Canned jalapeños are pickled. The pickling process dramatically reduces the heat.
I can’t imagine eating most food without hot sauce on it.
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Hot sauce doesn’t always improve the taste, as most hot sauces have an eigentaste, or its own/intrinsic taste (typically vinegar, spices) that modifies the taste of the food. For foodstuff with a somewhat delicate flavour, a neutral chili oil will be better. Apart from capsaicin, such oils only add the eigentaste of the chili used, which can be quite subtle, depending on the chili variety used. For example, cauliflower soup with a hot sauce does not really taste cauliflower soup anymore, but if you add a suitably “angry” chili oil, it is <insert chef’s kiss emoji here>.
You’re so right, @Get_off_my_lawn ! I‘ve infused oils with different dried chilies I’ve grown. Very yummy! Some have other dried items added like garlic.
(Note: if anyone decides to try this, it’s critical not to use fresh ingredients to the oils if they will be kept for any length of time!)
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That still does not give me the motivation to grab a can and join them munching away… If I want to inflict pain upon myself I’ll go work with a young horse having amygdala issues…
No thanks…
I had a Paint named Pippin, though, who just loved to go hell bent for leather down the steepest slopes he could find, thinking it was great fun. I didn’t think it was fun. 
Horses have a sense of humor. It might be invisible to most humans, but its there.
The problem was not that the horse ran, it was a question of how much fun he was having watching you hang on.
That’s why they call it horse play…
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That makes perfect sense!
I know, the horse told me.
Horses respect safety from humans. Horses respect acknowledgement of their safety. This is what establishes the leader of a herd. It’s always a 51%\49% partnership. If you do not earn the 51%, the horse sees the imbalance and assumes the 51% for themselves…and you wind up running downhill…
I love the line from the Horse Whipserer, “I don’t help people with horse problems, I help horses with people problems”
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I agree, it is MUCH MORE entertaining watching other people do those challenges.
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Here’s another type of challenge: Swedish surströmming (fermented Baltic herring), often “celebrated” as the world’s stinkiest food. There’s a lot of rather entertaining videos of people trying it, with people retching and puking. Here is a random one:
But they’re doing it wrong. Here is a swede explaining and demonstrating how to actually do it:
I haven’t tried suströmming, but I would give it a try if I can do it under an approved Swedish test protocol.
I have found I have reached an age where my digestive system simply can’t cope with some things my palate can enjoy, though I never liked ridiculously hot / spicy dishes. I do like a madras Indian curry, but I have to plan it these days, so that I have at least 24 hours afterward where I am no travelling for work. You don’t want to be doing 70 down the motorway, or be boarding a plane, and get that wrong.
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