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.
Thanks for that info. The article had it around170,000
That’s unpleasant hot
This is a recipe that looks pretty good
https://www.eatingthaifood.com/thai-larb-recipe/
But it doesn’t have the magic seasoning that I was talking about. But it will make respectable larb.
If you want the seasoning I’m talking about it comes from this place
CWRC+8V8, Thap Than, Thap Than District, Uthai Thani 61120
(Paste the above code into Google maps)
If you have a friend visiting Thailand on holiday, they might be able to bring some back home. You just season the meat with the spice and make as the recipe above goes (though you’ll probably want to leave out the extra chili flakes)
Next morning flame thrower in Guinness World Records?.
No worries. I like Ghost Pepper and Reaper Pepper sauces......used to hate spicy food, now can’t get it hot enough. Although, I don’t think I’ll try to eat three reapers any time soon.
Got it. I like spicy good but I like my taste buds to survive
...”Blazin Carolina Reaper” sauce on the “Wild Wings” at at Buffalo Wild Wings.
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Did the Atomic Wings....once. My husband was concerned. I flushed deep red, had to run to the bathroom, was almost comatose and was still slowly able to finish them as a matter of pride, but never again.
I love the hot stuff too. Not like you and definitely not like this guy. A man’s got to know his limitations.
Right on. The Carolina Reaper does not just burn your mouth but your throat all the way to your stomach. It is crazy heat.
I ate a half of one about 8 years ago and it almost blew the top of my head off.
Same with the bottom, if you catch my drift.
5.56mm
My brother grew insanely hot peppers.
He didn’t eat them, he made money betting with his idiot friends.
Bet you x amount you can’t eat this entire pepper. Lots of pain and lots of laughs.
Lol.
When I was stationed in Italy, there was this British woman married to another American who lived in the same block of flats we did.
She bragged that, because she ate the hottest curries back home, she could handle more heat than any “bloody Yank” could.
I happened to have a bottle of “Endorphin Rush” sauce in my fridge (we used an incredibly small amount to spice up chili). The Scoville rating for the sauce was 250k-1M. https://www.hotsauce.com/endorphin-rush-beyond-hot-sauce/
So I put a tiny amount on two toothpicks. I stuck one toothpick in my mouth. “Hmm, hot but good flavor”. I then warned her that this stuff was really hot and that it might hurt her.
She then stuck her toothpick in her mouth. She almost immediately ran out of our apartment and up to hers to drown her sorrows in milk. Didn’t speak with me for a month (after which my now ex-wife reminded her that I did warn her about the sauce).
(My secret on surviving:I took the little, tiny dollop and got it down my throat asap and then moved the toothpick off my tongue and to my gums, which weren’t nearly as sensitive)
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