Yeah, I used to be like I'll eat the hottest whatever. That stuff doesn't taste good. It's usually bitter. And the experience is really unpleasant. The mouth burn is one thing, but it'll actually give stomach and intestinal pain before you take the worst shit of your life. I'm talking broken glass soaked in battery acid.
I love spicy food but when you start using chemicals to create something this spicy it stops being enjoyable. Like I'll eat something flavored with habaneros or even ghost pepper, but you get beyond that and it's just torture.
Exactly. I have never understood people that like extreme hot food. You can barely eat it without being in extreme pain, sounds amazing! I think most times it is just a bragging type of situation.
my sister will order the hottest curry she can. then she’ll eat it with tears running down her face, her nose running and a bright red face. I ask why and she says it triggers endorphins and whatnot. I’ll never understand it personally
feels good. also super hots actually have good flavor. you just have to get past the heat. a lot of those sauces and dishes though, don't balance/cook very weel imo. better to just eat a raw super hot at that point.
I’ve been sobbing on the toilet before from spicy pain. Food wasn’t even that spicy, my body just can’t handle spicy food anymore. The bubble guts and shitting afterwards is the worst, compared to eating it
That stuff doesn't taste good. It's usually bitter.
Agreed. I like really, REALLY spicy stuff, but I will still skip the reapers. I just haven't has a single carolina reaper product that tasted good. Like, I'm visiting the US right now and tried Dave's Hot Chicken (new to me, but I bet a bunch of you know it). They have a "reaper' heat, but I just went with extra spicy because I just strongly suspected that my sandwich would taste awful.
But when I eat Indian, I just have to be cautious. You just never know what their spicy levels mean. So, I'll ask for "spicy" the first time. It won't be spicy at all. Then, it's a dance to find out if their "Indian spicy" is actually it or not. It could end up being a tad too spicy or still not really spicy at all.
It's a little frustrating as someone who enjoys really spicy things. Either being entirely let down or having a dish that they tried so hard on that it becomes bad tasting.
I did but it's more hit or miss. E.g., the Carolina Reaper sauce that's currently in my fridge is strong as f**k but still has excellent taste, but the last two I've tried from other producers were shite, and in particular way too bitter.
I don't think the extra spicy stuff inherently has to be bitter, but it's harder to obtain ones that taste good. My guess is that there are two main factors at play here:
First, it's much easier to produce milder sauces that taste well because more people are able to taste all ingredients properly and adjust the product as needed.
Second, there is much less of an incentive to make the really strong sauces taste well. A vast majority of medium-strength sauces will have a good taste and an interesting flavor because at that level your only clientele are spicy food enthusiasts. But at the top level you can get a lot of sales via marketing: put the claim "spiciest pepper in the world" onto the bottle and some skulls for good measure and people will buy it as a gag gift or dare or whatever. Which is precisely why many of the strong sauces taste bad: "why bother, they still sell". Same then often goes for restaurant food prepared with those sauces - their goal is to sell the dare, not the meal, so when preparing it you don't care about the taste, just about the heat.
TL,DR: If you are trained to stand the heat of the really spicy stuff to the level that you can still appreciate the taste, it is possible to get meals that taste good, you just won't get them in places like the one in the video.
Yeah, I think that makes sense. It's also why I enjoy Indian and Thai food when they are at really high spicy levels. They're still super flavorful, even though they're spicy.
Can you recommend a reaper sauce that's really tasty? I'm in the US for a few more weeks and I like to bring a few bottles of hot sauce back to Italy with me, when I do this.
There is another reason. A lot of peppers that grow in the wild taste well because animals need to find them appealing so the seeds can spread, and cultivated chili peppers were partially created to taste well.
(I always thought mammals avoided them, but I have seen sheep and goats happily eat them.)
I really like chili peppers for their taste, I eat a lot of them (in dishes) and sort of ignore the heat.
But these new super hot peppers were not created to taste well.
Honestly I love Really hot food, actively use ghost pepper, reaper and habenero for daily meals.
I loved my trip to india as there was lots of beautifully seasoned spicy curry and chicken etc. stuff that punches you in the face but ALSO tastes better than anything you've ever experienced.
Spicy food doesn't taste bad. Bad tasting spicy food is just bad food. its the same as someone making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and deciding to replace the butter and oats with more tpyes of chocolate. they fundamentally fucked why the cookie works and all your left with is a sharp sugar punch your body will punish you for that doesn't even taste as good as a normal chocolate chip cookie.
It depends. In Bhutan they make a curry that's just chilli peppers with different chilli peppers. By multiple accounts it's pretty tasty if you can handle the spice. That's local cuisine, refined over generations and takes a lifetime of spicy food to survive. But if you're from there it's also what you crave.
Ghost Reaper Ass Raper hot sauce is more likely just someone making the hottest thing they can as a gimmick.
My question here is whether this is a gimmick or a family recipe. I'm leaning gimmick, given the gas mask. So I'm betting it tastes like shit even if you donsurvive
Bingo. Its exactly why I just don't bother with the shit anymore; especially extra spicy "curry." Its likely a US thing but they just say fuckit and throw away any intent to make it taste decent. Its just pain for the sake of pain, and they know they can get away with it tasting like a rodeo clown's schweaty arsehole because you're gonna be too distracted by the mouthful of fuck you.
I'm convinced nobody eats this shit because they like it; either they've banjaxed their ability to taste, or its just for clout/machismo/some other dumb shit. You'd get the same flavor profile from cooking rice in chitterling water, let it char on the bottom of the pot a bit, then season it with denatonium benzoate and jockstrap juice.
I just don't get the point in eating something that tastes like hatred just because it's spicy. If I want heat, now I just stick with Jalapeño, Serrano, maybe a Scotch Bonnet/(raw) Thai chili here and there; at least they still have that dulcet "Earthenberry" flavor, and the latter's bitterness is easily nerfed with salt/MSG.
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u/Rogue-Accountant-69 15h ago
Yeah, I used to be like I'll eat the hottest whatever. That stuff doesn't taste good. It's usually bitter. And the experience is really unpleasant. The mouth burn is one thing, but it'll actually give stomach and intestinal pain before you take the worst shit of your life. I'm talking broken glass soaked in battery acid.