Scoville Ladder

Most people stop getting better at spicy food the day they find a sauce they like. Scoville Ladder is a training program that gets you past it. HOW IT WORKS Name the hottest thing you already eat comfortably. Pick something you actually want to be able to do — order Thai food “Thai spicy” and mean it, finish a basket of wings at hot, eat the habanero salsa at the taqueria. Say how often you can realistically train. You get a date. From then on the app gives you one thing to eat at a time. After each session you report the peak burn from 0 to 10, and that number moves your next target. Rate it low and the program pushes harder; rate it high and it holds you where you are. Your date is recalculated from your own rate of adaptation, so it stops being an average and becomes yours. TWELVE RUNGS Bell pepper to Pepper X, spaced logarithmically because that is how capsaicin is actually…