If mayo is too spicy for you, gulag. If you eat ghost peppers because you want to feel pain, also gulag. All food shall be of average to moderately spiciness according to the opinion of a middle aged man from India. Seriously fuck chicken wing places that dab inedible hot sauce on the corpse of animal that died to be food that’s barely edible. White people, I fucking hate them.

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    Seriously fuck chicken wing places that dab inedible hot sauce on the corpse of animal that died to be food that’s barely edible.

    It’s the spicy food equivalent of dumping a jug of high fructose corn syrup on a cake and declaring that you’ve made the cake better. T

    he only thing funnier are the places that talk up how dangerously hot their food is (I had one pizza place ask me to sign a waiver before they would let me order the hottest pizza) and then it’s only middlingly hot by Sichuan/Thai/Indian/Mexican standards.

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      A lot of westerners don’t understand that umami and heat pair extremely well. It should be taught in any and every culinary school on the planet. Salt and pepper go together, umami and heat go together. Hot and sour is good, and I think that’s generally the school of thought in the Americas is for hot sauces (Cholula, Tabasco, Frank’s Red Hot, buffalo sauce in general, Tapatio). Don’t get me wrong, vinegar and/or citrus does improve the flavour better than just straight up heat like an edgelord, and I do really like vinegar based hot sauces. But MSG/Mushrooms/etc that’s savoury? Not nearly as well understood.

      I distinctly remember making a spicy mapo dofu for some white people and the consensus was “oh, that’s a nice level of spice, it’s very hot but not too hot!”

      It was MSG. In fact I didn’t put table salt in the dish, all the sodium in the entire dish was msg and soy sauce. I bought the chili peppers from the same place as anyone else, Woolworths. I didn’t have a magically less spicy but still spicy strain, I simply complimented the heat with other flavours.

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    Its not toxic but I personally find it cringey. Spice tolerance varies and that’s fine. One can train themselves if they wish to experience spicy flavors. Making something incredibly spicy for no reason (artificial capsaicin) doesn’t do a lot for flavor and is weird. Its a sort of wannabe machismo I see.

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        I’ve grown ghost peppers before, and eaten them fresh off the plant. Unfortunately they weren’t as hot as they could have been because the plant wasn’t nutritionally stressed with dry sandy soil, so they were more like just big habaneros: pleasantly warm, and suitable for being chopped up on a pizza.

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    at a certain point it just becomes a dick-measuring contest. a lot of insecure guys feel the need to prove how tough they are, but is anyone really impressed?

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      Me putting Sichuan peppercorns in 1 dish for a friend:

      “I think something’s wrong, my mouth is numb!?”

      Said person is white, Australian and “enjoys spices” (He had 5 spice, cinammon, pepper and paprika in his spice rack + a bottle of sriracha in the fridge for some reason)

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    spice like all flavoured food is a treat and therefore reactionary

    true revolutionaries subsist themselves by IV drips using abandoned needles from hospitals

    go ahead and enjoy your ghost pepper flavoured bugs you PMC bourgeois DSA swine

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    either can’t stomach gochugaru or spends their lives trying to breed something that approaches pure capsaicin

    they really dooby like this doe

    just use tabasco sauce and leave it at that

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    Occasionally there are some foods where going real hot is great, like many Hunan dishes. Or a Szechuan dish where you’d be fairly unhappy with the spice level if it weren’t balanced with numbing peppercorns and sugar. Or getting right up to the edge with a good habanero sauce to pair with Mexican food. I’ve also gotta admit that I like to eat a lot of hot mirchi bajjis in a row.

    But most of the time, 100% agree. Spicy food should have flavors aside from pain. A lot of people (kkkrackers) screw it up.

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    Well, how much is to much is very individual. Also if you frequently eat spicy food you build up a tolerance. I like it resonably hot, but what that is to me have moved several 100 k scoville over the years