How much spiciness can you handle from this chart?

[Still-alive]

How hot can you handle with your food?

[MrOracle]

I once at a "grown for heat contests" habanero pepper on a bet. Per the guy, it measured around 350,000 Scoville Units. I do not recommend doing this!

The heat was ferocious as you'd expect, but that really wasn't the worst part. Because these peppers weren't grown for their flavor, but rather for their heat (they were strictly for entering into contests that measured heat), they tasted absolutely awful - like rancid grave dirt - and I was burping that god-awful taste for about 36 hours. It was absolutely disgusting.

When I was younger, I was a lot like Hermes Conrad:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/m23PCpaMvfg

"... needs a little hot sauce."

But over the last 10 years or so, I've backed off from the extreme heat, and rarely eat anything above the 100,000 Scoville Unit mark anymore. I'm sure I still could, but I don't want to burn a hole in my stomach, which is probably not as robust as it was at 25! LOL.

[R3DthatDude]

I can handle up to 200,000 might even be lower

[FictionalCharacter]

Mild. A simple jalapeño, cause most of the time jalapeños are not even spicy and don’t have flavor. But anything higher than that, I cannot handle. I love my stomach and bowl too much to deal with ulcers and diarrhea the next morning.

[Vasiliki75]

For me it’s Habanero but not by it’s self.

[normalice]

Anyone should be able to handle any of these if diluted. That said I have a shaker of ghost pepper that I carry around with me when i go to restaurants.

Also, what do the numbers mean?

Also also, it would be neat if someone could isolate the flavor of each of these things and have them availible without the heat. I often wonder how much a (for example) habenero is changing the flavor of something versus how much it's just drowning it out.

[Luv2BRealExotic13]

I’ve eaten food with ghost pepper in it a and some wing sauces. I’ve built up a tolerance for habaneros, I get mad now when my dad doesn’t put them in the barbecue sauce, some of the curry sauces he makes, or the baked beans.

[Smoke-n-Growls]

I enjoy habanero peppers.

I've yet to try ghost peppers, but my partner and I plan to do a Hot Ones style wing spice-off together.

He'll probably beat me. I've lost my tongue for painfully spicy things. XD

[andreasderjuengere]

I found some Habanero's to be a little too mild :)
However - I prefer to taste some other details of my dish as well; some of the local food (Thai) is so hot that you miss the taste of anything else that was used to cook it.

[Phoenix98]

I've eaten up to Arbol that I know of.

Though I have eaten an unknown pepper so hot though that I started trying to take my clothes off while crying burning tears while turning red because I was so hot.

[Zelda_5]

Thai habanero ish I guess. The one time a picked a jalapeno in the garden and didn't realize it wasn't a sweet pepper until it was half gone.

[ShadezMcgee]

Did the ghost pepper. Mouth was on fire forever. Took almost 20 minutes for it to just be tolerable with easing it with water.

[electromagnetic]

The only one I haven’t tried on that chart is the ghost pepper. But I do eat most of my carb meals with hot sauces.

[Sarahr123]

One million and probably more. I’m from a culture where everything is always spicy.

[siseñor]

never tested it but i eat a lot of árbol chiles so ig i cld handle maybe the rocoto or habanero if i rlly needed to :/

[Chrissydamusicgirl]

I love Habanero!!! Never tried ghost pepper though I’ve been scared

[Hannah_le]

I can have rocoto and the rest down like jalapeños n all.

[SystemOfTheMachine]

I eat stuff with habanero sauces all the time, but I've also had stuff at the ghost pepper range. I love spicy food.

[DizzyDesii]

I looove spicy food but never tried the ghost pepper!! Did tears come down?

[SystemOfTheMachine]

I've had ghost pepper sauces. Not actually a ghost pepper, so I'm fronting a bit. It hurt, but that good type of spicy pain, and I remember my nose ran a lot. My Dad used to grow scotch bonnets in his garden. So, I've had those raw. That's probably the hottest pepper I've eaten whole.

[DizzyDesii]

Lol love how you said you're fronting a bit haha. Adorbs. Whats a scotch bonnet?

[SystemOfTheMachine]

It is a caribbean pepper that is somewhat similar to a habanero, but it tends to be hotter than a habanero.

[DizzyDesii]

Ooooo snap! I want it 😍 being me some salsa please por favor

[SystemOfTheMachine]

It's the winter, so our garden is dormant. But, when summer comes around I'll make you all the spicy salsa you want.

[DizzyDesii]

Omg i’ll love it!! Just feel bad for my booty 😂 gonna be on fyaaaaah 🤣

[SystemOfTheMachine]

🤣 That's the price we pay for deliciousness. No pain no gain.

[chriscdi]

that is not the highest, highest now is a carolina reaper and i have a tradition to eat every spiciest pepper that comes out

[MisterWednesday]

I been eating spicy so much for years my esophagus was a mess lol.

[chriscdi]

yea shit be crazy no cap

[MisterWednesday]

I can handle more heat than anyone I know lol I can eat hot peppers that other people would spit out.

[chriscdi]

waste of peppers smh

[MisterWednesday]

Yea they can't handle a little bit of heat lol.

[DizzyDesii]

I can go all the way up to a haberno. I haven't tried a ghost pepper and kinda dont want to

[strawberrylipstick]

Fuckin pepperoni level, I don't like to literally e a t p a i n

[Fuzzyfuzzballs]

Maybe up to "Anaheim" level? Lol I can't handle spice much at all hahaha

[leahzrc]

i haven't had serrano but im assuming around there because i dont think jalapeno is too spicy

[Aakash_Hangargi]

On food items I can, but separately raw no no, I love spicy food but sometimes I over eat spicy things and chillies it fucking burns 😂🍲

[MetalGearBae]

I guess rocoto (by the way stuffed rococo peppers are the amazing)

[DamnSam]

Just up to 2000

But I grow a lot of the extreme hot ones... I sell the plants usual

[J9inva]

I grow and eat Carolina Reapers. I made sauce and dried and ground some up. They are rated at 1,569,000 on the Scoville scale.

[cutie_as_ducks]

I can handle a lot of spiciness

[Still-alive]

whats the spiciest food you ever ate?

[cutie_as_ducks]

I dont know but it was over a 1 million on the scale

[OddBeMe]

I’m a mild guy. If you can’t tell from my profile pic.

[MisterWednesday]

GImme that Ghost pepper I destroyed my anus with Cayenne pepper the past few months already though.

[David_Bayer]

I ate the hottest one. Pure despair to say the least.

[Wtfismyusername69]

I love spicy foods I’m actually kinda craving ghost pepper wings now 😋

[Sia_nee]

I like spicy so yeah the highest.

[joeldalton]

I’ve had the Carolina reaper.

[Greendruid]

Banan pepper, i am weak against pepper,

[1stranger]

I don't know exactly but I eat jalapeno.

[ArrowheadSW]

From the chart, I can handle about a 4,000...

[Agape93]

Between jalapeño and seerano

[Jess1038]

Thai/habañero depending on the day

[Dazed0N0Confused]

Jalepeno level.

[COMMODOREII]

I've reached the habanero.

[Ilickvulvas]

I can do Serrano chiles

[zella54321]

habanero

[taeh_ie2]

No more than arbol.

[Underworld158]

Jalapeño is my max

[sheikalana]

Up to Thai.

[jahaims]

Handle or enjoy?

[Still-alive]

uhh both is fine

[Orangesareyummy]

Jalapeño or Serrano.

[winterfox10]

Habanero, at least.

[Aqua4life]

Not much 🔥

[In_Trance]

Habenero