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@ Wes, try the tabasco and the cholula chipotle sauces-- everything else there is trash tbh. for ppl with mega low spice tolerance I find tabasco green is a good gateway sauce .
 
So I just bought 5 different hot sauces from the www.heatonist.com which is where you can buy the hot sauce from the "Hot Ones" series on youtube.

I'm playing with the idea of eating a teaspoon of the Apollo Last Dab hot sauce on video in a 5min uninterrupted clip. Literally just pouring a measured 1 tsp of the last dab sauce and eating it and filming my reaction for 5 min. No water, milk, crackers, or anything.

I don't know for sure if I'm top level as far as heat, but I think I am.

If I do this I will not do a trial run. I will open the seal on the gold label last dab bottle on camera and I will eat 1 tsp in a measured spoon. I will then be filmed for 5 min without water, milk, bread, crackers, or anything else.

If I get any interest I'll start a new thread with details and discussion to work out the specifics.



heatonist.com

The Last Dab: Apollo | Hot Ones Hot Sauce | HEATONIST

Hot Ones The Last Dab is the first hot sauce in the world featuring the mysterious new Apollo Pepper. Live the Hot Ones tradition and get your bottle today!
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Gameface said:
So I just bought 5 different hot sauces from the www.heatonist.com which is where you can buy the hot sauce from the "Hot Ones" series on youtube.

I'm playing with the idea of eating a teaspoon of the Apollo Last Dab hot sauce on video in a 5min uninterrupted clip. Literally just pouring a measured 1 tsp of the last dab sauce and eating it and filming my reaction for 5 min. No water, milk, crackers, or anything.

I don't know for sure if I'm top level as far as heat, but I think I am.

If I do this I will not do a trial run. I will open the seal on the gold label last dab bottle on camera and I will eat 1 tsp in a measured spoon. I will then be filmed for 5 min without water, milk, bread, crackers, or anything else.

If I get any interest I'll start a new thread with details and discussion to work out the specifics.



heatonist.com

The Last Dab: Apollo | Hot Ones Hot Sauce | HEATONIST

Hot Ones The Last Dab is the first hot sauce in the world featuring the mysterious new Apollo Pepper. Live the Hot Ones tradition and get your bottle today!
heatonist.com heatonist.com
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Do it. I know I would try it but won't make the toxic masculinity comment that I won't drink any milk. Besides milk is a temporary fix. A piece of bread will do much more.
 
Scat said:
Do it. I know I would try it but won't make the toxic masculinity comment that I won't drink any milk. Besides milk is a temporary fix. A piece of bread will do much more.
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This all said, it amazes me how people react to pepper heat. I've seen people nearly die from eating a jalapeno to others eat a Carolina Reaper and stating how hot it is while exhibiting no outwards signs that it was really that hot.
 
I've taken to making my own teriyaki sauce. It's amazing how easy it is - 2 parts each of sake, mirin (which you can find in the Asian section of the grocery store, basically a sweet cooking sake), soy sauce, and 1 part sugar (I actually use sucrolose, as my wife is type 1 diabetic). Combine, boil for about 10 minutes to reduce, add a touch of corn starch slurry to thicken it, then I usually toss in some sesame seeds. If you want to change up the flavor a bit, you can saute up some garlic and ginger in the same pan for just 2-3 minutes before adding the liquids in, or maybe add in a bit of orange juice as well. I had always thought it was super complex to make, but I will never use store bought again.
 
gandalfe said:
I've taken to making my own teriyaki sauce. It's amazing how easy it is - 2 parts each of sake, mirin (which you can find in the Asian section of the grocery store, basically a sweet cooking sake), soy sauce, and 1 part sugar (I actually use sucrolose, as my wife is type 1 diabetic). Combine, boil for about 10 minutes to reduce, add a touch of corn starch slurry to thicken it, then I usually toss in some sesame seeds. If you want to change up the flavor a bit, you can saute up some garlic and ginger in the same pan for just 2-3 minutes before adding the liquids in, or maybe add in a bit of orange juice as well. I had always thought it was super complex to make, but I will never use store bought again.
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Funny you mention that as I'm planning on making some today. I do the basic recipe you mention 2 parts sake, mirin, soy sauce (I'm going to sub in tamari for the soy sauce if I can find it this time), 1 part brown sugar, no cornstarch and use that to marinade. With the remaining sauce not used as marinade add garlic, ginger, 1 Tbsp honey, 1 tsp rice vinegar, a couple drops of sesame oil and cornstarch for using at the table. I adjust the balance of sweetness, salty, sour by using more or less honey or mirin, soy sauce, rice vinegar in the final sauce according to my taste.

I'm using chicken thighs, white rice and making some air fried veggies to put it on.
 
Gameface said:
Funny you mention that as I'm planning on making some today. I do the basic recipe you mention 2 parts sake, mirin, soy sauce (I'm going to sub in tamari for the soy sauce if I can find it this time), 1 part brown sugar, no cornstarch and use that to marinade. With the remaining sauce not used as marinade add garlic, ginger, 1 Tbsp honey, 1 tsp rice vinegar, a couple drops of sesame oil and cornstarch for using at the table. I adjust the balance of sweetness, salty, sour by using more or less honey or mirin, soy sauce, rice vinegar in the final sauce according to my taste.

I'm using chicken thighs, white rice and making some air fried veggies to put it on.
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I use white jasmine rice almost exclusively. It has more flavor and a little bit better texture than most rice, and is slightly lower in cards - if you're going to do white rice, it's the healthiest.

The great thing about the teriyaki sauce, too, is you can just make up a whole bunch of it and keep it the fridge for a quick hit.
 
Scat said:
This all said, it amazes me how people react to pepper heat. I've seen people nearly die from eating a jalapeno to others eat a Carolina Reaper and stating how hot it is while exhibiting no outwards signs that it was really that hot.
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It's partially genetic. Some people are more sensitive than others. My daughter literally develops little blisters when she eats food with capsaicin. Some people cannot detect the heat at all. Saw a special on this with a guy that entered a pepper eating contest but he is one of those that has zero reaction to capsaicin. Missing the correct gene. He won. But a few of the people who lasted longer were sweating pretty bad, one dude vomited. It's a very wide spread range of physical sensations for something like that which is essentially a ghost-reaction as capsaicin by itself isn't harmful, as in it's not like it's some super strong acid or anything. Physically, or chemically or mechanically it is essentially harmless. It's purely the immune system response. Almost like an allergy. Peanuts in and of themselves are harmless, but they can kill some people. It's always stupid when people equate your ability to "handle" the heat with macho-ness or something.

There were these guys I worked with that always were trying to be the most macho. So they brought in their favorite spicy foods and had a contest. One dude brought in a jar of pickled habaneros. They were each in pretty good pain but one kid was not to be outdone so he picked up the jar of habaneros and chugged the liquid. He held it down for about a minute before basically projectile-vomiting all over the break room as he tried to run to the bathroom. Sure looked macho then.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
It's partially genetic. Some people are more sensitive than others. My daughter literally develops little blisters when she eats food with capsaicin. Some people cannot detect the heat at all. Saw a special on this with a guy that entered a pepper eating contest but he is one of those that has zero reaction to capsaicin. Missing the correct gene. He won. But a few of the people who lasted longer were sweating pretty bad, one dude vomited. It's a very wide spread range of physical sensations for something like that which is essentially a ghost-reaction as capsaicin by itself isn't harmful, as in it's not like it's some super strong acid or anything. Physically, or chemically or mechanically it is essentially harmless. It's purely the immune system response. Almost like an allergy. Peanuts in and of themselves are harmless, but they can kill some people. It's always stupid when people equate your ability to "handle" the heat with macho-ness or something.

There were these guys I worked with that always were trying to be the most macho. So they brought in their favorite spicy foods and had a contest. One dude brought in a jar of pickled habaneros. They were each in pretty good pain but one kid was not to be outdone so he picked up the jar of habaneros and chugged the liquid. He held it down for about a minute before basically projectile-vomiting all over the break room as he tried to run to the bathroom. Sure looked macho then.
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Partially genetic but also something you can build a tolerance to, if that's the right word. I can definitely eat much hotter food today than I could 10 years ago. I enjoy being on the edge of agony, sometimes a little over, so I constantly push the heat level up and up to get there.

I'm changing my mind on eating the teaspoon of hot sauce. I'll just go ahead and give it a little try before I attempt to kill myself with it.
 
Gameface said:
Partially genetic but also something you can build a tolerance to, if that's the right word. I can definitely eat much hotter food today than I could 10 years ago. I enjoy being on the edge of agony, sometimes a little over, so I constantly push the heat level up and up to get there.

I'm changing my mind on eating the teaspoon of hot sauce. I'll just go ahead and give it a little try before I attempt to kill myself with it.
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Just chug that ****er!

You can definitely build up a tolerance to it if that's your thing. There is evidence there is a release of endorphins when you eat something strongly spicy, so that's a thing too that it makes you happy literally. I'm fine with hot foods but I don't seek out the next level heat thing. But I've had stuff so good I just dealt with the heat. There's this little Mexican restaurant in Fernley NV that serves this shredded cabbage and jalapeno and serrano stuff along with a red sauce style salsa that is the absolute bomb. Mix them together on a chip, or a burrito, or your shoe. You can't stop eating it. But it is next level heat, way hotter than I can enjoy. But you can't stop eating it. And the heat is likely part of the appeal.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Just chug that ****er!

You can definitely build up a tolerance to it if that's your thing. There is evidence there is a release of endorphins when you eat something strongly spicy, so that's a thing too that it makes you happy literally. I'm fine with hot foods but I don't seek out the next level heat thing. But I've had stuff so good I just dealt with the heat. There's this little Mexican restaurant in Fernley NV that serves this shredded cabbage and jalapeno and serrano stuff along with a red sauce style salsa that is the absolute bomb. Mix them together on a chip, or a burrito, or your shoe. You can't stop eating it. But it is next level heat, way hotter than I can enjoy. But you can't stop eating it. And the heat is likely part of the appeal.
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I bought 5 different sauces from the Heatonist "Hot" and "Hottest" categories so I'll try some of those that are listed from 7/10 to 9/10 and see how I feel about those, then I'll decide if I want to do the challenge with the Apollo sauce, which they list as the hottest hot sauce ever made essentially (they only sell hot sauces that are "natural" so no fancy capsaicin extract processes) using the Apollo pepper.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Just chug that ****er!

You can definitely build up a tolerance to it if that's your thing. There is evidence there is a release of endorphins when you eat something strongly spicy, so that's a thing too that it makes you happy literally. I'm fine with hot foods but I don't seek out the next level heat thing. But I've had stuff so good I just dealt with the heat. There's this little Mexican restaurant in Fernley NV that serves this shredded cabbage and jalapeno and serrano stuff along with a red sauce style salsa that is the absolute bomb. Mix them together on a chip, or a burrito, or your shoe. You can't stop eating it. But it is next level heat, way hotter than I can enjoy. But you can't stop eating it. And the heat is likely part of the appeal.
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What's the name of this restaurant I stop in Fernley a lot. It's the last real city before burning man, haha.
 
Ron Mexico said:
What's the name of this restaurant I stop in Fernley a lot. It's the last real city before burning man, haha.
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La Fiesta. Not sure if it's the same I understand it's under different ownership or something. Haven't been there in probably 10 years. But it's decent American-Mexican food in general.
 
Gameface said:
I bought 5 different sauces from the Heatonist "Hot" and "Hottest" categories so I'll try some of those that are listed from 7/10 to 9/10 and see how I feel about those, then I'll decide if I want to do the challenge with the Apollo sauce, which they list as the hottest hot sauce ever made essentially (they only sell hot sauces that are "natural" so no fancy capsaicin extract processes) using the Apollo pepper.
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I've had Reapers before and they are damn hot. Not sure I want to try an Apollo. Eh, who am I kidding? I'd try it.
 
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