Move Aside, Habaneros .....

The 2 hottest things I've ever eaten are fire-in-the-hole wings at Pluckers and the Firehouse burger at Lankford's Grocery in Houston.
I found out the next day why Pluckers calls it "fire-in-the-hole."
 
Aside from the hotness, I like the flavor of habaneros. I do want to try this new Indian "tastes like burning" pepper.

Can we give it a snappier name than bhut jolokia? How aboutwe call it the mahatma manson pepper?
 
You really need to try Lankford's at least twice. Once to eat one of the regular burgers, and another to eat the firehouse. That habanero mustard is some hot stuff, but it makes it difficult to appreciate how good the burger is.
 
I eat more spicy food than pretty much anyone I know, but eating something that can put down a riot just kind of seems like a REALLY bad idea.
 
As I've aged, I have realized that I can still eat really spicy food.

I just can't handle crapping it out anymore.

You can keep you 1,000,000 scoville unit stuff. Jalapenos etc. get me plenty of spice.
 
A coworker and I, anytime we go to Thai Restaurant on Westheimer, they bring out a bowl of Tiger Cry sauce before we even ask for it. It's reasonably hot, but between the two of us we finish it off . This is a soup sized bowl, not a small cup, and we also tell them to make it Thai hot before we put on the extra sauce. They finally brought us out the raw peppers that go into the sauce. He can eat hotter stuff than I can. It didn't faze him and I finally started to sweat some.

Still not enough. That being said, the Firehouse at Lankford's was more than I wanted. It was so hot I couldn't taste the burger and I actually scraped some of the habanero mustard off.

Beyond that, whatever the name of the hottest wings at Bayou City Wings are the hottest things I've ever tasted - way hotter than Pluckers. I could eat a fair amount of Pluckers wings. I ate one wing at Bayou City and drank two BIG glasses of water. It was so hot. I really can't even believe it now. I've gone to the hot sauce festival and eaten some very hot things, but none were hotter than those wings.

I'd try one of these peppers before I'd try those wings again.
 
I had the firehouse burger on a couple of occasions. The first time, it came with pickled jalapeños and their habanero mustard (don't they dust the patty with cayenne or something too?). The second time they replaced the pickled jals with fresh ones, and I was sweating. Delicious burger, though. Houston has some damn good food.
 
Sangre:

I had a similar experience at The Outback before it became whatever it currently is. I can't remember what wing joint started selling wings there, but we got a basket of the insanely hot wings and I bit into one and a little of the sauce shot into my eye.

It burned like a mf-er and couldn't see anything for a good 20-30 minutes. But those wings were edible...unlike the ones at BCW.

The firehouse is loaded with Jals, has habanero mustard, and cayenne pepper. I won't get it anymore because it just overpowers the burger, and they have some damn good burgers.
 
When I was in school, I was cooking with habaneros one night, and a fellow Hornfan (we'll call him Soul Glo) decided he'd eat one whole for the fun of it. He kept us pretty well entertained for the next couple of hours.

I can't imagine what one of these would do to you.
 
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