extremely spicy burger challenge in Turku?

simaka · Post by **simaka** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:31 pm

Hey,
I am going on a trip to visit Turku this Saturday. I heard that there is a restaurant there that has a burger as hot as a million on the scoville scale. I heard if you manage to eat it you get a t-shirt with your name on it. An indian colleague will be joining me and has been laughing and showing confidence about his ability to eat spicy food and especially the mentioned burger. I'd love to buy him one of these and watch him eat it. However no amount of googling helped me find the restaurant/ food chain. Does anyone know the name?

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Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:53 pm

simaka wrote:Hey,
I am going on a trip to visit Turku this Saturday. I heard that there is a restaurant there that has a burger as hot as a million on the scoville scale. I heard if you manage to eat it you get a t-shirt with your name on it. An indian colleague will be joining me and has been laughing and showing confidence about his ability to eat spicy food and especially the mentioned burger. I'd love to buy him one of these and watch him eat it. However no amount of googling helped me find the restaurant/ food chain. Does anyone know the name?

Gringos locos has a spicy pork challenge: http://www.ravintola.fi/en but they don't operate in Turku.

jahasjahas · Post by **jahasjahas** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 12:23 am

It sounds like you're describing the Death Burger challenge at Jack the Rooster, Tampere. Here are some pics of the hall of fame and the t-shirt. (I had actually never heard of the challenge before googling it for you. I might have to try it some day!)

Turku and Tampere are traditionally seen as rivals, so mixing them up isn't a good idea!

Ashken · Post by **Ashken** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:39 pm

[quote="jahasjahas"]It sounds like you're describing the Death Burger challenge at Jack the Rooster, Tampere. [url=http://kauhukeittio.com/2010/09/03/death-burger/]

Had tried it today! I am used to spicy food, but this burger is indeed the most spicy that I've ever tried. Cannot actually have a second bite after having teary eyes and runny nose from the first bite.

atas · Post by **atas** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:35 am

I like mildly spicy (isn't "pepper hot" the correct term an English native speaker would use? [1]) food, but I really can't understand the enjoyment from these extreme choices.

[1] I was at a dinner where a native English speaker referred to the food as "pepper hot". All the rest of us, not native English speakers, were under the misconception (?) that this kind of food was called "spicy", but he said that "spicy" is just about having (any kind of) spices, while "pepper hot" is the correct term.

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:58 pm

atas wrote:I like mildly spicy (isn't "pepper hot" the correct term an English native speaker would use? [1]) food, but I really can't understand the enjoyment from these extreme choices.

[1] I was at a dinner where a native English speaker referred to the food as "pepper hot". All the rest of us, not native English speakers, were under the misconception (?) that this kind of food was called "spicy", but he said that "spicy" is just about having (any kind of) spices, while "pepper hot" is the correct term.

I've never heard the term 'pepper hot' before. It sounds like something he made up and would like to become a new and superior standard.

My first thought if someone talks about food as very spicy it that it's really hot. Other meanings are possible but less often used in any positive sense.

I agree with you about the mindlessness of these extremes including apparently the Dudeson school of haute cuisine. It reminds me of nothing so much as the American fetish for the hottest chili, the biggest breasts, the fastest, the tallest, the longest, the loudest, the -est, -est, -est, etc., where all taste or aesthetic sense has been replaced by a mindless -est. I can't even bring myself to call it a mindless superlative, only a big, dumb -est. Were it only harmless silliness, but these people seem to have lost the ability to taste genuinely good cooking or appreciate any kind of actual beauty or delight or wonder that can't be reduced to a cretinous -est.

simaka · Post by **simaka** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 4:29 pm

Tomorrow morning I am going to Tampere, can't wait to have my indian colleagues try this burger

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:08 pm

Yeah, let us know if they think it puts the 'haute' in hot cuisine.

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