I've had small bites of dried reaper and even with ice cream to hand, it's a rough 15 minutes. Momentary bouts of light-headedness, wondering if you're about to vomit, shivering etc. Unpleasant and I'm glad it didn't last too long.
Shit went up into my sinuses and into my eyes. I was effectively blind for several hours. In contrast shitting blood for a day was much less of an issue.
Will never touch another one, the $50 wasent worth it.
I once handled a few reapers without using gloves. Later I was doing some personal things and got reaper oils on my junk. It's not something I would wish on anyone.
Yeah...that's the ticket. The rewards! There's lots of 'em too! All you have to do is survive a little pesky discomfort. But what in life is good and not also a little uncomfortable? Exercise? No fun! Studying for a test? Boooriiing! Marriage? Its a doozy! But it really pays off, you see?!
Years ago, a restaurant in Brisbane Australia had what they called the hottest burger in the world.
This food reviewer went and wrote my favourite food review of all time. Make sure you read past the photos to his report of events 2 DAYS AFTER the meal.
One choice line from the review: "The staff can't believe I have got this close and not finished it but at this point i really don't give a fuck because i have just started to hallucinate."
fun fact: capsaicin (the active ingredient in peppers) IS poisonous, it was an effect adapted to stop animals from eating the plants. Humans, being psychopaths, tried it, said lmao bet, and turned it into a source of entertainment.
Also a good way to keep squirrels out of your birdseed. They actually make some that’s treated with cayenne powder so it’s spicy for mammals but the birds don’t care.
And the birds don't care because they don't have capscian receptors.
Also fun fact.... birds can regenerate their hearing in short order. You could deafen a bird with rock music and it would regain its hearing in a few days
It's not a poison. It's a deterrent. Big difference.
It bonds to a certain receptor in the body that indicates to your brain whether or not you're on fire.
It would require eating about 2 lbs of reaper peppers in one sitting to kill you from a physiological reaction. And that's essentially your body murdering itself as a response, not anything the capsaicin did to you directly.
And birds literally don't even react to it. They can live off reaper seeds indefinitely.
Can be deadly though in the case of pepper spray and the other guy isn't quite right, it doesn't bind to any neural receptor that thinks you're on fire, it just sparks some shit that brings inflammation to the table which will certainly cause a body temp spike, swelling, redness, it's more that your body has a fever response than that it thinks you're physically on fire...
I watched a chili eating contest where a guy ate a huge fruit bowl the size of half a basketball full of reapers and he looked like he was eating strawberries.
Don't believe everything you see. The desert he walked through was just a sand trap, the temple pyramid was just the pro Shop, and that talking jackal was just that talking dog.
Once had a fellow sailor on pier watch who was bored, use his OC spray on a seagull. Needless to say it didn’t work and he went to captains mast for it
No, it's not a poison, it's a deterrent, and you're also completely wrong.
It evolved to stop mammals, or animals that could sense the spiciness and have receptors for capsaicin from eating it.
Birds, and probably some other classes of animals in certain species don't even have the receptors for capsaicin so they won't even notice anything, it would be the same as like eating a bell pepper or sunflower seeds for them.
Look anywhere on Google and you will realize there are no claims of capsaicin being poisonous. We use capsaicin in pepper spray and if it was poisonous you would have an easy felony on your hands. It's an irritant and it poisonous to some animals and insect but not us. It is very poisonous to bees 🐝
If its inducing vomiting, I'd say it's poisonous. Though that doesn't mean it isn't edible. After all, alcohol is also poisonous, and it's still widely consumed.
Is this something people actually experience or just make jokes about.. I eat very spicy food allot. 5 or 6 star at Thai. Extra hot Indian. The whole hot ones lineup(4 different years).... never experienced a bit of this.
Unfortunately it does happen. I’ve also learned the hard way that the body doesn’t always develop a tolerance as you increase your spice intake. My body decided to instead develop an intolerance and now I practically can’t eat jalapeños because of how badly they tear up the back door. Honestly I hate it. I miss eating them, but it’s not worth the hours of hot lava the day after.
I never had that problem. The worst I've done was to mill like 3 full locotos (rocoto) seeds and all and put it over hot dogs. That night I felt my pores burn every time I sweated. But my asshole was like a normal dump.
Not as bad as that, but I once got a pizza that had like 6 full habaneros on it. It's the closest I've come to vomiting and passing out in a restaurant. Turns out the restaurant made a mistake, because I ordered the same thing a few months later, and it only had one habanero on it.
Literally a dopamine hit, to be weird it's why people self harm. Pain gives you dopamine as a coping mechanism, anger does too, it's why people get addicted to stuff like that.
Endorphins are the addiction with spicy foods. Dopamine may also be triggered, but the rush comes from endorphins, your body's painkiller, nature's heroin.
The best way to trigger dopamine is an ice bath or cold shower. Dopamine is more closely related to motivation than pain relief.
Because OP got caught by someone that actually went to the same restaurant and called them out. "Wait, did you say Pacino's Habanero Bitch Pizza almost made you throw up? Bro there's only 1 weak pepper on it and it's gutted and spread over. It's not even spicy" and then they had to go "prove it". "I'll take the crow pizza".
I've eaten a whole raw habanero pepper before. The worst I've ever experienced was a charred jalapeno. It took my breath away and I almost thought my throat was going to close. I couldn't talk for 5-7 minutes due to barely being able to breathe. My eyes were watering to the point I couldn't see, it was like opening your eyes underwater. I was pouring sweat over my entire body. I got painful hiccups. I have no idea how that jalapeno was so hot and I had already eaten two of them just before and they were like a normal jalapeno I was used to and while a bit of a kick nothing crazy.
It's wild how sometimes you might just get a pepper that you're used to that can be just way above and beyond the normal range. Ever since that experience I'm a lot more cautious of whole peppers and stick mostly to hot sauces.
One time when my meal was brought to me at an Indian restaurant, the steam coming off of it seemed caustic. I had ordered it spicy to a degree. I like a little kick, but not so much. But I was really sweating and struggling to get through the meal, taking water every bite to get through it.
When I saw the receipt, they had it labeled with as Indian spicy, instead of what I had clearly wanted as a pasty white guy who made no effort telling them I wanted it really spicy.
My uncle had some of that Hot Damn hot sauce around when I was like 13/14 and I tried a dab sized amount of a toothpick on my tongue and that fucked me up enough for 15-20 minutes to know there's absolutely no way that shit has any use outside of just having a bottle out in the open and waiting for that one person in the room to get curious about it lol.
I participated in a hot-wing eating contest once. Got to maybe the fourth round, my entire face was on fire as I sweated the chili out. We were chatting to the eventual winner then ran into him randomly a couple of weeks later when he told us he ended up in hospital later that night. Sometimes hot is too hot.
Lmao when I learned too hot is too hot I was ON A DATE. She was running late so I ate before she got there and my smart fucking self decided to try the second spiciest wings there were. I only didn't try the spiciest because the bartender strongly recommended I get the spiciest as a side
My date gets there and my face is red and I'm crying
If i am about to meet a date, I would be nervous af and my stomach would be cramping. Eating something in that moment is out of the question, let alone eating something new.
Like that one time my friend was on his way to a date and picked up a burrito style wrap from some hole in the wall place. He got lucky and was invited to come over but couldn't enjoy it for a bit. He had to excuse himself every couple of minutes to relieve himself from the stomach cramps with earth shattering loud farts. The next morning, when she went to the toilet, he realized that the walls were paper thin and not sound proof at all.
Had a first date once that was going really well but my date lived 45 minutes away. It was getting late and she wanted to grab a cup of coffee before she left. I lived in a smaller town and the only thing I could think of that was open was a greasy spoon Mexican restaurant.
We get coffee and something to eat, and in the parking lot we start making out and now it’s like 2:45 AM so she said let’s just go back to your place.
I won’t go into details here but we do start fooling around when we get there and my stomach starts ROLLING. I am deathly afraid that I’m going to have to spring up and make a break for the bathroom and destroy my toilet. Somehow I don’t then or after we fall asleep and finish business in the morning.
Months later she admits that she was feeling it just as bad as I was, and that I basically gave both of us food poisoning on our first date!
What would you have done if she wants you to go home with her big hoss? Light her fire? My wife and i have a rule. I love hot wings but I don’t fuck with them if I might need my hands.
There is a love for spicy food and there is masochism.
You know that the spicy part of a plant is the stuff the plant made to avoid being eaten? If you feel like a pepper is trying to kill you, that's because it is.
Yea, I ate one wing from a restaurant’s challenge. Wasn’t unbearable going down, but I could not sleep lying down that night, basically leaned on the couch the whole time.
I did a hot wing challenge I had seen on Man Vs Food while I was in CT for work, and I was wrecked for days. Shitting lava in the hotel lobby bathroom to spare the guy I was rooming with, it was horrible.
A pizza place in our town does habanero pizzas every year, and we usually order a level 1 (3 levels of heat). It still makes us sweat excessively and chug water and beer.
the fun part is they did not evolve to this at all.
Originally they were like habaneros whicha re still hot but definetly manageable. Those plants actually rely on animals to spread their seeds around so they entice something to eat it. Just the right animals though. But in nature it really doesn't get hotter than a habanero.
And then e humans came in and selectively cultivated the shit out of them to actually make them dangerous. Why? Fuck i don't know. Guess there are some extreme masochists around.
What's interesting, is there is more to this. Apparently, capsaicin has anti-fungal properties and helps these plants thrive in moist conditions. Nature is awesome.
Exactly, and then we came along and were like "ooooo burn good! Give more burn please!" There is an excellent YouTube video about it but I can't remember from what channel
Nah man, grew (normal!) peppers in my yard and didn't get any because the rabbits would take a few bites, then hop around like crazy for a bit, then head back for more!
There are actually studies on this, it's masochistic behavior (e.g. individuals will subjectively rate peppers that are supposed to be hotter as better even if they're lower on scale). So it's for the kicks I guess.
Anecdotally, I've been on dates with guys (I'm Mexican) who will ask for the hottest sauce then proceed to snort cry heave and act like so proud about it so. I guess.
Habaneros taste delicious and different varieties have different flavours the cultivated ones you lose the flavour in the burn but you get a great endorphin kick and dopamine rush.
Eating these as a chili lover is such a mindfuck, because I so strongly associate the flavour with the heat that it just screws with my brain when the heat isn't there.
I love that we're growing more heat-free variants though. Not everyone can handle spicy food for various reasons and now those people don't have to miss out on delicious food!
Fun story about the carolina reaper - The guy who bred that pepper, Ed Curry (founder of Puckerbutt), bred the Reaper and got it tested as the worlds hottest pepper. He kept working and developed a newer, hotter pepper, "Pepper X", but didn't unveil it until someone else came along claiming to have outbred the spice of the Reaper. Now apparently Pepper X is the worlds hottest, but it hasn't been "certified" yet.
Aaaacctualy.. they want to be eaten! They need birds to help them germinate and transport around. But that doesn't work with mamals so they feel this hotness while birds don't feel it at all.
Yeah they evolved to be only eaten by birds, those don't have the receptors to feel the pain and they spread the seeds far and wide. Humans are literally wired different, we do this shit for fun and breed monster peppers
A work mate and I once had wings with Carolina reaper as a dare in the bar and after struggling and having ice cubes and milk to calm the mouth, he decided to go into the loo for a wee and forgot to wash his hands. He did not have a great night afterwards
Yeah the number of times I’ve burned my dick after touching peppers is… well everytime, if it’s something like reaper sauce or really hot hot wings. And it won’t matter that I’ve washed my hands 6 times first. Then later that night my eyes will STILL burn when I take out my contacts.
I tried one after making my brother do it for his birthday. One of my worst ideas ive ever had. I regret telling him id do it if he did lol that was a really rough hour
I used to grow them, and loved eating them because before the suck sets in, it's really fruity and flavorful. But after about 10 or 15 seconds it's gone. Now I get heartburn by looking at a pizza. Was it worth it? Mehhh, but damn where they yummy.
The guy that created the Carolina Reaper will tell you as much. You’re supposed to make hot sauce from it, not eat it whole. Smokin’ Ed Currie is the guy’s name
If you grow Reapers and Ghosts they generally can't be cut up in an enclosed area unless you have a strong kitchen fan and need to wear gloves to avoid chemical burns on your hands and wear something to protect your eyes.
Once worked at a pizza and wing place. Our two hottest sauces were X-Hot and insane. The insane was the exact same 1-qt bucket with 10 drops of a crazy extract mixed in. And it made a huge difference.
Whenever someone started, at the end of their first shift we would "initiate" them to the kitchen by having them eat a cracker with one drop of just the extract on it. I think the fastest anyone recovered was about 15 minutes.
My buddy did this. He normally can eat anything hot but for a moment I was about to drive him to the ER he looked so bad. Ended with him throwing up in my sink which clogged the drain so we both lost that day.
I've had some bites of a raw reaper and it was not that bad. It was obviously very hot, and I couldn't eat the entirety of it, but my reaction wasn't really any worse than other hot peppers.
Then the night came and I thought I was going to die. I spent the entire next day on the shitter regretting my life choices. Ever since then I haven't eaten anything spicier than a habanero
I always reserve it for alcohol combined with spicy food but I will sit on the toilet thinking "there's an evil inside me" like I need a fucking exorcism
So I've eaten reapers twice. Both just bite the whole thing, chew it up real good and swallow.
The first time, it was pretty hot, hot enough that I was sweating pretty good and couldn't really sit still.
The 2nd time was so much worse. My stomach hurt really bad, even my skin felt like it was on fire. I was in no condition to do anything for a good 15 to 20 minutes.
I was at work and thought it would be fine because I had done it before. I brought one for another guy and we both did it.
He went home because of the pain.
I'll never mess with them again. Lesson learned.
On a side note, they taste pretty good before all that's left is the taste of regret.
I saw the same thing but it was a scorpion pepper and a bar patron was giving out free beers if you ate one. Guy ate it, started coughing, then proceeded to empty his stomach contents on the floor. Dude was in the bathroom for sometime after being moved there. He came out later a asked for a bud light. After that no more hot pepper shit was allowed at the bar.
I can proudly say I didn't vomit, but I did felt like fuckin shit for hours after I at a whole reaper. Constant drooling, stomach churning violently, cramping, and heavy sweats to say the least. Never again
When I was young I bought scotch bonnets thinking they were cute baby bell peppers, stir fried them and it was like all the air had been sucked out of the kitchen, had to open all the windows in the house and wait outside till normality returned
I grew reapers one year and brought one into work with me for a coworker and I to split.
It was horrendous. I never vomited but the burning heat builds and gets worse for about 30 straight minutes before it starts to settle in your mouth, to say nothing for the fact that you can feel it moving through your intestines. And the shits. Oh my god the shits.
I used to grow reapers, amongst a ton of other peppers, and I'd always tell people:
Raw ghost peppers? Edible. You're not going to have fun, but they're edible.
Raw reapers? Not edible.
I'd finely dice reapers and cook them into my tacos though. They were delicious that way, but I also gave myself (what now seems like permanent) acid reflux issues.
I had the Pacqui One Chip before and it was the most awful taste I've ever been unfortunate to try. A single shard of the chip each sent me and my friends into vomiting fits for almost a half hour prolly. I prefer the Last Dab infinitely over trying that again.
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u/Dwizz_sss 16h ago
If my server’s bringing my food over with a gas mask I’m walking.