About my heat limit for enjoying food

[Jeff H]

You know, there is a fine line between wanting spicy foods and it being too F-ing hot to enjoy eating. I think I have found that fine line (at least for me).

I call it two Bhut pizza. It has two Ghost peppers in it, 1 as topping and one simmered with fresh garlic in the sauce while I was making the dough. Other ingredients are hot sausage (cooked with other hot peppers), chopped onion, and sweet yellow and red peppers.

While it was a spicy dish, the fresh Bhuts seemed to be lacking something. On the 3rd piece of pizza, I figured it out. Salt. Too many hot and sweet peppers and not enough salt. A little shake of salt was all that was missing to make it perfect.


As a side note, my 12 year old son asked that I only make 1 Bhut pizza in the future because he loves dipping pizza in hot sauce and this one was hot enough that you really couldn't add more heat and actually enjoy eating it. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

What is your heat limit for actually enjoying food and what are your favorites?? This is not a thread about how hot of a pepper you can eat.

 

[sicman]

that pie looks pretty good. you should check out the pizza thread and start posting on there. lots of people be loving looking at nice home made pizza. good job,good job.

 

[Doomsdaykillz]

It depends. Like I boiled myself a bowl of tortellini soup and ate almost all of the broth myslef and in it i boild a douglah that i cut in half and threw both pieces in. That was plenty hot but definitely bearable. I couldve gone alot hotter but it wouldve ruined the flavor imo. I would keep it at that level for the future if i want it hot or half a douglah in that amout of soup for regular and to share with anyone who will still prob have to add some water.