Tom Conroy entered the Darwin Chilli Eating Championship after a night on the sauce until 3am. He shares his recipe for success. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE
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[Music] I’m Tom Conroy I’m the northern Tory chili Champion initially I was quite confident because I eat a lot of hot chili the day of the competition being incredibly hung over I was a lot less confident I felt terrible we started off with some chili jams then we stepped up to jalapenos Bird’s eyes Habaneros then some extra hotter sauces similar to these sort of things and then from there we went into extract sprays and then on to Carolina Reapers as we started heating up in the goal levels on the chilies I started to sweat from my head my stomach really started to cramp up a little bit and I could hear the blood pounding in my head and my ears burning and my heart hammering away the hottest thing we had on the day would have been this break the second it went in my mouth I wanted to throw it up I couldn’t breathe it was in my nose it was the hardest part of the competition I’m going to sortel Chili Festival in July I’m quite excited to represent the NT there’s a lot of people that have told me that if I don’t win don’t come back I tell them well it’s victory or death so I’d like to say the competitors good luck but I’m coming