Why EXTRA HOT chicken wings ?

I like spicy but not to where it hides the flavor of the food. Years ago a co-worker bragged it could not be too hot for him at a company chili potluck. He made a big deal of adding hot sauce without tasting it first, he paid.:B

Noel wrote:
I don't get it. 900,000 Scovil units or more....? Is it a macho, I can take more heat than you....thing ?

Is it an excuse to drink beer whilst eating ?

Do some people like to torture themselves ?

What's the deal ? I like spicy Indian, Thai, Mexican food...but up to a point.

X2, I love peppers in a lot of food but not when it over powers it own flavor or the food it's used in. I do have an excellent recipe for wings with great taste and you adjust the heat as you want. It calls for Franks Original Hot Sauce. My whole family loves them a little cooler than I like but what the hell.

I can't say it's necessarily a macho thing since I'm a woman and enjoy being one.
Spicy food is a part of my culture so I've grown up using progressively high Scoville chart toppers.

When I was about 8 years old I opened a jar of Scotch bonnet and Trinny scorpion pepper chow chow one of my grandmothers made and gifted to my mother. My sisters and I were expressly forbidden to even TOUCH the jar which of course made it that much more appealing. Opened and smelled it only and prolly received the equivalent of 3rd degree burns to my sinuses and fingers. Washed it down with another forbidden fruit, jarred maraschino cherries:S.

Ohhhhhhhh very young what will you leave us this time?

By the time I was in my twenties and Szechuan Chinese food was all the rage in NYC I astounded my ...out of culture friends by languidly eating the fiery peppers whole since they were a bit of a joke to my palette by that time.

I particularly like spicy foods when it's hot outside. Seems to cool me down. My granddaughter is a stone cold American and in this I feel sorry for her;).

To me all the hot stuff does is hide the flavor - not a bad deal on some people's cooking though...........

Bill

You get to "Enjoy" the meal three times! Burn, churn, and more burn. Beer has a lot of good uses, but curbing heat from peppers is not one of them. That's why most places serve hot wings with blue cheese or ranch dressing.

Campfire Time wrote:
It's also got to have good flavor.

Absolutely!!!

Experimenting with chilies in the 900,000 scoville range thing is just for the bravado, nothing more.

Love the flavor of habaneros but will de-seed and de-vein them and gradually add them to a dish for the right spice. Also absolutely love Hatch chilies and those can rate from mild to a nice heat level... but if you've never had those, go to New Mexico during Hatch season and get a bushel roasted. The'll put them in a large plastic bag to let them steam for a couple of hours after the roasting. When you open that bag...

the smell

is

heaven!!!

It is to clean the colon.

When I was in my 20s I really didn't care much for hot food. Then I slowly developed a taste for it. In the early '90s a lot of hot sauces came out that were hot for the sake of being hot. People I worked with were bringing them in and we'd have contests at lunches and breaks. It was hoot. I could eat Dave's Insanity sauce without flinching. I still can. Doesn't mean it tastes good, it was just a fun "macho" thing to do.

Today I don't bother. I still love it hot, but not for the sake of hot. It's also got to have good flavor. There comes a point when something is so hot that it completely destroys the flavor. My wife thought I liked Dave's Insanity Sauce and put some in a bowl of my chili once, far more than a drop! I almost gagged. I had to dump the bowl. Too hot and just didn't taste good.

All that said, what I consider mild is very hot to the average palate. When my wife cooks for guests she has to "dumb down" the spices. It's not a macho thing anymore, I'm a connoisseur. ;) But I haven't bought any specialty hot sauces in years. The best commercially available salsas and sauces I've had in the past 10 years are Mrs. Renfros and CA Johns

And I never need an excuse for a beer!

Noel wrote:
Is it an excuse to drink beer whilst eating ?

Who needs an excuse to drink beer while eating, or anytime? :h

YES it is a 'macho' thing

There is NO real flavor just heat.

I like HOT foods but there has to be flavor along with the heat
I love Jalapeño, Serrano (grow both), Tabasco, Cayenne but most everything above Cayenne is just FIRE for me. (Thai is good for cooking with but DON'T EAT them)


As for drinking beer....don't need an excuse :B

BUT beer will do NOTHING for pepper FIRE
Need MILK