Posted on 09/29/2008 1:58:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
An amateur chef died the day after eating a "superhot" chilli in a bet with his friend over who could make the hottest dish, an inquest heard.
Andrew Lee, 33, suffered heart failure the morning after he ate the chilli.
Toxicology tests are now being carried out to see if the fork lift truck driver suffered a fatal reaction to the dish or whether anything else contributed to his death.
Mr Lee, of Edlington, Doncaster was apparently in perfect health and had just passed a medical at work, the opening of the Doncaster hearing was told.
Cooking was one of his main interests and he went to his girlfriend Samantha Bailey's house to make a chilli.
His father John Lee told the inquest: "He had a bet with Samantha's brother who could make the hottest chilli then went back to her house to stay."
Mother-of-four Miss Bailey called the emergency services to her home nine days ago.
Police officers were called to the house after receiving reports of a man suffering a cardiac arrest and Mr Lee was found lying on the floor.
Paramedics failed to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This is why he was an amateur chef.
I wonder what type of chili it was. There are some varieties so hot you cannot handle them with bare hands, and the way the gourmet chef ‘spices’ up your food with them is by lightly dabbing the meal while it is being cooked.
I’ve had chile before so hot you could hardly eat it without a ton of beer to wash it down.
I had some Mexican food like that too, but once the I got past the heat it became really good eating.
Paris Hilton was heard to comment, “That’s hot!”.
I just hold it up to the kitchen window and let the shadow fall on the pot.
you can die from chili? someone in his 30’s? that’s crazy!
And the reason for your post was? I hope you are a big contributor to the quarterly fund raising efforts. Why you would waste band-with for this post is beyond me.
well, Jean-Georges Vongerichten usually doesn’t ‘kick it up a notch’ in his cuisine.
I thought Isaak Hayes had a heart attack on his treadmill.
I love hot food but I didn’t know it could kill you. So i thank this post
Are you really Steven Wright? :O)
I was wondering the same thing: was it the chili or the three cases of Dos Equos that did him in?
I'm not sure why you'd complain. He seems to have the article categorized properly. And frankly, the more posts we have here the better. FR should be a one-source stop for all sorts of news. The mission is to promote conservatism, but there is certainly room for the interesting news and even the mundane.
I'm preparing a post on "Uterine Fibroids" and how women can deal with them homeopathically without surgery in cases where surgery isn't immediately necessary (yeah, I'm a guy but when i make progress in research I share it.)
There is a home for this stuff here.
Actually, hot foods turn out to be really good for you. Aside from the fact that peppers tend to have a ton of vitamin C, capsaicin (the chemical in peppers that tastes “hot”) is a strong cancer fighter.
On top of that, the hot sensation is supposed to be very healthy as well. Apparently your body reacts to it with the fight or flight response (hence sweating, pulse increase, etc), and it increases your metabolism for quite some time afterward.
However, the really really hot stuff (the hottest of the peppers, and the sauces made from capsaicin extract) can be a bit dangerous...some of them have warnings about potentially narrowing the windpipes of asthmatics. It’s not actually hot or caustic though, so no matter how much your tongue hurts it can’t cause any damage (just nerve overload...all it does is stimulate receptors).
By the way did you check the bandwidth wasting sign up date of Schnucki?
The Dos Equos did not get him, he was doing fair until he downed the 2 quarts of 100 proof Mescal in 40 minutes.
...to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!
All work and no play makes FR a dull forum...and we can multi-task too...hehehehe.
Relax and enjoy.
prisoner6
Is this where I sign up for the Bandwidth Police?
Do we get nice red uniforms like the Spanish Inquisition? (Which NObody expects!)
Will we have more authority than the Hall Monitors?
I've used the >regular< Dave's Insanity Sauce and find it GREAT, but be warned - unless it's something that is just for me I use only a drop or two in a turkey fryer sixed pot of chili, jambalaya or gumbo.
also pinging my facorite chef...Chef Carlo for his input on the health aspects of hot foods. As far as I'm concerned he's my culinary guru.
prisoner6
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