Do you eat many hot or spicy foods often?

No.

It doesn’t boost mine, but I love spicy food. When I make chilli or curry, I will make it really hot, lots of birds eye chillies or scotch bonnets. Think I got it off my dad.

Hooooooooo Yeaaaahhhh!

pass the pepper please

I eat a lot of spicy food and I use hot sauce like everyone else uses ketchup.

I don’t have any information about whether or not it boosts your metabolism. I eat spicy food on a regular basis, because I love the flavors and the feelings of euphoria that often accompany eating spicy foods. I stay at pretty much a constant weight, which is just a few pounds over what I would say is my ideal weight for my height.

I would say that I like things medium hot, rather than blisteringly hot. I don’t like the heat level associated with Scotch bonnet peppers, they burn, and I don’t really care for the flavor of them. I love Asian and Indian foods and most salsas.

Here are a few of my favorite things:

Toasted Guajillo Chile Salsa

Cilantro Chutney

Hot and Sour Soup

Spicy Cucumber Salad

Bean Sprout Kimchi

Spicy Thai Noodles

Spicy Baked Tofu

Kansas City Style BBQ Sauce

Harissa

New Mexico Red Chile Sauce

Chimichurri Sauce

Spicy Carrot Pickle

Chana Masala

Black Bean Chili

Gochujang

Chile Garlic Sauce

Ring of Fire Hot Sauce

Chipotle Tobasco Sauce

Taco Bell Hot Sauce

We have two habanero plants, three jalapeno and three banana pepper plants. What do you think? I’ve been making habanero baked beans lately and it is delicious! I love the sweet/hot combination.

Last year we had a total of 20 pepper plants, but we didn’t have the time to have such a large garden this year. I was bummed.

@jonsblond, do you know whether you can freeze whole chile peppers or even chopped chile peppers and then thaw them out later? I was wondering if they would be come mushy when you thawed them out. I have some in my fridge right now, maybe I should experiment.

@Kardamom I froze bell peppers last year. I diced them then set them on wax paper in the freezer for a bit before I stored them in freezer bags. This keeps the pieces from freezing together. Here are some tips for freezing.

Nope.

I was starting to enjoy spicier foods, but ten months ago I had my gallbladder removed, and ever since I’ve not been able to handle anything spicier than medium salsa, and that only with a bunch of sour cream

I do but I hardly think it’s connected to metabolism in that generalized way you mention, for all people.

I love spicy foods and eat them frequently. I don’t have any problems so far. I don’t go for the hottest, that feel like your throat is burning; but have lots of mild to medium+ hot food. Most of my friends prefer bland foods. We go to places where they have both kinds of food. They won’t even taste what I choose.

Nope. My spicy-anything-loving friends say yes, yes, yes but my tongue and stomach say no, no, no.

Having very tender mucous membranes in my mouth and down my esophagus from chemo and radiation, I eat no spicy foods. On the rare occasion that I taste something by mistake that is hot, that is my last taste.

I can’t handle hate spicy foods! I want to be able to taste my food, thank you very much.