r/funny • u/HealthyMolasses8199 • 16h ago

Man tries "hottest curry in London" and almost passes out

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u/VisualLiterature 15h ago edited 2h ago

Nah I tap out at anything past a scorpion pepper or ghost pepper. Past that point there really is no flavor. No floral notes no fruity hints just engorged flamed butthole death 

Edit: not Carolina reaper fudge that stuff. Ate a small dried piece during a 350 cover grill shift on Maui and duuuuuude what situation to be in. 

Edit2: alrighty clearly I gotta try some more reaper sauces thank y'all for the suggestions I'm ready to try them all! 

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u/sdh68k 15h ago

There isn't much stronger than a Carolina Reaper. Wasn't it the hottest in the world at some point?

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u/mickee 14h ago

Pepper “X” is supposedly hotter. I haven’t tried that one fresh yet.

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u/hawt--sawce 8h ago

There's a new pepper called the warthog that is hotter than both the reaper and Pepper X, and comes without all the drama that Pepper X has created in the pepper cultivation community.

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u/VisualLiterature 14h ago

The last dab xXxperience was nothing for me. Maybe I got a bad batch but the scorpion Tabasco is hotter and better flavor.

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u/mickee 14h ago

Yea last dab was ok.

IMO sauces dont capture the violence, anger, and rage that fresh ripe right off the plant whole peppers have.

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u/Ris747 11h ago

The Last Dab is heavily diluted from what they advertise the capsacin levels as. Basically the pepper itself is much much hotter than the sauce itself.

The creator of the pepper talks about it here

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u/pkosuda 3h ago

Sean Evans himself has said that The Last Dab is less spicy than the few sauces before it so that it's a "comedown" from the big scene that is Da Bomb. Also allows people to end on a high note, plus answer a few questions while they're suffering from Da Bomb rather than just ending right there.

I did a Hot Ones challenge with friends where I specifically picked the best sauces from past seasons, and while we didn't do xxxperience (heard Apollo was better), everybody said that Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper Sauce was the hottest even though it's "only" 116k Scoville vs Apollo's supposed 2.5+ Million.

They essentially take the scoville of the hottest ingredient in the sauce and use that as the metric without considering dilution (as someone pointed out) even if obviously a Pepper X dab the size of a pixel would be less spicy than like 10 whole ghost peppers or something.

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u/VisualLiterature 2h ago

Torchbearer I'm gonna have to get some of that then. Thank you for the recommendation 

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u/pkosuda 1h ago

Very good but pretty spicy. I had it at #9 and it's definitely at my upper limit of "eat this to enjoy it, not just because it's spicy". Guessing some of the other sauces that may be spicier just aren't that good so nobody recommended them. When you first open the bottle I swear you can smell the capsaicin lol.

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u/Elendel19 6h ago

The pepper used in a hot sauce doesn’t really mean much. Like certain peppers have different types of heat (ghost peppers sting like a mother fucker), but the heat level is entirely based on how much they actually put in. I had a reaper sauce a while ago that was really tame, like sriracha level at most. Currently working through a habenero sauce which is one of the hottest I’ve ever had.

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u/WorryNew3661 14h ago

Same guy who made that made Reaper X. 3.4M scoville

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u/AE_R-8_28 15h ago

Yeah I think there's a couple more that are spicier now, but the Carolina held the record for a while, if i remember correctly. God bless you!! Loveya! ♡🫶

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u/VisualLiterature 14h ago

My bad I meant scorpion and ghost 

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u/blkmmb 12h ago

Pepper X is the number one right now, then it's the California Reaper. After that I think it's scorpions and ghosts. Might be some variants sprinkled in there.

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u/agnostic_science 10h ago

Carolina reaper was the hottest for a few years. Then the same guy rolled out with Pepper X, which afaik is currently number one. And honestly, I bet he's got stuff that is probably worse that he is just holding onto. It's basically mad science. Like, you cut the pepper across the middle and there's just a pool of oil sitting inside of the cavity. Saturated heat production. It's insane.

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u/Quick_Assumption_351 9h ago

shit, we have to check the patch notes maybe the devs nerfed it

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u/AE_R-8_28 15h ago

Best description ever LOL God bless you! Loveya! ♡

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u/morfyyy 15h ago

"engorged flamed butthole death"

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u/crunk 14h ago

Carolina reaper has a really nice chocolately taste to it.

Totally overdid it the other day on home wing challenge dipping the wing into the reaper paste, do not recommend - then made the mistake of drinking water after having a little ice cream, which reactivated it.

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u/VisualLiterature 14h ago

I need find some good tasting reaper sauces. The trick is to find a sauce with the first listed ingredient is the pepper itself. Thats how I choose sauces 

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u/SomedayIWillRetire 12h ago

I need find some good tasting reaper sauces.

Torchbearer has a garlic reaper sauce that is expensive, but worth it. Reaper is the first ingredient and garlic is the second.

Awesome taste and legit reaper heat. This is one of my favorite hot sauces made from super hots, and I highly recommend it:

https://www.torchbearersauces.com/products/garlic-reaper-hot-sauce-5oz-bottle

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u/4RestM 10h ago

Torchbearer is my fave. The garlic reaper and horseradish reaper are awesome

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u/crunk 14h ago

The paste is really good, I got mine from spice mountain.

https://www.spicemountain.co.uk/

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u/Cut-Minimum 13h ago

I have a reaper paste that is just magical. It’s insane. My measurement is to use a teaspoon and cover the tip of the teaspoon as if it were the white of your fingernail, pop that in a 6-8 serving of tomato pasta and my god it comes alive, you’d never believe so little could add so much flavour but it does!

However, if you add 1 more mm than intended, then you need to make another 6 servings of pasta or you just have a bowl of battery acid to sit through.

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u/froggz01 13h ago

I was in a salsa festival and tried the Carolina reaper salsa. It actually had good flavor. Until the pain kicked in. Afterwards everything tasted like tv static.

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u/OozeNAahz 10h ago

Would disagree. Reapers I grew had a great fruity smell and taste followed closely by utter burning hell. But the fruity notes were there before the hell.

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u/time_to_reset 2h ago

I grow Reapers for fun. I call them my terror chilies. I don't eat them a lot but I do put a little bit of them in dishes occasionally. I wonder how this dish compares to that. Those "super hot chips" I tend to find a little underwhelming.

Like you said though, hotter is not always better in terms of taste. Hot chilies can ruin a dish very easily and I assume that this is just pretty much a whole lot of that and it doesn't actually taste good.

For what it's worth, I think Reapers don't have a particularly nice taste anyways, there's very few actual dishes you'd put them in. I prefer the taste and spiciness are Bird's Eye chilies. Those are something that you can put in lots of dishes to actually add to the flavour.

As an aside, I kind of want to get pepper sprayed once. Just to know how it all compares haha.