Ah, the superior version, sans horrible beard. Any how yes.
The sweating means I’m enjoying it. I don’t want a curry unless it makes my nose start running.
I’m skinny as hell I need every reason to eat and an endorphin addiction is a hell of a way to do it lol
A little spice enhances flavor, a lot is just self-hazing.
If you’re not sweating profusely, it’s not tasty.
It’s when they all emerge from the kitchen to look over at you, you know you’ve made a mistake!
I don’t understand how people do this, to be honest. Do you know how spicy food works? The receptor it triggers in your mouth is TRPV1, which does handle heat regulation and sensitivity, but it’s also a pain receptor. Like, selectively removing it to treat the pain caused by bone cancer kind of receptor.
The kind of heat that sets it off is heat above 109F/43C, in addition to things like scorpion venom. Presumably it comes through as heat. Everyone tells me it feels hot. I don’t get “heat.” I get what is clearly agony in one of the most innervated areas of the body, and science backed me up on this.
Y’all are addicted to licking the curling iron and I’m the weird one
It gets easier the more spicy food you eat. I think your brain just starts muting the pain response because it clearly isn’t stopping the painful thing from happening.
Also, spiciness is an easy way to get some flavor into an otherwise bland dish. Handy if you’re on a diet.
And it hurts in kinda a good way? Kinda, like wiggling a loose tooth when you’re a kid…
Hot=pain=endorphins= happiness
Some people go overboard with peppers that are all heat and no flavour; Those add nothing to the dish. Proper Thai or Indian with a mix of spice brings out the flavours, so its hot but also delicious. And it hits the mouth different. Like those hot pepper challenges arent food, they just burn all over lips mouth and throat, that should never a dining experience
The heart wants what it wants
I’m with you on this
You’re probably just sensitive to capsaicin. I love hot food, and it takes a lot for me to end up in agony like you described. But I’ve definitely been that guy at an Indian place where I’m sweating profusely while telling the staff the food is delicious.
Finding a hot sauce that tastes good/doesn’t taste like hot garbage is harder than actually eating food seasoned with it.
I’m a chili head and I fucking hate hot sauce that’s just pain without flavor. I’ve also been the guy in a Thai restaurant that regretted “hottest” on their menu.
I think that’s why I tend to like carrot based hot sauces over vinegar. The carrot dulls the spiciness a bit and you get the flavor of the peppers more.
I’ve got one at the moment that’s Naga with a Peach base. That’s damn tasty.
Carrot based hot sauce you say? I’m intrigued and will research on my own, but do you have a suggestion for a good tasting medium heat hot sauce that is carrot based?
Many of the thick sauces are carrot based, since it stops it just being a bottle of spice water and actually has a sauce consistancy
Ferment your own if you really want to get wild. It’s not hard, just takes patience.
Secret Aardvark is pretty famous in the US West and its third ingredient is carrot. This site has a whole section for carrot-based. I think they are usually habanero sauces
I actually have some Secret Aardvark in my fridge already, it’s tasty stuff. Never realized it was carrot based. Thanks for the info and link.
My thoughts also. The spice level should accentuate the flavour, not just be hot for scoville bragging. i had amazing spicy Thai, the good thing is it was too hot for my wife to steal any from my plate
Same. I’ve thrown out entire gift sets I’ve gotten because it’s just hot garbage in a bottle. I always tell the giver that I appreciate the thought, but if you’re gonna spend the money, go to someplace like pepper Palace and get one good thing instead of six bottles turds.
Theres too many “extract enhanced” sauces out there now like Da Bomb that just taste like chemicals and spice. It’s cheating in my book, make a hot sauce that blows my head off and tastes good.
I enjoy spicy food, but among Euro-Americans it isn’t about the taste, it’s a macho badass thing. You prove how much of a man you are by how many Scoville units you can consume. It’s dumb.
I mean, not all of us do. Admittedly I tried the “World’s Hottest Ramen” for a laugh once, but I I regularly cook with Carolina Reapers as I like the taste not to prove how big my balls are.
If the marketing leads with the Scoville rating, that’s usually it’s a sign it’s going to be shit. I used to be very into chillies, somehow I drifted away from it. But the Naga Jolokia sauce I had could ruin a pot with a few drops. Naturally I ate a teaspoon of it once, and can’t say I recommend it.
Naga sauce in if itself is fine, I have a Naga and Peach one at the moment that’s dope. They do kick in faster than other types of chilli though.
Yeah, I think this one was made with added capsaicin extract, it had that kind of black colour to it.
Yeah, it’s like a black tar if you see it in its raw form.
Same here I like chilli in moderation, a drop or two of habanero or a really strong ghost pepper sauce gives plenty taste and heat.
At some point I found out that I’m not superman when it comes to chilli and while I eating really hot food my body says “Stop not a bite more!”
Now I just try to stay far from my limit where I can enjoy the taste of chilli.
My mom, a wonderful lady in every other sense, was a terrible cook. The blandest of the bland. Unseasoned potatoes and overcooked meat was the norm. Even when she branched out to other things like stir fry and pizza, she still somehow managed to make them utterly flavorless.
I distinctly recall one day at school, somehow I ended up with a little too much pepper in my tomato soup. It was like my taste buds had finally come of age or something. I started regularly adding too much pepper to my tomato soup. Then Tobasco. Then, as a young adult I found a specialty hot sauce place in the mall. It was the second coming!
Now, I live in Korea, and wow they’re not afraid to spice it up here. I do get tired of the constant “Oh, the waygook (foreigner) can handle spicy food!” refrain though.
The pain is kind of the point. More specifically the body’s response to pain is the point. Eating spicy food, especially mild foods when starting, is a low level pain but it triggers the body’s pain response. You get those nice dopamine and endorphins released. You end up associating the two and your journey to liking spicy food has begun.
Why do people participate in Iron Man Triathlons or BDSM? We all got to get our hurt on somehow, remind us that we’re alive!
Pain = dolphins in my brain. (=
I totally agree with you. My in-laws are always talking about how spicy they like their Indian takeaway food, and how they have to change their usual order when I’m dining with them. I’m just here thinking, “I don’t like it when the food hurts my mouth when I’m eating it.” Its as simple as that. If I can choose two versions of the same food, where one hurts my mouth and the other doesn’t, I’m going with the non-painful one, thanks.
The one exception I make is Jalapenos. I love the taste of jalapenos. They are not very spicy on the whole scale of things, and the flavour they add to subway sandwiches and vegetarian pizzas is amazing. But that is unrelated to Indian food.
It’s why many women enjoy being spanked. Pain and pleasure have a really intricate, interconnected system.
Mm-hmm, and why do I like spanking them?
I’m genuinely sitting here wondering if I can flip my brain to see it that way, and that might even work in theory. But if this is my best way out…I don’t wanna be turned on by hot sauce 😭
You don’t even have to see it in a sexual way. People like boxing and MMA. Or getting into bar fights for fun. It makes your body release adrenaline and other hormones that give you a natural high.
I love extremely spicy food that almost makes you want to tap out. But I’m Asian so might be cultural
Nah, I’m British and we’re regularly mocked for our bland food but I love spicy stuff so it’s more than cultural.
Innervate me daddy
aright mister you have ten seconds before you gotta use mana again
alternate: hands you a mana crystal
Before refridgeration was developed, food rotting was a major problem in the hot, humid tropics. The solution was to poison the food with spice - it would be somewhat unpleasant to eat, but would kill pests. I suppose over the years we got used to it.
Fun fact: English has words for four basic tastes (sweet, salt, sour and bitter). Indian languages have a fifth basic taste - chilly or spicy.
“These are tears of joy, of ecstasy.”
This meme stereotype is over done in modern times. Modern US cuisine is fantastic and not missing any of the spice. We’ll keep up with our eastern friends all day long.
Hot sauces are the most popular sauces now in America. Yet the stereotype persists.
The most popular hot sauces in America are mild ones like Tabasco, Frank’s red hot, and Sriracha.
Habanero and ghost pepper based sauces aren’t very popular.
Do you really think that the average American has the same heat tolerance as the average person from Hyderabad or Chengdu?
Or that the average American restaurant will make food as spicy as the average restaurant in India?
Some stereotypes have good reasons behind them, they just eat spicier stuff over there for cultural reasons…
I think that’s bullshit in modern days.
It’s not needed anymore (they used to have a advantage in terms of live expectency) but I do think a tradition, especially one surounding food/taste remains relevant under the general population for a very long time and I don’t see any western countries with more sharp food even today but I could be wrong.
But Indian/Nepali food is fucking amazing too
I disagree severely, 9/10 times at a random restaurant they lack the heat.
THE JOKE IS BECAUSE THE TURBAN WEARER IS INDIAN AND HE LOVES HOTTER FOOD THAN THE WHITE GUY
You got it
k thx. Quite obv tho
I wanna eat the real spicy food! In germany everything is watered down so n00bs can eat it🥲
Look for Chinese restaurants where the Chinese go eat.
Most regions in China eat very spicy, just ask the waiter for something extra spicy like the Chinese eat it and they’ll give you something amazing.
Where do you live in Germany? Maybe I can recommend something.
Thank you 🥰
When it comes to japanese food, Düsseldorf is really great. Cause i studied there i know some good Restaurants and supermarkets 😆 but i take recomondations all around nrw.
i really want to taste spicy indian food or try other asian food, that is not so common here 🤔
My best friend visited south korea a few years ago. She never liked spicy food, but said it was so good there, she now likes this stuff.
Don’t forget the Korean food there. It’s in the same area in Düsseldorf.
I recently had “very spicy” Chinese food. On scale of 1-10 it was 6 at best. ( I am Indian). If you are looking for 9 or higher look for Hyderabadi or Andhra Indian food.
Yes. Rayalseema restaurants would be bio terrorism in the west 😂. Even most Indians can’t tolerate the piquency of that food.
Lamb vindaloo is life.
My life changed much for the better when I was able to find the local Chinese place that the local Chinese people eat at and the local Indian place that the local Indian people eat at. Changed everything.
Grow your own Carolina reapers and make your own curry. If I can do it in the Arctic, so can you.
Too hot and wrong flavoured pepper for indian food
Yeah and whale is the wrong meat, but it turns out that you can do whatever you want when it’s your own curry. And my minke whale magmaloo is actually pretty damn good.
Lol. You totally can. For me I like spice but also the subtle parts of curry flavour. like mint and cinnamon are spicey too in different ways, add those in with chillies and ginger and it gives you a well rounded Spice that isn’t just burn the mouth hot
I went to a Korean hot pot place one time and ordered the hottest broth. The waitress, who barely spoke English, asked if I was sure. I said yes and when they brought it out I was sweating buckets but still loved the food. The waitress actually brought out a fan and stuck it next to my table. 10 out of 10, Would sweat again
Hottest shit I’ve ever eaten was Thai Food.
I’ve done the One Chip Challenge, regularly dump Carolina Reaper Sauce on my food, have eaten Ghost Pepper raw twice.
But none of it compares to the regular spicy noodles and beef dish I have eaten from the local Thai place. Southeastern Asians are just a different breed when it comes to Spices.
Spices and taste, all of it taste increadible!
Thai papaya salad was what got me into hot food. I was at a Thai restaurant with Thai friends, and they told me to try it. It looked like coleslaw to me, so I grabbed a bunch and started eating it. First couple bites were fine, but then the heat came. And the salad was the only thing that provided any temporary relief. I had so much of it. I loved it. I’ve tried it other places, never been as good because they will use jalapeno instead of the tiny Thai chilis.
I used to frequent a Szechuan noodle place. Those fucking noodles would melt my face off and give me lava shits 45 minutes later, but I couldn’t stay away.
This is how the ads should be written.
Irregular? Just eat some of our noodles.
I ate a ghost pepper once and tried to play it off as not being that hot. I spent the next 15 minutes trying not to puke.
Did you later regret not just pulling it up
As an Indian dude, I don’t like food that is too spicy. It just masks all other flavour. What most restaurants would call medium spicy is what I usually prefer.
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I agree with you. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like bland food. My cooking has been called too spicy by people not used to Indian cuisine. It’s just that I don’t like it when hot is the only thing you can taste.
I’m the same way. I need spice. I love it! But I also need to taste the food. That’s the whole point of the spice!
I’m with you. I usually get spicy level 0 or 1 everywhere I go.
And here I am, growing my own peppers and putting hot sauce on… Almost everything. Love spicy food.
