I like it HOT!

Danger2OneSelf
Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Anyone else? I'm beginning to seriously think I have some kind of an addiction to heat in my food. I've always like spicy food but the last couple years it's like I can't live out felling that burn with every bite. I'm not talking about your typical dash or franks or cayenne either.

At first I was just different kinds of hot sauce then I graduated to cayenne pepper and after hearing about the benefits of cayenne I was using extreme amounts of it. I'm talking 2 table spoons in a bowl of soup. It killed me at first but I enjoy that pain for some reason. I mean dripping sweat-red-face kinda pain.

I've recently gotten pretty accustomed to the heat of cayenne and it didn't really phase me anymore. So I decided to look online for hotter sources and found this stuff called MadDog 357. It's a hot sauce made from pepper extract and it gets it's name from the heat level scoring 357,000 scoville units, which is about 2x as hot as straight habenaro peppers. This stuff put's me in my place ever time. It's made me miserable a few times where I honestly was in so much pain I could hardly stand it....but I always go back to the crap for some reason lol....I'm starting to think I need to find a support group.

Anyone else completely obsessed with spicy food?
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  • Docmahi
    Docmahi Posts: 1,603 Member
    yeah I have to put hot sauce on virtually everything lol

    I'm a lot better about it now then I was 10ish years ago, but i still have to keep like 10+ varieties of hot sauce on deck at all times
  • urglewurgle
    urglewurgle Posts: 224 Member
    We've just finished a pot of ghost chili flakes... Now that stuff's hot! Tasty though too...
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    Yikes! Is that just stright ghost pepper flakes? I know what ghost peppers are :explode: but never heard of flakes....that one might hurt another hole the next day.... :laugh:
  • andersonjo0306
    andersonjo0306 Posts: 304 Member
    Yikes! Is that just stright ghost pepper flakes? I know what ghost peppers are :explode: but never heard of flakes....that one might hurt another hole the next day.... :laugh:

    The hotter the better. I have found that since I have been tracking everything. I have been craving the heat
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    My husband used to be like that. He still is somewhat, but he's gotten better since I've been doing the cooking. I really think eating that much heat dulls your taste for other things so that you crave the heat because you just can't savor the more subtle flavor of food anymore.

    I like spicy food, but when it gets to the point that all you can taste is heat, I'm out.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,393 Member
    Okay, I have a follow-up question:

    If you are in a relationship, do the other person's eyse water when they kiss you? (or other things....just wondering about the contact burn)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Okay, I have a follow-up question:

    If you are in a relationship, do the other person's eyse water when they kiss you? (or other things....just wondering about the contact burn)

    Yes, sometimes.
  • suemcmurry
    suemcmurry Posts: 188 Member
    try ghost pep[pers!!!
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I love hot food! I used to go to this Chinese restaurant every other Friday and I ordered the same thing every time: House Special Mei Fun - make it spicy, which means they put hot red chiles in it. I moved too far to be able to go there at will, but if I was in the area, I'd make it a point to order food from there. Seriously, you have no idea how good this dish is and how good the restaurant is. When I got pregnant, I was in the area so I placed an order. The lady knew me well and when I went to pick up the food, she said "No spicy this time?????" I told her "No, no spicy. I'm having a baby." She said "Ohhh okay, no spicy for you!"

    There was a time where I was so in love with hot/spicy food, I would've put it on cereal if it tasted good.
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    Speaking of contact burn, please note that when handling hot peppers make SURE you wash you hands very very thoroughly for his/her sake. Touching the merchandise with "hot-hands" can be a very unpleasant experience! I know from experience....well lets just say my bathroom trip didn't end as planned :sad:
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I live in New Mexico...if it's not spicy, it's not really food.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    I go through a lot of bottles of sriracha sauce.
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    The lady knew me well and when I went to pick up the food, she said "No spicy this time?????" I told her "No, no spicy. I'm having a baby." She said "Ohhh okay, no spicy for you!"

    There was a time where I was so in love with hot/spicy food, I would've put it on cereal if it tasted good.

    haha
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    sriracha sauce is for ammatures, my mom filled my bottle with that *kitten*...lol j/k well bout the bottle part anyway :tongue:
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    It's a hot sauce made from pepper extract
    There's an odd flavor componet in sauces that use an extract to deliver the heat. There are plenty of peppers and sauces that will punch you in the face without the odd aftertaste of an extract. Ghost pepper, Trinidad scorpian, Thai chile, Habanerros and many others.

    Here's a site filled with pepper goodness.

    http://thehotpepper.com/

    Yes, I'm addicted to the burn.
  • Chameleone
    Chameleone Posts: 281 Member
    I looove spicy food. I usually just buy a bunch of habenero's or other fresh hot peppers and cut them up in little pieces and throw them in EVERYTHING!
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    Bigguy you're absolutely right. I've noticed this with the Mad Dog, it has a kinda chemical-like after taste to it. Another weird thing I've noticed is I can have my nose right up to that stuff and sniff and it doesn't phase me. I did that to the inside of a ghost pepper once and I thought I just got maced, owe! Thanks for the suggestion on the natural sauces bro, I'll def check em out.

    Chameleone, I do the same thing especially with salads umnomnom
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    I looove spicy food. I usually just buy a bunch of habenero's or other fresh hot peppers and cut them up in little pieces and throw them in EVERYTHING!

    ^ I had to pull a creep mission just a second ago, I thought you looked familiar. We used to be friends once upon a time...you delete me punk? :mad: nah j/k I deserved it, I only forgot to login for like...a year lol
  • urglewurgle
    urglewurgle Posts: 224 Member
    Yup, straight flakes but obviously not eating them by themselves. They're quite fruity!

    However, make sure you REALLY wash your hands before putting in/taking out your contact lenses...
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    Yup, straight flakes but obviously not eating them by themselves. They're quite fruity!

    However, make sure you REALLY wash your hands before putting in/taking out your contact lenses...

    Or using the bathroom :noway:
  • lewcompton
    lewcompton Posts: 881 Member
    Real fan of Dave's Private Reserve... If you haven't had it you don't know heat... I can gargle with pepper spray after getting use to the pinnacle of Dave's Insanity.
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    yep, I add cholula or Sriracha to practically everything I eat these days. Switched up to habanero salsa too...
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    Fresh peppers are a lot hotter than the ground spices. If you head to an Asian or Mexican market, you will find a wide variety of spicy options. I LOVE spicy food - especially Thai.
  • lulabellarama
    lulabellarama Posts: 96 Member
    My favourite HOT chilli sauces are made with Naga chillies. They're ferocious but have a really good flavour too. Highly recommended.
  • melil07
    melil07 Posts: 17 Member
    Homemade pepper sauce is the Best! You control the burn and the salt content and it is inexpensive.:tongue:
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
    Real fan of Dave's Private Reserve... If you haven't had it you don't know heat... I can gargle with pepper spray after getting use to the pinnacle of Dave's Insanity.

    ^ I'm ordering some of this. The review sound really scary, one guy said: "Unbelieveably hot...I lost my hearing for about 10 mins (I am NOT kidding)"

    aww man here we go lol
  • runningfataway
    runningfataway Posts: 262
    I love hot food too! :flowerforyou:
  • danimalkeys
    danimalkeys Posts: 982 Member
    I love hot stuff too. I grow my own peppers and make my own sauces. I can't stand the extract sauces, they all taste like chemicals. Give me some fresh Scotch Bonnets and Ghost peppers any day. I need flavor too. I use blends of them in my sauces, since each pepper has different properties- some hit you fast, some take longer to get the burn going but last longer. Thai, Cayenne, Habs all go well together in sauce.
  • MightyDomo
    MightyDomo Posts: 1,265 Member
    One of my favorite recipes that you will probably like is my taco pasta, not very good for you btw.

    What you need:
    6 serrano peppers, diced
    1/2 head iceberg lettuce or full head Green Leaf Lettuce, cut into shreds
    2-3 large hot house tomatoes, cubed
    1/2 cup shredded marble cheese
    1 or 2 cups sour cream (I prefer the 14% for thickness but any will do)
    1 box three cheese hamburger helper
    1 package taco seasoning
    1 or 2 lbs of ground beef (I usually use about 1.5lbs)
    2 cups dry spiral or wavy noodles

    Cook the ground beef and mix the hamburger helper seasoning and taco seasoning and add noodles from package and the additonal noodles. Let simmer until fully cooked. Top it like a taco inside a bowl and eat.

    I prepared this for a family of pakistani's (and they LOVE super spicy food) and they were literally sweating from consuming it. I used to consume as spicy as possible because I simply just loved the heat. Came up with this and it has always stayed a hit but I do tone it down for people who cannot handle that much heat in one little bowl. If you have ever had Nihari then you could imagine the heat, this dish is hotter.
  • Strobins05
    Strobins05 Posts: 716
    yep, I add cholula or Sriracha to practically everything I eat these days. Switched up to habanero salsa too...

    Now this soounds like me. I put sriracha on EVERYTHING when permitted! That habanero salsa sounds fierce!

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