Food Theory: Spicy Food Can ACTUALLY Kill You!

Matpat's motivation to get on Hot Ones is unbeatable.

It's worth mentioning that, at this point, an animated, Spanish-speaking, rapier-wielding cat has been on Hot Ones while MatPat still hasn't.

In Canada, we're not allowed to carry pepper spray for self-defense, but we are allowed to carry bear spray for bears. This actually causes huge problems because some people will use the more concentrated bear spray on other people, making it far more likely to incur health complications like Mat talked about.

My girlfriend is a respiratory therapist (think ventilators and COVID) and has talked about this very topic quite a bit. I'll be sure to show her this video, I'm positive she'll be delighted to see someone else talking about the potential lethality of aerosolized capsaicin. Her other pet peeve is the videos of people SMOKING these peppers through a water pipe. That can cause flash pulmonary edema and lead to death. It's a professional concern of hers with the rise of all the TikTok challenge videos out there.

One thing MatPat did not mention: The Scouville rating of pure capsicum. 16mil. The hottest hot sauce is over half way there already. We are already approaching the point where you cannot get hotter. Yes, there is danger to spicy food, but we can only get so hot.

As someone who is allergic to regular peppers, but not spicy ones, I'm far far more worried about the average green pepper lol

So I'm actually allergic to capsaicin, and my throat closes. So yes, you can actually die from hot peppers 😂 I found out at a Mexican restaurant in San Diego. Best Mole sauce of my life. Almost the last meal I ever had lol.

As someone who has nearly died to a habanero pepper/sauce this really hits home. I worked at a Buffalo Wild Wings and a cook was cleaning some of the sauce tubs and got to ones with habanero and aerosolized it. I breathed it in and became all most instantly became anaphylactic. I can no longer be anywhere near habanero peppers. So far it's only habanero...and I don't feel like testing out other peppers other than the ones I know are safe for me. Yay for carrying an EpiPen at all times.

Food theory idea: does the time or place in which you eat your food actually change how you view or taste it?

When you mentioned aerosolized capsaicin you should have mentioned the problems with the Sriracha production factory in California. They have the ventilation quadruple layered and the stuff still gets out to the neighborhood next door, causing mass complaints of migraines and other minor health issues. It's a serious problem that they constantly deal with

anyone back after hearing about that kid that died after the one chip challenge??

I once read an article that a man who loves eating spicy things kept getting spicier and spicier sauces one day just lost his sense of taste. His doctor told him that he has been putting his tongue too much of stress from all that spicy food that the taste receptor just die off and could not be recovered. And so he became severely depressed from losing his love of spicy food.

So uh, my roommate once accidentally pretty much pepper sprayed us. I’m fuzzy on the details now but I believe it involved homemade hot pepper and chilli oil that when it hit the smoke point was burning our eyes and making it impossible to breath. We all had to evacuate until it cleared out of the house😂😂 I miss living with them tbh, we’re still friends😆

My dad's friend got swatted because he was making a traditional Thai dish that involves frying dried chili. Apparently, his neighbor thought that it was tear gas and called the authority lmao. If you ever grew up in a Thai household, you would at least experience it once. It was the most painful thing ever lmao. You coughing your lungs out, teary red eyes and itchy nose.

I worked at a prison a few years ago. Had one offender that attacked and the pepper spray didn't cause a reaction. Never was so freaked out in my life!

My only interaction with pepperspray was walking through an area that had protests a day earlier (or maybe it was that morning?) Either way, you could still feel it in your eyes walking through there. Scary stuff.

There's also the Dragon's Breath pepper. Unofficially tested at 2.48 million Scoville! Remember, all peppers are members of the Nightshade family, so breeding a deadly one is probably more possible than you'd think.

I've actually had the Mad Dog Plutonium 357, it was absolutely insane. If it even touches your skin it burns for quite a while. We had about as much as the head of a toothpick and it was pure agony for 25-30 minutes, and then there were aftereffects with mainly our stomachs.

Terrified of eating anything beyond a jalapeño. Even when I get normal hiccups it feels like I'm going to crack a rib. The last time I got "hot" hiccups, I couldn't leave the floor for an hour.

4:08 just for people wondering Josh didn't make maddog 357 he just made a sauce using it. maddog is a pepper extract made by the Ashley Food Company, Inc.