Red Dog Saloon’s Ultimate Hot Chicken Wing Challenge!

Hi ya! How're you doing? Coffee's hot and the virtual treats are up to their usual standard of scrumptillyiousousness. (Whoa...is that a real word?) Hey...do you like spicy chicken wings? I want to tell you about the Red Dog Saloon.

If you’re a fan of spicy food, you may want to try the Red Dog Saloon’s Viper Challenge – eat six chicken wings smothered in sauce made from Naga Viper chillies, known as the world’s hottest chili peppers, in ten minutes. Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it?

I mean how hard can it be to munch on six wings in 10 minutes, right?  These apparently are six little piece of Hell that will make you feel like you’re feasting on molten lava. The Red Dog Saloon, in London's Hoxton district, introduced its Viper Hot Chicken Wings Challenge in December 2011, and since then it’s really been separating the men from the boys (or the women from the girls?).

The requirements are pretty straightforward: in order to beat the challenge, a person has to eat six hot wings in ten minutes, and last an extra five minutes after taking the final bite without leaving the table or putting any other liquids or solids in their mouth.

It’s that Burn Time that really affects daredevils crazy enough to take on the Viper Challenge. Just to give you an idea of how hot a Naga Viper chili is, Tabasco sauce ranks about 5,000 units on the Scoville Scale, whereas the tiny pepper is ranked at 1,359,000 units. That’s 2,500 times hotter than a Jalapeno.

Yea, yea, yea...but what do I win, eh? Six more viperized chicken wings?

See ya, eh!

Bob