ultra hot sauce An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest died just hours later. Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a super-hot sauce. The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed a medical at work, dared his girlfriend's brother to eat a spoonful - then ate a plateful himself. Shortly after he had a heart attack and died. Andrew Lee made an ultra-hot sauce with homegrown chillis. The morning after he was found unconscious and paramedics were unable to revive him Mr Lee took a jar of the sauce to his girlfriend's house last weekend, where he challenged her brother Michael, his family said. His sister, Claire Chadbourne, 29, explained: 'They had a contest over who could make the hottest chilli sauce. 'Andrew had used chillies to make Thai dishes before but had never made anything this hot. 'My dad grew the chillies especially for Andrew. The contest was planned and he gave them to him. 'Andrew just ate it with a plate of Dolmio. It was not a proper meal because he had already eaten lamb chops and mash after coming home from work. I don't know if Michael ate the chilli sauce as well.' But as he went to bed after the contest, Mr Lee, of Edlington, Doncaster, had complained of itching, she added. The next morning, his girlfriend Samantha Bailey, a mother of four, found him unconscious. She called an ambulance, but paramedics were unable to revive him. Mr Lee was pronounced dead at the scene. Mrs Chadbourne added: 'He apparently got into bed at 2.30am and started scratching all over. 'His girlfriend scratched his back until he fell asleep. She woke up and he was dead. 'Who would have thought he could have died from eating chilli sauce? We don't know of anything else that could have caused his death. 'He was perfectly healthy and the post-mortem showed no heart problems.' She added: 'He loved cooking for his friends and was a good cook. He always said he wanted to be a chef but didn't want to start at the bottom. 'He would do anything for anybody. He never held a grudge and loved fishing and computers.' Mr Lee's mother, Pamela, 61, said: 'He had used chillies in cooking but never made a sauce like this before. 'He tested the sauce after making it, stuck his finger in and went to wash it, saying, "Wow, that's hot." 'We don't know what happened to him. Something has given him a cardiac arrest and we can only put it down to the chilli sauce.' Toxicology tests are under way to see whether Mr Lee had a fatal reaction to the sauce. Attempts to develop ever hotter varieties of chilli pepper have been condemned by health experts, who warn of potentially lethal effects. Mild adverse reactions can include burning eyes, a streaming nose and uncontrollable hiccups. and now the urban legend begins .. death by hot sauce..
weird. maybe the peppers themselves were contaminated? home grown, they could have had a fungus or disease. The fact it was hotter could just have been a coincidence to the death. I'm more for blaming what was wrong with the peppers or ingredients. He could have died from the hot sauce, but i doubt it's because how hot it was, thought it could make sense, since eating too many hot peppers can make people sick. I suppose eating a plateful of some potent stuff would have some consequences.
Chilli's contain capsaicin which trigger the release of substance P, a chemical responsible for some pain sensations. Capsaicin is only affective when it comes in touch with the skin and only affects that area it has touched. For capsaicin to make the whole body itch in pain, it would have to be injected into the bloodstream. Otherwise, the chemical would just get pass through your digestive system. So I would guess it's not the chilli's which caused his death. Perhaps an allergic ingredient within the sauce (or perhaps a pesticide which he failed to wash off). Consuming over a plate of that sauce which might contain an potential severe allergen, would probably kill him quite fast.
=OOOOOOOOOOOOO no WAY it coulda been because the chilly was to hot... now this is gonna go to discovery and there gonna do it on mythbusters =DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Chilli is not a spice. It's more a vegetable. Used in many different ways. And that story is wacked. Totally.
