Vittles and Vitals16 Sep 2024

Fire and Spice and Everything Nice

(Please Note: This is an older recording. Some references may be outdated)

This is the episode where Jay and Jacob get hot and spicy. No worries - there won’t be an “Explicit” warning on this one - it’s not that kind of heat and spice. It’s actual heat they’re talking about: fire. What is fire, actually? A gas? A liquid? An illusion? Jacob digs out his chemical engineer hard hat to talk details, as well as his experience torching a field. Fire is definitely destructive, but is it all bad? They talk about how fire has changed history (or at least the history of eating) and explain the fire triangle - or fire tetrahedron - depending on who you read. Of course, that history of eating leads naturally to thinking of vittles, but today they’re talking about the fire IN the food, not so much the fire UNDER the food. Jay and Jacob come from two ends of the spicy food spectrum: a very tame tongue vs a collector of hot sauces. They discuss why that burn feels like it does and how to work your way from bell pepper to Carolina Reaper. Get out your Scoville scale and rate this episode 5 Habaneros!

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