Hot Chilli Sauce

[Bazile]

Yesterday i mistakenly put hot chilli sauce over my sunday dinner ; mistaking it for Sweet Chilli Sauce .

I had to throw the food away because all i couldn't taste it .
There was just pure heat in my mouth .

What is the attraction of these hot sauces / peppers etc ?

[Bazile]

Come to think of it - i don't like to feel pain

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure the meaning of the question. The attraction is inevitably a combination of the taste and the sensation of the heat. Although different folk will have different taste preferences and tolerance of heat. Familiarity can build up tolerance and require you to add more to get the same pleasant warming sensation.

But I say that as someone who, these days, rarely adds any bottled sauce to their food. But spicy food is spicy food regardless. (One might as well ask what the appeal of an strong onion is.)

[Old_Geezer]

"Different palates perceive spicy "heat" at different levels"
Oh for sure. And different "hot" ingredients are perceived differently by different folk too.

My woman and I go out to an Indian restaurant on occasion and if, as we often do, we share a main course as well as the side dishes, we can't go "too hot" as she isn't keen. She doesn't like it "too hot". But, on a number of occasions, she has cooked a dish and apologised in advance for it being so bland, despite her trying and adding loads of stuff to give it flavour; whereas not only do I find it tasty, my eyes are starting to stream due to the large amount of pepper in it that she seems unable to detect.

[peachybabe]

I'm a real baby when it comes to anything spicy. Worcester Sauce crisps bring me out in a sweat, just the smell of Branston Pickle does the same! Hottest "curry" I can eat is a Korma!