A restaurant in Chicago is starting to serve wings so hot you must sign a waiver in order to have them served to you. Sounds interesting...

Quaker Steak & Lube has been doing this for years. They have locations in Pennsylvania & Ohio - and I believe in at least one of the Carolinas...

And I have both signed for and eaten those wings numerous times.

To date, there is nothing I have ever found too spicy for me to eat. The hotter the better.

I don't get the fascination with hot food. I want to enjoy my food, not be in pain while I eat it.

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Originally posted by Skip:
Quaker Steak & Lube has been doing this for years. They have locations in Pennsylvania & Ohio - and I believe in at least one of the Carolinas...

And I have both signed for and eaten those wings numerous times.

To date, there is nothing I have ever found too spicy for me to eat. The hotter the better.

The Atomic sauce at Quaker Steak has a 150,000 rating on the Scoville scale of hotness. The pepper itself is rated around 300,000.

The Red Savina pepper used at this restaurant in Chicago has a rating of 577,000 on the Scoville scale. Almost twice as hot.

Looks like you have a new challenge Skip.

Don't pull a Homer.

BTW, for those of you keeping score the Red Savina is 65 times hotter than the Jalapeno.

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Originally posted by TenTimes:
I don't get the fascination with hot food. I want to enjoy my food, not be in pain while I eat it.

For me, those two things go hand in hand. Like I said, the hotter the better.

And rav - given the opportunity, I would definitely give the wins in Chicago a shot. The wings at Quaker Steak don't even break me into a sweat or make my eyes water, so I am up for it.

So is Tabasco like water to you, Skip?

The Cajun in me loves spicy food, but anything with "atomic" in its name just tears me up a few hours later.

Good luck with these wings.

To me the problem isn't eating any of the stuff. I do end up sweating but I sweat easy, family trait. My problem is the next day getting rid of the leftovers, if ya know what I mean, the burn is intolerable.

I think we talked about this a LONG time ago. Maybe 3 years ago, about the hot sauces you can buy that can't even be labeled as sauce, they have to be considered a food additive.

There are tons of websites that have these sauces for sale. They are extremely expensive, and extremely hot. Blair's 3 AM 1,500,000-2,000,000 scoville units 2 ounce bottle cost about $35. One drop is all you need in a pot of chili to make it insanely hot.

I am with Skip, I love hot food, though I did have some wings in Lincoln Nebraska that almost made me sick they were so hot.

Hot Hot Sauces

Read through that list.

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Originally posted by SaintFan:
So is Tabasco like water to you, Skip?

Pretty accurate. Tabasco is about as lame a "hot" sauce as you can find.

I fully expect that someday I will come across something that will be too much. So far I haven't found it.

From the list Glassman posted, I used to have some of this one: PAIN 100% Hot Sauce. I have tried to find a Scoville rating on it, but haven't been successful. I like these kinds of sauces on just about everything (hot dogs, burgers, mac & cheese, scrambled eggs, popcorn, pasta sauces, etc. - and of course, wings) It may be the hottest sauce I have had to date. I had a friend ask to try it. He put a drop about the size of a water bead on the end of a hot dog and his face went almost beat red when he bit into it and was like that for some time. He was still complaining about the burn to his mouth an hour later.