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April 12, 2018

Adventures eating a sauce made from the the worlds Hottest Pepper

Filed under: My Life — Suramya @ 1:30 PM

Regular readers of the blog and folks who know me well know that I love spicy food and am always on the lookout for new spicy sauces/pickles to try. When I visited Bhutan a few years ago I picked up a bag of the spiciest chilly available there to be made into a pickle and I have done the same for all places I visit. Mom made a pickle from Bhoot Jolokia (the spiciest chilly in the world till a few years ago) for me and that is my favorite pickle ever.

Recently Vinit went to the US and got a Hot Sauce made from Carolina Reaper (current record holder for spiciest chilly in the world) for dad and I stole borrowed some of it for my use here in Bangalore. I knew the sauce was spicy but didn’t quite realize how spicy it was till I tried it over the weekend. I was having boiled eggs and they tasted a bit bland so I thought I would use my new sauce to spice things up. I added one drop on each half of the two eggs I had and took ate the whole egg one shot. By the time I finished one egg I had tears coming out my eyes and had to run to eat some butter, cheese and water to take away the heat as my mouth was on fire. After multiple slices of cheese, butter and bread I was ready to face the eggs again and though I did manage to finish the remaining egg I realized that even one drop of the sauce was too much for me.

I am thankful that I decided to play it safe and didn’t slather the egg with the sauce like I usually tend to do, else I could have ended up in the hospital like this poor chap who ate a whole Carolina Reaper for a shot at a record in the Guinness book of World Records. He started with the regular burning sensation and graduated to thunderclap headaches. When the docs did a scan of his brain they found that his arteries had become constricted due to the high levels of capsaicin. To be fair the docs think that this is not a normal reaction and that he must have heightened sensitivity to capsaicin. But still…

Interestingly there is a new contender for the throne of the Spiciest Chilly in the world called Dragon’s Breath which is 1.5 times spicier than even the Carolina Reaper. Which makes me want to try it out even more. I wonder if I can get some of it shipped to India. 🙂

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

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