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Old 07-28-2008, 03:10 AM   #1
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What is your tolerance level?

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Anything above the Serrano will have me sweating.
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Old 07-28-2008, 03:19 AM   #2
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I can handle the Habanero chili in a sauce or dip, but to down one by itself would be tough.
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Old 07-28-2008, 03:22 AM   #3
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In Bolivia, we ate aji all the time. That pepper was a potent love missile. If you touched your eyes an hour later, you would regret it.

I have this weird thing going on wherein I do not feel much heat from peppers. I don't need to drink a bunch of water, my mouth doesn't burn, etc. I just sweat. I can always tell if something is spicy because the top of my head gets sweaty.

If the pepper gets hot enough, I will start to feel it, but not much.

Speaking of habanero, I know they are the be all end all of super machismo pepper eating, but the habanero sauces I have tried....they all taste disgusting....just a bunch of vinegar and unsavory tasting peppers. They dont improve the taste of anything. I think their sole purpose is to exist at Mexican restaurants so that frat boys can dare each other to eat them.
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Old 07-28-2008, 04:47 AM   #4
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one of my favorite sauces, endemic among Chamarros:

Finnedeni sauce.

Very simple. Little small red hot peppers. Like twice as long as your fingernail or so. Chop those up. WIth seeds, add to soy sauce. Add lemon juice.

This is best eaten over white sticky rice. With fried chicken and cut-corn + butter.
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:24 AM   #5
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I used to down jalapenos like crazy on the mission. Started buying them when I got home and eating them with every meal. Ate a habanero once on the mission too. Burned me three times. When it went down. When it came up. And when it came out.
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I can handle the Thai pepper fairly well but anything above that is too hot for me.
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Old 07-28-2008, 03:39 PM   #7
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Anybody else see the mythbusters where they did hot chili mouth remedies? Whole milk was the hands down winner. There were some seriously bizarre remedies viewers had suggested.

One humorous note. They decided tequila helps hot chili mouth the same way it helps ugly.
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I'm middle of the road for heat tolerance. I once had a Thai dish that I could only eat half of.

Yesterday I had some kimchi that had some nice burn.
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