Padma Lakshmi Gracefully Destroys Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

Oh hey, what's happening to everyone from the beginning? We feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're watching the hot trivia and hotter

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show. Today I'm joined by Padma Lakshmi, you know her from Top Chef Thursday on Bravo. and you can purchase her new book The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs, which is now available Padma, welcome to the program, thank you. I'm excited to eat these

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. I always ask people how they do with hot food, but with you and something like that. lifestyle, right, I mean, I don't prefer extremely hot like you know, Carolina Reaper or Trinidad scorpion, those are probably the hottest peppers in the world that we know of.

How do you really like the dumbest thing you can do? Yes, it's me. I literally licked my pinky and tried a little bit of the powdered version and I have to tell you I was worried about myself and had to protect my digestive tract because the only person who eats everything made on Top Chef okay are you ready to try this one for sure the first one is sriracha, you know about sriracha Josh, no big deal, no big deal, so I really only have two goals with this program and one of them I've already achieved. I wanted a sandwich with my name on it and thanks to Arnold's Bar and Grill in Cincinnati, I have the Sean Evans my C sandwich in cubes.

Next on that list is I want to be in the Sunday Routines section of the New York Times and you had a great one in 2009 when you introduced the concept. of the picnic in bed, yes, for the unenlightened, can you explain what a picnic in bed is? I can, basically, it's when you get up in the morning, you make your bed, you take a shower, you put on crisp pajamas or whatever you want and then you make a bunch of different sandwiches and you cut them really nicely and you practically create a platter of sandwiches and you make a huge cup of tea and maybe even binge watch a show you like or whatever.

Now I think a lot of people do that. On Sundays, but they don't have the dignity to do it, you know, I think a lot of people are just sweating with their laptops open, just eating in their bed, you actually think of it as the activity, so you don't feel guilty or ashamed, no. it is. Like, oh, I was an idiot today, you know, and I went hungry, I said no, I'm having a bad picnic, that's around three, I'm fine now, we recently had Tom Colicchio on the show and we did a Top Chef rapid fire with it.

So I think it's fair to the fans. I would choose a Padma edition and also a guest judge. What are the worst table manners? Oh, who do I start this guy with? Sam, oh damn Nazarian, who is a restaurateur and not an actual chef on the Napa end, had it bad. manners I'll leave you in that favorite host city, New Orleans, for Charleston. I have to say I didn't know what to expect. I have never been to Towson and this season we were there. I said six weeks there. Is incredible. Is there a famous presenter that you're dying to have on the show, but because of scheduling or whatever, you haven't been able to make it work, but I'm Alice Waters, Alice Water, yeah, I'd love to have her on the show.

I've left Bocuse shocked on the show or if she were still alive I would love Julia Child and you know you and Tom have been joined at the hip, I don't know what Tom Colicchio's most annoying habit is, I don't care now. "I've been used to making it seem like my TV husband is right next time for ten years, but he has a tendency to show every single thing he's thinking right on his face, especially if he doesn't have to hide his feelings." I didn't pretend. which not for a while no matter what I said he just rolled his eyes and now I have a six year old at home who does the same thing so I know how to deal with her when dealing with Tom for a long time.

I love this company oh you're psycho, I did it with a million ml, Canseco boy, here I have oh, could you suck Oh, basketball shorts, they are often on the scene, red carpets, many famous friends, but the one we are interested in . It's Hugh the world star, ah, it seems like you guys go back in time. Can you tell me how you met and what your relationship is like? Surely Lee and I no one calls him filters me and his mother, but we met at Madison's apartment. Square Garden at a Knicks game and he was sitting there and I walked up and sat down and he said, "You look like that girl on my favorite cooking show.

I have news for you. I'm that girl's favorite store. We were just drinking friends. He's like. My sports buddy, yeah, he's out there. If you've ever seen a WorldStarHipHop, you know I don't see him that often, so I'm always like, when are you introducing me? I would say I don't know about that this is between Majesty there is coffee in this this is interesting this is a child's game this is not a big deal yet, tell me about the shine Will you remember it But I knew you would ask me? about the glitter. I asked about Whitter more than my Kerrigan, that's better, it's not a theory, yes it may be true.

I was very excited to make glitter because it was my first big me and at the time it was a big deal. I had to tell you the best thing about glitter. She is standing next to me Carrie while singing a cappella she is a freak of nature it's the same thing I felt when I saw Michael Jordan these people have these Olympic talents my role as always that everyone will say se I was supposed to be a lot bigger but most of it ended up on the cutting room floor, so if you want to see me in glitter, the good news is you only have to watch the first half hour, this is the sexiest, softest, Your vision here shows, this is my humble home, our Rafa.

I know the nature we did, we didn't do it like you do it, I know you make your own hot sauce, you got the tub and everything, try it, yeah, yeah, definitely, open the top, open the top, Padma sticks her finger in in whatever. works for you I love fruity but in a different way more fermented definitely good can I keep this at home in my bag? Here we have another one for you oh great, okay, the nominees, whatever you want, whatever you want, never written not in my bag I'm talking about hot sauces, we're going to talk about it before the show, but it's a complicated process of Do well.

I don't think a lot of people understand that sometimes you know what's new about hot sauce. you just want to send that heat through the roof and they care about the flavor and that's fine and that's why they can do it well it's a trick but if you want to make a real sauce yes you have to balance it and that's not that easy to do, you definitely have to balance it. I think any good hot sauce should have a little bit of sweet, a little bit of sourness, and it should also be salty, not just

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, mm-hmm, the way I like pineapple.

You said yours were so funny. Yes, mine has pineapple. Now this one is interesting. Okay, the next part of the program is called. Graham explains and what we do is dig into our guests' Instagram. We mine treasures that just need more. context Oh god I'll show you the picture and then you'll tell me the bigger story oh well okay laptop please this is kind of a two part so a guy can take this selfie with Chris Rock yeah and then this stage, which is crazy, Evans. East Chris Rock Dave Chappelle John Mayer, can you tell me what tonight was about?

I was actually with Aziz that night. I was out with an illness that night. Aziz and I come from the same ethnicity in India with both camel toes and then Chris and I. We have been friends for over 20 years. You know, I love comedy and I'm really like you know a dirty black man. He chats with the body of an Indian Barbie doll. This one is great. Sometimes you just have to remind them Pat, but sometimes you just have to remind them I write, I know I make them funny, they criticize me for posting sexy pictures of myself, but h

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tly, I work hard in the gym, what I have to do after eating all that food on Top Chef, so that was it really. buy it for my niece, she's a grad student and she's always pushing me to take sexier photos and she's trying to help me with my Instagram game and sometimes I love hubs, don't I?

I really like this working chef, come on Shaq, yeah you picked some good

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. juicy ones I did, I just like to jump up and try to touch the top of his head and we became friends and he always said "okay, well if you can't date me, who can you set me up with?" and "March" is yes. and I was like, "No, I wouldn't do that to any of my friends. This is getting hot. This is already out. I'm going to make your mouth hot. You know a lot of people know you from Top Chef and your fans obviously know your career." as a legendary model and the cookbooks and the memoirs, but some people might be surprised that you actually have a decent little IMDB page Can you tell me about Star Trek Enterprise because you're in an episode called precious cargo are rabid fans. , when I approach you like I know you from Star Trek, I don't know you from anything else?

Oh yeah, that's right, when you approach me it's like a teenager approaching Justin Bieber, it's the most wonderful feeling in En the world, I was only in one episode and then they invented a whole language for me to speak. You know, I'm from a planet called Pre Krios Prime. I'm surprised I remember this was at least a decade ago, so you know I'd be speaking on the. set and there are two linguists on set with folders and then they come in gently, very, you know, politely and they say you pronounce it kelabra and it's not kilala as it's called, and like nobody's big, you know, and they were like know your language, we created this language for you because it has majaa Austro-Hungarian roots and that's what it needs to be and because they publish these things and the Trekkies memorize them and you've ruined those guys who give you cars, but yeah.

I'll tell an awesome fan what mail I'm talking about, it's a little creepy but mostly mild, it's really good, yeah, it's hot mm-hmm, so speaking of

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, I once said when I was a kid that they weren't spicy condiments like most kids. with chocolate or sweets what I want to do is hit you with some spices and maybe you can tell me the first thing that comes to mind other dishes that they work in and we'll keep them that way gochujang gochujang is great it's used in Korean food I would use it in fish and nothing like you don't have to use much lingam in western chili.

I love Linderman's. Yes, how do you know well about lignans? It is a Singapore brand. It is wonderful. It has a lot of sugar, it has a lot of texture, so it's like a chunky ketchup, a beautiful orange color, great for eggs, wonderful for mayonnaise and for spreading on sandwiches. I love lingams. Let's go with the classic Frank's redhot, just your classic chicken wing sauce. I like it. I used it a lot in college and I have nothing bad to say about Sad Hot Mahou. You're doing pretty well. I'm fine. I'm fine. Very good. You are so nice.

Thank you. the football players were crying, we have rappers that come and hang around the place and they have to drink alone, stupid. Look at you, look at you, why did I drink some milk? Look at you, thank you very much, great in Seoul again, okay, so this is a mad dog. 357 thousand Scoville units used to be our hottest sauce. Normally I hear that I'm going to tell you something and I talk about it in the encyclopedia. Scoville units are not really empirically correct because their Scoville scale was very arbitrary and that's why I love that you said that and it's going to be hot, it's going to affect you, but I love that you said that because I also think that specialists in marketing they take advantage of Scoville units and try to pretend that, oh this thing is like a million Scoville, this is a billion scope now like it's obviously not friend Claire lying about it, let's take them out don't make fun, it's fun to say, so it's always thousands too, so that would mean you know well, what do you think of Mad Dog?

I think it's kind of a dog, so I want to talk to you about being a professional eater because you and I know the dangers that here I have to eat ten dangerously spicy chicken wings every week and sometimes you have to eat six to eight thousand calories. In one day, we know what it is like now, please me. I am when you go to restaurants. Do you feel like you need to start bringing Ashley in? Yeah, and that sounds like it's a big deal, but you're probably like that a lot when I go out. I'm trying to make up for all the food I've eaten, whether it's in my own kitchen or on Top Chef, so I don't like to eat as much.

I just try to take a bite out of everything and then move things around. on the plate so as not to hurt anyone's feelings, do you do something to calm your stomach, your digestive tract, there, apricot, hell yeah, before we have to because I need all the help I can get, saying something called blueberry Drano, which is something that was just invented over years and years of Top Chef, is pure cranberry juice, so it doesn't sweeten the powder supervisor, like clean clear fiber powder or miralax or whatever you want four ounces of green tea with a teaspoon of honey, I'm sure it's brutally hot, and then ice. and the vitamin C packet there is no vitamin C packet mm-hmm thank you very much you know when you have to eat so much and your stomach is full it never affects the taste of the dishes because you knowthat sometimes if you're hungry what's harder is when something is delicious and you want to continue, you know, yeah, I can't, I can't, yeah, you never think about that, I never thought about that, okay, Padma Blair's Megadeath sauce with liquid rage, it's a tradition around here to put a little more touch on the last wing, Padmé, it's not necessary if you don't want to laugh, if we don't want to cool down, I'll put a drop, I want to have a good score there, she's very deliberate .

It's ready Hmm, I think tonight is enough, yes, mighty, may the money be right. oh my god, that's really sexy, it's crazy with all the animal testicles you ever see, which pair do you think has a better chance of becoming a main menu item? duck testicles doc testicles isn't that bad I didn't even know ducks had testicles Frankly I don't know either, there's always an episode that's like The Fear Factor episode on Top Chef, they stop doing it now because now I have a credit EP and I tell them that I'm not going to march, but it's always like that.

I have eaten as much as kangaroo alligators make alligators and fillets with the same weight. I've had bull penises, well, yes, that was like knowing that I only had a little piece of a I didn't like it, it's very bad. I threw it away. my dick weird the board was amazing the 30 second plug is all yours we only came for this camera that camera that camera let people know what you're going through in real life okay please look at the top test we're debuting our 14th season we're in charleston is on Bravo Thursday night and then buy my book, goodbye, loss of love and what we ate, you can also listen to it on audible, if you don't like reading, you can have me in your ears when you're doing your dishes or whatever and then if you like food or even if you don't like it when you don't know anything about food please buy the Encyclopedia of Spices and Earth thank you hey what's going on hot fans if you liked the video maybe you know us halfway there give us a subscribe if you didn't like the video don't subscribe I don't love you I don't want you in the tent but if you liked the video subscribe thank you very much I appreciate you I love you more than a friend