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    I once participated in the German Hot Food Competition, it started off with having to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia chili and only got worse from there.

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        It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.

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            So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville units. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach about 2.5 million Scoville (Reapers weren’t around at the time either, hottest pepper was the aforementioned Bhut Jolokia).

            I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will just inflict immense pain.

            It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.

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              As someone that grows super hots and has eaten the pods whole many times, that extract sounds like a nightmare. Extracts are both instantly hot (versus the more natural building up to the true hell) and either taste awful or taste like nothing at all. I am sure that was extremely unpleasant.

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                That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There’s a British manufacturer called Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren’t bitter, but “The Source” will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.

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                  I imagine with a scoville rating that high, it would ruin it regardless, but thanks for letting me know to stay far away from it.

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    Strawberry?! You mean Ichigo? Wait- is that a carolina REAPER? Yeah, this person is totally a Bleach fan