Hottest Wings in Calgary?

[MikeMc]

Saw some old posts on this topic but wanted to bring it back, looking for new input.

I'm lining up a hot wing eating contest as part of a friendly competition with some friends. The wing eating competition would be based around heat not quantity. As in who can eat the hottest wings (all participants would need to eat a certain amount to move onto the next round).

Anyone have opinions on where I can find the hottest in Calgary? A large number of heat levels would help as well.

Thanks in advance.

[EverfresH15]

Unicorn

[Top Shelf]

Originally Posted by EverfresH15

Unicorn

Quoted for truth....couldn't finish more than 2, just ridiculously hot

[troutman]

I don't know if they still do them, but Ed's had something called Triple Suicide wings that were extremely toxic.

Your eyes would turn red and start watering immediately. You could not speak. Your mouth was on fire, and I don't want to even think about the next morning. I like really hot wings, but these were obscene.

https://www.facebook.com/EdsRestaurant/

Now they have the "Chernobyl Challenge":

http://www.edsrestaurant.com/eds/pdf...WO%20SIDES.pdf

Taste Calgary’s original Buffalo Style Wings at Ed’s.
Home of Calgary’s first “Wing Night"
Ask us about the Chernobyl Challenge

[Maccalus]

Don't know if they still do them, but the Bull and Finch had "waiver wings" where they made you sign a waiver before they served them too you. I am not a hot wing guy so I could only finish 1, but it was painful.

[Fuzz]

If you want hot wings you can actually eat, Stavros has jalapeno ones. Very tasty, and the heat doesn't hit you right away. It creeps up, and by 5 or so you really feel it. But they are absolutely delicious.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Maccalus

Don't know if they still do them, but the Bull and Finch had "waiver wings" where they made you sign a waiver before they served them too you. I am not a hot wing guy so I could only finish 1, but it was painful.

I dont get the appeal of that. Why on earth would you want that?

[calgarygeologist]

I recall that the Point and Feather in Oakridge had some hot wings but I haven't been there in years.

[Aegypticus]

What about asking a particular bar to help you out with your competition? Maybe you could find someone willing to accomodate you if you guarantee them a certain amount of money spent while your group is there or something like that. Then you could get some capsaicin extract or oil and have them add increasing amounts for each round.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Locke

I dont get the appeal of that. Why on earth would you want that?

Tried that once while away on a business trip. BAD move. Finished 1/3 of one wing, surprised I made it that far because the mere smell made by body react in survival mode, shutting down my respiratory system to prevent damage.

The next morning, the worst pain I've felt, and continued for two days. All because of 1/3 of one wing.

In addition to the waiver, they gave me a card to put in my pocket in case I called an ambulance later.

Why did I do it? Because there was a board on the wall with 12 names on who successfully finished a dozen of these death-bearing wings and I thought... it can't be that bad. I should have asked how long that board was on the wall (8 years). I have no clue how anyone could finish those things, you'd have to chemically neutralize it.

[ricosuave]

Came in to post Ed's as well. Had a buddy who routinely eats all things like this, and Ed's so far, has been the only one he couldn't stand.

Stopped after 3 wings.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by troutman

I don't know if they still do them, but Ed's had something called Triple Suicide wings that were extremely toxic.

Your eyes would turn red and start watering immediately. You could not speak. Your mouth was on fire, and I don't want to even think about the next morning. I like really hot wings, but these were obscene.

https://www.facebook.com/EdsRestaurant/

Now they have the "Chernobyl Challenge":

http://www.edsrestaurant.com/eds/pdf...WO%20SIDES.pdf

Taste Calgary’s original Buffalo Style Wings at Ed’s.
Home of Calgary’s first “Wing Night"
Ask us about the Chernobyl Challenge

They had Chernobyl Meltdown that wasn't listed on the menu. These days I find all suicide type wings pretty weak, compared to Malaysian/Thai/African/Indian spices. In the end you can always ask the cook to super-spice them.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Maccalus

Don't know if they still do them, but the Bull and Finch had "waiver wings" where they made you sign a waiver before they served them too you. I am not a hot wing guy so I could only finish 1, but it was painful.

I like them as hot as I can get them and wherever I go, I always order the hottest they have and ask them to make 'em extra hot.

So I'm down in Myrtle Beach on a golf trip and at the local sports pub. They have wings that you have to sign a waiver for before you can order. I roll my eyes and play along.

A bit to my surprise, they actually bring out a waiver - full page, lots of small print, looks fairly serious. Whatever. I'll play along. Just bring me the wings already.

So out comes a plateful of what looks to be black death. And you could instantly smell, and feel in your eyes, that these things were not meant for human consumption. But at this point, the boys are not going to let me off the hook.

I pick one up and take a small bite. Blisters my lips. Blisters my tongue. And blisters my throat. I am talking real pain here. The eyes are watering and I'm laughing, but I know I've met my match. The guys start to abuse me and egg me on.

Well, I ordered them and dammit, I'm gonna eat them. Or so I thought. I ate 3 of them. I have never left food unfinished due to heat before. But there was no way I could go any further. I had serious blisters from my lips all the way down to my stomach. I was done. I was talking funny, and I probably had internal bleeding.

Fast forward to later that night. Three o'clock in the morning and I am lying on the bathroom floor. I've got hot and cold shakes, my heart rate is about 180, and I am having severe palpitations. I am thinking I could actually die here. I figure I probably have to wake the guys to take me to the hospital, but I really don't want to have to do that.

After an hour or so of being certain that I am going to have a heart attack and die on the bathroom floor of a scuzzy hotel in Myrtle Beach, in my skivvies, from a plate of fricking wings, I decide I have to do something. So in a fit of desperation, I stick my finger down my throat.

Eventually, up comes a jet black fur ball, the size and appearance of a semi-decomposed rat. Black. And round and furry looking. Fricking frightening. In no way, shape or form did it look like it was, or ever had been, an item fit for consumption.

But... 5 minutes later, the palpitations are gone, the heart rate drops, and I'm good as new. And no, no problems at the other end the next morning.

Looking back, I'd give the wings an 8.5 on the heat scale. But 2 out of 10 for taste.

Lesson: don't order the wings if they come with a waiver.

[VladtheImpaler]

Great story. Did you find out what the ingredient was? The hottest thing I ever had in a Calgary restaurant was a Malaysian curry, but that was before I had built up crazy tolerance. The Superstore occasionally has ghost peppers and I have made nachos with those - instant hick-ups. That is intense heat. They are still edible, but to the point they are not really that enjoyable. I find the Thai peppers to be optimal combination of taste/heat.

[rubecube]

I've done the waiver wings at the Bull before and the third-degree burn ones at the Unicorn or whatever they were called. Unicorn's were way tastier and they're actually what I started routinely ordering when I went there but the Bull's were stupid hot. Like I had one and then immediately ordered two glasses of milk. To be fair, that was also back when I was 18 and I don't think my spice tolerance was as high then as it is now.

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by rubecube

I've done the waiver wings at the Bull before and the third-degree burn ones at the Unicorn or whatever they were called. Unicorn's were way tastier and they're actually what I started routinely ordering when I went there but the Bull's were stupid hot. Like I had one and then immediately ordered two glasses of milk. To be fair, that was also back when I was 18 and I don't think my spice tolerance was as high then as it is now.

It's too late to have milk after. You need to drink the milk before starting.

[Locke]

You people are pathologically self-destructive. This is insane.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Screw milk, you need ice. Numb your mouth out. As for the heat level, you should bring your own sauces an have the place just toss the wings in it. See how many scoville units you make it up to.

[TomLeeMC]

Originally Posted by EverfresH15

Unicorn

Yea this place would be my go to and next time I'm in town hoping to try them out. Buddy and I hit up ed's before a game one night and had the ones under the Chernobyl (woulda tried Chernobyl but didn't want my mouth to burn for the game) ate em all without batting an eye. He recently went to unicorn and tried the 2 of 4 hot levels and said they were way hotter. I love spicy, great thread.

[Fuzz]

My face is sweating just reading this thread.