Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

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From shifting Scoville levels to chef preferences, here’s why 'make it spicy' misses — plus smarter ways to order, tweak at the table, and recover. Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with ...

“Food costs are really high, and spice is a great way of masking cheap flavors,” said Ellen Cushing at The Atlantic. Frito-Lay currently has 26 different “Flamin’ Hot” snack iterations: Flamin’ Hot ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who invented ...

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Heat up your summer mornings with a spicy pick-me-up. On July 2, McDonald’s announced you can start the day with something sizzling hot in more ways than one with the introduction of the Spicy ...

McDonald's is unveiling a series of new options to help "spice up" its breakfast menu as part of the fast food chain's 50th anniversary celebrations for the McMuffin. The three new spicy breakfast ...

As part of the fast food chain's 50th anniversary celebrations for the McMuffin, McDonald's is adding options to "spice up" its breakfast menu. Next week, McDonald's is launching three spicy breakfast ...

Don't snooze on new limited-time spicy breakfast at McDonald's. A spicy new limited-time addition is coming to heat up the beloved McDonald's breakfast menu. The Golden Arches announced that starting ...