How hot is ‘Pepper X’? Its creator spent 6 hours recovering from eating it
How hot is ‘Pepper X’? Its creator spent 6 hours recovering from eating it
by scientificamerican
12 Comments
Naisu_boato
i;m not sure if i believe what they say until i see an accredited independent lab verify this kinda info. the dragon’s breath pepper was sposed to be horrible and everything but every thing pointed to the guy who made the pepper a thing’s statements.
usrdef
Tbh, I don’t pay attention to pepper x.
I eat spicy because it not only has heat but tastes good. I don’t eat super hot things just to challenge myself. I’m not planning on sticking a Carolina Reaper or Pepper X in my mouth anytime soon, and I grow the damn Carolina Reapers, but they are used in very limited foods under certain conditions.
TheEvilTwin1
Of course he did…
unthused
Novel, but mostly pointless other than bragging rights, unless it actually has a decent and unique flavor as well. I don’t think there’s much of a demographic of people thinking scorpion/reaper peppers aren’t hot enough.
Ronny40400
habaneros and thai chilis are usually the hottest ill go, its a cool novelty but thats all it really is
Garbage_Tiny
I ordered the heatonist pepper X classic and im gonna tell ya, it’s frigging hot. I eat salsa made with ghost peppers on the regular, I eat the reaper wings at Buffalo Wild Wings etc… my tolerance is pretty high, and the pepper x sauce is hot on a totally different level, although I don’t like the flavor of the classic pepper x sauce at all.
STFUNeckbeard
I mean that’s certainly not far fetched- if I ate a whole reaper it would be a 24hr+ recovery. Not necessarily the spice but the insane diarrhea and stomach cramps. I’d never eat a whole pepper x, but from a science perspective it’s absolutely awesome to naturally create something that has never existed before that absolutely smashes the limit of what was previously possible.
AVeryHeavyBurtation
Pepper X seems to particularly fuck up my guts. Seems like even more than extract sauces.
ToxicTammy42
I love spicy peppers but I know my limits and this is something that might make me sick.
azurensis
Can you trust anything from scientific American these days?
tirigbasan
Why do I feel like we’re going to breed peppers until it kills someone from anaphylactic shock?
Nabeshein
So funny story: I went to SC last year to visit family. Stopped at Puckerbutt on the way there from the airport. Picked up a bunch of sauces, including Chipotle eXpress, thinking nothing of it. I’m putting it on tacos and wondering why it’s kicking my butt so hard, even though it’s delicious. Finally read the ingredients and realized why the X was capitalized. I did not watch the 2 seasons of Hot Ones that it was featured as sauce numbers 10 and 9, because none of the interviews interested me, so I had no clue what I was getting myself into.
And yes, I know that a sauce is going to have nowhere the heat that the raw pepper does. But when you’re thinking it’s just a Chipotle sauce, and it’s what that is, there’s a big difference. I will say, I kept eating it after I realized I done fucked up. That sauce is tasty!
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i;m not sure if i believe what they say until i see an accredited independent lab verify this kinda info. the dragon’s breath pepper was sposed to be horrible and everything but every thing pointed to the guy who made the pepper a thing’s statements.
Tbh, I don’t pay attention to pepper x.
I eat spicy because it not only has heat but tastes good. I don’t eat super hot things just to challenge myself. I’m not planning on sticking a Carolina Reaper or Pepper X in my mouth anytime soon, and I grow the damn Carolina Reapers, but they are used in very limited foods under certain conditions.
Of course he did…
Novel, but mostly pointless other than bragging rights, unless it actually has a decent and unique flavor as well. I don’t think there’s much of a demographic of people thinking scorpion/reaper peppers aren’t hot enough.
habaneros and thai chilis are usually the hottest ill go, its a cool novelty but thats all it really is
I ordered the heatonist pepper X classic and im gonna tell ya, it’s frigging hot. I eat salsa made with ghost peppers on the regular, I eat the reaper wings at Buffalo Wild Wings etc… my tolerance is pretty high, and the pepper x sauce is hot on a totally different level, although I don’t like the flavor of the classic pepper x sauce at all.
I mean that’s certainly not far fetched- if I ate a whole reaper it would be a 24hr+ recovery. Not necessarily the spice but the insane diarrhea and stomach cramps. I’d never eat a whole pepper x, but from a science perspective it’s absolutely awesome to naturally create something that has never existed before that absolutely smashes the limit of what was previously possible.
Pepper X seems to particularly fuck up my guts. Seems like even more than extract sauces.
I love spicy peppers but I know my limits and this is something that might make me sick.
Can you trust anything from scientific American these days?
Why do I feel like we’re going to breed peppers until it kills someone from anaphylactic shock?
So funny story: I went to SC last year to visit family. Stopped at Puckerbutt on the way there from the airport. Picked up a bunch of sauces, including Chipotle eXpress, thinking nothing of it. I’m putting it on tacos and wondering why it’s kicking my butt so hard, even though it’s delicious. Finally read the ingredients and realized why the X was capitalized. I did not watch the 2 seasons of Hot Ones that it was featured as sauce numbers 10 and 9, because none of the interviews interested me, so I had no clue what I was getting myself into.
And yes, I know that a sauce is going to have nowhere the heat that the raw pepper does. But when you’re thinking it’s just a Chipotle sauce, and it’s what that is, there’s a big difference. I will say, I kept eating it after I realized I done fucked up. That sauce is tasty!