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Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by stavros »

M_Grey wrote: post #97
StavrosK wrote: post #72

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Well, I have some old miracle fruit tablets and various spicy sauces I can try if you want... Probably not Ghost pepper, though.

I for one, would be interested in the results of that!

Alright, I tried it for you guys:

I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good.

Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual taste, except there was no burning sensation in the tongue and mouth at all. However, the sauces retained their burning sensation in the throat, completely intact, as far as I can tell.

I'm afraid that I didn't have a control spoonful of sauce before the tablet, because I didn't think of it, but I can have some once the tablet wears out. I seem to recall, though, that a spoonful of Sriracha does normally burn my tongue.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by M_Grey »

stavros wrote: post #171
M_Grey wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I for one, would be interested in the results of that!

Alright, I tried it for you guys: I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good. Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual…

Now that's interesting! Thanks for taking the bullet for us, and thanks for sharing.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by StavrosK »

M_Grey wrote: post #172
stavros wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright, I tried it for you guys: I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good. Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual…

Now that's interesting! Thanks for taking the bullet for us, and thanks for sharing.

No problem! True to my word, I had another spoonful of Sriracha (much to my girlfriend's chagrinned cries of "You're going to smell like garlic again!"), and it did, indeed, burn the tongue.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by yoamro »

stavros wrote: post #171
M_Grey wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I for one, would be interested in the results of that!

Alright, I tried it for you guys: I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good. Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual…

Thank you so much!! Interesting results and basically what I expected. I'll try the same except with a habanero, wonder how far it goes.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by nostrebored »

platz wrote: post #112
nostrebored wrote: post #111

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And then post about it on the internet

How convenient that your position entails silence from your opponent.

I have no position here; there is no vast anti-pepper conspiracy that is trying to silence you.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by StavrosK »

yoamro wrote: post #174
stavros wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright, I tried it for you guys: I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good. Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual…

Thank you so much!! Interesting results and basically what I expected. I'll try the same except with a habanero, wonder how far it goes.

I'm sure one of the sauces I tried has habaneros in it (probably the Tapatio, possibly the Valentina). I think the effect should generalize well.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by tallanvor »

Broken_Hippo wrote: post #151
tallanvor wrote: post #137

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Meny usually has a few options, and some of the foreign markets have them as well, at least in Oslo. You can even find Bird's eye chili at Kiwi on occasion. But yeah, Norway is a horrible country for food. You pay an arm and a leg for barely edible stuff, and if you want to get really good ingredients you have to pay double or more!

It is honestly easier to find some ingredients in Oslo than Trondheim from what I've heard (and easier here than in the smaller towns) - probably simply because there are more people there. I find the Norwegian stores to be hit and miss on them: Sometimes Meny has birds eye, sometimes Coop has jalapenos (at the larger stores). "Norway is a horrible country for food" .... It is a great country to live in if you want t…

Ah, yeah, I wasn't sure where in Norway you are. Yeah, in Oslo I think I've been able to find some sort of chili in every grocery store.

I actually think some of my cooking skills have declined, mainly because the stuff I liked to cook before require ingredients that are harder to find here (and cooking is less fun for me when I can't find what I consider to be quality ingredients).

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by luca_ing »

jordigh wrote: post #166
luca_ing wrote: post #160

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> Just like people don't really consume beer for the flavour, Oh but I assure you they do. In fact everybody I know drinks beer exclusively for the flavour. Why else would they? Even my 93-year-old grandmother drinks it, but she can only drink half a bottle, after that it will start to affect her. She complains bitterly how she'd like to drink more, but can't anymore. > or non-alcoholic beer would be a lot more popul…

Wow, I really struck a nerve here, eh? Alright, beer is great, we must all do our part! ;-) I've drunk plenty of beer and it all tastes bad. I'm not inexperienced. I much prefer the flavour of fruit juice. I really do think there's a huge social pressure to get to like beer. Maybe after a while our brains get to enjoy the bad flavour and associate it with pleasant past experiences. I have learned to put up with the f…

> Wow, I really struck a nerve here, eh?

I suppose you did, yes :-) Homebrewer here.

> Alright, beer is great, we must all do our part! ;-)

That's the spirit ;-)

> I've drunk plenty of beer and it all tastes bad.

Fair enough, I know a few people who don't like the taste.

> I'm not inexperienced.

Respectfully, assuming all other persons' motivations to be identical to your own makes you appear inexperienced not in matters of alcohol, but rather in (I'm struggling to find a good expression here -- I hope you get my meaning) how the world works.

> I much prefer the flavour of fruit juice.

Fine by me. I like it too.

> I really do think there's a huge social pressure to get to like beer.

Perhaps. I can't comment on American culture.

Certainly among adolescents in Germany there is some peer pressure WRT alcohol, including beer of course. After a while people tend to emancipate themselves from it though. I have a few friends who dislike alcohol. Nobody cares.

> I don't think anybody likes beer the first time they try it.

I didn't like it, that's for sure.

> What is a popular bitter beverage or food that has no other side effects?

I usually try not to feel side effects from beer. I dislike being drunk. I still like drinking beer though.

Apart from that: Brussel sprouts (ok, popularity is debatable ;-) ). Artichokes. Endive/Chicory. There are also other very bitter vegetables whose name I don't know that are quite popular in Asia; I'd have to ask my wife for the name. They have no effects other than taste that I'm aware of. They were definitely an acquired taste for me, but now I really like them.

Perhaps you just don't like bitter taste. Obviously there's nothing wrong with that.

Re: Can you hurt yourself eating chilli peppers?

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Post by sib »

chrischattin wrote: post #170
sib wrote: post #119

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If you ever happen to be traveling through Boise, ID, stop at the Flying Pie Pizzeria and try a triple habanero pizza. 12" pizza with 18 southern Mexican habaneros on it. http://www.flyingpie.com/habanero-season.htm

I can second this. One of the best pizzas you'll ever eat. They only make them in August - which is apparently when the habaneros are the hottest.

Thanks for the reminder - I forgot to mention that very important fact!
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