Food Theory: How to CONQUER Spicy Food! (Hot Ones Challenge)

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Three years, three episodes, three chances to find  the perfect solution to combat spicy food. And   this year I think we've done it. Tremble in fear  all you restaurants with hot wing challenges. The   theorists are going to be coming to dominate  your walls of fame. After today's episode,   I promise that you'll be equipped to handle  nearly anything they can throw at you,   no matter how high those chefs crank up the heat. That said, can science actually stand up to   the ultimate test? The moment when the  hottest thing and spicy food turns cold? Oh no. That was such a small amount! Strap in. Strap in!. Here’s the ride! Hello, Internet. Welcome to Food Theory.  The only show that tries to be spicy but   is actually just a bit bitter. Bitter about  never making it on the Hot Ones, that is. If you've been following our spicy saga over the  last three years. Then you're well aware that I've   been recreating my own science based version of  the series in an attempt to train up for the day   that I'm finally invited to meet my unrequited  Internet love, Sean Evans. The premise of the   show is simple: Sean eats spicy wings and does  in-depth interviews of all the hottest Hollywood   celebrities and the occasional YouTuber when  they need to fill out the guest list. And yet,   my attempt to copy him in a legally  unenforceable way has been unnoticed.   Ignored! I am Hello, Neighbor, he is my MatPat. So you know what, who needs him? Today,   we ascend. In this, our final part of the spicy  food trilogy, we’re not limiting ourselves to   his show's signature sauce The Last Dab.  No, we're getting hotter. We're going more   extreme than the Scoville scale. The final  boss of today's episode requires a waiver   and passing not just one, but two separate  spice tolerance tests in order to even buy it.  It is, without question, the single spiciest  bite of food I've ever consumed. Heck, if you   take a bite of this that's the size of a grain  of rice, your mouth is going to be feeling it   for the next 20 minutes. This right here, this is  the concluding chapter to the trilogy. And there's   no better way to go out than to go big. Before we get there though, we got to come in   prepared as possible. That means another series of  spicy solutions that need to be tested. Hopefully   you've seen the previous episodes in our quest to  find the perfect spice solution. But if not, link   is in the top right corner of the description.  Or I could just catch you up right now.  Overall, we all know the general stuff that  you're supposed to do: Drink milk, eat bread,   don't drink water, all that sort of good stuff.  But I've been convinced that there are better,   smarter, more effective science based solutions  out there. I don't just want to cool those flavor   flames. I want to extinguish them. And so  using both your suggestions and our research,   Steph and I have been putting them to the test. We've seen some good ones, we've seen some bad   ones, and we've seen some really bad ones. F! Negative F! What is wrong with you!?!  In general, we've learned that the Perfect  Spice Solutions try to check off as many boxes   on this list: They've got to be cold,  they've got to be sweet, and they've got   to be thicc with as many Cs as possible. They're also ideally full of dairy, which   contains casein, a protein that's able to dissolve  capsaicin, the molecules in food that make it   spicy. Lastly, the ideal spice solution is acidic.  You see, capsaicin on the Ph scale is basic,   so counteracting it with something acidic like  lemon or lime juice is going to help neutralize   the capsaicin that's lingering in your mouth. That right there, that is our list of must   haves. We've also learned to stay far, far  away from anything that contains alcohol,   which just activates the same TRPV1 receptors  that capsaicin does in the mouth, irritating   them in a very similar way. So far, our top spicy  food solutions have been sweet lime simple syrup,   a honey peanut butter mixture, and at the  top of the heap a cold custard milkshake,   specifically from our local ice cream chain  Goodberry’s. All of them are good, each checking   off two or three of the qualities on our list.  But none of them are truly great, especially   when up against the toughest and spiciest  contenders. See also our reactions from last year. I’m going to just try real quick,  just… I did this last time, too,   just so we could get a sense of what the  flavor of this thing tastes like alone.  It tastes like fire. What do you mean the  flavor? It tastes like charcoal and fire. So without further ado, it's time for  things to get spicy. Let's set up this test. Yes, my friends. This is the final  episode in our trilogy of Spicy Food   Challenge Solution episodes You bet your sweet bippy.  Until next year, when we decide to reboot the  whole thing. So what are we actually testing   here today? Well, we are testing a combination  of solutions that you've submitted over the last   year. We're also testing a combination of  things that we have researched ourselves,   like new solutions. There are some returning  favorites from past years. Basically,   this is the epic Super Smash Brothers crossover  episode of all your favorite spicy food solutions,   but only one will be able to walk away as  the supreme leader of spicy food solutions.  which may be more than I can say for myself.  I may not walk away from this episode. I   may just keel off the chair at some point. Yeah, there will be one winner today and two   losers. And those losers are the two of us. Oh, yeah.  So the layout for this episode is basically the  same, but this year with a little bit of a twist.   So we have assembled a solution of seven different  spicy food solutions that you guys have submitted.  We're going to put them to the test against a base  level of spicy wing, and then we're going to take   our favorite of those solutions and put them up  against the final boss of this episode, the Hot   Ones Last Dab Apollo sauce. But then, my friends,  there's actually something hotter than that.  I'm sorry, what? Yeah, there's something   that's even more sinister, even more creative. I like how I’m not consulted or informed about   something that we're having that's hotter  than the thing that melted my face off   last year. Thanks. Thanks, man. Thanks guys. Oh, yeah. It is hotter. It is more sinister.   It throws all sorts of monkey wrenches into the  works. And it is something that I've been trying   to get Stephanie to test out for years. Oh no.  So now that she's stuck on camera with me,  she's forced to do it with me with all the   spicy food solutions available to us. Oh, I know what this is. You jerk. So join us friends, as we go about our  spicy food journey. Just wish us luck.   Prepare yourself, your bowels and your napkins.   Bring out the wings, my friends. Bring out  the wings. I am hungry and need to feed.  That’s weird. That was weird.  Round number one: Perfume? Okay.  So it's probably best to give this   one a bit of explaining. This may  sound like a really weird choice,   but it's actually coming from a pretty  reliable source. Hot Ones themselves,   or at least the wider First We Feast team. You see, back in 2020, the team posted on   Facebook this video of how sniffing perfume could  help you lessen the burn of drinking alcohol. Obviously, we're eating spicy food and  not downing shots, but alcohol activates   the sameTRPV1 receptors that capsaicin  does, irritating them in a very similar   way. So if it's good enough for a drink,  maybe it's good enough for a spicy wing? Yeah. No, I don't. I don't wee… there's no  way that this one works, right? Because at   the end of the day, this isn't an issue of flavor.  Right? You're smelling stuff, which is changing   your perception of the flavor. There's an actual  chemical reaction that's happening in your mouth   where pain receptors are being activated. So no  amount of smell or perceptual change is going   to affect the fact that this chemical reaction  is happening in your tongue. There's no chance.  I'm inclined to agree with you, but we've  been really surprised on episodes of Food   Theory before about things that work and things  that don't work. And frankly, I got to lay it on   the line here. I have to go into this with some  level of optimism, because otherwise we have six   rounds in front of us and I might not make it. All right. So I guess the question is then,   are you going with: [french name? Le-siur-don  de misior lee] or are you going with:  Unlabeled bottle that I got several years ago. Okay. Ready?  Ready. Dink. What are you  doing? What are you doing? Quick note. We realized early on that these  wings weren't going to be hot enough to get   good data for the test. So we paused and  resauced the wings only to then overshoot   the mark and make them a wee bit too spicy. I  guess spicier is better than nothing. Anyway,   it was time to restart the test with a respray.  I was assuming Steph would spray the perfume on   her wrist or maybe her chest, but instead she  went with a much more unconventional option.  I still… no need to respray, though. I smell it.  Oh that was in my eyes. Oh,  why? WHY? Go, go go go go go go.   *munch* It’s hotter  This is a lot hotter. The  perfume is doing nothing except   providing a very confusing experience. Smell my wrist. Smell my wrist. Is it helping?  No. Is it helping?  Maybe. Maybe. It's very sweet, it distracts  me. *cough* It's worse. It's worse when I'm   not smelling your wrist. It legitimately is worse  when you're not directly smelling the perfume.  I can tell you right now, the reason for this  is twofold. One… One is it's distracting from   the heat in your mouth. Two, though the air  isn't passing through your mouth. There's   that impulse to breathe through your mouth.  *exhaling* I want to breathe out the heat.   But instead it's forcing you to breathe  through your nose, which actually makes   it feel better. Like talking to you right  now is literal agony for me. I hate every   word that's coming out of my mouth because I'm  literally breathing flames. But when I do this,   it still burns, don't get me wrong. You still  feel it, but it's less sharp. So in terms of,   like, solutions, low, but effective, it's not  a net negative. It's not nothing, but it's low.   So let's move through this. Let's do another one. Yeah let’s go.  Round number two: Nose plugs. The general  idea here is the same as round number one,   which is like, Hey, if you can't smell what  you're eating, is it going to make it better?  Again, I don't think that this is going to do a  whole lot because as we saw at the last round,   it's not so much about the smell as it is about  where the airflow is going and being distracted   from the burning that's happening in your mouth. I actually think this is going to make it worse   because it's going to force us to breathe through  our mouth. And that's actually the worst place   you could breathe through this circumstance. You know, I think as we're pursuing new merch   options for our fall or even winter launch,  I feel the food theory nose plug might be a   worthwhile endeavor. Boop.  All right, here we go. *munch*  Huh. This is weird. It's. It's  not doing anything. It's literally   not doing… like, if you  compare our reaction last time.  Oh, my God. To where we are now I'm fine.  Oh, my God, I’m fine. This is insane. There's...   This is shocking to me. Here wait. I want  to try another bite. I can't believe this.   I'm not supposed to not say anything in these  reactions, but I'm actually, like, speechless.   I can't believe this worked. The only place I  feel it is all the way in the back of my palate.  Right now I'm feeling it in the back  of my throat. I'm feeling it, like,   around the edge where I got sauce here. Yeah, but the middle of my mouth   is actually totally fine. Yeah my tongue, which is where   last round I was feeling it. I was dying  I was miserable, yeah. It  was awful. It's… I'm fine.  Wow. Like, I could   go back in and do multiple bites of this. This is not the result I expected at all.  This is wild. I'm holding this out here   for my own benefit at this point. It’s game changing!  This is so much less spicy. It's not  completely not spicy, but we're talking,   we're functioning normally, I'm not falling  off my chair right now. This is amazing.  Yeah, I'm not feeling the sort of visceral  reaction of like, I'm crying right now, or like,   Oh my gosh, I'm breathing fire right now. I feel  it. And I definitely feel it in my, like, soft   palate, back of my throat, back of everything. Dude, you go into these episodes,   we expect zero of these things to work,  we expect to be miserable the entire time.  This one? This is wild.  This one works! This is unbelievable.  Dude, this works. This might be the single most effective solution   of any that we've done across these three. I can't believe that.  I am dumbfounded. I know. I also, like you,   thought that like, hey, this is a chemical  reaction happening in my tongue. Breathing   or smelling is not going to affect this,  but it totally does. My mouth feels warm.  Yeah, I feel it. It doesn't feel,   like, super happy-happy, but I'm fine. Yeah, I could tell that I would be   feeling an uncomfortable amount of spice. Yeah.  If I would let myself. But the fact that, for  whatever… I don't know yet, if I'm focused on…  It's just keeping a lid on it. Yeah, it's dampened it significantly. So,   VO-MatPat, after this episode, after we're  done here and all this misery is over with,   look this up and tell everyone what the  science is here. Because I don't know.   This is blowing my mind. This is incredible. I got you back there Live-Action-MatPat. As we're  all familiar with at this point, the sensation   of flavor is actually a combination of taste and  smell. This happens because as you chew you force   air through your nasal passages. These food odors  are detected by receptor proteins on hair like   cilia at the top of the sensory cells in your  nerves, which then send messages to the brain.   And even though it's a chemical reaction taking  place on your tongue and not a matter of flavor,   the conflicting messages being sent to your  brain seem to be enough to override the stimulus   of the capsaicin. Now, this isn't something  that totally prevents the feeling of spice,   but even smelling capsaicin can irritate the  mucous membranes in your nose, thereby leading   to an increased perception of spice when you eat. So by plugging our noses, it lessened the overall   sensation of the spicy food. We also have some  taste buds in the soft palate of her mouths,   which explains why I was still feeling some  burning back in that area. But when it came   to our tongues, the lack of smelling seemed  to completely dampen any spicy feelings. Round number three, I'm excited  about this one: key lime pie.  This one goes out to Tyler Williams of Tyler  and Safiya Nygaard and his love of key lime pie.  This is something that was suggested multiple  times by you guys, the audience. And the rationale   for this one makes a lot of sense, right? In  past episodes of this series that we've done,   we found that lime simple syrup worked really  well because there was something about the   citrus and also something about the sweetness  that would help dull and kind of lessen the   pain that you were feeling in your mouth. Key lime pie actually takes it to another   level by introducing dairy, and milk is a very  common antidote for spicy foods. So maybe by   getting the lime, the sugar and the dairy all in  there in the same bite, we stand a good chance of   fighting off these very intense, now, things. And you've got like a “bread” substance in   here. So really this seems pretty darn  primed to be like a great solution.  This should be grade A. Boop.  OK, I’m going to lick these  fingers for that extra spice.  You fool. Oh, Man.   Doing it again really reinforces  how much... How much the nose plugs   did. They did a really good job, man. I don't want to put them in there. At   the same time, I haven’t finished chewing this. Haha! What!? Are you kidding me? Are you serious?   It disappeared. One thing I didn't think about  going into this was there's a fifth thing that   this plays into that we didn't think about, which  is viscosity. In year two, I believe it was,   we discovered that viscosity, something  that's thick, like peanut butter or again,   thick like that lime simple syrup that's able to  linger and kind of permeate everywhere and melt   everywhere. It's almost like you want some sort  of, like, salve or gel to deaden the heat and   deaden the burning. This has that too. Ooh, it does come back. It   does come back as soon as... You know how they tell you to,   like, smother the flames and put  blankets over in, like tamp it out?  This is effectively that if you're not on  the key lime pie train, highly recommend.   We were missing out for years. Don't be like us. I thought that we had kind of, like, figured it   out and we're like, oh, I guess this is as good as  you're going to get when it comes to spicy food.  No But no, this is great. You heard it here first, this delicious  viscous discous of key lime pie is in a   league of its own. And it makes a lot of sense.  It checks all of the boxes that we talked about   at the top of the episode. We've got acid from  the lime component, sweetness and fat from the   Graham cracker crust. And the cool temperature  of the pie itself provides a soothing sensation.   To add on to all of that. It also has condensed  milk, which is just boiled down milk with sugar.  And on top of that sugar it also has even  more added sugar in the recipe. Sugar,   honestly did us a big favor here, this is  because sugar directly works by neutralizing   the effects of capsaicin. Some theorized that  it's thanks to its ability to suppress the   bitter compounds found in capsaicin. But that's  just the theory, A FOOD… we aren't there yet.  But needless to say, this and nose plugs are two  of the best spice solutions we've ever tried. Round number four. I got to say, I  love this episode. Frozen Chocolate.  I'm feeling really good going into this round. My  mouth is not on fire. My lips haven't fallen off   yet. I'm so excited and I don't think chocolate  is a bad contender, to tell you the truth. You're not wrong there, Steph. Now, chocolate  has a few things going for it. In this case,   it's frozen so we're going to get a  bit of a temperature relief there.   It's also sweet and full of fat, both of  which are going to be working wonders on   the spice. When it comes to fat, Capsaicin  is considered lipophilic, which is just a   fancy way of saying that it gets absorbed by fat. So the more fat that’s stuffed into our chocolate,   the better it's going to be. And since  chocolate's essentially just milk and sugar,   it also contains small amounts of casein,  which is that protein in milk that helps   you wash away the oil based capsaicin  molecules floating around your mouth   when you eat spicy food. That's why today we're  focused on using milk chocolate specifically. I love this episode already. I know.  After round one I'm like, Oh no, we have  made a horrific mistake by over spicing   these wings. But the fact that we're sitting  here at round number four and doing fine?  We're in it to win it, man. We're in it to win it!  Yes! Haven't even broken a sweat!  Man, I love chicken wings so much and I  never get to enjoy them on this episode.  Ready? I’m here.  Double. Ooh chocolate. Mm.  This is working, five out of ten? I don’t know. One part of it is definitely from the cold. The   other part of it, I'm assuming it's  from the creaminess of the chocolate,   but I will say it is not dulling the spice  nearly as much as the previous rounds.  No. As soon as it's out, like, it's coming   back full force, it's not weakening it at all. Yeah.  Ooh, all right. Yeah, I'm starting  to sweat now. Yarr next round!  Let’s do it. Round number five,   frozen lemonade milkshake thing. This is again my favorite episode of this series.  I feel like we have a whole bunch  of winners as opposed to last time   when it was so clear that we had a ton of losers. By this point last time we wanted to die. By this   time, I actually still kind of want to die because  we're consuming a lot of dessert very quickly.  I still don't feel great, but I feel I feel  better than last time. And we've yet to   eject anything into a bucket next to  us, which at this point is saying a lot.  The concept of this one should probably make sense  to you at this point, right? It's got ice cream,   it's got citrus, it's got dairy in there  and it's cold. It has a potential to be   a step up from the key lime pie in the sense  that it's colder. The key lime pie was like,   sort of generally refrigerator temperature,  but this is freezer temperature and colder   is almost always better in these situations. One of the things that you keep hearing us say   in these first couple rounds, right? it's like,  “Oh, it's in the back of my throat. Oh, it's in   the back of my throat. Oh, it's in the back of my  throat.” This right here, as we did in our Brain   Freeze episode, anything with a straw is shooting  it straight to your back of your throat there.   This might be the best solution for that area.  Let's do it. Round number five. It continues.   Frozen lemonade dessert drink. How are you doing? Mmm, Tasty. It is super tasty.  It's a little icy. It's a little bit less creamy.  It is less creamy than I would have thought.   Taking a bite out of a pretty structurally  sound key lime pie. It's able to just hang   out there until you decide to chew it. Right.  It's not melting. It's not going away. This,   as soon as I get it in, I feel myself having to  reapply it. Like I feel like I have to move it   around a bunch because it's constantly melting,  turning to liquid and running around. This is   good. It's definitely our, I would say,  like, second best of the food solutions.  Yeah. But it is not quite up to par with the key lime. This one was actually kind of a surprise for us.  Highly viscous options have always been the ones   topping our charts. So we figured that since  lemon juice did really well at neutralizing   spice by adding sugar, ice and everything nice, we  have ourselves a spicy food killing machine. But   instead we found that the frozen part of the  lemonade just didn't cool us down as much as   the pie because it just immediately turned into  water. And as we all know, water and capsaicin   don't mix. So as soon as the soothing sensation  of the cold went away, the spice kicked the door   back in and washed itself around our mouth  and made it right back home in our tongues. Round number six, ketchup. I like that you gave us   spoons so we could just take a big ol  spoonful of ketchup. Wonderful. Let's go.  *crunch* Oh, this sucks.  So.. *indescribable noise* Does this make  it worse for you? It makes it worse, right?  It’s worse. It's worse, it’s  worse, it’s worse, it’s worse. This one is just a prank, right, guys? It  has to be. There was no way that this could   be used by anybody as a spice solution. At  least no one apart from Shaggy and Scooby. Trying to dull spices using ketchup is about  the same level of pain that I got from watching   Velma. Who would have figured that a movie  starring a crime fighting dog wouldn't adhere   to proper scientific principles? Unfortunately,  while the acidity of the tomato and vinegar,   along with the sweetness of the sugar, should have  helped to soothe us. Capsaicin is hydrophobic,   meaning that it doesn't bind to water  based solutions like ketchup. So all of   those ingredients pretty much do diddly  squat other than to make us suffer more. What goes up must come down friendos, and  after six rounds we were flying high for   a while. But you knew it would be  a Food Theory episode without it   crashing and burning at some point. Oh, we’ve just been kicked to the   basement friends. That's a rough note   to go off of here as we go into the final boss  round, which is The Last Dab. But that's where   we're leading to next. I would say ketchup  will not be making it into that final round. Speaking of that final round, there's no use  putting it off. It's time for The Last Dab. Final boss time right there. We faced  this puppy last time. And boy, howdy.   The smell is back. I've forgotten the smell. It is literally just like charcoal and ash   and death. So in previous years,  we've been able to control the   amount of Last Dab that we're actually  ingesting. This year, we've got a good,   solid slather going up. There's a reason you don't   toss the wings in The Last Dab sauce. It’s The Last Dab, not a last toss. But even though we were facing  down a monumental challenge,   I wasn't as nervous as I usually am. This time  we came prepared with all the heavy hitters:   Obviously our winners from year one and two, a  lime simple syrup, a peanut butter honey mix,   and a peanut butter milkshake from our local  ice cream shop Goodberry’s. But we also threw   in this year's two top contenders, key lime pie,  and shocking literally everyone, nose plugs. All right. Do you want to add an  additional dab to your already tossed wig?  So strap in, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to  test some spicy food solutions. Maybe there's a   reason Sean Evens doesn’t want us out of his show. Okay. there you go.  Just like last year. I can't  taste the flavor as much this   year. There is no flavor. The flavor is burning. I   don't know why this protects your tongue. It negates the whole front part of your   mouth. It's crazy. It's actually  nuts. All right. I'm going to go   in with the peanut butter milkshake now. But I am actually shockingly fine just from   this alone. I could go into any of these right  now to cool a little bit of what's happening here.  I'm actually going to take this off to give  these other ones a fair test. Wow! It just comes   back. It's so weird. Give it a sec. And it pushes  forward slowly across your tongue. It is so weird.  That is so weird. Why does that work? Ah, it's so much hotter.   It's so much hotter. haaa. So now that I've done them. This?   fine. But this was year one. We’ve grown. Yeah, this is fine. This is mid.  This is mid. This is solid. This is top tier. Key lime pie.   *pleased hmmm*. Does a really nice job. It does a real good job. So this   is better because it's a little bit colder.  This is better because it's not liquid. And   so it's able to sit on the heat and again,  acting like a blanket, basically tamping out   or smothering out the fire that's going on in  your mouth. At this point, I feel really good   about being able to handle the spicy food here. I know exactly where to go for an antidote. And   for little spice babies like me, that's crucial. And again, remember, this is a wing tossed   in this stuff. Yeah.  And then with an additional, you had like  two dabs. I got five on mine. And last year: It won't stop Steph, it won't stop! It's really bad. We're weeping. The only reason we're  feeling spice now, or at least the   bulk of the spice is because we took this off.  So this plus these other ones? You're golden.  Yes! It took us three years,   but I think we finally dialed in the optimal  solution here. You ain't got nothing Apollo sauce!  Get out of here! You have done your last dab.  So we've bested the final boss  here. But there is another one   that's lurking in the wings. Was that a pun? in the wings?  Ooh! So there is one food that Stephanie and  I have bonded over since the very beginning of   our relationship. So for those of you who don't  know, Stephanie grew up in a town that has one   stoplight and not a whole lot happens there. But there is one thing it has going for it,   which is the world's best ice cream shop. People come from like 50 miles around to go to   this ice cream shop, which is called Sunni Sky’s.  It's run by a guy who has two kids named Sonny and   Skyler. Yeah, it's that cute. And they are the  home of the world's first famous spice-cream. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Cold  Sweat. This stuff is so intense you have   to sign a waiver in order to even taste test it. They won't let you buy a scoop of it until you   have fully taste tested it and come through and  been like, yeah, I actually want a scoop of that.  There are actually three layers  of protection around this stuff,   right? First off, you've got to sign the  waiver, say, all right, I'm on board. Secondly,   they give you what's called the grain of rice  test, where they literally give you a piece   the size of a grain of rice and you would think,  oh, it's a grain of rice. What's the big deal?  It will linger in your mouth for no less  than 15 to 25 minutes. I went to the store   the other day to get this in preparation for  this test, and I'm like, please don't make me   actually do the final test, which is the three  pepper test. They give you a spoonful with all   three peppers present and you gotta take it. But at this point, we've done The Last Dab.   We've done all these spice solutions. I feel like  I should be better. I did the rice the other day;   the grain of rice size just to buy this. And I'm  like, Oh, no, this is just as hot as I remembered   it. They actually came up with a new flavor that's  even a level above this called Exit Wound. Which   I think honestly is a fun name, but not nearly as  fun as what I would have called it: Freezer burn.  Matthew’s been saying this for years.  I agree. It's a missed opportunity.  I'll do the free pepper thing. Oh wow,  you just... You just did it. Good for you.  Oh, whoa, oh, whoa oh, whoa! *laughing?*  Oh no, oh no. THAT WAS SUCH A SMALL AMOUNT! So not only is this incredibly   hot and incredibly spicy. [Stpeh]: Oh, man…  From a textural standpoint, it sucks because  it's frozen peppers and frozen peppers are   just nasty. Okay. Okay.  Nope, I’m feeling… Okay I'm abandoning that.  Woah, and there comes. I thought that years   of me doing spicy food challenges would make  me, like, “Oh yeah, this is nothing. I clearly   overestimated this when I was younger.” Nope. While any of these are in your mouth,   they really do help. They really, really do.  The problem with this ice cream and I don't   know exactly what it is or how they've gotten  it to this level of potency, but every time   anyone we know has tried even a little bit,  they say it lasts. And that's the problem. It   just becomes relentless and it doesn't, like,  last and just like, oh, it's a little tickle   in the back of your throat. My throat is burning. So there you have it, friends. If you truly want,   like a one of a kind, unbeatable and weirdly hot  experience. Cold Sweat or Exit Wound from Angier,   North Carolina of all things, that is a flavor  experience that you're never going to replicate. Thanks there live-action-MatPat, I'll  take it from here. And with that,   we're finally able to finish our tier list:  Our top tier pick from before milkshake is   now bested by the absolute outstanding key  lime pie. In the A tier, we have peanut   butter and honey. Our B tiers is a whole lot  of citrus with frozen lemonade, lime syrup,   lemon juice, sugar water and ice cubes. Our C,  D and E tiers have stayed relatively the same,   except with the addition of perfume in D. And  the worst things to ever use as spice chasers   rounding off the list are vodka, mouthwash and  ketchup. Seriously, I'd rather guzzle The Last   Dab than try any one of those again. I'd rather bathe in Cold Sweat and I   don't even know if I'm talking about the ice  cream or the bodily fluid. But of them all,   one unexpected solution reigns supreme. In a  league all of its own: nose plugs, a solution   that is so powerful that it silenced the all  powerful Last Dab sauce. It may not be glamorous   wearing nose plugs in a restaurant, but I ask  you, what looks less dignified, this or this? Wait a minute, Stephanie. What if we do Cold Ones?   Cold ice creams, even colder,  harder truths. Sean Evans,   you're my Mr. Incredible and I am your Syndrome.  Cold Ones coming to a Food Theory channel soon. So there you have it,   folks. Over the course of these three episodes,  we've tested over 20 different spice solutions.   And now we are done. No more! Na ah. My  stomach ain’t taking this any anymore,   I'm not doing this again. Until of course  it gets the inevitable reboot next year   like all good trilogies do. But hey, that's  just a theory. A FOOD THEORY! Bon appetit. And hey, if you ever wondered if all of  this extreme spicy food can kill you. Well,   I looked into it, and that answer is on  screen right now. Click the video on the   left If you're interested in spicing up  your life. or if you're interested in   just how far smell can affect your sense  of flavor, that video’s on the right. We   did a really fascinating experiment for  that one. And with that, my friends,   I'm off to have a very unpleasant trip to the  bathroom. I will see you next week if I make it.
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Channel: The Food Theorists
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Keywords: Hot ones, hot ones challenge, hot wings, spicy wings, chicken wings, hot peppers, hot pepper, hottest pepper in the world, spicy food, spicy foods, spicy food challenge, hot ones matpat, apollo pepper, last dab, the last dab, scoville units, hot sauce, hot sauce recipe, ghost pepper, spicy food recipes, sean evans, first we feast, matpat hot ones, how to eat spicy food, extreme spicy food, food theory spicy, food theory hot ones, food theory, food theorists, matpat
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Length: 30min 23sec (1823 seconds)
Published: Sun May 07 2023
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