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Can Ghost Peppers Burn a Hole in Your Esophagus?

Stories about a man whose throat was burned through by an extremely hot pepper were frightening, but not entirely accurate., snopes staff, published nov 18, 2016.

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A man ended up with a torn esophagus after eating an extremely spicy pepper.

The heat from the pepper did not burn a hole in his throat.

In October 2016, a story cropped up about a 47-year-old man who ate a ghost pepper and then went to the hospital with a one-inch tear in his esophagus. The story was picked up by numerous media outlets from a study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine titled "Esophageal Rupture After Ghost Pepper Ingestion."

In many cases, that title was spun into a sensational headline about a ghost pepper burning a hole in the man's throat. "'Ghost Pepper' Burns Hole in Man's Esophagus," said WebMD . "Ghost pepper burns a 1-inch hole in man’s esophagus," said the New York Daily News , repeated almost word for word by local news affiliates.  Even  Time magazine got in on it ( telling  us:  "A Man Ate a Ghost Pepper So Hot He Ripped a Hole in His Esophagus," closer to the truth but still misleading).

Typical of the reporting behind these clickbait headlines is the following blurb from the  Washington Post :

But, demonstrated by a rare though severe incident reported recently in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, super hot peppers can cause bodily harm. A 47-year-old man, unnamed in the case study, attempted a super-spicy feat — eating a hamburger served with a ghost pepper puree — and tore a hole in his esophagus.

That makes ghost peppers sound particularly dangerous, and in all fairness India's bhut jolokia, popularly known as the ghost pepper, is one of the hottest peppers in the world. It burns up most of the competition on the Scoville heat scale, landing somewhere in the range of 1 million units, depending on growth and testing methods.

For comparison, jalapeños usually measure around 2,500-5,000 units. If you eat a ghost pepper, there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself suffering from "nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and burning diarrhea" produced by ingesting ghost peppers. There's no question that ghost peppers really, really burn.

But can they burn or tear holes in you?

To answer, we first need to take a look at capsaicin , the active ingredient in hot chili peppers. This compound is found in the highest concentration hugging the  seeds inside the pepper. Indeed, ingesting capsaicin will certainly make you feel like you're on fire on the inside, but there is no actual burning taking place.

That's why capsaicin is classified as an irritant — it doesn't literally burn you, it simply produces the sensation of burning. In fact, capsaicin is used as an ingredient in analgesics (painkillers); in low concentrations, it has the effect of soothing pain from arthritis and other chronic conditions and has been shown to promote gastric protection.

Notably, capsaicin plays an important role in the reproductive cycle of chili peppers. The burn is a defense mechanism. Ghost peppers, and in fact all chili peppers that "burn" with capsaicin, are simply protecting themselves from predators:

The primary function of ripe, fleshy fruit is to facilitate seed dispersal by attracting consumers, yet many fruits contain unpleasant-tasting chemicals that deter consumption by vertebrates. Here we investigate this paradox in the chili (Capsicum) and find that capsaicin, the chemical responsible for the fruit's peppery heat, selectively discourages vertebrate predators without deterring more effective seed dispersers.

Lately there's been a spate of YouTube videos portraying people who eat ghost peppers for the challenge of it. Most recover pretty quickly after a bout with a ghost pepper, but every once in a while there's a nasty side effect. That's what happened with the aforementioned 47-year-old.

As most of the sensationalized stories will admit if you read past the headline, that man experienced a rare surgical emergency called spontaneous esophageal perforation, which according to the National Institutes of Health is also known as Boerhaave syndrome:

Boerhaave syndrome (BS) is a very rare surgical emergency, most usually diagnosed in men aged 50-70 years after heavy meal ingestion combined with abundant alcohol consumption. … The pathogenesis involves sudden pressure increase caused by forceful vomiting against a closed glottis because of incomplete cricopharyngeal relaxation.

In other words, if vomit can't take the front door because your throat muscles are locked up, it will find another way out. The man in question had eaten a burger topped with ghost pepper purée, but it was the resulting complications — not the ghost pepper itself — that led to the perforation.

In conclusion, ghost peppers can't burn, rip, tear, or give you a hole in your esophagus, or any other body part. Or anything at all, for that matter.

Arens, Ann et al.  "Esophageal Rupture After Ghost Pepper Ingestion."      The Journal of Emergency Medicine .  December 2016.   

Tewksbury, JJ and Nabhan, GP.  "Seed Dispersal. Directed Deterrence by Capsaicin in Chilies."     Nature.     26 July 2001.  

Tonolini, Massimo and Bianco, Roberto. "Spontaneous Esophageal Perforation (Boerhaave Syndrome): Diagnosis With CT-Esophagography."     The Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock.   January-March 2013.

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A ghost pepper challenge nearly killed a man by tearing a hole in his esophagus

Our competitive nature may be the thing that pushes us to achieve things never before accomplished and to test the limits of human potential, but that nature can also easily backfire — sometimes with dangerous or deadly consequences.

Recently, a 47-year-old man who showed up at a San Francisco emergency room perfectly demonstrated that fact.

A ghost pepper challenge — people do this sort of thing on YouTube frequently — left him with a hole in his esophagus. That injury could have killed him, but luckily he received treatment first.

Ghost peppers, or Bhut Jolokia, reliably come in near the top of rankings of the hottest, most-painful to consume chilies in the world. (They've been surpassed on the Scoville scale , a measure of the "heat" brought by these carefully cultivated instruments of pain, by several others, including the Naga Viper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper .) 

Before arriving at the hospital, the patient had been "at a local restaurant featuring a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree as part of an eating contest," according to a case report published in the journal Clinical Communications by University of California–San Francisco emergency department personnel.

Upon arriving at the ER, doctors noted that he was experiencing severe abdominal and chest pain after the challenge had left him violently "retching and vomiting." For whatever it's worth, the patient had successfully finished the burger.

Potentially deadly consequences

Six glasses of water had done nothing for his pain, unsurprisingly. A medically administered "gastrointestinal cocktail" also failed to alleviate his symptoms, including a heart rate of 106 beats per minute. The doctors write that he continued to grow more and more hypoxic, meaning that not enough oxygen was reaching his organs.

They took him into surgery to put a tube into his chest and collected fluid containing "hamburger, onions, and other green vomitus material," and at the same time, they noticed an esophagal tear just about one inch long. In total, he required three chest tubes and one gastric tube before he began to recover.

The chest tubes were removed after 14 days and he began to be able to tolerate fluids on day 17. After 23 days, the patient was able to leave the hospital, though he he still needed to eat through the gastric tube.

The spontaneous rupture in the esophagus that the patient experienced is known as Boerhaave syndrome, caused by trauma from vomiting. With treatment, 20 to 40% of Boerhaave patients die. Without that treatment, mortality rates approach 100%, according to the case report.

The researchers write that even though hot chilies are known to be "unpleasant," there hadn't been any reason to think more serious side effects like this were possible.

So the next time a friend asks if you are interested in a ghost pepper challenge, you now have a very good reason to say no.

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Our competitive nature may be the thing that pushes us to achieve things never before accomplished and to test the limits of human potential, but that nature can also easily backfire — sometimes with dangerous or deadly consequences.

Recently, a 47-year-old man who showed up at a San Francisco emergency room perfectly demonstrated that fact.

A ghost pepper challenge — people do this sort of thing on YouTube frequently — left him with a hole in his esophagus. That injury could have killed him, but luckily he received treatment first.

Ghost peppers, or Bhut Jolokia, reliably come in near the top of rankings of the hottest, most-painful to consume chilies in the world. (They've been surpassed on the Scoville scale , a measure of the "heat" brought by these carefully cultivated instruments of pain, by several others, including the Naga Viper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper .)

Before arriving at the hospital, the patient had been "at a local restaurant featuring a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree as part of an eating contest," according to a case report published in the journal Clinical Communications by University of California–San Francisco emergency department personnel.

Upon arriving at the ER, doctors noted that he was experiencing severe abdominal and chest pain after the challenge had left him violently "retching and vomiting." For whatever it's worth, the patient had successfully finished the burger.

Potentially deadly consequences

Six glasses of water had done nothing for his pain, unsurprisingly. A medically administered "gastrointestinal cocktail" also failed to alleviate his symptoms, including a heart rate of 106 beats per minute. The doctors write that he continued to grow more and more hypoxic, meaning that not enough oxygen was reaching his organs.

They took him into surgery to put a tube into his chest and collected fluid containing "hamburger, onions, and other green vomitus material," and at the same time, they noticed an esophagal tear just about one inch long. In total, he required three chest tubes and one gastric tube before he began to recover.

The chest tubes were removed after 14 days and he began to be able to tolerate fluids on day 17. After 23 days, the patient was able to leave the hospital, though he he still needed to eat through the gastric tube.

The spontaneous rupture in the esophagus that the patient experienced is known as Boerhaave syndrome, caused by trauma from vomiting. With treatment, 20 to 40% of Boerhaave patients die. Without that treatment, mortality rates approach 100%, according to the case report.

The researchers write that even though hot chilies are known to be "unpleasant," there hadn't been any reason to think more serious side effects like this were possible.

So the next time a friend asks if you are interested in a ghost pepper challenge, you now have a very good reason to say no.

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Ghost Pepper-Eating Contest Leaves SF Man With Hole In Esophagus

October 18, 2016 / 1:43 PM / CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF / CBS NEWS) -- A Bay Area man who ate one of the world's hottest peppers landed himself in the hospital with a 1-inch hole in his esophagus that nearly killed him.

The frightening incident occurred after the man ate a paste made from "ghost peppers," a type of pepper so hot it's broken world records.

David Winsberg, who owns Happy Quail Farms, is an expert on peppers and sells some pretty hot habaneros at a local farmer's market, but he knows better than to sell ghost peppers. "Almost everybody asks, but I ask, do you eat them?" he laughs. "If you watch some idiot on YouTube die eating them, that's not my idea of fun."

But that doesn't keep others from trying. YouTube is full of videos of people taking up the challenge to eat one and most, if not all, have frightening reactions. The heat of the peppers is measured on what's called the "Scoville scale." A jalapeño registers 5,000 units, while the ghost pepper has a million.

"You think you're gonna die," said Winsberg. "Your throat starts to close up so I think part of the endorphin rush is when you realize, 'Whew! I'm alive still! I survived!'"

But one man almost didn't. Doctors at UCSF Medical Center are reporting a case of a 47-year-old man who came to the emergency room with severe abdominal and chest pain followed by "violent retching and vomiting after eating ghost peppers as part of a contest." The man ate a hamburger with a ghost pepper puree that was so hot, it burned a hole in his esophagus, which then collapsed one of his lungs. He spent 23 days in the hospital and went home with a tube down his stomach.

Just when you think things have gone about as far as they can, guess again.

"Now the hottest one is called the 'Carolina Reaper,' which is supposed to be 10 million units, so they've gone almost a factor of 10 hotter," said Winsberg.

Zandra Baldwin is an amateur chili chef who said she has only once tried the ghost pepper. "I had to down about a carton of milk afterwards. In fact it broke my 'never drinking milk,' policy," she said.

After hearing what happened to the UCSF patient, she hopes cooler heads will prevail. "I also work in medicine so the idea of doing that to yourself is just insanity, but it's job security too," she jokes.

Ironically, hot peppers are supposed to be good for a sore throat. The chemical that produces heat also attracts blood to the tissue and that can help fight infection.

The case report is published in The Journal of Emergency Medicine.

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A ghost pepper challenge nearly killed a man by tearing a hole in his esophagus

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Our competitive nature may be the thing that pushes us to achieve things never before accomplished and to test the limits of human potential, but that nature can also easily backfire - sometimes with dangerous or deadly consequences.

Recently, a 47-year-old man who showed up at a San Francisco emergency room perfectly demonstrated that fact.

A ghost pepper challenge - people do this sort of thing on YouTube frequently - left him with a hole in his esophagus. That injury could have killed him, but luckily he received treatment first.

Ghost peppers, or Bhut Jolokia, reliably come in near the top of rankings of the hottest, most-painful to consume chilies in the world. (They've been surpassed on the Scoville scale , a measure of the "heat" brought by these carefully cultivated instruments of pain, by several others, including the Naga Viper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper .)

Before arriving at the hospital, the patient had been "at a local restaurant featuring a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree as part of an eating contest," according to a case report published in the journal Clinical Communications by University of California-San Francisco emergency department personnel.

Upon arriving at the ER, doctors noted that he was experiencing severe abdominal and chest pain after the challenge had left him violently "retching and vomiting." For whatever it's worth, the patient had successfully finished the burger.

Potentially deadly consequences

Six glasses of water had done nothing for his pain, unsurprisingly. A medically administered "gastrointestinal cocktail" also failed to alleviate his symptoms, including a heart rate of 106 beats per minute. The doctors write that he continued to grow more and more hypoxic, meaning that not enough oxygen was reaching his organs.

They took him into surgery to put a tube into his chest and collected fluid containing "hamburger, onions, and other green vomitus material," and at the same time, they noticed an esophagal tear just about one inch long. In total, he required three chest tubes and one gastric tube before he began to recover.

The chest tubes were removed after 14 days and he began to be able to tolerate fluids on day 17. After 23 days, the patient was able to leave the hospital, though he he still needed to eat through the gastric tube.

The spontaneous rupture in the esophagus that the patient experienced is known as Boerhaave syndrome, caused by trauma from vomiting. With treatment, 20 to 40% of Boerhaave patients die. Without that treatment, mortality rates approach 100%, according to the case report.

The researchers write that even though hot chilies are known to be "unpleasant," there hadn't been any reason to think more serious side effects like this were possible.

So the next time a friend asks if you are interested in a ghost pepper challenge, you now have a very good reason to say no.

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October 19, 2016 | Kelly Tatera

Don’t try this at home.

There are plenty of questionable food eating challenges across the globe, but it takes a certain kind of food competition to lead to a life-threatening torn esophagus: ghost peppers.

Ghost peppers, or Bhut Jolokia, are among the hottest peppers in the world, with a measured “heat” of more than 1 million Scoville heat units — for reference, tabasco sauce has about 2,500 – 5,000 Scoville heat units, according to the Smithsonian . The Scoville scale is based on human taste buds, measuring how much dilution is needed until a spice no longer tastes hot to taste testers.

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Although ghost peppers, once thought to be the hottest chiles in the world, were since passed up by the Naga Viper pepper and the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend, the peppers still pack a serious punch. In fact, eating just a single seed from a ghost pepper can cause severe burning in the mouth for up to 30 minutes.

With that in mind, imagine trying to chow down a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree, which is exactly what a 47-year-old man in California attempted in a local restaurant’s food competition.

The man successfully downed the ghost-pepper topped burger, drank six large glasses of water, and then started “violently retching and vomiting,” according to a report published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine .

After a failed attempt to alleviate his symptoms, including a heart rate of 106 beats per minute, with a medically administered “gastrointestinal cocktail,” the man was was rushed to the emergency room. A CT scan of his chest showed that his left lung had collapsed and his esophagus was torn, so the doctors began emergency surgery.

During the operation, the surgeons spotted a 1-inch tear in the man’s esophagus, which was leaking a mix of “hamburger, onions, and other green vomitus material” into the space around his collapsed lung, the report said.

The man received three chest tubes and one gastric tube to help him recover. The chest tubes were taken out after 14 days, and he was able to tolerate fluids three days later. He was discharged from the hospital after 23 days, but still needed the gastric tube to be able to eat.  

The scientific name for the man’s rare condition is called Boerhaave syndrome, also known as a “spontaneous esophageal rupture.” Lead study author Dr. Ann Arens says Boerhaave syndrome is “a relatively rare phenomenon,” but if it goes untreated, “mortality approaches 100 percent.”

Moral of the story? Ghost pepper eating competitions probably won’t end well.

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A guy almost died from eating a ghost pepper, so can that challenge finally be over.

One of the more ridiculous things that humans do is the ~dangerous food challenge~. Like, WHY, you guys. Why do we do this to ourselves?! From the cinnamon challenge ( don’t go do the cinnamon challenge now, please) to the more recent ghost pepper challenge, people are literally risking their mouths. For social media. This is us at our worst, y’all.

One guy tried the ghost pepper challenge, and almost DIED, so if we could stop now that would be awesome.

So here’s what happened. A 47-year-old Californian ate a ghost pepper , and then he just couldn’t cool down his mouth. Like, it was really, seriously burning.

According to Clinical Communications , a journal by University of California–San Francisco emergency department personnel, he ate the pepper “at a local restaurant featuring a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree as part of an eating contest.” These food contests, you guys! We’re telling you, they aren’t worth it.

When he couldn’t chill TF out (as in he was in agony and also was throwing up a lot ), he went to the hospital. What he found was absolutely freaky, because no one even knew this could happen. But the ghost pepper was so horribly hot that it burned a hole in his esophagus.

Oh, and it totally would have killed him if he hadn’t gone to the hospital. We’re so scared, and so sad for this guy, but we’re also hoping this will finally put an end to people risking their lives… for literally no reason.

The post A guy almost died from eating a ghost pepper, so can that challenge FINALLY be over? appeared first on HelloGiggles .

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Some people just love jalapenos , raw or pickled, on just about any kind of food, any time of day. Each time you chew a jalapeno pepper, you're releasing a spicy heat that measures 2,500 to 5,000 units on the Scoville heat scale. But eating a ghost pepper, or bhut jolokia, takes the heat to a whole new (and painful) level.

The Scoville scale is used to measure the heat of chili peppers and foods made with chili peppers, such as hot sauce. During the measurement process, capsaicin oil is extracted from a pepper and assigned an intensity rating that can range from zero to millions of Scoville units. A green bell pepper, for example, has a Scoville rating of zero, while the ghost pepper tips the scale at more than 1 million units . It was the first pepper to measure so high.

When you bite into a ghost pepper, your mouth feels heat in the most extreme way. Your tongue 's receptors register the intensity of the pepper and relay that information to your brain, which interprets the pepper as a burning, pain-inducing interloper. This causes a chain reaction in your body as the capsaicin in the ghost pepper initiates widespread tissue inflammation and begins to wreak havoc on your nerve endings, dilating blood vessels and making you feel hot all over. Suddenly, you're too, too hot.

Your body is staging a violent protest. But to what extent? Could eating ghost peppers cause your demise?

Yes, you could die from ingesting ghost peppers. In fact, researchers have determined a 150-pound (68-kilogram) person would need to eat 3 pounds (1.3 kilograms) of dried and powdered capsaicin-rich peppers like the ghost pepper to die. They based their findings on results extrapolated from similar studies that measure capsaicin's toxic effects on animals.

The good news for spice lovers is that your body would give up long before you reached a deadly level of capsaicin ingestion. The pain and inflammation would be too much to bear. Capsaicin is debilitating to the eyes and airways; that's why pepper spray is an effective defense weapon. At 2 million Scoville heat units, pepper spray can stop an attacker in his or her tracks. In India, the ghost pepper's country of origin, the Defence Research and Development Organization once even made grenades with the powerful bhut jolokia (they had to give them up as the chili powder was susceptible to fungal rot).

In 2016, a man taking part in an eating contest ate a ghost pepper and felt an intense burning in the mouth. He drank six glasses of water to cool off, one of the worst things you can do when you've had too much pepper ( milk is a better choice ). He vomited so much that he tore a hole in his esophagus. He was rushed to hospital where doctors found out his left lung collapsed. The man spent 23 days in the hospital and was sent home with a gastric tube, according to a report in the Journal of Emergency Medicine . Still, this seems to be a rare case.

So why do some people seem to handle the heat of ghost peppers better than others? It's a nurtured ability, scientists believe. Over time, capsaicin kills pain receptors in the mouth, and, eventually, peppers that are excruciating to the uninitiated are simply a pleasant heat to others.

The ghost pepper was at one time the hottest pepper in the world, but it's been surpassed by several others including the current champion, the Carolina Reaper , which measures more than 2 million Scoville units. A pepper known as Pepper X is the unofficial hottest pepper in the world, reportedly measuring 3.2 million Scoville units.

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Man Breaks Record For The Most Ghost Peppers Eaten In One Minute

He celebrated the win with milk and half and half.

According to Food Network , he's already the record holder for eating three Carolina Reaper peppers in the least amount of time and also consuming the most Carolina Reapers in one minute.

And now, Foster, who runs Inferno Farms hot sauce, has set the competitive pepper-eating world on fire yet again with his latest feat: eating the most ghost peppers in one minute. In a session that took place on November 14, 2021, the chili pepper lover took down 17 ghost peppers in just one minute. For those unfamiliar with the ghost pepper, it clocks in at a sizzling 1 million Scoville Heat Units per pepper.

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In the video of the record-breaking session, Foster is clad in an Inferno Farms t-shirt and his must-have accessory: gloves. He then downs the ghost peppers as if they were Flamin' Hot Cheetos. After being informed that he had beaten the record, Foster said, "oh my God," before chugging what appears to be Pepto Bismol, half and half, and milk.

After his mouth had a few months to cool off, Foster recently chopped it up with Guinness about his record-breaking moment.

"As a chili lover, I’ve been trying to advance the awareness and the excitement surrounding the super-hot chilis out there,” he shared. “This attempt was solely a personal endeavor to achieve another Guinness World Record alongside my currently standing [ones].”

We can only imagine what red hot record Foster hopes to break next.

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The Truth About The Food Challenge That Almost Killed Adam Richman

During an episode of his hit Travel Channel show Man v. Food , Adam Richman got a challenge he simply couldn't stomach. His tongue and throat weren't too happy about it, either. To make the Wall of Pain at Munchies 4:20 Cafe in Sarasota, Florida, Richman needed to eat 10 "Fire In Your Hole" chicken wings in 20 minutes. Shortly after eating just two, however, Richman found himself in the eatery's bathroom, feeling his burning airways closing.

"I was so jacked up in the bathroom of the place that my tongue had swollen, my nasal passages had swollen — this is not to be trifled with," Richman told Sean Evans on his YouTube show, Hot Ones .

The director of Man v. Food  had caught the Munchies chef on microphone, telling a cook to use a whole bottle of ghost chili extract, rather than just the splash viewers saw in the episode. The ghost chili is the hottest pepper in the world — more than 100 times hotter than the average jalapeňo.

The director was new and didn't know he could prevent what ended up being an on-air disaster for Richman. On the show , viewers see Richman retreating into a walk-in cooler with a gallon of milk, in a feeble attempt to douse the flames.

"That was, without question, the hardest, worst, and most painful challenge I've ever faced," Richman told Munchies patrons afterward — or ever would face, as it turned out. And now we know why.

Why Adam Richman was angry

Richman recovered fully, of course, and even sampled hot sauces for Evans on Hot Ones . So you might assume Richman's utter defeat at Munchies burned his ego more than anything else. Not so, the former Man v. Food host told Evans.

"The reason why I'm mad is not because of my record," Richman said. "I don't give a s*** about that. It's that it's cavalier and dangerous."

After all, as Richman said, the main ingredient that was poured much too generously onto his wings is also stuffed into police grenades in India.

Richman left Man v. Food while still on top in 2012, after four seasons. But his Fire In Your Hole experience and other moments of food excess didn't turn Richman off to all things gastronomic. He wrote a cookbook  and hosted other TV shows, including the Travel Channel's Secret Eats with Adam Richman . Along the way, we're guessing Richman kept a close eye on the cooks who prepared his meals.

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California man breaks world record for most ghost peppers eaten in 1 minute

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That's a red-hot record!

A man in California was recently recognized for breaking the world record for the most ghost peppers eaten in one minute. 

Gregory Foster was recognized on Monday by Guinness World Records for eating 17 ghost peppers – also known as bhut jolokia – in 60 seconds. 

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Foster broke the record on Nov. 14, 2021, in San Diego, California, according to a press release from Guinness. In total, Foster consumed 3.98 ounces of ghost peppers.

Ghost peppers can register 1 million or more Scoville Heat Units (SHU), while a jalapeno pepper registers between 2,500 and 8,000 SHU, the press release said. 

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"This record attempt is a personal challenge to see how far I can push myself and my love of the super hot peppers ," Foster said in a statement. 

Gregory Foster ate 17 ghost peppers in 60 seconds on Nov. 14, 2021. He was recognized on Monday by Guinness World Records for the red-hot record-breaking accomplishment. (Guinness World Records)

He continued, "As a chili lover, I’ve been trying to advance the awareness and the excitement surrounding the super-hot [chilies] out there."

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Foster already has two other world records, including the record for the most Carolina Reaper chilies eaten in one minute, which he broke in 2017, and the fastest time to eat three Carolina Reaper chilies, which he broke in December 2021.

"This attempt was solely a personal endeavor to achieve another Guinness World Record alongside my currently standing [ones]," Foster said of his ghost pepper record. "I love chili eating and pushing myself."

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Man Hospitalized After Drinking Vodka Soaked In the World's Hottest Chili Pepper

​Here are six more cases of extremely spicy foods gone terribly wrong

Would you drink something called Satan’s Shot vodka? The spirit is soaked in Carolina Reaper chilis—which holds the Guinness World Record for the hottest known pepper in the world—before being bottled. Its label even warns “Only Satan himself is brave enough to drink this vodka neat.”

Here’s the thing, we love a nice drizzle of Sriracha on just about everything—and spicy foods can actually be good for you. In fact, research suggests that capsaicin—the key source of peppers’ heat—may help regulate your cardiovascular function and metabolism, which helps protect you against heart disease and diabetes . Plus, men who love spicy tastes tend to have higher testosterone levels . (Check out these 31 best hot sauces you’ve never had.)

But there’s a difference between a bit of a kick and literally wanting to dump your head into a bucket of ice water. Let these six other extreme (and rare) instances of horrifically spicy foods gone wrong be your warning.

A MAN ENDED UP WITH A HOLE IN HIS ESOPHAGUS AFTER EATING A GHOST PEPPER

Ever heard of a ghost pepper? It’s one of the hottest chili peppers in the world with twice the strength of a habanero pepper.

After one 47-year-old man ate a hamburger topped with ghost pepper puree, he ended up downing six glasses of water. This led to severe abdominal and chest pain after violent vomiting, according to a case report in The Journal of Emergency Medicine . After he got to the ER, doctors performed X-rays and a CT scan, they found a 2.5-centimeter tear in his esophagus.

The University of California at San Francisco physicians reported that it was the forceful vomiting and retching that ruptured his food pipe, not the heat from the pepper alone. Still, a tear in your esophagus can be fatal if it’s not quickly discovered and treated. In this case, the man remained in the hospital for more than 20 days, but had to leave with a gastric tube placed in his throat.

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THIS MAN TEMPORARILY LOST HIS HEARING AFTER EATING EXTRA SPICY NOODLES

Ben Sumadiwiria, a chef from London, recently ate noodles that were 4,000 times stronger than Tobasco sauce at a small restaurant in Indonesia, the Mirror UK reported . The “death noodles” contained 100 crushed bird’s eyes chilies.

The result? Sumadiwiria says he temporarily lost his hearing for a few minutes. He was soaked in sweat, felt dizzy, puked, and eventually had to take his clothes off and soak his head in water to cool down.

“My lips were burning and I couldn’t feel anything,” Sumadiwiria said. “I’ve eaten wasabi and plenty of other hot food, and I’d take that any day over those noodles.” Watch the full video of his experience here .

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THIS MAN COULD BARELY PEE AFTER EATING CHICKEN WINGS COVERED IN THE ‘WORLD’S HOTTEST CHILI’

The Carolina Reaper pepper strikes again: After 25-year-old Ethan Rawlinson entered a spicy chicken wing eating challenge in northeast England, he was rushed to the hospital where he suffered from severe cramping and was left unable to pee because it hurt so badly, reports the Daily Mail .

That’s because the chicken was covered in sauce made from the Carolina Reaper pepper.

Rawlinson wasn’t the only one that felt the heat. Several other contestants ended up in the ER, much to the hospital’s displeasure. To be fair, they all signed a legal disclaimer before chowing down, which stated that the chili was so hot they risked serious injury.

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THIS MAN DIED HOURS AFTER EATING A HOMEMADE CHILI SAUCE

Back in 2008, Andrew Lee challenged his girlfriend’s brother to see who could make the hottest chili sauce. The aspiring chef reportedly used home-grown red chilies to develop an extremely spicy sauce, according to the Daily Mail .

The night that he ate the sauce, his back became so itchy that his girlfriend scratched it until he fell asleep. The next morning, he didn’t wake up. Lee’s family states that he was perfectly healthy and had no history of heart problems. While he had used chilies in his cooking before, he had never created a sauce quite that hot.

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ONE MAN WAS NEARLY BLINDED AFTER A CHEF THREW A BOWL OF CHILI POWDER INTO HIS EYES

After one couple gave a not-so-great review of their meal at a South Wales curry restaurant, the chef got so enraged that he actually came out of his kitchen and threw chili powder right into the 46-year-old man’s eyes, The Telegraph reported .

He instantly thought he had been blinded and rushed to the hospital, where doctors flushed his eyes out with water.

“It was horrific. He said he’s never had so much pain in his life and was extremely distressed,” his wife told The Telegraph .

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DOCTORS FOUND A HOLE IN A MAN’S STOMACH AFTER HE ATE A NOTORIOUSLY SPICY SOUP

After a 26-year-old man in China consumed a mala soup—which literally translates to “numbing hot”—doctors discovered a burned hole in the wall of his stomach, the Herald Sun reported . The dish is traditionally prepared with Sichuan pepper, local spices, and chili pepper.

Shortly after he slurped the hottest variation of the soup, the man began to feel sharp pains in his stomach and vomited up blood. Since he had no history of gastrointestinal illnesses or conditions, his doctors believe the soup might have had something to do with his condition.

While it seems like a bit of a stretch, the doctors estimated that about 15 percent of stomach incidents at the hospital are related to hot pot dishes, like the mala soup.

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Canadian breaks speed record for eating 50 Carolina reapers

Mike Jack beat his own time for eating 50 Carolina reapers, then ate 85 more for a total of 135 in a single sitting

A Canadian man who broke his own world record for the fastest time to eat 50 of the world’s hottest chilli pepper went on to eat 85 more.

On Tuesday, Guinness World Records announced that Mike Jack of Canada consumed 50 Carolina reapers, the world’s hottest pepper with 1.64m Scoville heat units, in 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds. For comparison, a jalapeño has between 2,500 and 8,000 SHUs.

Video posted online by Guinness World Records showed Jack donning a red bandana and gloves as he scarfed down the peppers in front of a blowing fan, at times closing his eyes tightly and breathing heavily. Onlookers could be heard cheering him on and yelling: “Go, Mike!”

Once Jack was done eating the 50 peppers – an average of one every eight seconds – he went on to eat 85 more.

In total, Jack consumed 135 Carolina reapers. The stunt helped propel him to second place on the League of Fire’s reaper challenger leaderboard, which tracks the highest number of Carolina reapers eaten in a single sitting.

Speaking about his experiences to Guinness World Records, Jack said : “The first pepper is the worst.”

“The initial shock of spiciness is intense. The second one doesn’t seem as bad, but each one after that gets hotter and hotter as the peppers touch new places in your mouth.”

Despite building a spice tolerance over the last two decades, Jack said he still feels discomfort in his stomach.

“I get bad cramps. It feels like someone is squeezing and twisting my guts … Your mind is telling you to stop but you have to convince yourself to keep pushing through,” he said.

Jack is the holder of several other records , with one being the fastest time to drink a bottle of hot sauce at 8.56 seconds and the other being the fastest time to drink 1 litre (about a quarter gallon) of tomato sauce at 1 minute and 5.56 seconds.

Earlier this year, he also broke the world record for the longest habanero pepper kiss after both he and his wife ate a habanero pepper and kissed for 15 minutes and 6.5 seconds.

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Houston shooting: Teen suspect charged with murder of man killed outside Ghost Bar

HOUSTON - The Houston Police Department announced the arrest of a 16-year-old individual in connection with a shooting incident that took place on August 2.

Police say the suspect shot Ledarrius Price, 30, outside of the Ghost Bar - Restaurant & Nightclub in the 5600 block of Richmond Avenue.

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According to the original report , Price was found with multiple shot wounds and pronounced dead on the scene by Houston Fire Department.

Investigators say Price was seated in the driver's seat of a vehicle when the suspect opened fire on it multiple times. Afterwards, he ran away eastbound on Richmond.

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Authorities say the suspect was referred to Harris County Juvenile Probation authorities on a charge of murder on Monday, Sep. 25.

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Temple police announce two killed in fatal crash

TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Temple Police Department have announced a second person has died Saturday as a result of a wreck from Thursday.

On Sept. 28 at around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to a vehicle crash at the intersection of SH 317 and Little Mexico Road.

The wreck involved two vehicles and four people total.

One vehicle was carrying three people and crashed with the second vehicle carrying one person.

Two people in the same vehicle suffered major injuries, while the remaining two people suffered minor injuries.

EMS arrived on scene and moved all four people to a nearby hospital.

One victim died on Sept. 29 and a second died on Sept. 30.

No other injuries were reported.

Temple police are investigating the incident and ask anyone with information to call them at 254-298-5500. Anyone can also call the Bell County Crime Stoppers at 254-526-8477 to report information anonymously.

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