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Originally Posted by BOSSY
A product called 'Pure Capsaicin' is the secret to the waiver wings ... A habanero pepper is rated about 250,000 on the Scoville scale - this stuff is 16,000,000 it's insane - basically concentrated hot pepper oil ... The bottle comes in a glass jar incase it breaks. It comes with an eye dropper to put the oil in sauces but idiots make sauces with it - it's landed a buddy of mine in the hospital after a wing eating contest...
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That is fricken idiotic.
In unstable levels, some peppers are around 2 million Scoville. I believe Ghost peppers are around 1 million and some of the new highest stable varieties are around 1.6 million scoville. Pepper spray ranges at around 2 million to 5 million.
Any idiot who is putting pure capsaicin at 16 million into food is going to kill someone if they get their ratios wrong. Pure capsaicin IMO is akin to bringing out a 180 proof alcohol like Everclear or Spirytus to a drinking contest. Bad idea. Someone can really screw up if they don't know what they are putting in their body.
On a side note, milk isn't very effective IMO. I have read sugar is one of the few things that works (ie: use a sugar packet as a last ditch attempt to address pain). I've tried it and it seems more effective than milk personally. If I personally were to join a spicy eating contest, my soothing option would be something akin to a bottle of Aunt Jemima's syrup + a glass of milk to diffuse the crazy sweetness in my mouth.
Cooking a spicy food with dairy or sugars seems to lessen the heat. Thai for instance likes putting sugars into the spicy. Indian foods seem to like adding dairy (ie: Yogurt). I've also seen Coconut milk put in. I am not sure if somehow the fats or the sugars in it help.
I love spicy foods, but doing these eating challenges just feel like a 1st class ticket towards wrecking something I love.
On an off topic but somewhat related note, I've really wanted to eat a raw Habanero recently. Yeah it hurt like crazy because I had no idea what to use to sooth my mouth last time I did it, but that initial fruity sweetness was very nice. Almost like pineapple.