Posted on 06/02/2022 10:45:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Greg Foster creates a world record for eating three Carolina Reaper peppers in record 8.72 seconds. According to Guinness World Records, Carolina Reaper averages 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) - the hottest chillies in the world.
A video of a man chewing down Carolina Reaper chillies has created a buzz on the Internet and left netizens both shocked and amused. While many couldn’t help but mention the aftermath of setting this rather insane record, others underscored how easily they could break it. Shared on Instagram, the video shows a man from the USA setting the world record title for the 'fastest time’ to eat not, one or two but three Carolina Reaper chillies - the hottest chillies in the world.
"Fastest time to eat three Carolina Reaper chillies 8.72 secs by Greg Foster of US," Guinness World Records wrote on their official Instagram page as the video's caption. The organisation also added several hashtags, including #spicy, #hotpeppers, and #feel the burn.
"The Carolina Reaper pepper - the hottest chilli pepper record holder - has an average of 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA. For context, a Jalapeño pepper registers around 2,500 - 8,000 SHU," they wrote in the post's comments.
Watch the video below:
Fastest time to eat three Carolina Reaper chillies
Since being shared three days ago on Instagram, the video has accumulated over 23,000 likes and 447,000 views. The scorching record has also prompted people to share varied comments.
"Hell nope," commented an Instagram user. "Now that’s an insane record," posted another. "I could best this, just don't expect me to be alive to collect the award though," joked a third.
According to a blog post by Guinness World Records, Greg Foster also holds the record for the most Carolina Reaper chillies eaten in one minute, 120g. His world record has stood for over five years.
And he’ll get to experience it all over again the next day on the other end.
Mad respect (I say that as somebody who lives in Thailand and eats like a Thai)
We have a saying here: ไม่เผ็ดไม่อร่อย (Mai phed mai aroi... Not spicy not delicious)
But 3 Carolina Reapers in a row? That takes some serious eggs.
My limit is eating 3 or 4 bird peppers in a row (50-100k scoville). Cannot picture even eating one Reaper whole much less three.
Love the spaghetti and chili dish at Skyline Chili.
Or, something like that...
Seems like a rather stupid thing to do to one’s digestive system. Must be a masochist.
Is there a difference between chewing and swallowing? kekw
He only chews enough to swallow the chillies down so as to minimize heat impact. Smart.
Also, don't put in, or take out, contacts within a day of cutting up ghost or hotter peppers, ungloved.
You can't wash your hands with enough detergent to get it off.
I had to run to flush my eyes for ten minutes to help get it out. Terrible experience, and it made me more respectful of the effects of pepper spray.
You actually start to think it will take hours to get better, because it takes so long to get out.
He followed it with a nice ice cream sundae. Later, in the porta potty, he could be heard screaming, “C’MON ICE CREAM!”
NOt the hottest. The ghost chili is at a million plus Scoville units
Gotta wonder what the look on th guys face was like approx 8 hours later.
A few days ago, my wife made a big batch of spicy Thai pork salad and week took it over to the beach bar where we hang out in the evening.
We have this place up in northern central Thailand (in the Thap Than district of Uthai Thani province if you wanted to look) where we get spice mixtures. The place is pretty famous throughout the country for the quality of the mixtures they produce.
The spices they make for the pork salad are unique: you will feel the heat but you don’t really taste it (thus, if you’re not careful, you will eat more than your body can handle and won’t realize it until it’s too late)
Of course, we used that spice in making the pork salad because it tastes freaking amazing and we’re both quite used to it.
There was this British guy and this Australian guy there and we invited them to try some. They said, “sure, we’ll try a little bit” (thinking they’d just humor my wife). So we sat a big plate of it in front of them. They thought they were just going to get a spoonful or two but after having tried it, they finished it.
Only after they finished wolfing the plate down did the effects start happening. Flushing of the cheeks, numbness around the mouth and tongue, nose running uncontrollably, and so on. Like I said, the spice mixture we use is very, very sneaky.
I ran into the British guy the next day and he was complaining that he was having a hard time sitting because of the pain it caused on the way out of his system. I suppressed a laugh, looked at him totally deadpan, and said “Really? It didn’t do that to me...”
I love spicy food. Mai phed, mai aroi (not spicy, not good)
I don’t eat food that hurts me.
Indeed--must burn like hell exiting the Biden.
LOL!
The Reaper is the hottest. It peaks at 2.2m scovilles.
...now try a couple of ‘Death Spirals’...
Markomalley, we need a recipe for spicy Thai pork salad please...
I like hot, spicy food. I put Tabasco and Sriracha on almost anything, but there’s hot and then there is stupid hot. These peppers are just stupid.
Sriracha on a hamburger is as hot as I need to go. I have no desire to burn out my innards, and sit on the toilet all night, shitting that super hot stuff out.
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