In the summer of 2013, Cash and I will be travelling across the American states in search of culinary challenges. Between us, we aim to win plenty o' T-Shirts and have our names blazoned upon the walls of fame. From now until then, we need to book our tickets, work out a route and indulge in some pre-arrival challenges here. Luckily, one of us has a food outlet of their own, where new and exciting recipes are always being invented and one of us has a stomach of steel ready for the spicy ones. We shall be updating this blog with our home and away conquests and triumphs, as well as stories of food babies, food contractions and food comas!

Sunday 16 December 2012

25 Ghost chilli-sauce on a tiny cheeseburger

So Cash came round on Saturday 15th December, with a small ice cream tub of red devil-like chillis. Adding tomatoes, spices, onion and garlic to the 25 little chillis, he heated up the concoction until it resembled hot molten lava. I then spread no more than a flattened tablespoon onto my burger. The first couple of bites were ok - the burger going down pretty quickly. Then it hit me...tears started streaming down my face, nose was running and my lips and tongue began to swell. Cash had previously only tried a BIG pin prick's worth and was in a bit of pain and had to go outside to cool down! So I started to walk around the flat, pacing (ahem...Jumping - Cash), downing pints of water but to no avail. I then chilled for about 10mins before proceeding to taker the next three bites - this was slightly easier as the numbing was still present but then the reaction started again - this time I tried a drop of milk but then remembered that I hated milk and it made me heave, making the spicy sauce come up again! Lying down helped a lot, as did Elf on TV. Then about 30mins later, when my mouth had cooled down as had the burger, I finished it off, after having to scrape off quite a bit of the sauce1
CONCLUSION: I am now really nervous about next year! I have been a cocky little git and Cash's sauce has shown me the error of my ways!! Must get into training soon and work out how to replenish my stomach lining!
Pictures and video to follow!