VIDEO: Never Try This at Home!

Do you know Cemre CandarCemre Candar?

According to Famous Birthdays, he is a viral video phenomenon on both YouTube and Facebook, best known for his videos where he bathes in enormous amounts of different products, including chocolate, oreos, hot sauce, nutella and beer. He posted a first video to YouTube in November of 2015 which he called “Being A DJ: Expectations Vs Reality.” He attended the University of Kent where he studied economics. He was born in Nicosia, North Cyprus. He is associated with Katia Kiriakoudi, also a YouTube sensations from Cyprus.

This video is one of his well known “bathing in stuff” videos. It shows him submerging himself inside a bathtub filled with what he claims is spicy sauce. He immediately comes to regret the stunt.

Chili peppers sting our skin because they contain capsaicin, and “capsaicin causes our nerves to fire and release a signal called Substance P that makes us experience burning,” Dr. Joshua Zeichner, a board-certified dermatologist and an assistant professor in the dermatology department at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, told The Feast.

But this guy is insane! He takes everything even further when he eats a pepper and submerges his face in the bath of hot sauce. Just watching it hurts…

Test your knowledge – do you know other uses for chili pepper besides culinary ones? Well, it appears to be used even in Psychology, according to Wikipedia.

Ornamental plants
The contrast in color and appearance makes chili plants interesting as a garden plant.

Psychology
Psychologist Paul Rozin suggests that eating chilies is an example of a “constrained risk” like riding a roller coaster, in which extreme sensations like pain and fear can be enjoyed because individuals know that these sensations are not actually harmful. This method lets people experience extreme feelings without any risk of bodily harm.

Medicina
Capsaicin, the chemical in chili peppers that makes them hot, is used as an analgesic in topical ointments, nasal sprays, and dermal patches to relieve pain.

Pepper spray
Capsaicin extracted from chilies is used in pepper spray as an irritant, a form of less-lethal weapon.

Crop defense
Conflicts between farmers and elephants have long been widespread in African and Asian countries, where pachyderms nightly destroy crops, raid grain houses, and sometimes kill people. Farmers have found the use of chilies effective in crop defense against elephants. Elephants do not like capsaicin, the chemical in chilies that makes them hot. Because the elephants have a large and sensitive olfactory and nasal system, the smell of the chili causes them discomfort and deters them from feeding on the crops. By planting a few rows of the pungent fruit around valuable crops, farmers create a buffer zone through which the elephants are reluctant to pass. Chilly-Dung Bombs are also used for this purpose. They are bricks made of mixing dung and chili, and are burned, creating a noxious smoke that keeps hungry elephants out of farmers fields. This can lessen dangerous physical confrontation between people and elephants.

Food defense
Birds do not have the same sensitivity to capsaicin, because it targets a specific pain receptor in mammals. Chili peppers are eaten by birds living in the chili peppers’ natural range, possibly contributing to seed dispersal and evolution of the protective capsaicin in chili peppers.

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