Burn Baby Burn!

I like Heat in my cuisine. I always have. I've eaten fresh Jalepenos straight up, sampled more types of Hot sauce than I can count, and I've even downed the occassional Habenero from time to time. I'm not a masochist by any means, and I know my limits, but I still like to go searching for the next really good burn. Hell, at a Sushi restaraunt in Chicago I scraped a ton of Wasabi on my Tempura Shrimp just to see what it would be like (Incidentally, that was a really dumb idea...).

So anyway, I recently got a new cookbook which contained a simple recipe for Pickled Jalapenos. As I've said before, straight up Jalepenos on their own are no big deal, so I was curious what Pickling em would do. Fastforward a few days later, and I'm eating Enchiladas. I decided that my food needed a little spicing up, so I grabbed a jalepeno outa the jar.

First bite. Not so bad. Second bite. Woo, that's starting to get some kick. Third bite. Holy crap! That's pretty hot. By now I'm balancing the burn out with sour cream and tortilla chips. Fourth bite. Jeezum crow, I should abort, cause I'm starting to get near the seeds, and if the skin is this hot, the seeds have gotta be a killer. (Have I mentioned I'm an idiot lately?) Fifth bite. WHOOSH! Eyaaaaaa!!!! Steam shoots out of my ears! I'm okay! Really! Oh God this Hurts! Realising it was either Kill the burn or pass out, I ran screaming into the kitchen, popped open the freezer, and pulled out a tub of ice cream. With no time to grab a spoon, I did the least hygenic thing I could think of, and just started licking the ice cream directly out of the bucket. When the burn had calmed down just enough, I grabbed an actual spoon and proceeded to eat about a quarter of the box of ice cream before my mouth cooled.

Irionically, still not the worst burn I've ever had.