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So Im wondering Who here on Dakka loves them some spicy food? I personally love hotsauce and I personally carry a bottle with me at all times(NEver know when you will need chipolte sauce)
My mom always gets me specialty hotsauce from when she travels. She just got back and gave me Ghost Pepper hotsauce and spicy fudge.

I collect exotic hotsauces. For my personal tastes, though, it's tough to go wrong with Sriracha.

 azazel the cat wrote:
I collect exotic hotsauces. For my personal tastes, though, it's tough to go wrong with Sriracha.

Want to know what Sriracha is called in cali?
Spoiler-ed for incredibly immature joke

Never tell the Hispanic guy in Arizona who is making your wings "You can't make em hot enough." They'll do it. Good lord...

Also, my need for heat has gone down over the past few years. I'm getting old. And I loved hot stuff all through college. I won the tabasco drinking competition on my floor. Some dumbass tried to chug sprite after he burned his mouth. Others guzzled water or milk. Me? I drank the tabasco, walked calmly into my room, sat down at my computer to use AIM, and took a sip of water half an hour later. Pansies.

If you're in portland and like spicy food, there's nothing quite like the chicken pepper bath at Lucky Strike. You can tell when someone's ordered it from quite some distance off.




Also, we buy this stuff by the case.

I really hate Tabasco, no flavor beyond vinegar.

Siracha's decent but my go to hot sauce is glorious Tapatio. All the flavor of Siracha but with some actual HEAT. Tapatio is how I survived eating MREs in the field all the time.

 azazel the cat wrote:
I collect exotic hotsauces. For my personal tastes, though, it's tough to go wrong with Sriracha.

Yes sriracha is the tits. I find it odd how you can put just a little on, and it's almost sweet,then you put more on and it will melt face.

I can tolerate a lot of heat, but I greatly prefer to just be able to taste it. I find the flavor to be best when it's just shy of making you uncomfortable.

Chinese restaurant back in Japan had a dish called Chicken in Red Pepper Sauce. Hands down, best food I've eaten in my life. Since moving back to the US, of the hundreds of Chinese places I've tried, I've been unable to find anyone who has anything close to it, and I have no way to replicate it. Kills me. We also had a curry place that would do a scale of 1-15, then X, XX, and XXX. I'd normally eat around a 5-7. I went up to 10 once, and that was a meal I could handle, but didn't enjoy.

For a long time I've been using a habanero cooking oil in pretty much everything I fix. I'm super bummed though because I'm down to one, maybe two meals worth left, and we've not been able to find this stuff anywhere anymore.

My stepmother, at a recent family get together, had cooked her carrots in a hot pepper honey. Which had way more of a kick than I was expecting.

I love spicy foods. I have made curries that have made people burst into tears just by the smell. Yes spicy foods are fun to make too. Especially to see people i hate choking on the spice.

Lele, a thai restaurant here, ask me on a scale 1-5 on spice. I said five. Got my favorite thai beef salad like usual and pretty much got hammered trying to eat it. Burned like lava going down. Burn like napalm coming out.

I stick with three now.

Yeah, I go for 3 or 4 at the Thai restaurants I visit too. 5 is too painful.

 Jihadin wrote:
Lele, a thai restaurant here, ask me on a scale 1-5 on spice. I said five. Got my favorite thai beef salad like usual and pretty much got hammered trying to eat it. Burned like lava going down. Burn like napalm coming out.

I stick with three now.

Before I moved I conquered Thai hot pad thai at my local thai place. The waitress was impressed, I was hooked. No napalm ass either.

El Yucateco habanero sauce is my poison, although maybe I should consider looking for a new one after finding out about the questionable lead content

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Before I moved I conquered Thai hot pad thai at my local thai place. The waitress was impressed, I was hooked. No napalm ass either.

When I was stationed at Carson, there was an awesome Thai joint right outside of Gate 4 that we'd go to for shop lunches. The guy who first suggested it knew the owner personally, and never looked at a menu.... Good god, the smell emanating from his food reminded my of the Gas Chamber in Basic, it was funny, because he'd start sweating as soon as the plate was within 5 feet of him, sweat all through the meal, and then at the end say "wow, that was really good"... not spicy, or hot, just good.

When it comes to Thai food, I can occasionally handle the mid level heat.

But when it comes to chicken wings I do love the heat... Attempted to do the 20 wing "homicidal challenge" at Vinny's, a wing joint in Sierra Vista. I only had a little trouble with the heat, having enough to drink and all, but the sheer amount of meat on those wings actually got to me (which is weird because back then, I could eat a full meal and be ready for another full meal)

I have attempted the Blazing challenge at Buffalo Wild wings a few times, what always stops me isn't the spice, but the actual temperature of the wings. They're scalding hot.

Jalepenos del Gitsplitta:


It's OK if you weep openly... we're all mature and sensative here.

Here's a link to the recipie. Easy-peasy.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-live/joes-screaming-stuffed-jalapeno-poppers-recipe/index.html?ic1=obinsite

I like enough heat that I enjoy the meal, and don't need to put toilet roll in the freezer for later