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.
Haha I think my keyboard took control on that one to save me.
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.
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.
Well, I don’t like it, but you definitely have a point. :)