Hot Sauce and Spicy Food connoisseurs!

[x_lilmissNINJA_x]

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[Chu]

[Mika]

It all depends what food it is. x33 I'm really picky with my spicy food, but I like it. There's some things I won't eat without spice.

Like... my subs absolutely have to have Jalipeno peppers on them. Or I wont eat em. D<

Well... I will. I'll just be sad a little inside. D:

I also prefer my instant noodles and my rice noodles to be spicy.

[OMG MY FACE]

While I like the flavor that peppers bring to foods, I don't like the actual taste of the actual peppers themselves, jalapenos included. And as for noodles, they're one of the tastiest things to make spicy, because the starchiness compliments a hot flavor! Whether a spaghetti noodle or a ramen noodle, I'm all for it :P

[Bound]

Oh! Great connoisseurs of hot and spicy foods~

I... confess that I am a complete wuss when it comes to hot-and-spiciness. I cry like a little girl when faced with something rather literally too hot for me too handle, and wish I didn't have to pick the jalapenos off the pizza before I eat it while all my friends just wolf it down.

My question for you, oh ones-who-are-endowed-with-heat-resistant-tastebuds, is this: is there anything that I can do to raise my tolerance to hot and spicy foods, or am I doomed to a bland, mild-to-medium, maximum-of-two-peppers-for-those-foods-which-use-pepper-pictures-for-their-rating-scale kind of life?

Please hurry and bestow upon me your worldly wisdom, that I might better be able to appreciate the world in it's many-flavoured glory. :(

[x_lilmissNINJA_x]

The only way to raise your tolerance is to just keep eating them!

Your tounge and brain build up an immunity to it if you eat them enough, so what I suggest is that you eat alot of hot and spicy foods when your on your own, so it doesn't matter what your reaction is, and with time, it gets better. Remember not to go too fast though because thats how you lsoe your sense of taste for 6 months! Trust me, it's happened. xD

[Bound]

Thanks for the advice! :D I'll keep trying~

But wow. You can lose your sense of taste for that long a time?

I knew there could be short term effects, but 6 months?! Did it happen to you?

[x_lilmissNINJA_x]

No, but, I know a guy who knows this guy.

Hotsauce is not to be messed with! It's almost as dangerous as nuclear chemicals.

[Bound]

Haha, I know~ A friend of mine took the hot hot chicken challenge at a noodle bar. You had to eat this whole bowl of noodles and chicken with an incredibly hot broth in half an hour and if you did, you got your picture put on the wall in the Hall of Fame.

Even one drop of that broth made my whole mouth start to burn~ D: So I know to be careful and build up my tolerance slowly. = w=b

Have you ever done that kind of a challenge before?

[x_lilmissNINJA_x]

Sort of.
But it was with a level 6 hotsauce on a plate of pile high nachos.

[Bound]

Did you manage to eat all of it?

[x_lilmissNINJA_x]

Nope.
I had to share with my dad.
But it was DELICOUS.

[Bound]

Hehe, I'll bet~ :3

Update on my hot and spicy food progress: I ate some enchiladas last night that I cooked with my friends... but we made them a little too spicy and I felt ill afterwards. Or that could've been the cheese. Sometimes I'm not good with dairy.

But anyway! I did manage to eat and enjoy them (at least at the time of eating). = w=b

[kerryfox]

If you love spicy and hot you have to try Indian and Chinese food. Not the crappy take out Chinese but the real deal. During a week trip there we had a hot pot, basically a pot divided in half with one side that had a brother of boiling spicy and the other half was normal. You then took and dipped foods in to the sides to cook them. After near 6 months of Japanese non spicy the spicy was almost to much for me but with alternating bites I was able to handle it. Afterwards they told us they asked them to make it less spicy too...pity as by then we wanted spicy and I would have taken the risk of burning my tongue off to get it.
As for Indian foods, my mother dear co-workers were forever trying to feed her little bites of this and that and some of it is burn your tongue off spicy. She can't handle it so I often would get her bit of what ever they had tried to feed her. Good stuff I tell you.
I can't quite do the really hot stuff but I sure try usually with bad results...

@Bound You should try curry! Because it comes in different levels of spice you can build your way up and if it is to bad then their is the rice to take the edge off.

[Bound]

So you're a firm believer that, to experience the real taste of somewhere's food, you have to go to the source?

Thanks for the advice. :D I've enjoyed a few mild or medium curries~ I'd never eaten curry before last September, but I decided to try it and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. And I am all about using the rice to take the edge off it. XD

Would you say that Chinese dish was the spiciest thing you've ever eaten, or would that honour go to a different food? Was it just that after a lot of non-spicy food, it seemed comparatively worse?