What is the Spiciest Thing You Have Eaten?

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Spice is nice, but incest is best. Apologies if that joke has been made already.

I would assume a curry or something. Maybe that spoon of Tabasco sauce, but that wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

 

[SimuLord]

Took a bite out of a Thai bird chile (Capsicum frutescens). 50,000-100,000 Scoville units. Plenty hot enough for me, thanks.

 

[sune-ku]

I've had a couple of habanero's as a side order in a Mexican restaurant but it was actually a scotch bonnet that got me more... maybe I was feeling sensitive that day?

 

[Ruwrak]

Actually, that would have been my own garlic sauce.

My reaction? "I.... Gotta make more of this stuff."
Then I ran for the cucumber disks >.< I like it spicy and all but. Hell that burned a hole in me tongue.

 

[loc978]

Habanero hot wings from a small bar in Newport News, Virginia. It felt like eating a chemical weapon. I dry heaved until 0300 or so and had chemical burns on my lips... and I still had to do PT at 0600.

 

[Lord Kodous]

Dave's Insanity Sauce

 

[TheLiham]

a Phaal curreh

 

[Wutaiflea]

Back when I could get them, I used to enjoy eating raw Scotch Bonnet chillies. They're about the hottest thing I've eaten that still had a distinct flavour (particularly nice with fajitas!).

Apparently, they rate as 100,000?350,000 on the doodad level (Thanks Wikipedia!!).

And yes, its a running joke that my mouth is lined with asbestos.

 

[Wutaiflea]

I work in a kitchen, so we do the "who can eat the hottest crap" contests amongst the kitchen staff a lot.

One of the hottest things I've eaten is a hot sauce called "Pure Cap" It's 3% capsaicin. If you don't know, mace is 5% capsaicin. I didn't even have that much, I just rubbed a little bit on a tooth pick and it had me sweating. Literally 100 times hotter than a jalapeno, and a scoville rating of 500,000

You know a guy died of that... right?

 

[teqrevisited]

A meat phahl. It was so hot my mouth went numb and throbbed for two hours afterwards. I tried to drown it with beer but it was just too much. Never again.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

There was this imported ramen that I bought on my lunch break one day at work, since I had some money on me and I wanted to treat myself. How I figured instant noodles a treat is beyond me, but hush. I ended up buying the spiciest kind of that brand, and after making it, I sat down to eat it. I took one bite, and I was at the office's sink, downing glass after glass of water. I don't know what was in there, but it was horrible.

 

[Hashime]

What is the Spiciest Thing Thing You Have Eaten? Was it a dish, sauce, extract? What was your reaction, and if you know it, what is the Scoville rating of the spice?

The first time I played around with Habanero peppers, I used about 4 of them for 2 cup's worth of dipping sauce. Now, I beleive these are the hottest peppers on the planet (correct me if I'm wrong), and I didn't know that at the time. I dipped the tip of my finger into it, barely coating it, and touched it to my tongue. It was so hot, it was like an electric jolt went through my body, causing all the hair on my body to stand on end.

I used it for a catering party, as part of a vegetable platter. Only one person tried it, a woman, who I warned before she attempted it. "Oh, I like spicy food!", she gushed. She dipped something into it, getting a generous amount, and put it in her mouth. She didn't say anything, but her eyes widened instantly and she looked like she wanted to scream. She just spun on her heels and left, lol. I never saw her again.

Habeneros though impressive are not the spiciest pepper on the planet. That falls to a British bred pepper at close to 1 000 000 units.
A habenero is rated between 100,000?350,000 units. My usual pepper (I grow them in the summer) is a scotch bonnet rated at the same (though on average hotter in my experience).
There is a habenero that maxes out at 850 000 though, the Red Savina pepper.
I have had a million before, 3ml of "Mad dog's revenge", a concentrated extract. It was painful.

 

[Hashime]

Back when I could get them, I used to enjoy eating raw Scotch Bonnet chillies. They're about the hottest thing I've eaten that still had a distinct flavour (particularly nice with fajitas!).

Apparently, they rate as 100,000?350,000 on the doodad level (Thanks Wikipedia!!).

And yes, its a running joke that my mouth is lined with asbestos.

I grow them, you can do it in a window box.

 

[Jark212]

A "Dorset Naga"

I started vomiting, and my vomit had blood in it...

Never ever again...

Wait, did you eat the whole thing straight?

I'm not sure, a acquaintance of mine mixed it (a lot of it) into a bean dip as a joke. Needless to say I ended up in the emergency room where I was apparently the most interesting case in the hospital with doctors putting me on display to the interns (didn't have a problem with being used as a teaching aid though). I remember the doctors mentioning that my throat could have swollen shut if I was any later...

 

[Phoenix09215]

Wasabi. I tend to stay away from things that you're advised to eat with caution... But, it was my first Japenese meal and I was convinced it was some asparagus moose or something. I'm an idiot!

 

[quiet_samurai]

A whole Habanero chilli once, that was awful becaus i could feel it move through my intestines.... gross. And this oil extract they call Dead Heat... gah!

 

[Serenegoose]

I occasionally make chilli with Dorset Naga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Naga#Scoville_rating] chili peppers in it. It's good, but well, it's a rare thing when all I want is burn - typically I use Scotch Bonnet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_bonnet_(pepper)] peppers when I want to mix taste with a nice heat - as far as taste goes, Jalapenos are my favourite, however. But yes, my dorset naga chili chili is the hottest thing I've ever eaten.

 

[Megalodon]

This stuff, bloody fantastic.
http://www.mrpickles.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=10

 

[Private Custard]

Also isn't the wasabi paste the spiciest thing in the world you can eat?

Not by a long way. Although it isn't good if you get drunk and try snorting some up your nose for a bet!

Police grade pepper spray rates as 5.3 million on the scoville scale. Blairs 16 million reserve is, well, 16 million!!

http://www.chilliworld.com/SP6.asp?p_id=63

Me, I like to taste my food, so for a nice meal, I like to stop somewhere around the 500,000 region. Although I did have a cracker with a blob of 'The Source'. A blob no bigger than a grain of rice, and fuck, it was the most localised pain I've ever felt in my mouth.

The source is rated at 7.1 million......1.8 million higher than pepper spray, the same pepper spray that's used to make full-grown grizzly bears run away crying!!

 

[Samwise137]

I tried this stuff my dad bought called Insanity Sauce. It was so hot one drop in a soup for 4-5 people would be too hot to eat for most people. I found my lips stinging and throat was burning like mad.
Our friend was boasting hw awesome he was and ate a tiny blob of it on a crisp as he "was good with spice"...he started to cry and was sick.

The LoadingReadyRun folks did a challenge with Dave's Insanity Sauce and Poutine which my students saw and have now challenged me to recreate. Stupid teacher that I am, I'm going through with it along with another teacher and a student who got his parents' permission. It's only 180,000 SkU so I'm not too worried about it. I've had worse.