Sean Evans Eats L.A.'s Spiciest Fried Chicken with Brian Redban | Sean in the Wild

Hello, what's happening everyone? I'm Sea Evans, coming to you from Los Angeles, where I'm taking a little break from spicy food, but not from eating spicy

chicken

. We're here at Howland Rays in Chinatown, home to chef Johnny Zone and his wife Amanda. cooking up one of the

spiciest

Nashville-style

fried

chicken

in the city, maybe the country, possibly even the world, there are four long lines for this every day and people keep asking me to try it for myself, so That I am here. for lunch because God forbid, I take a weekend off. Come on, how are you?

Chef, how are you? Thanks for having me, it's not a problem, guys, we have the sea in the house. Can you start by telling me about Nashville Fried Chicken? It is and how it ended up in La Nashville hot chicken is a dish that dates back to the 20's and something like the family of princes, it is a dish based on revenge, a wife was trying to get her husband out of her. you know, and it really excited him, but he ended up liking it, he opened a restaurant, his friend started liking it and it caught on, can you talk about chicken here on Howland Rays and I don't want to talk about spices?

First I want to talk about the actual chicken. Can you tell me about how you make real chicken? So we use a large local chicken that they actually put to sleep before they are slaughtered. So the meat is a little. cuter that way, I know it's like you say how can you say that, you know, but it's like it's true. What's also different in terms of the H chicken and the breed is that we keep it so close to coming straight out of the fryer um and being served um that literally like you bite into a piece and it's like smoking and now let's talk about spice because there are levels to This, so there are six advertised heat levels, there's a seventh for people who really want to ruin your day. like you and um, we don't advertise that the M will have like a pinch of cayenne and then you work your way to your middle and it has a little bit more of that cayenne, a little bit of ghost pepper, you know, but a very small amount, then you move on to the spicy and that's the Ghost and the habanero we're adding a little bit more of that then you move on to the extra spicy and all of a sudden the Trinidad scorpions come in um and then you go to your Howen and you just know it's loaded with Carolina Reaper uh loaded with Scorpion and it has those Peppers to base it on um from the mild the medium the hot uh and then it just has those on top so this Probably shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but we're going to do wings.

I have a very special friend with me today, so I will be receiving a larger order. I wanna go. How about we make the wings a little spicy? howling backstage and then I want you to give me that kind of special backroom, the uh top secret, besides no one knows, you know we love to share the pain here the first banquet, so I'm joining me for lunch. by comedian Brian Redban hello, you know him from Death Squad, you know him from The Joe Rogan Experience and today we're going to find out what he's like with very, very, very spicy chicken, yes this is scary.

Do you have any experience with hot sauce that I liked? I worked at this restaurant and the chef liked that furious liquid that you use in hot ones, so I always put it on my finger because I was a waiter and then I would wait for another waiter to be at a table taking an order and just come by and put it on him. the lip and just watching them, that's what was fun for me, but other than that hot sauce, I never did those crazy things, but I've always been a fan of hot sauce, why is it the most fun?

What happens when people are dying for hot sauce because you know what they're going through, the pain they're going through, you know it's like when you watch a prank video because you know it's not happening to you, but you can see someone else suffer. I think and feel that we are going to suffer a lot, yes, are you ready to suffer? You know a place is serious about its hot food when they include surgical gloves. I know that with your order you want them or I should be able to. just smell a real one, see, yeah, now I like how you're the one wearing the gloves, so let's start with this and then, this is serious, there's no hiding from this, yeah, here we go, it's got a real good one Oh , there it is, it tastes good, although it is a very good chicken wing, but it scares me a little, yes, because it already makes your eyes water and then look what I did to the water.

I'm going to have problems. the

spiciest

they make, okay, they are also very good, oh wow, I really like the taste now. I wish we started with a cute baby, because I'm a little hungry and I didn't eat because I'm like. Call, I'm having lunch with the red band, so I'll relax. How could anyone eat it? Although everything is eaten, no one can eat everything. I don't believe it. It takes a champion to just take a bite of this, look at that now before we move on to number three, I would like to point out that oh there is no red band, it's a quick lunch but it's an epic lunch we're on now until the last of our wings, it's how.

Plus, it's the secret back room. Without a waiver, you could die. Ala, how do you feel? How do you do it? My mouth is on fire, okay, oh that's not so bad, I'm actually kidding and I feel like that one was hotter, okay, maybe I'm wrong. you are very wrong all hot sauces all peppers are a little different they all hit you differently and that is the last Red Band the wings we are going to eat today are hotter than the wings with Blair's Mega Death sauce with liquid R, we're sure We're on a whole new level and I would say at this point I'm getting the psychedelic effect of hot sauce.

I understand it right now. I'm swimming like I'm feeling a little high. My heartbeat in my eyebrows are the same as me, it's like a little wavy, like you're bouncing one more bite and then I and then I get in an Uber, but a red band it was nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you. you don't even know how to do it there is no elegant way to finish it thanks for watching wow