• quartz242 [she/her]M
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    3 years ago

    Peppers above Habeneros on Scoville are too much its literally just pain no pepper taste, I think they are superfluous. :meow-cactus:

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      A lot of them do have great flavors behind the heat, you just gotta get them to the point you can taste it. Dilute them, cook them whole, scrape off the inner surface if you're brave/stupid.

    • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They have their uses. If you don’t want a lot of pepper flavor but still want spice in a dish made for multiple people, you can toss like a single very throughly diced ghost pepper to do the trick. I use them for stews and big things of pasta.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm not gonna the Scoville weirdo but some are really really good ingredients. Smoked ghost Pepper has a great flavor, you just dilute the shit out of it

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    There are 0 reasons to use ketchup.

    Your local walmart has 30,000 different styles and flavors of food dressings/condiments and 90% will serve you better than fucking red sodium paste.

    This counts as a spicy spicy-food take because I am wh*te-passing

  • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Not being able to handle spicy food is fine. Jokes about people who can't handle spicy food aren't really that funny

    look into Indian pickles they're awesome. You get pickled mango, onion, lemons, GARLIC, so so much

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    3 years ago

    those korean super spicy ramens are too hot. during early quarantine, i stocked up on dry foods cuz scarcity or whatever, and i love spicy food, so i got those. i ate like 4 out of actual hunger before i realized people eat them as a challenge on youtube lol

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      While I don't know about the Korean spicy ramens, I have a bunch of "Durban curry" flavoured two minute noodles, and that stuff is amazing lol

    • Weedian [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I was not expecting cheese ramen to be so spicy. Once I knew what I was getting into it wasn’t bad and I like them occasionally now but god damn did the first one I try kill me at first.

      Instant pho with a few added veggies or whatever is my new go to for instant noodles

    • TruffleBitch [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I bought one of those labeled 2x spicy. I finished it because I will not be beaten by food but now I understand why some Hot Ones guests say it hurts to talk. I was talking with my parents and they just kept laughing every time I got up to refill my water glass.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Spicy food is good. Food that is so spicy that you can't taste anything but the spiciness is stupid.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    snorting horseradish is a hell of a rush

  • DashEightMate [any]
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    3 years ago

    Hot take: spicy for the sake of being spicy is cool and good. And there is no upper limit to spiciness where food becomes too spicy.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Bell peppers + celery + onion is superior to the classic carrots + celery + onion mix/base.

    Oh that's not a take specific to spicy food, well shit now I need to come up with one. Uhhh sweet+spicy flavour combinations are really good and should be used even more often.

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Green peppers are fucking awful, and if you use them in a dish I assume you fucked up the intended flavor and are trying to cover it with garbage.

    Oh, crap, I didn't fully read the title, I thought this was "spiciest food takes", not specifically "spicy food takes".

    Uh, Wasabi peas are a goddamn delightful snack. In general we should use horseradish in more dishes.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    OK you know the whole pineapple on pizza thing? Fuck that (I mean I love it, but thats not the point Im making). Once you take the pizza out, while still hot... add a few pieces of chocolate. Works better when there is something spicy.

    In other news - croissants make really, really good hot dog buns.

    French fries actually go really well with sugar and Nutella (long story but I discovered this when I discovered that a plantain does NOT taste like a banana)

    Finally - take out pizza in Thailand is better than pizza I had in Italy. Before you grab the pitchforks, hear me out: there are two ways to enjoy pizza: one is very high quality mind blowing but simple ingredients , but are ultimately familiar. The other is finding rich and complex flavours, that interact in a cool way without being overwhelming. The sauce on Pizza I had in Thailand was exactly that, complex, different enough, and deliciously spicy.

  • vorenza [any]
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    3 years ago

    Spicy food is very bad for your gastric system and they should not be eaten

    I eat spicy food every day because me dum dumb