I’ve had this for a few weeks now and still haven’t tried them. I was thinking about eating them today but after doing research, I don’t think I’m going to. The hottest pepper is 2,000,000 scoville units I believe? And the last peanuts in this challenge is 16,000,000???? How is that even safe
by WestonConnor26
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I mean they call it the DEATH nut.
16 million scoville isn’t for me and isn’t for most people. I have this exact same box and still haven’t opened it. 🤣
Id rather eat raw peppers. The superhots are plenty hot for me. But occasionally I’ll do one of these challenges and typically don’t enjoy it.
You’ve come this far. Finish it.
It’s not safe.
Will it kill you? Unlikely, but you could certainly discover an underlying cardiac condition or experience a Mallory-Weiss tear from forceful regurgitation. More likely, however, is acute gastritis, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The hottest I’ve gone is a pepper extract hot sauce, well below 16,000,000, and that was a regrettable experience for someone who eats superhots fairly regularly.
Anything that uses extract isn’t worth it
It’s all extract so it can make you very uncomfortable. I have done lots of challenges but as I get older pure extract just makes my gut hurt. Don’t get me wrong it’s an experience but know when to say when if you try it.
it says Carolina reaper and seven pot. I don’t think thats 16 million.
These were on sale, buy one get one free, a while back. I got mine and did it that day. I want to say the ones leading up to the last one weren’t that bad. The last one though instead of eating all of them at once like you are “supposed to”, I ate two or three. And I’m glad I did. They were obviously really spicy but I chewed and swallowed with no real issues. Less than a minute later is when the gastro intestional issues started. My stomach felt really weird then I started sweating. I ate about half a cup of vanilla ice cream and that didn’t really help. Over the next 15-20 minutes my stomach “really” hurt and then I threw up. Just once, and it looked like all I threw up was the ice cream, it could have been the ice cream and done of the nuts though. I immediately felt a lot better.
I gave the other one to my niece’s boyfriend and told him what happened to me and to “be careful”
I haven’t done any other spicy challenge foods since and I don’t think I ever will.
When I did the challenge the roughest part was eating stale peanuts covered in chemically tasting spices.
As others have already said, if it’s 16mil then it’s Extract.
It’s the hottest you’ll get by far, and – Honestly if you aren’t used to the heat from Peppers then it’s too much, even if you so somehow manage to handle the heat without any problems then you’ll definitely know about it later.
In the UK they’ve stopped allowing Artisan Sauce Makers from giving samples of sauces made with Extract at food fairs as to many people assumed they could handle it and couldn’t and inevitably ended up seeking some kind of medical assistance when it wouldn’t stop.
I can handle heat, and in opinion it shouldn’t be used like this at all – I’d never gate keep a product but people who do these kinds of challenges are generally underprepared and have no idea how badly things like this can effect you.
I’ve occasionally used a few drops of extract in gallons of Chilli-Con-Carne, notice I said drops in gallons – But even then it’s when I’m being brave.
Honestly – Not worth it – No shame in putting these down and walking away from them – Nobody eats them because they enjoy them.
The truth is none of this stuff is lab tested and it’s obviously not actually 16mil SHU. If it were, people would be in the hospital.
As someone who has eaten superhots and has eaten these food challenges, I can tell you by far the actual peppers are way hotter. I haven’t done the death but yet, but I have done Lil Nitro and it was nothing compared to an actual ghost pepper despite supposedly being 9x hotter.
I’ve also had Black Mamba 16 – same thing, not that hot.
Yes this is safe. It might make you sick if you’re not used to extreme spice though.
Chew it 3 times the spit it out. Don’t swallow it or it will feel like appendicitis
16 million is pure capsaicin extract. wtf
16,000,000 is the max end of the scoville scale (for capsaicin); it means you have pure capsaicin and nothing else. Considering the final peanut contains, by default, one whole peanut, it’s clear they’re talking about just the flavor powder and not the entire thing. And the 16,000,000 SHU extract must just be an *ingredient* in the flavor powder, if it is to have any flavoring or coloring included whatsoever. I’m sure it’s hot AF but that it isn’t telling us much
so, my guess (based on zero experience with this challenge, and a whole multitude of assumptions) is that it’s probably… in the same ball park as, say, eating a whole fresh superhot pepper in one bite. So don’t eat the peanut if that isn’t something you’d do