Yesterday night I was craving some experience, and I decided to pick up this enormous pod and take a way too big bite out of it. I had already tried Carolina Reapers before this one and I'm experimenting a lot: small pieces with some aged cheese, bigger chunks for stews, dried, and now I'm also doing a little bit of a fermentation, but in every occasion I was kind of deluded by the spice. Yeah it was really spicy, probably the spiciest thing I'd ever eaten, but not as bad as people online or in videos put it. Then yesterday I did this and now I understand, it's exponential. The spice wasn't even the worst part, I mean of course I cried, running nose, I took a little walk, coughing, but that was manageable. After a while the cramps settled in, but they didn't seem worse than other cramps this beautiful plant already gave me, so I thought I was done and I came back home to go to sleep after this experience, but after an hour laying down, suddenly (I still don't get why actually) from "perfectly fine" things escalated pretty quickly and in about 2 minutes I was throwing up in the toilet. Beautifully experience 10/10, would do it again.
by Yoketsume
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The cramps can be brutal sometimes, I had to throw up after doing the death nut challenge, the heat was fine but 2 hrs later I had to get the stuff out of my stomach.
Boof the rest of it
Maybe that’s not how you’re supposed to consume them…..
How’s pooping?
Nausea is common. It’s the body’s defense mechanism against ‘bad eats’. In certain bacterial and viral illnesses, the vomiting decreases pathogen load, and in the case of hot peppers, it relieves the gastric irritation. I eat superhots every…single…day and I still get nausea, around the two hour post consumption mark. It’s not intense enough to make me vomit any longer, but it’s unpleasant. I’m hoping this disappears completely with time and exposure, but it does get better over time. No longer getting the cholinergic effects like hypersalivation, which almost guarantees a return trip out of the body. Go back to smaller pieces, daily, even eat an entire pepper spaced out over several hours. If that doesn’t help, just mix them in dishes with a decent fat content as you’ll still get the good effects of the capsaicin, but it will slow down the rate of exposure for the mucosal lining of the stomach, allowing for increased mucus production which, ultimately, builds that “tolerance” for superhots.
RIP: your asshole