i trained to eat the world’s hottest pepper

[@answerinprogress]

If you wanna see Sabrina and Taha eat a Carolina Reaper pepper, you can get the full clip on PATREON at www.patreon.com/answerinprogress - Melissa

[@yaywippee]

whats a pepper i forgor

[@dando541]

@@yaywippee💀

[@yaywippee]

@@dando541 self portrait of you after your dad goes to the store for milk

[@ropro9817]

Lol, a girl who can't handle jerk chicken eating a Carolina reaper... this will not 'end' well... 🍑🔥🔥🔥🤣

[@Digitalhunny]

So, you actually like the taste of pain, cool.

[@jcnot9712]

I like how she didn’t even try to research methods for building spice tolerance and just rawdogged it by nibbling on a bunch of peppers for a few days. As a fellow lazy person, I’ve gotta compliment that level of commitment to half-@$sing it 😂

[@sheykenasababy]

"Rawdogged it" is my favorite phrase ever.

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

@@sheykenasababy oh noo

[@kunaljt]

The anti-Sabrina method

[@cucler6718]

Spice tolerance doesnt exist

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

@@cucler6718 yes unless your a bird lol except not really because birds arnt effected by capsaicin thus making them *emune* instead of tolerant

[@davidfalterman8713]

I love that this starts as a goofy “Melissa eats some hot peppers, hilariously suffers a lot for our pleasure, and learns nothing” video but ends on a really rather touching note about food culture and letting oneself be surprised by the world. Rather lovely video, actually

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It feels like there's a theme here. Melissa was motivated to enjoy something out of her comfort zone and she ended up succeeding.

[@davidfalterman8713]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Yes, absolutely-just not in the way she (or we) expected

[@faithfuljohn]

having grown up in a very spicy culture, i've learned the best.easiest way to handle spicy food is to eat it a lot and operate under the principle the spice should be enough to be noticed but not for it to be the ONLY thing noticed. Over time, even the hottest things will be fine.

[@cyan_oxy6734]

Another valuable lesson is that your mouth can usually deal better with the spice than your butt so even if it's "not that hot" don't eat loads of it.

[@ZedaZ80]

@@cyan_oxy6734 hahahaha yuup :| Ghosties are nice in omelettes buuutt

[@0114855]

Everyone says it gets better if you eat it more often, but with me it just doesn't work. I've never been able to eat anything with capsaicin. Half a teaspoon of chilli powder in a whole pan of curry is enough to ruin it, I won't be able to eat it. Or any amount of cayenne pepper.

[@tsrenis]

how on earth do you cope with the... "aftermath" of spicy food?

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yeah, spicy food should be given to each according to their ability. There's definitely a just-right amount for everyone.

[@markman278]

So based on videos here: Melissa tortures herself Taha tries to educate us And Sabrina is Eris incarnate.

[@jcnot9712]

Can’t wait for whatever the AiP version of the Trojan War will be.

[@markman278]

@@jcnot9712 if Taha hosts, it will be a nice simple educational video. Of Sabrina hosts she will make an Trojan horse to trick the others.

[@jcnot9712]

@@markman278 if melissa hosts, she’ll have someone stuff her in a wooden box for 24 hours?

[@markman278]

@@jcnot9712 “I put myself in a Trojan horse.”

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

Sabrina is like: HOW TO COMMIT FRAÜD

[@SixCubitMan]

FYI - The Guinness Book of World Records has a lot more to do with "did you pay the guinness representative to show up" then any actual legitimate criteria. They don't really do their due diligence when verifying certain claims.

[@AndersenJacob]

Did you also just finish hbombers video?

[@SixCubitMan]

@@AndersenJacob absolutely yes

[@SwervingLemon]

Worse than that: The Scoville scoring method is entirely subjective. Satan's Blood only scores 800k Scoville even though it's almost straight capsaicin, but the Reaper is 2M? There's far more accurate measures out there, but they're not yet widely adopted.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@SwervingLemon Yeah, it's flawed by design, since it says in how much water you have to desolve the thing in order for it to not be noticable anymore. That totally depends on the person doing the noticing.

[@tsrenis]

@@SwervingLemon Yeah its impossible to have a true objective measurement of something as subjective as spiciness. It's like that insect pain scale thing, kinda fun but functionally useless

[@itsu535]

Did we really watch twelve minutes of Melissa suffering? Yeah That being said, I hope you do another video about spicy foods, but about different types. I have friends who can down packs of samyang fire noodles, but can’t handle wasabi or sichuan peppercorn at all, and I always found that difference fascinating.

[@odw32]

I believe it's because the spicy stuff in wasabi and mustard is very volatile so it affects breath/nose/sinuses really heavily, while a capsaicin just dissolves in saliva so it relentlessly sticks around your tongue and throat. Maybe the pain tolerance is trained for local spots in the body, so a person thinks "I know this burn on my tongue no big deal", but then they panic when their nose starts flaring up from wasabi.

[@bosmer3836]

@@odw32 yeah with capsaicin you just gotta not breathe for a while. with wasabi you're fucked no matter what you do

[@spudd86]

Sichuan peppercorn isn't spicy, it's an entirely different thing. I has no effect on the heat receptors. It is frequently used WITH chillies, but is not spicy itself.

[@helpmycatiseatingme84]

I’ve never personally found wasabi super spicy, mainly because I’ve been eating those wasabi packets with my sushi since I was like 10. Sit makes me tear up on occasion lol.

[@stevenjacobs2750]

Sichuan peppercorns don't have any spice to them. Just the alpha sanshool that makes your lips feel like they're vibrating.

[@aresef]

The moment j saw the oat milk, I realized she was going to learn the hard way.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Yeah you need real animal fat like butter or milk. Honestly butter works better but I can also see why most people wouldn't want that. Cheese works too.

[@zenolord2242]

who is j

[@NonJohns]

the letter next to i on the keyboard

[@zenolord2242]

@@NonJohns I'm pretty sure the letter j on a keyboard don't have eyes bro u tripping or what 😆 but fr tho who is j?

[@crafterrium8724]

who is j tho

[@cyan_oxy6734]

Eating a carolina reaper to get used to spicy food is like letting someone stab you so you get used to knifes.

[@nymphrodellsalavin]

But, abject lessons are effective?

[@Ratigan2]

But you can build tolerance like the match stick trick scene in Lawrence of Arabia

[@ratmations8306]

More like letting someone stab you to get used to accidentally pricking yourself with needles

[@NotPofkp]

its like conditioning your body by shooting your leg (yes im referencing 4chan)

[@jenkem4464]

*knives. ;)

[@jacklandismusic]

Being American, I’ve found that we tend to just use spiciness as like, a novelty thing. We make things hot for the sake of making them hot. Other cultures incorporate peppers into their food in ways that add to the flavor. It’s not just like, an overwhelming pain. They make something nice and tasty, with a little bit of a kick. I’m still not big on spicy foods for the most part, but I’ve learned to love a lot of Latin American and Indian dishes, because they use spice tastefully.

[@Siberius-]

Then when you eat so much food with some kick to it, over time you need more and more to get that same little kick. Then you can eat very hot food just as a by-product, without even intentionally setting out to build one's tolerance for hot food.

[@dolfuny]

Yeah I personally don't mind spicy food but in general I don't like it in America, a lot of the time it just doesn't even taste good it's just hot for hot sake when I could just be having a not at all spicy dish that is actually good

[@nekopunk]

Or a HUGE kick and still be tasteful. One of the best Thai curries I've ever had was in a small place in Berlin, it was delicious but also so spicy that I couldn't finish my plate.

[@relo999]

Don't get me started, that trend has came across here to the Netherlands. For context, here in the Netherlands we don't really have a culinary tradition of spicy food seeing as it doesn't grow here natively. The only spicy food we have comes from our former colonies, and the version most Dutch people are familiar with have little to no spice. As most of that food in it's original form is considered too hot for the average Dutch person (because again, zero spice tolerance). Most people here are dead scared of extremely spicy food or eat as a gimmick due to this American trend of "just super spicy". I like to cook and tend to grow my own food for it, so I decided to grow Dragon Breath peppers (somewhat hotter than Carolina Reapers, specifically cultivated as a form of anesthetic for people with an allergy to conventional anesthetics). I make fermented sauce from those peppers and literally every Dutch person that tried it loves it. The reasons are quite simple, firstly it's a very "flat" heat so it doesn't build up when you eat it which is the thing that pushes people not used to spice over the edge in most cases. It's probably "flat" probably because it's so incredibly hot but at the same time due to having put it into a eyedroplet bottle it being very managable to your own liking and secondly it has a really nice and weird fruity favour that isn't the typical "ohh boy it's sweet" as peppers are fruit and made the sauce so it enhanced the fruityness of the peppers. (Imagine tasting a bell pepper but sweeter and without the bitterness) Some people put a droplet on every nacho they eat, but for example my friend just this morning messaged me with "ohh boy that stuff is hot, I added 5 drops to a pot of tomato soup". Right now have people in my household using one bottle daily, a 30ml bottle is now half way in probably 3 months. So much of the "hot food" is hot for the sake of hot or used to mask otherwise bland food, this is even true for quite a bit of foreign food. Yet this is exactly what most people understand as being "hot food". But well made spicy food and sauces use spice like salt, they enhance existing flavours and don't mask them.

[@gabe2569]

As a Mexican, watching you eat one of the mildest peppers in my culture (poblano), and struggling, had me sticking around till the end

[@MackenzieNerdyEMT]

I didn't even know they were considered spicy whatsoever haha.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Yeah, I've never had a raw poblano without anything mixed in, but there's no way it can be that spicy.

[@nunakokukokor9231]

As an African, knowing the scotch bonnet is considered hot, surprised me

[@biinniit]

​@@nunakokukokor9231omg yes, we use the Scotch Bonnet for literally everything lol

[@toxicgracie3772]

​@@nunakokukokor9231Scotch Bonnet is a pretty hot pepper! from where in Africa are you from? if you don't mind me asking

[@zeitwidrig]

That R2D2 snippet fits perfectly, absolute hilarious.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The art of cutting away to brief clips has been perfected.

[@twentyfifthjt7888]

I was not prepared for it.. cackled hard 😂

[@jacobdriscoll8276]

Respect for the queen who ate chili peppers for a week for our edification. RIP in peace to her bathroom.

[@PeteJohnson1471]

PAT Test, PIN Number ;-)

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

@@PeteJohnson1471 ATM machine? ABS system?

[@57thorns]

@@EvenTheDogAgreesDI disc

[@iszxc]

What I love about answer in progress is that they can post a regular informative video, and the next video is something like this

[@theramendutchman]

TBH I feel that's a Sabrina vs Melissa kind of thing, they complement each other's video style well!

[@NSeaBear]

That analogy of watching a movie in b&w is perfect. I started eating spicy food 5 years ago and it's changed the way I see and eat food. Food without spice is like food without salt.

[@ltlbuddha]

Spice ≠ heat. Food needs flavour, heat is conditional

[@auliamate]

Agree to disagree. Food with spice is like eating magma. And not all foods even need salt! Many dishes do not need salt at all!

[@lonestarr1490]

@@auliamate Examples?

[@Yorick257]

@@lonestarr1490 garlic and onions. But to be more serious, fried vegetables can add quite a bit of flavour, especially garlic and onions. I can eat fried onions on their own!

[@0114855]

@@lonestarr1490 I grew up without added salt and now I still pretty much only add it to fried potatoes. I use a lot of herbs and spices in my dishes, but hardly any salt and no peppers.

[@eduardoramirezjr1892]

As someone who spent a year doing spice challenges to eat a Reaper. 1- Take it slow, your tastebuds will adjust. I acclimated over months and did alright. 20 minutes of crying. Sauces are absolutely a better route. Many are super delicious. (I'm fond of Blair's Death Sauce). 2- Don't eat one cold Turkey. While nothing is wrong with eating the Carolina Reaper, it did send one of my buddies to the hospital. If you have a sensitive stomach, then just don't :)

[@cannedcondensedmilk]

"it sent one of my buddies in the hospital" holy shit dude i never even knew that was possible from a chilli pepper 😭😭😭

[@candicraveingcloude2822]

@@cannedcondensedmilk If one has too much capsaicin in their body at a time it can become lethal. It's meant to be used in moderation not highly compacted.

[@MindALot]

Happy to see Blair's Death Sauce mentioned. I've been buying Original and Mega Death for years.

[@Neron616]

This reminds me of a story a friend told me of a dictator who trained himself to become immune to cyanide by ingested smell amounts of it to avoid being assassinated but when a revolution broke out and the people came for him he tried to kill himself using cyanide but failed because he was now immune.

[@fallenaspie]

chad

[@molybd3num823]

L

[@alexisericson241]

That was Mithridates VI

[@vincenttt8289]

@@alexisericson241 Yup, but the details from the original comment were definitely wrong. Mithridates VI ingested poison not because of a possible revolution assassination but a plot to assassinate him.

[@_pitako]

Iirc it wasn't just cyanide, it was basically any poison he could get his hands on

[@BloxyMelonio]

I've been binge watching this channel in the past two days and I can't stop 😭

[@BloxyMelonio]

@AnswerinProgress. 🤢🤮 👎

[@DustyyBoi]

@@BloxyMelonio but you won :(

[@pyral514]

At least you learn something.

[@BloxyMelonio]

@@pyral514 Yep! I’ve been taking notes all over the place, and i’ve wanted to get into machine learning for a while but didn’t know where to start. That AI pasta video made me so happy lol.

[@VishFish]

SAME

[@DangerAngelous]

Answer in Progress in a nutshell Taha: The Life Specialist Sabrina: Queen of the Spreadsheets Melissa: Serial Food Crime Committer, usually against herself

[@koekeritisVideos]

I was expecting a carefully tailored routine to build spice tolerance in the semi long-term, but instead we got a few afternoons of pure torture. I guess I am... proud?

[@At0micAllison]

So smart to read the sponsor bit while struggling through the jalapeño. I couldn’t look away. 😅

[@qllams]

Was absolutely there for mouth-breathing and teary eyes!

[@willemsberg]

Being the ultimate northern-european, I've had no experience eating spicy food while growing up. A university friend pulling me through an evening at a Sichuanese restaurant far from my hometown opened me up to a world of taste further then the feeling of burning in the back of the throat opened me up to different styles of heat and spiciness. There are so many different experiences of feeling spice. The pleasant tintle upon the lips of exptremely well spiced food was an experience not placeable before, yet afterwards I was not able to see the pleasure of good spiced food without it. All I can say is continue, the way is difficult, yet the gains in taste and experience are stupendous.

[@skylark.kraken]

Btw, to anyone who is able to handle spice I just want you to be aware that "mild" does not mean "no spice", I can still taste the spice and I can still hurt from it while you may be completely unaware of it having any spice My family are spice lovers so I've had years of struggling with the base mild that nobody else notices while they pile on the spice. I can however handle sour, mainly because I cannot taste sour (fun fact, it's actually quite common because like spice the mechanism for taste is completely different to tastes like salt, sweet, bitter, and umami (not tasting any of these is rare)). The same way people suffer through spicy stuff, I don't care to taste what others taste when they eat something sour.

[@skylark.kraken]

@@pmy643 I mean, "chili" in the name is already too much spice

[@0114855]

Funny, I also can't eat spicy food and have a high tolerance for acidity. It just tastes nice and refreshing.

[@bikzimusmaximus5250]

I remember when I got into spice first. My mom had gotten me ghost peppers while on a visit, and I decided to make a giant batch of chili con carne with them, and... it was the hottest thing I had ever eaten at the time. So I just had one bowl, then some hours later... I decided to get another bowl and it was still hot as hell but this time enjoyable, and then... I don't know I've been into spicy food ever since.

[@daymoony]

i used to be like this! im mexican and Surrounded by spice, but could not handle a single bit of it. literally watched my friends down 3-4 bags of takis while i couldn't eat a Single One without breaking into tears bcs of how hot they were. i kinda forced myself to start trying more spicy foods, and while its still spicy for me, i've definitely come to enjoy more mexican dishes bcs of it!

[@Ssoulseek1]

No way you think Takis are spicy

[@justjaxie]

@@Ssoulseek1 Hate to break it to you but spiciness is subjective to everyone

[@pptenshi3900]

Me ngl. I’m white hispanic but the entire side of my family I talk with is Salvadoran. After a while of watching my family eat a whole bunch of spicy foods and have cousins picking on me for acting like a “coconut” for not being good with spicy things, I decided to end that and become more tolerant with spicy things! Super chill with it now and I love spicy foods!

[@Monkofthecaribbean]

Takis aint spicy lolol

[@Thuazabi]

@@Monkofthecaribbean they are for some people, and you being able to tolerate a greater amount doesn't make you special or earn you any points. Grow tf up.

[@harrietyes]

How do they always manage to make the most random things interesting

[@BloxyMelonio]

I'm homeschooled and that's what my life is all about. I think an answer to your question could be they're just very good at writing essays, and/or you love learning!

[@BloxyMelonio]

@AnswerinProgress. 🤮

[@astaiannymph]

They're good at asking questions. Everything is interesting if you're curious enough.

[@cristopherj1324]

Girl be careful with gastritis, spicy food is so good but you have to take it modestly because it can do a number on your guts :'( (speaking from first hand experience) Know it's like loving dairy products but being lactose intolerant. Witch i love so my heart goes out for those who can't and wish for my bacteria to remain 🥺🙏

[@astaiannymph]

I got bronchitis many years ago and it killed my spice tolerance. I used to go get this place's Sunday special "devil pasta", which had this absolutely gorgeous sauce, but it was incredibly spicy. After I got ill, it just burned, and I still wasn't fully back up to that spice level by the time I moved away. Spice is a weird body phenomenon!

[@feliciafelicia6965]

Fun fact. The guy who cultivated the Carolina reaper compared the hit of spiciness to the same hit he got when shooting up drugs.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I mean, endorphins are basically morphine…. (the name even means endogenous morphine)

[@brandon9172]

​@@kaitlyn__L They're named after Morphine but they are drastically different chemicals.

[@OfficiallySnek]

Because what else would you train for?

[@DefensiveLettuce]

AWW! I'm in Toronto and was growing my own Reapers this year and still have 3 on my plant growing indoors! I would have just straight up given you guys one so you wouldn't have to choke down a dried one!

[@bobon123]

Homegrown in Canada are often quite lower in terms of Capsaicin concentration, because the plant produce the more Capaicin the more sun hits it. The same plant grown in Mexico or Canada would be quite different in terms of hotness.

[@halicusnguyen8864]

Oh wow! I love how Melissa is settling into a comfortable, inviting video format :) y'all are getting better and more awesome as this channel continues to grow!!

[@seltsameseeds]

i considered doing something similar, and I'm glad to see someone else has done the legwork so i can feel vindicated without the pain! truly incredible that the first quarter of the video was just. Eating peppers straight up. I didn't realize you could practice eating spicy food sans the food parts

[@moonlalune5583]

I love how Melissa and Sabrina are like yin and yang, but both unhinged.

[@KubPlays]

as someone with a very irrational fear of trying new foods just in general, let alone spicy foods, the face melissa gave in front of the carolina reaper looked like a reflection of what i think i look like when someone puts a new food in front of me except its not a carolina reaper it might just be mashed potatoes and also that i never go through with actually getting over the fear

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Get you a friend who likes trying new food, and don't say no when they take you places. Got me over my fear and dang. Daaang. There's some good food out there I would never have tried on my own

[@krrishgoyal6567]

Watch this channel, Beryl Shereshewsky. she discovers and tries authentic foods from different cultures all around the world through her subscribers that live there. It's really interesting and you'll definitely want to try some of those dishes. It might help

[@vixxcelacea2778]

That might actually be a disorder. At one point, all food you ate was new. It sounds like a fear that built overtime. You might want to talk to a therapist, especially if you only have a few (usually unhealthy) foods you'll eat due to the fear.

[@airavatara]

Ohhh sis, I ate a whole habanero pepper over the summer straight on an empty stomach, and I regretted my whole life. So I could only imagine the carolina reaper is worse. Pro tip, if you have chronic stomach problems, don't ever do that. Also pro tip, eat bananas after spicy food to reduce the stomach cramps. I wanna know how you survived that week bc I surely wouldn't have.

[@Clifford_Banes]

This voice can be used to calm people under panic attacks

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

Melissa is super admirable for even trying to do something and completely sticking to it.

[@reinishii.o7183]

this is such a cool little experiment, it shows the human adaptability to situations and shows how our ancestors managed to survive in tough circumstances

[@FatNinjaWalrus]

it makes me genuinely happy that when she went back to spicy food she was like "oh, i GET it now!" any time someone comes to a new understanding about why people appreciate a thing, is a thing i appreciate

[@anothergeekychannel8384]

I, like Melissa, have a very low spice tolerance. However, tonight I watched this video, and then went and tried some hot sauce on my burrito (I believe it was cholula green pepper sauce) since we forgot to ask for salsa from the restaurant. I don't know if it was the difference in mindset (I wasn't scared of the heat) or the fact that I took it slow and didn't use much, but I really liked it.

[@santioliva]

i guess one thing she didnt think to mention is where and when you get your peppers, as well as where they came from also can effect how much capsaicin is in there. that may be why she didnt feel the peppers the first day until the habanero... honestly was sure if it would be, but super interesting video

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

For an additional reference point, pepper spray is about 1-3 million Scoville units, so that Carolina Reaper is literally non lethal weapons grade.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

It is the hottest commercially available pepper. On Netflix, the show We Are the Champions, has an episode with a pepper eating contest run by the guy who developed that pepper. The contest STARTS with the Carolina Reaper. He has a bunch more that haven't been officially tested yet. When someone breaks his record by developing a hotter pepper, he gets the next one tested and takes the record back.

[@bennydreamly]

It feels illegal to be this early to an answer in progress video

[@kordip8335]

ikr

[@kagakudoragon]

Honestly

[@VenusLivesInASociety]

True

[@malpal8711]

Yeah

[@Nice_Tree]

I feel the same way

[@farzaan1479]

This is the best ad for the Patreon I've seen

[@righthere492]

never in my life have i ever thought that i would see an intimadating pepper

[@mrudulasrivatsa]

As an international hot ones fan who cannot order the sauces because they're expensive this really helped answer a lot of the culinary questions I had about the sauces and also spice in general I have pretty good spice tolerance but props to you for just eating whole peppers

[@ashleyhamman]

Spicyness really does come with a total difference in perception of food. I wouldn't say dishes without it are missing something, but even my classic favorite flavor of having plenty of garlic and garlic butter on pasta feels mundane after I got more into spicy food.

[@kaitlyn__L]

The trick there is to add enough garlic that it tastes spicy again! lol Also black pepper, despite not being very spicy by itself, enhances/strengthens pretty much all of the forms of spice it goes along with!

[@ashleyhamman]

@@kaitlyn__L I feel like pepper generally is an overlooked condiment, I'll have to try it with spicy at some point! I've only recently started to use it much since I tend to oversalt my food, and want to give the illusion to myself of being a bit healthier. edit: Oh hey, just realized you're the same person from a couple weeks ago on Jago's stuff!

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@ashleyhamman I add black pepper and chilli flakes (of various strengths and fruitiness/smokiness) to pretty much everything, heh. Almost everything is lacking in them in my opinion! And yeah, I leave a lot of comments ^^

[@ashleyhamman]

@@kaitlyn__L I think I have chili powder around, but always forget about it. I do hit the hot sauce and bbq sauce in most situations where they make sense. I find that that's easy to do these days, KZbin has come a long ways from the "bob has a tank" days. The sheer volume of constructive and positive discussion that happens now would have been unimaginable back then.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@ashleyhamman holy crap, I haven’t thought about that ASCII meme (and the bunny one) in like 14 years! Though even back then I attempted to genuinely engage - but nowadays the success rate is like 50% whereas it was

[@joaomrtins]

We need an edit which is only Melissa reacting to the peppers uncut. And all the AdSense goes to her. She deserves it.

[@pugetsoundchoralworks5196]

My friends and I ate this pepper during our first year of uni…needless to say it felt like we were gonna die for 24hrs 😂😂

[@sully9767]

Massive props to Melissa for putting it all on the line for this video. Your journey through spice and pain is appreciated. We stan a legend today.

[@bluesillybeard]

I remember this one time I got a pizza that accidentally had jalapenos on it (it was supposed to just have pepperoni). I figured I would just give it a try, and it actually turned out pretty well.

[@InspectahPatio]

10:30 was such a fantastic analogy, for describing spice it is probably #1. As analogies go in general, might also be #1.

[@BlueSodaPop_]

I am TERRIFIED of eating spicy food. And now I still kinda want to try. Can't change food that much, can it?

[@BloxyMelonio]

I love spicy food so much. The bottom part of me does not....

[@LabradorIndependent]

It can. Just start at a low level and go from there

[@harrietjameson]

just get hooked on takis and ur good

[@meredithwhite5790]

No need to go overboard at first. Just start by adding hot sauce to your food regularly or eating at Thai or Indian restaurants. Do this regularly and you should be able to comfortably eat just about any cuisine. To me heat is essential to a lot of dishes and enhances almost anything savory.

[@iminacult1636]

Try salsa and spicy sauce, you can dilute the spiciness with the food you cook, also using a bit more pepper, you don't have to jump in with a lot of spice

[@acoustic_eyes2923]

this gorl is crazy! I’m admiring Melissa even more 😂. I often try not to do spicy not because of the pain but of my incontrolable sweating..

[@marymurphy1429]

I do struggle with mild spices, but I will eat spicy food now and again. It's not my favorite, but it's a nice change of pace sometimes

[@sparkypi]

why are all of this channel's videos so good, please help, I'm stuck, I can't stop watching

[@daanwilmer]

"I don't like spicy food, so I am trying to eat a Carolina Reaper" is like "I never liked saunas, so I am going to visit Mount Doom".

[@mediumrare9446]

I genuinely admire Melissa's endurance. How much pain is hidden in this "Oh, wow.."

[@eXponentia]

I'm a big spice fan. Almost anything I can add spice to I do. If a dish doesn't taste right, my first thought it to make it spicier. But I'm not the type of person who can handle these super spicy things. The level of spice I like, and the level of spice I can tollerate is definitely higher than average but pretty much anyone who actually likes spicy food is probably on my level or above. With that said, I still will subject myself to crazy amounts of spice at least once per year, usually with someone else. There's something to the experience of willingly putting yourself through that pain, knowing that it's safe and you'll be fine, especially with others. It can be a real bonding moment.

[@ReNeyer]

God do I love how chaotic yet wholesome this is haha

[@harrowsprouts]

I totally expect that this video is the very end of Melissa

[@TutorialTony777]

This one video has forever changed the world of spice for you.. you will no longer be as intimidated by it.. you will have a new found appreciation that will grow and grow.

[@MrBaskins2010]

love how you slept on the jalapeño at first lol my first jalapeno pepper was from an unmmarked jar in our family fridge. thought it was a pickle because i loved pickles. never ate a pickle again, i got trust issues

[@giftedfox1]

Lol

[@Derakkon2]

When I was younger, I used to think that medium salsa was hot. Now, I regularly cook with habanero and I love it! It takes time, but you can definitely build up your tolerance to spicy food by eating it regularly and pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. Your digestive system will begin to adapt as well.

[@SpiritSlayer1]

She handled the pepper better than anyone else has

[@liamoriesga7735]

7:47 taha:concerned for melissa melissa:is dying sabrina:manic laughter

[@hauthot287]

I love how this video is sponsored by a mattress company bc Melissa knows full well that she can abt gonna sleep for a long time after the Carolina reaper

[@cptpackrat1]

About 4 years ago something broke in me and I can tolerate EXTREMELY hot stuff without a tear. This resulted in using this "superpower" to mess with friends and coworkers. Recently I bought 2 "One Chip Challenge" boxes and had a coworker try it with me. He didn't enjoy it at all and laid on the ground for about 45 minutes while I laughed and continued to work. The ability to eat hot stuff has been an amazing experience and I am glad to truly enjoy new foods I previously would never have touched

[@yoriex3577]

Wth

[@carrioncrow8191]

She has a mild reaction to spice, I am a slobbering snotty mess, at least after eating one of my neighbors peppers fresh off of the plant. Good times!😭🤯

[@kaitlyn__L]

Freshly picked has the most capsaicin in the veins! Not to mention other volatile compounds, which often help enhance the experience!

[@hardwareful]

"The peppers have taken over my brain" I love you for this quote. Oh and I'm totally gonna steal it :)

[@theyxaj]

#1. I'm glad I have some salsa waiting for me in my kitchen. #2. Growing up, I had very low spice tolerance. For a long time, I didn't even like pepper... like, the counterpart to salt kind of pepper. It was too spicy. In college, the dining hall had a soup available that smelled amazing, so I got some. I tasted it and it was spppppiiiicy. But also delicious. But so spicy. So I thought... what if I just accept the spice as it is and try to enjoy the dish? That was the beginning of my spice tolerance. When I visited my family again, we went to a Mexican restaurant and I got dared to eat a Serrano pepper. My parents were blown away when I took the dare.

[@angelmitra7148]

Melisssa is here raw dogging those peppers 😂 watching someone eat raw peppers to build up their tolerance is just wow

[@sumitshetty42]

I feel like I'm missing the smart comments if I'm this early in an Answer in Progress video

[@sumitshetty42]

Including mine, I must add

[@Zeecarver]

just gotta say, the background music choice on this one is impeccable

[@ArtichokeHunter]

idk i feel like heat in food is kinda like explosions in a movie. it does add something and some food calls for it a lot more than others, but it's also easy to be overpowering. it's interesting to hear because talk about it adding complexity, and i'm sure that is true for pros, but if you're just in pain it's really distracting from the flavor complexity and all i get is heat. idk i know i'm a wimp, but i'm also a wimp who ends up eating a lot of food that's too spicy for me and enjoying it but only in the way that i wish it was less spicy or that i dilute it with other things, because if all i take away from it is heat and pain, it's not fun or complex flavors.

[@IamBananas007]

Kudos for sticking through the challenge. So cool randomly finding local Toronto channel on KZbin.

[@supernovaxv]

„I feel like there is a serious flaw in this methodology“ Yes but I still love everything about it

[@andrewp6738]

this thumbnail is fire

[@Ravmyster1121]

3:00 I did this exact same thing except with a half marathon. I let my friend talk me into signing up for it a year ago. And I always said that I would train later. Then 10 days before the 1/2 marathon it dawned on me that I was not even REMOTELY ready. And so I started at 3 kms and increased by 2kms every day for 10 days. That sucked. Then the half marathon happened... That sucked even more. But I finished it! There was a point to me regaling this anecdote... I've forgetten it now.

[@halicusnguyen8864]

That's awesome to hear!!

[@emilyli3304]

I know Lisa Nguyen does spicy ramen challenges all the time, she started it wanting to build up her spice tolerance! V cool creator who does similar vibess

[@davidshi451]

Sean Evans once said something really interesting about drinking water/milk. Even though technically it might expose your tongue to more capsaicin, for many people it also makes them feel better psychologically, and that matters just as much.

[@ThePenguinMan]

answer in progress in a nutshell. starts popping off with an actual upload schedule. people think they’re finally gonna have a consistent upload schedule. they take a 5 year break. they make a random short that is just an ad. they have a terrible upload schedule. repeat.

[@Machodave2020]

When you say 5 year break, do you mean that in the sarcastic sense or have they actually taken a 5 year break before?

[@ThePenguinMan]

@@Machodave2020 sarcastic

[@green182dork93]

I just want to say... The thumbnail photo for this video is amazing!! It made me click on the video right away! Great video as always!

[@nicokelly6453]

Wow, this was impressive. I hope you are able to enjoy some more of your cultural foods!

[@warnelivesey]

Well done. As D.H. Lawrence said, "the trick is to not mind that it hurts"!

[@Oranges442]

I can’t even eat a taki normally 😭I can’t imagine eating a bunch of spicy things, especially the Carolina Reaper 😖

[@BloxyMelonio]

I can't imagine going to the toilet after eating all that 😭

[@say_wo0]

ksjsks her voice is oddly calming for someone eating a pepper

[@RemyDamiani]

whered they go :,)

[@binbincracker]

The extra drops on the final last dab wing looked like a start of a new spiciness obsession

[@nanchoparty]

9:18 *IS THAT JERMA985 DISGUISED AS A CHEF NAMED DAVID SCHWARTZ?*

[@ravin21k]

Melissa deserves all of the likes in the world for this one

[@e.s.r5809]

I respect this so much, but when we eat peppers THAT much spicier than food grade it can be genuinely dangerous... stay safe, cats. Capsaicin is a poison to deter animals from eating plants' seeds. Reputable pepper-eating contests require pulse monitors, as at this concentration capsaicin can mess with your heart. 😬 If we're doing "eat a Carolina reaper" challenges etc, we should also have someone present in case we pass out. I'm a massive spice lover, but these novelty peppers bred for capsaicin content are nothing like a habanero or Scotch bonnet.

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

I've never heard such a soothing voice. Totally using you to help me sleep. 😂

[@VamosCoringar]

Caraca, ironicamente, hoje eu provei uma pimenta super picante. Vocês tem uma câmera dentro da minha casa? 🤨🤔

[@STWear1]

As someone who eats carolinna sauce with every meat, this was definitely entertaining to watch

[@siraaron4462]

It's... Been awhile. Hope y'all didn't have to go find real jobs. That would be sad.

[@jonnhieu]

Bravo! That was quite the dive. I'm glad it wasn't a solo venture in the end.

[@ethanholmes5677]

Isn’t a dried pepper significantly less spicy than a fresh one?

[@Micetticat]

The first time I tried habanero I did not know it was hot so I made a dish with a lot of it. When I ate the first few spoons it was a fun experience!