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So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called "The Source" rated at 7.1 million Scoville units. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they're grown, can reach about 2.5 million Scoville (Reapers weren't around at the time either, hottest pepper was the aforementioned Bhut Jolokia).
I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you're in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will just inflict immense pain.
It's like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.
As someone that grows super hots and has eaten the pods whole many times, that extract sounds like a nightmare. Extracts are both instantly hot (versus the more natural building up to the true hell) and either taste awful or taste like nothing at all. I am sure that was extremely unpleasant.
That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There's a British manufacturer called Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren't bitter, but "The Source" will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.
I imagine with a scoville rating that high, it would ruin it regardless, but thanks for letting me know to stay far away from it.
Definitely. I have stopped using extracts altogether, I go for best taste now, make my own sauces, I frequently attend Chili Festivals here in Berlin and I've tried hundreds of hot sauces. It's become a hobby.
But I will never, ever again participate in a hot food contest.
Holy shit. Fucking Germans, man.
Um... thanks, I guess. I'm one too..
I appreciate that you were efficient enough to know you could back out before consuming the frozen treat that melts your mouth along with it.
To be honest I only backed out because some medics who were present took my blood pressure and emphatically recommended that I stop.
PS: While I didn't win the solo title, my team got the most points, so at least I won the team title, which is nice.
PPS: Rank one and two had a decider - pure The Source wiped from the plate with slices of dry bread. Painful to watch.
Haha. I say that endearingly.