Almost 9100 posts, Miller Farm, paying ministers... and a poll!

[steve-in-kville]

We need a food poll.

What is your spice level? Copied from another source (must be some comparison between Americans and Indonesians?).

Spice level 1- Normal for Americans. Tastes like siracha sauce or spicey Popeyes chicken.

Spice level 2- Above normal for Americans. Like ground chili sauce.

Spice level 3- Americans.. Water! Give me water! Lots of water!

Spice level 4- Indonesians consider to be somewhat spicey. Americans cannot talk right.

Spice level 5- Americans: "it burns! It really burns! Indonesians: Oh, hello! This is spicey!

Vote and discuss.

[JimFoxvog]

I grow many varieties of peppers. I grow ghost peppers and sparingly use the dehydrated powder I make at the table.
One habanero, chopped up fine, is about the right level for me for one meal.

I have no interest in hot pepper eating contests. I eat peppers to enjoy them, not to suffer. I warn our customers to be very careful when they buy anything hotter than a habanero.

[steve-in-kville]

Tabasco sauce and Frank's Red Hot are on the enjoyable level for me. I learned that both Giant Food and Weis's house brands are all but equivalent to Frank's. My employer used to make a hot sauce that I thought was really good, but they did away with it. Not sure why.

[MaxPC]

Tabasco sauce and Frank's Red Hot are on the enjoyable level for me. I learned that both Giant Food and Weis's house brands are all but equivalent to Frank's. My employer used to make a hot sauce that I thought was really good, but they did away with it. Not sure why.

I would hazard to say this is about the right level for me. There are some curries and other Indian dishes that I can tolerate a bit more spicy but that is only because they have cheeses or a dairy sauce to moderate the spice.

[steve-in-kville]

When I was 17 working in the woodshop, this old codger dared a few of us young guys to eat some pepper he grew. He didn't even know what varity is was. So we did. We paid for that more than once....

[ohio jones]

Level 2 under normal circumstances, but level 3.5 when I have sinus congestion.

[Szdfan]

I'm Swiss German. I come from the land of bland food.

[RZehr]

5

[steve-in-kville]

5

A true legend

[Neto]

Checked level 4, but occasionally I'll do 5.

I have found that the classifications from one restaurant to the next are not consistent. Sometimes a 4 is almost unbearable, and sometimes even a 5 seems bland. (I need to keep notes on each restaurant, because we don't eat out much.) But I have to be careful about eating too many actual hot peppers "straight", because it makes me constipated. (In fact, I eat jalapenos for medicinal purposes, when my digestive system starts to get toward the other extreme. I suspect it either kills off bad bacteria, or balances the 'good' bacteria, which may get out of control.)