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What is the fastest way to build heat tolerance?
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I'm in agreement with the genetics.
The OC spray so frequently used by police forces and military does not affect everyone the same. I may be on the weak end of the gene pool as no matter what habanaros are still hot. I can take the heat usually, but even eating it consistently they are still hot!
But the OC, I've seen the big tough guys take that to the face and wither and scream for hours, but other people take it and blink it off with out thinking much of it.
Find out your comfortable limits, and then make this decision: Am I still able to -taste- the pepper or just taste searing heat and the after effects? If you are not tasting the pepper, then your beyond your threshold in my opinion.
Also, in my personal experience it is so variable what you can handle. There are days I can pour spoonfuls of my hot sauce or a very hot sauce in to what I'm eating. Other days I can't seem to hack one from the same jar. The type of food you mix it in with makes a big difference. I seem to be a genetic oddity with hot peppers as much as everything else that I can put in my body. Starchy foods +hot peppers =agony for me. Peppers on about anything else tastes great!
The OC spray so frequently used by police forces and military does not affect everyone the same. I may be on the weak end of the gene pool as no matter what habanaros are still hot. I can take the heat usually, but even eating it consistently they are still hot!
But the OC, I've seen the big tough guys take that to the face and wither and scream for hours, but other people take it and blink it off with out thinking much of it.
Find out your comfortable limits, and then make this decision: Am I still able to -taste- the pepper or just taste searing heat and the after effects? If you are not tasting the pepper, then your beyond your threshold in my opinion.
Also, in my personal experience it is so variable what you can handle. There are days I can pour spoonfuls of my hot sauce or a very hot sauce in to what I'm eating. Other days I can't seem to hack one from the same jar. The type of food you mix it in with makes a big difference. I seem to be a genetic oddity with hot peppers as much as everything else that I can put in my body. Starchy foods +hot peppers =agony for me. Peppers on about anything else tastes great!
I think I have to disagree. I can TASTE habenero (disgusting in my opinion) and I was under the sink for about 10 mins. I know. Pathetic...
I think you can. i ate a hab sliver and hadmy mouth somewhat numb for therest of the day. now i eat habs raw like nothing.... gpnna move to bhuts soon....
I did it by eatting bigger pieces fora week no placenta and also putting powder i made (with seeds and placenta) on everything. then i ate the chili in two halves no seed reoval. next day i ate it whole and it was really bad. next day, a bit better. NEXT day, nothing
I did it by eatting bigger pieces fora week no placenta and also putting powder i made (with seeds and placenta) on everything. then i ate the chili in two halves no seed reoval. next day i ate it whole and it was really bad. next day, a bit better. NEXT day, nothing
I don't think there are varying degrees of genetic ability...
My cousin is that one guy in a crowd of a thousand that is immune to pepper spray. in his eye, mouth, whatever, it doesn't bother him. He's a cop. Has to be sprayed periodically.
My understanding of the process is that its like any thing else, over time, the nerves become less reactive to stimulus. Remove the stimulus for a time, and they begin to react again. SO if you want to be able to hang tough with the hottest peppers, get a supply of the hottest peppers, eat them, and continue to eat them frequently (daily maybe), and you'll be alright. No point in dragging out the conditioning process, its not like your tolerance is a muscle that can be over worked by running too far or something... Just hammer yourself with the hottest stuff you can find.
In short order it won't be that bad.
I grew up eating Jalapenos like candy. As an adult, I decided to eat habaneros. I bought some Hab based hot sauce and so forth... very quickly found my self not pushing my limit. After a trip to the UK, and to Peru where I ate a lot of hot stuff, I decided to grow some habs and other peppers to really stretch my limit. Bought a couple of plants from the big box, and started eating whole raw pods. The first time, I thought I'd die. the second time was bearable, in a week or two, habaneros are as spicy to me now as Jalapenos once were. Now I'm sucking down 7pots and so forth. If I had the 7pots to begin with, I'd have started there.
My cousin is that one guy in a crowd of a thousand that is immune to pepper spray. in his eye, mouth, whatever, it doesn't bother him. He's a cop. Has to be sprayed periodically.
My understanding of the process is that its like any thing else, over time, the nerves become less reactive to stimulus. Remove the stimulus for a time, and they begin to react again. SO if you want to be able to hang tough with the hottest peppers, get a supply of the hottest peppers, eat them, and continue to eat them frequently (daily maybe), and you'll be alright. No point in dragging out the conditioning process, its not like your tolerance is a muscle that can be over worked by running too far or something... Just hammer yourself with the hottest stuff you can find.
In short order it won't be that bad.
I grew up eating Jalapenos like candy. As an adult, I decided to eat habaneros. I bought some Hab based hot sauce and so forth... very quickly found my self not pushing my limit. After a trip to the UK, and to Peru where I ate a lot of hot stuff, I decided to grow some habs and other peppers to really stretch my limit. Bought a couple of plants from the big box, and started eating whole raw pods. The first time, I thought I'd die. the second time was bearable, in a week or two, habaneros are as spicy to me now as Jalapenos once were. Now I'm sucking down 7pots and so forth. If I had the 7pots to begin with, I'd have started there.
Interesting. One of my faves is a Jalapeno. Now the Tabasco is the nastiest piece of crap in my world.Utter garbage.
I actually bought 2 cases of Alfaro and 2 cases of Tapatio and gave them away at the "sodas" (hole in the wall restaurants) here.You won't find one with any"normal" Tabasco crap these days.
I need to get my hands on a few cases of Cholula.
I know. Off topic because I refer to sauces.
It is genetic though. Some people have super sensitive mouths in that they can taste the bitterness in broccoli, while others such as myself cannot taste the bitterness in broccoli. The same applies to hot pepper sensitivity, in a sense. There was a study done in around 2003 that made the claim that genetics is what determines capsaicin sensitivity. I can't link it as I am on my phone but a quick google search should bring it up. Now, I am no expert on genetics (I am in college to become an electrical engineer, not a geneticist) but I don't find it that far fetched to believe that since some people are more sensitive to things like the bitterness in broccoli others may be moore sensitive to the capsaicin on and in hot peppers.
Eat a butch t scorpion but to practice for the next day put some deep heat on your ass
Indeed, but if you expect to be able to eat the superhots you need to condition both ends.
Ah yes, the ol' Butt Jolokia routine. Where would we all be without it?
Unfortunately these Ticos think Dijon is "pica". I have finally got them buying Alfaro and Tapatio but you'd think they were handling nitro or thermite when applying it to food. 
Got an Island(Grenada) chef buddy that lives here and we make up stuff to cross their eyes but still no hotter than yellows and what we call red diablos. Wild, teardrop, the size of a pencil eraser.
Got an Island(Grenada) chef buddy that lives here and we make up stuff to cross their eyes but still no hotter than yellows and what we call red diablos. Wild, teardrop, the size of a pencil eraser.