{"id":11924,"date":"2024-09-20T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:03:15","slug":"eating-the-worlds-hottest-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11924","title":{"rendered":"Eating the world&#8217;s hottest peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ed Curry comes to the PDX Hot Sauce festival every year and brings along his latest creations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GoodMythicalMorning\">Good Mythical Morning<\/a> sat down and ate ONE Carolina Reaper chili &#8211; and hilarity ensues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite quotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s started&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been here before, but never like this&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;I hate the world. I hate that we exist.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;I can&#8217;t do it. Every breath out&#8230;is like time travel &#8230; into a stupid, stupid place&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been told it peaks at 6 minutes&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&lt;dry heaves>&#8221;Nothing came up. I wish something would have.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I can confirm they are stupid hot. Honestly though, the Carolina Reaper sauce, when mixed with chili and other foods in proper amounts &#8211; actually has a great taste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mb-QVfwCmYg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more interesting is that in 2024 he brought his Pepper X extract and sauce. It supposedly even more hot. I bought a bottle to test it out. Is it bad when there is just a simple typed label?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"11925\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=11925\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?resize=360%2C270&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/7-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Curry comes to the PDX Hot Sauce festival every year and brings along his latest creations. Good Mythical Morning sat down and ate ONE Carolina Reaper chili &#8211; and hilarity ensues. My favorite quotes: I can confirm they are stupid hot. Honestly though, the Carolina Reaper sauce, when mixed with chili and other foods in proper amounts &#8211; actually has a great taste. Even more interesting is that in 2024 he brought his Pepper X extract and sauce. 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