Piquant or tame food

[Rick]

For me, if it isn't spicy enough to make you sweat, it just ain't good.

[brewmaster]

agreed, I breed chilies as a hobby and they find their way into nearly everything I cook.

[Rick]

When I lived in Colorado, I was surprised in the fall. Wal-mart was selling burlap bags full of localy grown roasted chili peppers.

They used them in everything.

Also, they would make burritos out of everything. I loved it.

[Ace1337]

My mom always tells me I'm going to destroy my digestive system because of spicy food, but I just can't eat the food if I'm not enjoying it.

[quentin]

Spicy foods aren't healthy. Spices were originally added to food to cover up the taste of rancid meat and that's the only reason we use them.

That's my big problem with Thai food, which is otherwise excellent. The spiciest cuisine in the world and it's delicious but I have to have a gallon of coconut juice on hand to dowse the flames in my mouth. I remember once get accidentally drunk at a seaside resort because I ordered a salad at a Thai restaurant and had to keep dowsing my tongue with gushes of red wine with every other bite.

[rwyatt365]

I like spicy foods, but I don't eat them often (need time to recover).

[Solaris]

Spicy food is one of the few things about which I am not an "all or nothing" sort of person. I can take some, but not much. As I age, and my sense of taste diminishes, I can take (and enjoy) more of it. As a child, I could barely tolerate ketchup -- but I think that had more to do with the vinegar mixing with the mess left after a baby tooth falls out.

[BadMojo]

It taste so good going in, but hurts so bad going out...

[Zilal]

I really like spicy food... up to a point. The jalapeno, I think. More than that and I don't want it, and anyway, more than that and it gets hard to taste the food.

[HackerX]

I cannot stand spicy food. I'm really sensitive to it. I've put up with some pretty hot food, but it just ruins the taste/meal for me.

[Wapiti]

I like spicy food in moderation. I really like salsa made with chipotle peppers but it rips me up.

[szaxazs]

Spicy foods aren't healthy.
Well, do some research for this one and I think you will change your opinion.
Spices are not healty when eaten in large amounts, this is the only truth.

Damn me, I LOVE Tabasco Sauce!!:lovestruck:

Its fun when I eat/drink (yes I do both) too much of it only to have my mouth burn as hell and I start jumping around my house like a monkey screaming like someone cut my tongue off.

Then I drink tons of water only to end up bloated, with a burning sensation in my mouth that won't cease. However by this time I will be too tired to go on with my jumping/fooling around, so I sit in my chair comfortably, silently suffering and enjoying every instant of this hellish burning.

By that time my body will have released enough endomorphins btw to make me more energized than 2 teaspoons of coffee ever could.

Damn I love theese moments.
Theese are the small pleasures of life for me.
Well I must be psycho.
Yay.

[Motor Jax]

oh, HOT SAUCE = MY PASSION!!!

i love, love, LOVE hot stuff...

i used a very tasty habenero hot sauce on a lot of stuff...

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the first time i had tasted it though, it numbed my tongue for about 2 weeks

but then i just got used to it

Texas Pete's Hotter Hot Sauce:
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works, but not the same as Tobasco Hot Sauce
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or Tobasco Habenero Hot Sauce
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overall, i would pick Tobasco products over anything

i love both cayenne and habenero pepper more than anything... if there is nothing else though, the fallback is, of course, jalepenos (which i can eat by the gallon and still walk away)





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oh, and i don't need anything to drink afterwards... at least, not to drink down with it...

[sriv]

I'm guessing you guys haven't tried any Indian spices. Damn, half the males in my extended family who live in India have stomach ulcers because of it.

Even so, I love spicy.

[notoppings]

I love spicy food and flavorful food so I usually use either cheese to flavor or chilies to flavor. Thankfully we have the Pike's Place Market here in Seattle so it is rather easy to obtain varieties of either from around the world.

Up until 2 years a ago The Red Savina Habanero held the record at 350K to 575K Scoville Units, when I would purchase this at the spice emporium they would glove up with a glove that reached to the arm pit and put on a respirator, just in case any of the powder got into the air or on the skin. It is dangerous, but not to expensive.

Now the world record is held by the Naga Jolikia 800K to 1,001,300 Scoville units I haven't been able to purchase this yet, but look forward to cooking with it soon.

I have over a dozen different recipes for Hot Wing with the hottest being my
"Enterprise Wings" because they boldly go where no man has gone before, and they are out of this world. When I cook them up for my friends they call up people who haven't had them before but have heard of them and all they say is The Enterprise has landed. and people come running. It has gotten to the point that I can't bring less then 40 pounds of varieties of wings or I will run out before the people get full.

I don't know what I'll call the Naga Jolikia wings or even if I will be able tone it down enough as it is twice as hot as my current hottest, which brings sweat to the complete skull now, but doesn't burn the tongue because of the yogurt base. But the heat comes on after it's chewed, I like it that way because I always get that person, "Oh this isn't hot, I could eat these all day" then everyone counts down to the blast off. Quite entertaining.

[Jakalwarrior]

I like moderately spicey. I have had food so spicey before that it makes every thing else I put in my mouth taste like its burning me. Usually its from eating rather strong peppers straight. I had a little dried up one in my food at the chinese restraunt a few weeks ago, I chewed it up and it ruined the rest of the meal.
I have never found tobasco to be all that hot though. We have tons of it here in Louisiana since its made here. Its even on a lot of the tables at restraunts.
Reminds me of a story. A good friend of mine had a step dad who LOVEd anchovie (sp?) pizza drenched in tobasco. I will never figure that one out.

[szaxazs]

Motor Jax that's good. I taste (well, not think) that Tabasco Classic is better than the Habanero. Not sure why. Classic has some freshness Habanero lacks. It might be my tongue or the one I bought might not have been fresh, which is unlikely. The taste of Classis is unmatched. Tabasco Classic ftw!

Notoppings, I have read about Naga Jolokia some time ago, when I was doing some research about whether hot peppers cause cancer or not (well they do, in large amounts). Well, this shit must be sick. When you try it remember to tell us how it was like, if you are still alive.:p

If you think of it, hot peppers are like drugs somehow. That is because of the pain receptors they excite, and the endorphins the human body releases to cease that pain.

It is also well established that prolonged exposure to large amounts of hot peppers and such screws up your tasting buds. People who eat Jolokias like snacks are able to do so because their taste buds are fucked up, they are actually all dead, poor taste buds.

Capsaicin is also used in medicine, now that's cool. Tabasco for medicine! Heh. Well to be honest it has helped me by freeing my stuffy nose, whenever I have had one. It causes mucus and such to get the fuck out. That's why it owns.

[azelismia]

I have allergies and sinus problems and ear problems and have had since I was tiny. Thus my sense of smell adn taste is effected. I like very very hot food. I don't like Tabasco though. too vinegary. adovada and southwestern style Mexican is more my thang. honorable mention to Indian food and Szechuan as well.

[ssrprotege]

Lots of Korean foods are spicy. I love spicy food. But my parents don't think I am 'good at' eating spicy food...

[ElstonGunn]

I don't mind habaneros if I'm in the mood for something mild. :p

[Motor Jax]

@szaxazs - i love the classic Tobasco... my faves... and you're right about it having freshness...

[szaxazs]

I have allergies and sinus problems and ear problems and have had since I was tiny. Thus my sense of smell adn taste is effected. I like very very hot food. I don't like Tabasco though. too vinegary. adovada and southwestern style Mexican is more my thang. honorable mention to Indian food and Szechuan as well.
About the allergies and sinus and ear problems do not worry. At some point in our lives we are all going to get fucked up. Some people just happen to live with an allergy their whole lives, others end up with something of equal nastiness which causes as many problems in a month as the allergy has caused all that years to the other person, or less. I believe that there is some sort of balance when it comes to illnesses and such. The sure thing is that more or less, we are going to get screwed up at some points in our lives.
Personally however, I like vinegar (yes I've been known for drinking it as is) and I find it a good addittion to the taste of the Tabasco Sauce.
Nice to have more spicy food lovers.

Lots of Korean foods are spicy. I love spicy food. But my parents don't think I am 'good at' eating spicy food...
How do they think so? What the fuck?

I don't mind habaneros if I'm in the mood for something mild. :p
Mild huh?

@szaxazs - i love the classic Tobasco... my faves... and you're right about it having freshness...
So now I am not the only one who thinks so, nice.

[zief]

I like spicy food but i dont get a lot of it. None of my family likes spicy food.
I just dont like it too hot.

[Marcus]

It's interesting. People in my culture think that taste should be made by the composition of simple strong spices (salt, pepper, chili pepper, etc). I went to France where people think that taste should be the original taste of the food harmonized with light spices.

I ended up preferring harmonized tastes but I occasionally like eating hot.

[Tenacious B]

I like spicy food, especially when it clears out the sinuses (great for allergy sufferers).

It also makes me drink a lot of water, which is generally good since it is easy to become dehydrated this time of year.

[Motor Jax]

oh, i forgot to ask... where is the "they will need to bring the firetruck and an ambulance" option..?

[azelismia]

for those of you that think hot spices have no redeeming value, it's incorrect. they kill bacteria and act as a natural antibiotic. they help alleviate the symptoms of allergies and can actually help cure a sinus infection. they didn't just cover up the taste of rancid meat but can actually kill bugs that might be in something bad. you're far less likely to get food poisoning if you've been eating very hot food.

[Motor Jax]

that's interesting to know... tks, azelismia

[phantasma]

I like spicy food, but not so spicy that I can't taste the flavor. Tabasco Chipotle hot sauce FTW!

[hozer]

Enough to give the dish some flavour, I don't want to be struggling to eat it. I find that some cuisines just overdo it.