Mmm, aah! So spice!

[Kolby Jack]

I love spicy food. So much so that if the dish isn't at least a little spicy (unless it's dessert), I'm much less interested in it. My favorite hot sauce is Tabasco Sauce. Not the spiciest, I know, but you can get it anywhere, it goes with almost anything, and I like the taste. Some people say it tastes like shit, and to those people I say.. "Yeah, well... maybe YOU taste like shit! Nyeh!" Of course, I don't think I've HAD a hot sauce I didn't like, although I have had some (Cholula) that I didn't care for on the back end (it came out looking exactly as it did going in, which weirded me out a bit and at first made me think I was bleeding).

The hottest thing I believe I've eaten was the spiciest wings at Buffalo Wild Wings, although a guy I knew had me try some of his home-made hot sauce on a plastic knife (according to him, Tabasco is no spicier than ketchup for him) and I'm told my face turned purple even though I wasn't consciously spazzing out. I'm not one of those people who HAS to have the spiciest things at all times and mock those who don't. I'll certainly try a bhut jolokia or carolina reaper if offered but for regular eating I generally try to avoid the 1,000,000+ scoville range.

Who here likes the spicy-ah meat-ah-ball? What's your favorite sauce? And of course what's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I don't really like spicy stuff too much, but in France I had this burger from Quick that had spicy as fuck horseradish mayo, and it was pretty good.

 

[Twintix]

I love spicy food. When I'm alone, I sometimes make food so spicy that I start to sweat.

Unfortunately, my dad and I can't have spicy chili at home because my mom and brother are complete wusses when it comes to hot spices. Moderate spiceiness for me and dad is way too spicy for mom and big bro.

But even I have my limits. I got a bottle of one of those "death sauces" once when I was younger. I used not even the tip of a spoon of the stuff in some tomato soup. It turned inedible; It was just way too spicy, even for me.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Oh yes, quite so. The spiciest I ever had was an Indian fish soup in which I also dunked a ton of hot sauce of which I sort of misjudged the spiciness. Oh boy that made me sweat. Delicious though.

These days I sadly have to do without spicy food. I neither have the time or resources to cook myself and food at the student eatery is pretty bland.

 

[Aeshi]

I don't like the super-hot stuff, but I do love food that has a bit of a kick to it. As of speaking I've got about 5 different bottles of hot sauce in my kitchen.

The Spiciest thing I've ever eaten was some Jamaican-style Jerk Chicken I made where I misread the ingredients list and put in about double the amount of spice the ingredients said to. I had to water down the result about 4 times before I could eat it, and even then it was basically "one mouthful every half hour."

Not that I'm complaining, it was delicious and because of that spiciness one bowl could last almost an entire day.

 

[plekpot]

I love spicy food. When I'm alone, I sometimes make food so spicy that I start to sweat.

Unfortunately, my dad and I can't have spicy chili at home because my mom and brother are complete wusses when it comes to hot spices. Moderate spiceiness for me and dad is way too spicy for mom and big bro.

But even I have my limits. I got a bottle of one of those "death sauces" once when I was younger. I used not even the tip of a spoon of the stuff in some tomato soup. It turned inedible; It was just way too spicy, even for me.

About the same situation here. I like spicy foods (not too much though, preserve flavour), but my sister is allergic to almost all spices except salt, pepper and green herbs. I added three drops os Sudden Death sauce to a plate of spaghetti and it was just barely edible.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

I love getting sweat droplets on my forehead during/after some spiced dish.

I also love food that is not spiced like that.

I generally just love all food, except durian, tasted like it smelled to me.

 

[Best of the 3]

Not for me, spicy foods makes my lips swell up like balloons. Not a plesant feeling. I'll stick to mild to a medium heat.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I can't take most spicy foods all that well. I've never tried any kind of hot sauce in my life, either. I'd guess that's a bit odd to some people.

Since spicy foods aren't usually close to being a favorite of mine I'm not sure I can remember the last time I ate anything I'd call spicy or the spiciest thing I've ever eaten. My spicy is probably mild to many people as well.

 

[Silence]

Depends on the type of spicyness, I either love it or I like it. Or I can't really eat it.

Worst was a bowl full of indian food. I did not really taste anything but spicyness.

Kind of evil was some food in Thailand. I ate it, wasn't spicy. I waited, it got spicy. I waited longer, it got really spicy. Then my mouth burned.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Not into spicy food every day, but there is a time and a place for it.

I usually go for Encona Extra hot West Indian pepper sauce. It's not super hot to the point where it's not enjoyable and it has a nice distinctive taste, a lot of the hotter ones are all fire and no flavour.

Hottest thing is either a sausage tortilla that I made, I'd got some "death sauce" (wasn't actually death sauce, but one of the other similar types) and accidentally poured on too much, about 1/2 of the neck of the bottle. Should've scraped some off. It was one of those that really turns on the pain receptors in your mouth, each bite and subsequent chew was like eating a mouthful of burning pins.

Or a chilli me and some friends made when we were dumbass teenagers. It had the same "eating a mouthful of burning pins" feel, but since there was a lot more of it, the endorphines kicked in pretty hard and we ended up feeling like our heads were floating round the room in some sort of out of body experience.

 

[Dwarfman]

I love spicy food. So much so that if the dish isn't at least a little spicy (unless it's dessert), I'm much less interested in it. My favorite hot sauce is Tabasco Sauce. Not the spiciest, I know, but you can get it anywhere, it goes with almost anything, and I like the taste. Some people say it tastes like shit, and to those people I say.. "Yeah, well... maybe YOU taste like shit! Nyeh!" Of course, I don't think I've HAD a hot sauce I didn't like, although I have had some (Cholula) that I didn't care for on the back end (it came out looking exactly as it did going in, which weirded me out a bit and at first made me think I was bleeding).

The hottest thing I believe I've eaten was the spiciest wings at Buffalo Wild Wings, although a guy I knew had me try some of his home-made hot sauce on a plastic knife (according to him, Tabasco is no spicier than ketchup for him) and I'm told my face turned purple even though I wasn't consciously spazzing out. I'm not one of those people who HAS to have the spiciest things at all times and mock those who don't. I'll certainly try a bhut jolokia or carolina reaper if offered but for regular eating I generally try to avoid the 1,000,000+ scoville range.

Who here likes the spicy-ah meat-ah-ball? What's your favorite sauce? And of course what's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?

I don't mind spicy food, but I prefer spicy as in the flavour rather than the heat. You mention Tabasco sauce which I like as that stuff has a lot of flavour to it not just heat. If it's all heat I just find my mouth goes numb, and my lips burn. Not pleasant.

That being said the other day I bought some ghost chillies and added one into a coconut, prawn/shrimp and papaya curry. I deseeded and roasted a ghost chilli with my spices and ground it into my spice mix. For me it was the perfect heat to flavour ratio. Very tasty.

Also just asking, have you ever tried Sambal. It's a chilli sauce/paste from south east Asia. Heat tends to vary between different brands and regions but always a heap of flavour.

 

[Queen Michael]

I've always got a bottle of Blair's MegaDeath sauce in the fridge. Goes great with soup.

 

[Aerosteam]

Spicy food rules, gotta empty out them nose holes.

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

As they say, the spice must flow!

 

[FPLOON]

I'm basically like Naota Nandaba when it comes to spicy foods... With that said, once in a blue moon, I might consider "ordering" some spicy pepperoni pizza...

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Funny you mention that, after i got over my second(?) burning throat infection... HotHeads Naga deadly hot chili sauce is like vanilla icecream compared to having your every internal head surface eaten by microscopic daemons

I used to consume loads of chili, i still put habanero powder on my sandwiches sometimes, though it seems i have became sensitized to it or something, it seems less appealing these days, it is a bad idea to overpower the flavor of your food with any kind of spice

 

[laggyteabag]

I like my food at a low/medium heat. It isn't like I cannot handle hot food, it is just that if it is too spicy, I often end up not being able to taste the food, just the chili.

Hottest thing that I have ever eaten, is a Naga Jolokia (aka Ghost Pepper), which was, at the time, the hottest chili in the world, coming up at 1,000,000 scoville units[footnote]For some context -
Tabasco Sauce comes in at 2,500 - 5,000 units
Jalapeño Peppers come in at 2,500 - 10,000 units
Scotch Bonnet Peppers come in at 100,000 - 350,000 units[/footnote]. I decided that it was a wonderful idea to eat this during my lunch break at school for whatever reason, and I will tell you, I felt that pain for a good few hours afterwards.

 

[Mikeybb]

I used to avoid it.

Now, everything gets at least a couple of pinches of piripiri spice mix.
It's nowhere near some of the borderline guatemalan insanity peppers people in the rest of the thread are using, but it gives things a kick.