Hot and spicy poll! - How much of a man are you?

[Grub]

I don't mind pretty spicy food but I don't eat it all the time. I like my asshole not burning when I shit. Like others have said too it depends on the peppers used. I don't really like habaneros. I just don't like the flavour of them and I find it makes the heat feel worse. I like ghost peppers though I find they have an almost fruity flavour underneath the spice which I enjoy.

One of the worst spicy dishes I've had though was my own fault. I was young and pretty broke at the time, I decided I'd make a big pot of chili to last the week. I cheaped out on ingredients and bought a big bag of what I thought was chili powder from the cheap imported spices section. The bag said chili powder on it. So I make up my chili. Pour a bunch of the chili powder in without trying it first. The cheap shitty bag ripped and like half the bag of chili powder fell in. I just said fuck it and stirred it in. A lot of store bought chili powder's pretty flavourless anyway. Get it all mixed in and go to take a taste it was like eating fire. Turns out it wasn't chili powder it was some kind of powdered spicy as fuck Asian chili pepper. The worst part is I had to eat that shit for dinner for a week straight. It was fucking awful. I dumped like a whole small sour cream tub into the plate I ate that night to try and kill some of the spice. It made it so I could just barely get it down. My gut hurt so much all week. Liquid burning lava shits every day.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

There's a Mexican place near me with a salsa bar and one of the salsas is just roasted, pureed jalapeños with a little salt.

It gives me the most punishing shits and it's still 10/10 worth it.

 

[Triple Flutz]

I really like spicy food, but I don't necessarily prefer the spiciest variant of a given dish and I don't think all dishes are well-suited for heat. I like to make a scotch bonnet sauce primarily flavored with onion, garlic, and maggi cubes, and it works really well on meat, fish, and rice. I genuinely find the Samyang noodles to be flavorful and enjoyable, I tend to order vindaloo when we have Indian food, and we grow habaneros, jalapenos, and serranos and are looking to expand our selection next year.

I know people who like to challenge themselves to eat spicier and spicier meals, but it's not for me, I just like to enhance my experience with an enjoyable amount of heat. Usually, I don't really care to go beyond the heat of scotch bonnets or whatever my thai friend uses in her cooking, but there have been exceptions.

 

[Mister Mint]

Depends on the place. If it's some place that probably runs mild I'll get it as spicy as they make it, if it's some place that lives to punish white hubris, I'll go for a 7/10 and work my way up.
I like things spicy, but I still like it to be pleasant and taste good. I'm not into "I just ate 23 carolina reapers and shoved 100 bhut jolokia seeds up my dickhole! I'm tough and cool!"

 

[keytar]

I love eating food hot enough to make me cry but it had better taste good at the same time.

 

[Dona Morte]

Any one of those spicy marycham bowls.
I buy them every month.
Any place to buy that same seasoning?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I like Spicy Food.

I hate places that think that Spicy is a replacement for real taste though.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

It should be flavorful, but not mindlessly hot. I have this Buki salsa hot sauce that one drop is sufficient enough, otherwise I’d not need to nair my exhaust valve later on

 

[Pomniman]

Usually 4 but I'll go to 11 once in a blue moon just for laughs.

 

[innocent jogger]

I make my own food and I usually set the heat level for what I am making. Chili, maybe a 3. Curry or pad Thai, usually 5. For me some foods just taste better with lots of heat while others are best without it.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Whenever I go to this local Mongolian-Chinese buffet, I pour the very hot Dragon sauce and House sauce on the bowl.
I can get really hot and have a painful bathroom experience 12 hours later but it's legitimately flavorful.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I love me some really fuckin spicy food. My dad bought me the one chip challenge for Christmas though. I was fucking bedridden for hours because it hurt like a motherfucker all the way down. Fuck that noise.

 

[Burd Turglar]

I have roughly 32 different hot sauces of varying flavor and spice level in my fridge at all times and grow typically 10 different varieties of peppers every season. I dehydrate my extras and make my own spices with them. Life is good.

 

[Smug]

At a certain point, it's no longer "spicy" and flavorful and it's just a sensation of pain. A good example would be those shitty Korean noodles that were making the rounds on jewtube a few years ago. They're definitely spicy, but that's all there is. It's bland flavorless shit.

You're surely not talking about Samyang "3x spicy" noodles? Those things are tasty as hell.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

Ill say a 4. I like something that'll have me panting and feeling like I just ran a mile, while still having good flavor. However I will not eat items that are basically overwhelming turbo spice and nothing else.

Buffalo Wild Wings for example, mango habenero over blazing. The blazing is eh with crap flavoring but very spicy. Mango habenero, little less intense, but ooh yeah the flavor is 100 times better. Could put away 20 of those wings in one setting.

 

[Cold Root Beer]

So somewhere between 2 and 3. Even the spicier Hungry Man bowls are getting to be too much spice for me as I get older.

It's weird, I feel the same way wrt being less tolerant for spice as I age. I used to love the spiciest shit when I was younger, but as I age I've found it to be more of a chore and I default to milder stuff.

 

[Schmeckel]

I love spicy food, so long as it has flavor and isn't hot for the sake of being hot. Curries, Thai dishes, etc. Even though some of them have me looking like a Japanese flag, I still like the taste. I made a reaper mash that I'll add to stews and soups that adds a real kick and I like the flavor of the mash. If it's just sauces that have extracts in them to add heat, it's sad.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Cooking for myself? Throw in the cayenne!
Eating at a chain? Give me the milder food. The spicy food (like bww and such) tastes more like vinegar than actual spice.

There is one Chinese place near the house though, family owned and run, and the owner makes Mongolian beef with a hand picked Chilli oil because people were saying it wasn't spicy enough. Makes me sweat, but damn is it so fucking good and flavorful.

 

[My Name is Ed]

My asshole has never been decimated by spicy food and I practically subsist on extra-hot peri-peri, I have no idea where the idea comes from.

 

[Nick Gars]

Depends on the dish. If the spicy compliments the flavor, crank it up to 11. If not, keep that shit off my food or I'm gonna cut you. There are some exotic hot sauces out there that are heat+sweet though (peach hot sauce comes to mind), those usually go extremely well with some kind of meat, but they're like a 1 or 2 on heat.

Now if I'm sick, you might as well just give me a bottle of hot sauce to drink, because my soups going to be about 80% hot sauce to clear out my fuckin' sinuses.