Time to show off you masculinity! How hot can you handle your food? How hot do you ENJOY your food? Any interesting tales with regards to spicy food incidents?
At work, we have a chilli afficianado. He made this extra spicy chicken just to be sadistic, using sauce called 'da Bomb'. Now, chilli heat is measured by the Scovill unit (basically the number of times you need to dilute it before it has no detectable heat, or something like that). A capsicum (or bell pepper) is 0, a Jalapeno is about 5000 , with harbeneros being around 100,000. Now 'Da Bomb' had a scoville rating of around 250,000. I don't know how much he used but it was enough to make people full on cry - not just teary eyes, but tears streaming down their face.
You can actually get a purified capsaicin extract (the molecule responsible for the heat sensation in your mouth) suspended in vegetable oil. It has a rating of around 500,000 and comes in a dropper bottle, inside another canister. Supposedily, pure capsaicin is around 16,000,000.
The hottest thing we had ever done (and in any manly work environment, if someone eats a chilli, you must immediately follow suit, or be labelled a pansy), was these bright orange habaneros (which can get up to 600,000). A small slice was enough to give me 'Chilli Whizzer' (a syndrome we coined where you can feel the heat ...in your urine), and practically incapacitated me for the rest of the afternoon with stomach cramps. Atleast I didn't rub my eye like one guy I knew (we tried to use latex gloves for the challenge).
At work, we have a chilli afficianado. He made this extra spicy chicken just to be sadistic, using sauce called 'da Bomb'. Now, chilli heat is measured by the Scovill unit (basically the number of times you need to dilute it before it has no detectable heat, or something like that). A capsicum (or bell pepper) is 0, a Jalapeno is about 5000 , with harbeneros being around 100,000. Now 'Da Bomb' had a scoville rating of around 250,000. I don't know how much he used but it was enough to make people full on cry - not just teary eyes, but tears streaming down their face.
You can actually get a purified capsaicin extract (the molecule responsible for the heat sensation in your mouth) suspended in vegetable oil. It has a rating of around 500,000 and comes in a dropper bottle, inside another canister. Supposedily, pure capsaicin is around 16,000,000.
The hottest thing we had ever done (and in any manly work environment, if someone eats a chilli, you must immediately follow suit, or be labelled a pansy), was these bright orange habaneros (which can get up to 600,000). A small slice was enough to give me 'Chilli Whizzer' (a syndrome we coined where you can feel the heat ...in your urine), and practically incapacitated me for the rest of the afternoon with stomach cramps. Atleast I didn't rub my eye like one guy I knew (we tried to use latex gloves for the challenge).
