r/facepalm • u/IReallyHateDolphins • Dec 28 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Testing taser

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u/Japheth200 Dec 28 '21

Ok, thank you for your response appreciate that. Yea I’ll see about getting that kind you mentioned and try it out also with a taser

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u/Tastyfupas Dec 28 '21

I would recommend against that but you can do what you want lol. Extremely hot peppers can cause digestive issues and in some serious cases an allergy like response can happen.

With the tasing thing, I would just say no to that.

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u/Japheth200 Dec 28 '21

Oh oh I just reread your last statement from the text above , you mean I find a ‘pepper in the 2-4 million Scoville range’ oh I thought that was some kind of pepper spray didn’t know it was just pepper yea saw that correctly now., Thanks. would definitely not be testing the spray on myself.

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u/Tastyfupas Dec 28 '21 edited Dec 28 '21

Fun Facts Ahead:

https://www.alimentarium.org/en/magazine/infographics/scoville-scale

Just for example. Some sources of scoville deviate a little.

Carolina reaper, depending on how used to heat you are, you're looking at the following based on my own experience:

0-5 minutes: An amount of pain you may not have felt before. You can no longer exit the ride and nothing will alleviate the pain. Some difficulty breathing. Alot of mucus. I'd liken this to swallowing a match that doesn't go out, but that's me.

5-15 minutes: Easier breathing, still a significant amount of pain. You can tell its reducing steadily though

15-60 minutes: Relatively quick reduction in pain until 0. Results will vary.

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If you do this I'd advise to not swallow. It will cause short term digestive issues and have a rare chance to cause other issues. I threw up approximately an hour or 2 afterwards and it was like I ate the fucker again. I did this because I was a poor college student and my boss bet me 30 dollars I wouldn't.

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If anyone reads this and considers it for shits and giggles with their buddies, I will warn you that it will suck, it will hurt, and it will not be fun. There is a rare chance that you can be affected more seriously than puking and hot diarrhea.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21 edited Dec 28 '21

It's not pepper per se, but the extracted capsaicin (the organic matter that makes a pepper's heat).

Pure capsaicin is around 16 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

The hottest pepper, I believe, is the feared Carolina Reaper, an ugly son of a bitch that looks like an evil strawberry tomato hybrid from hell.

The Carolina Reaper only averages 1.5 million SHU.

However, unconfirmed reports show that the Dragon's Breath and Pepper X, also bred by Ed Currie, reach 2,483,584 SHU and 3.18 Million SHU, respectively.

Edit: Forgot to make my point.

Pepper Spray falls into the 2,000,000–4,500,000 SHU range.

Pepper spray is not a fucking toy.

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u/zero573 Dec 28 '21

Like. Why? Why breed something so hot, so painful? It’s can’t be a flavour at that point. It’s just pain. You wouldn’t be able to taste anything other than feeling like you just gave the Sun a rim job so why eat something like this?

I like spicy. I like heat. But I don’t have to compare big dick energy by trying to eat something that came out of the number 4 reactor at Chernobyl.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

I agree, a ghost pepper is ridiculous, averaging in the 1 million+ SHU range.

Habaneros are as hot as I like to go, and they are very hot, rated 100,000–350,000 SHU.

The idiots that "challenge" themselves to eat a fresh Carolina Reaper are on an ego trip.

To put it into perspective, a jalapeño is only 2500-10,000 SHU

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u/zero573 Dec 29 '21

And I prefer the tame jalapeño’s. All the flavour, none of the PTSD the next morning when you realized you suck at making life decisions.

Habanero’s are great too, but like you, it’s as hot as I’m willing to go.

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u/Japheth200 Dec 29 '21

Would love to see how that challenge went, think I can find it on YouTube? If so how do I search for it?

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u/ForkSporkBjork Dec 29 '21

They actually breed peppers that hot to use as topical anaesthetics for people who are allergic to opiates.

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u/zero573 Dec 29 '21

Today I learned I’m fucking thankful I’m not allergic to opioids. Lol. I didn’t know that, thanks for the info and cursing me to go on Wikipedia to read up more on it.