/r/spicy
A place to talk about all spicy things, including hot sauces, salsa, recipes, and growing chiles.
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Store owners, hot sauce makers, basically anyone with anything to promote either directly or indirectly must post it to the weekly vendor's thread. This includes Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns. The vendor's thread goes up on Sunday nights and comes down on Wednesdays.
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Memes are welcome but please keep it to a minimum.
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/r/spicy
Psycho slayer 9Million spicy points.
Mine is better than any I’ve tried from the store with the exception of sriraja panich. I posted the recipe a while back.
So I'm asking this here because I'm just not sure where else to ask it.
My wife is practically immune to spice. And I don't mean like...she likes jalapeños and thinks she doesn't feel spice. I have personally witnessed her eat Carolina reapers, ghost peppers, bhutlahs, scorpion peppers, the spiciest food in any given place, and none of these have any effect on her beyond a "yeah, it's spicy"
And she's not just putting up with the burn and acting. After years with her, I've come to learn she virtually cannot distinguish whether something is spicy or not unless it's ungodly hot. I often have to take over seasoning when it's time to add spice or else our kids and I will be in trouble. To clarify, I also enjoy spice quite a bit so I'm not inexperienced either. To add to this, we watch shows like hot ones and she sees guys like Sean Evans feeling the spice and she's just vaguely confused. Like "am I weird, is there anyone else like this?" I figured this is the best place to ask
I guess I'm just asking, are yall like this too? Are others you know like this? Because I have never met anyone else who handles spice like her.
They’re just so good 😊
Pleasantly surprised by how hot this cheese is. Going to make some cheeseburgers and see how that goes.
Hey I'm looking for any suggestions on peppers for my next batch of homemade hot sauce. This last batch was habenero - serrano - fresno - aji cachura. I wanted it mildly spicy with a bit of a fruity sweet note without having it actually sweet. Worked pretty well after fermenting for 4 weeks.
I'd love some suggestions of peppers I can actually find - whether in the grocery store or ordering online.
Or a complete recipe that you thought was good.
I tried this one, delicious to the max. Please gimme more suggestions to put it on!
What do you think? Tastes amazing, what do you do with it?
My wife has been feeding my son spicy food and I am very concerned for his health. A pediatrician told me it wasn't safe and I need more opinions.
Personally i thought it was ok, nice capsicum flavor but altogether very hot but not extremely hot. Still had a good sweat, though lol Jalapeños, rocoto, and Carolina reaper. Mouth is burning still after a good 10 mn but altogether not the hellish experience I was advertised. Would still recommend it !
I bought some scotch bonnet last year from a store. The flavor was good, but the "burn" was odd. Instead of the burn I get from serrano, habanero, ghost, or reaper, I felt a tingly pins and needles thing going on in my mouth. I'm not sure if it was an allergic reaction, a strange pepper, or if that's just the way that scotch bonnet is supposed to "burn". I keep putting it in quotes because the main sensation was definitely not heat, but rather the pins and needles (which went away after about the same length of time as I would expect the burn to last).
Is there any trick to stop this from happening every time? Gets a bit messy in the car when I’m dabbing some on my burrito
So I recently got into chili crisp and a lot of the pricing (at least on Amazon) is insane. Why would I ever get any of the off-brands when I can get 4x the crisp with the OG Lao Gan Ma for the basically the same price? The Fly by Jing was good, but not noticeably better. Are there any other brands worth it from a price/value perspective?
This is becoming the /r/running of food subreddits. I get it. You guys are getting the liquid shits. It hurts in your tum tums. It's hard to resist describing everything in detail because you went through it.
But man, can we have maybe one day of the week where it is safe to read about delicious spicy food without getting a three step explanation why this particular food ripped through your intestines and "thee hee hee, what an aftermath it was, good luck to your asshole".
Thanks for hearing me out.
it needs to be really spicy and tastier than others
So I tried the buldak x2 yesterday and I'm not a fan. Yes, it was hot. But there was no flavor. I don't like spicy for the sake of spicy. It has to have some flavor otherwise what's the point?
*Disclaimer* This is my opinion. We all know spice and taste are subjective.
Carolina Reapers are in every god damn sauce nowadays and its frustrating for someone who doesn't enjoy that particular pepper. I have been known to make dishes spicy or simply enjoy spicy food, so I get gifted hot sauces often. I usually get one of three different sauces as gifts:
I use to enjoy the variety of peppers used in sauces. I remember a thai sauce that primarily used Thai chilis in it and it was delicious. Hell, most ghost pepper sauces have been my favorite over the years. While ghost peppers are still decently hot, they actually accompany a decent taste with them. They don't often overpower the dish.
Nowadays, the sauce isles only have the choice of staple red sauces (Tapatio, Tobasco, Red Hot, Cholula, etc...) and a night of toilet runs and heartburn. It's too bad because I like a little bit more spice than the standard red (not that I'm badmouthing those sauces, they are staples for a reason), but can't seem to find any sauce or brand that does jump straight from red, to Habanero, to Reaper. What about Serranos? Labuyo? Chiltepín? They all have unique tastes beyond their heat levels and it would be nice to have variety in the sauces.
I just need a little vent. My fridge is full on reaper sauces and I hate to waste them... but many just aren't good. At least the folks on Hot Ones find a variety and create good lineups.
So I got this hot sauce called Da Bomb and want to have some with my friend for a challenge. I know for a fact I can push through the mouthburn and sweating, but I absolutely hate stomach cramps. Would it be possible to take a spoonful of this stuff, run it around the mouth for 10 seconds and then spit it out and not have to deal with the stomach cramps later or stomach cramps inevitable? Thanks for any help!
Buddy of mine left it in my fridge when he moved out, said he got it in Tijuana. It’s like spicy crack.