How to host your own “Hot Ones” party: Tips from fire-breathing experts

The first time Sarah and Joseph Stanoch hosted a “Hot Ones”-inspired party in 2017, they debunked the theory that milk is the best way to extinguish a spicy mouth.

After watching one of their friends chug a gallon over the sink and then proceed to puke, the couple was grateful they stuck to beer.

“I used to work at Anheuser Busch, so we actually had the party in my office on a Saturday, and it was just four of us, but they had a bar in the office with unlimited beer, and I feel...