game going though, where one of us has to eat at least ONE "Braveheart" wing every time we go. Lemme tell ya, those things basically taste like pure pepper spray, and cause any sensitive skin they touch to burn, as well as your mouth (I once made the mistake of trying to show off with a plate of them on a date - never again :lol: ).

I'll also eat a spicy red thai curry every now and then.

Generally speaking, however, all of those are a bit much for regular meals. A couple dabs of Sriracha is where I usually draw the line for enjoyable everyday consumption.

I like every dish hot