From shifting Scoville levels to chef preferences, here’s why 'make it spicy' misses — plus smarter ways to order, tweak at the table, and recover. Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with ...

For some, the spice ain’t nice. Throughout her life, Jennifer Allerot, 53, has ordered the spiciest foods on the menu whenever she ate at a restaurant — until she developed a stomach ulcer four years ...

Meat and sichuan peppers frying in a large wok - James De Wall/Getty Images We heat lovers like to revel in our affinity for spicy foods, which can say a lot about you as a person. Though Sichuan ...

“Food costs are really high, and spice is a great way of masking cheap flavors,” said Ellen Cushing at The Atlantic. Frito-Lay currently has 26 different “Flamin’ Hot” snack iterations: Flamin’ Hot ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who invented ...

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

Eight years after his first appearance on “Hot Ones,” Kevin Hart reprised his seat at the table to eat spicy wings a second time around. The actor and comedian said he’s nervous from the get-go. “This ...