What's the hottest food you've eaten?

SN Greg Wright — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:37:18 -0400

Most Americans I know think that authentic Mexican food is hot. I've been all over the world, and the hottest food I ever had -- without doubt -- was in Thailand. Think back to your time in the gas chamber in boot. You're sweating, eyes are tearing, and so much mucous is pouring out of every orifice, you never knew you had so much! THAT's precisely what happened to me when I had HOT Thai food.

Response by SFC George Smith made Aug 30 at 2016 5:38 PM

SFC George Smith — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:38:11 -0400

Incinerator Hot sauce... made with 80% Ghost and Scotch Bonnet peppers...

Response by SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA made Aug 30 at 2016 5:45 PM

SPC Elijah J. Henry, MBA — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:45:09 -0400

Jake's Soul Reaper Hot Sauce from my local farmers' market. Super hot, but also delicious.

Response by SSgt Joseph Marquis made Aug 30 at 2016 5:51 PM

SSgt Joseph Marquis — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:51:03 -0400

I will have to agree... Thai Chili's.... no joke!

Response by MSgt Richard Rountree made Aug 30 at 2016 5:55 PM

MSgt Richard Rountree — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:55:15 -0400

Food isn't hot unless your eyeballs are sweating. Spicy asian/chinese is the best with a hot curry coming in a close second IMHO.

Response by Skyllar Ingram made Aug 30 at 2016 6:09 PM

Skyllar Ingram — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:09:47 -0400

Ghost pepper. I ate it and it was terrible. My mouth was on fire and my dumb ass drank soda to try and dull the pain which made it worse. I ended up throwing it up about 2 min later. Worst experience ever.

Response by SGT Tim Soyars made Aug 30 at 2016 6:22 PM

SGT Tim Soyars — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:22:57 -0400

I've had some Thai food that was so hot, you wanted ice cream for dessert. Why ice cream for dessert? So the next morning when you're sitting on the crapper, scorching your butthole, you can say, "Come on ice cream! Come on!"

Response by MSG Wade Huffman made Aug 30 at 2016 6:48 PM

MSG Wade Huffman — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:48:24 -0400

I've always enjoyed spicy foods, but I had a hot sauce called "After Death" sauce that really knocked me on my @$$! Not sure exactly what pepper blend it was (I know the BASE was habanero which I had experienced before) but it was a truly horrible experience!

Response by 1stSgt Eugene Harless made Aug 30 at 2016 6:54 PM

1stSgt Eugene Harless — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:54:48 -0400

Had some Ghost pepper.... Luckily I onlly took a small bite... It doesnt really hit you intil about 20-30 seconds after. I had a glass of milk on standby

Response by SPC Troy Reynolds made Aug 30 at 2016 7:12 PM

SPC Troy Reynolds — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:12:08 -0400

I make a salsa with anaheim, habanero, and ghost pepper.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Aug 30 at 2016 7:56 PM

CPT Jack Durish — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:56:03 -0400

Once upon a time I decided to make pickles. I found a recipe that suggested reducing the salt in the pickling fluid by half (for people like me trying to limit their sodium intake) and add a small sliver of jalapeno to compensate. Seemed reasonable to me. Inasmuch as I didn't have any experience with jalapenos at the time, I thought that more was better and added a whole pepper to each jar, sealed them, put them aside and forgot them. Several months later I stumbled on them and opened a jar to try. As soon as I removed the lid, I knew I had made a mistake. One taste confirmed it. I gave the whole case I had canned to a friend from Spain. He refused them at first saying that he wasn't a pickle eater. However, I uncapped one jar at arm's length and held it out to him. He took the case. Sometime later another friend told me that she had seen our friend from Spain and she said he was looking for more pickles like the ones Jack made. I do believe his mouth was lined with asbestos.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Aug 30 at 2016 7:57 PM

CPT Jack Durish — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:57:38 -0400

The Royal Thai Regiment was attacked to my division (the 9th) in Vietnam and we were invited to an evening of dinner and kick boxing. Anyone who could eat all that was placed before them earned a dragon pin. That pin became highly respected.

Response by Sgt Christopher Wenzel made Aug 30 at 2016 8:02 PM

Sgt Christopher Wenzel — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:02:15 -0400

Only memory I have is cooking with my wife (nigerian/puerto rican) and I'm helping her prepare food and she pulls all these peppers. I start cutting up these small green ones, take a small bite and keep going. Nothing for the first five seconds - make the dumbass move of rubbing my eyes. Lo and behold, the great fires of Ifirt engulf my mouth as I start searching for anything to sedate the blaze. Soon after, my eyes ignite as I find the sink and attempt to burrow my head into the minute stream of the faucet.

Still don't know what I ate, but I suggest having the CIA research new interrogation techniques with whatever I ate.

Response by SSgt Terry P. made Aug 30 at 2016 9:17 PM

SSgt Terry P. — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:17:37 -0400

SN Greg Wright Absolutely the hottest thing i ever put in my mouth was in Bangkok --some type of sauce used to dip raw fish ---i guess it was my first experience with ceviche.
Other that that an "Indian Turnip" was the worst.

Response by Sgt Kelli Mays made Aug 30 at 2016 9:30 PM

Sgt Kelli Mays — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:30:32 -0400

Thai food is way way way tooooo hot...here there are Thai restaurants and the food comes with numbers....1-5 and 5 being the hottest...1 is nearly too hot for me and I like spicy....

Response by SSG Trust Palmer made Aug 30 at 2016 10:04 PM

SSG Trust Palmer — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:04:53 -0400

Response by SGT Tim Soyars made Aug 30 at 2016 11:28 PM

SGT Tim Soyars — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:28:06 -0400

It's usually a bad sign when your hot sauce comes with a Biohazard label!!!

Response by Maj John Bell made Aug 31 at 2016 12:07 AM

Maj John Bell — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:07:21 -0400

On Embassy duty inspecting the detachment in Brazzaville the Congo. They have a condiment called pili pili. It is commonly eaten on French bread with some Dijon mustard. I like heat with flavor and grew up with spicy foods. Pili pili is just heat. The serving spoon is a little tiny thing. It holds about 1/3 of a thimble full. I typically put half a serving spoon and twice as much Dijon on a slice of bread. I still broke a sweat.

A new Detachment Commander came with me. A good old Texas boy. He put two heaping tablespoons on the slice of bread. Telling me that Texans had a stronger constitution than Arizonans. He ended up hospitalized for two days because the pili pili blistered his mouth, throat, and stomach lining.

Response by ENS Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 31 at 2016 12:08 AM

ENS Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:08:41 -0400

I was fortunate (unfortunate?) enough to get to try both the Trinidad Scorpion and California Reaper peppers. Yeah..

Not a food, but I bought a bottle of Mad Dog 357 (5,000,000 Scoville Units). You will know what pain tastes like..

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Aug 31 at 2016 1:39 AM

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:39:23 -0400

Eaten completely would be a Chinese Dish with those long skinny black/red peppers. Taste tested the Tip of about every pepper known since I grew them in my Garden for Others. Now I used to have a thing for taking the Yellow Wax Pepper and filling them with Peanut Butter for a wonderful snack until I made the mistake of growing them alongside their hotter yellow cousin, Hot Peppers with Peanut Butter is not a Pleasant Treat.

Response by Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen made Aug 31 at 2016 7:12 AM

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:12:09 -0400

Probably more the unexpected reaction than being really hot, but in 70s eating a "kebab" at the restaurant near the end of runway at Utapao RTAFB. Looked like a chunk of plain old bell pepper but boy it sure wasn't, extremely hot and huge surprise when I bit into it. Since then have grown to love hot chili peppers. Grow our own at home and last year met our match with Smoking Ed's Carolina Reapers. Put some on nachos and couldn't finish. Ended up making hot sauce from rest of the crop of Reapers rather than using other ways.

Response by SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth made Aug 31 at 2016 7:33 AM

SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:33:22 -0400

Dave's Insanity ++++ Scorpion

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Aug 31 at 2016 1:07 PM

PO1 Brian Austin — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:07:42 -0400

Definitely Thai! If your eyes aren't tearing, nose isn't running and you aren't sweating then it isn't hot.

Response by MSG Nathan Ellison made Aug 31 at 2016 2:59 PM

MSG Nathan Ellison — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:59:25 -0400

Yep, Thailand is the winner for me. I've never had such good food hurt me so bad, hahaha!

Response by SSgt Dan Montague made Aug 31 at 2016 7:56 PM

SSgt Dan Montague — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:56:46 -0400

I didn't eat them, but it was a special order hot sauce on hot wings. You had to sign a waiver to order them.
On a day we were leaving for the field some Marines brought some in. A few indulged themselves in the hell fire wings just before we departed.
One Marine who was eating them went off to the head to pee and wash his hands. He came running out with tears in his eyes looking for doc. He had peed before he washed his hands of the sauce. His lil man hose was on fire!! doc just laughed at him and told him "I bet next time you will wash your hands first"

Response by LT John Chang made Sep 2 at 2016 1:34 AM

LT John Chang — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 01:34:52 -0400

That's actually a harder question than it seems.. I remember hearing about a guy who got tricked into eating a scoop of wasabi as "green tea ice cream." With the way that just a little extra dab on my sushi inflames my nostrils, I could only imagine what that'd be like!

Other times I've experienced some of the Thai dishes mentioned, having gone out with a college girlfriend from Laos and my brother's Thai mother-in-law adopting me. A lot of those dishes reminded me of that Apocalypse Now scene, where Kilgore says "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning..!"

Nowadays, I tend to stay away from three-alarm chili's and generally anything with "nuclear meltdown" in the names. It's just too - damn - hot! A high school buddy used to tease me about preferring to taste his food. Guess as I've gotten older, I'm more inclined to agree!

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Sep 2 at 2016 1:55 AM

CSM Charles Hayden — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 01:55:01 -0400

SN Greg Wright At a recent 'tasting' I was instructed on the "Scoville Scale". PEPPERHEADS FOR LIFE have a nice site on the net.

Saturday, I am planning on going to a New Mexico, HATCH CHILE tasting at a local market. They roast the chiles, until the outer skin is sorta blackened and then peel them and offer various samples. 1stSgt Ron Gallegos