00:00I'm Joey Chestnut, a competitive eater,
00:02ranked number one in the world.
00:03Let's answer some questions from the internet.
00:04This is competitive eating support.
00:11At Tanner Dean, McCoy wants to know,
00:12what is easier to eat in one sitting?
00:1418 Krispy Kreme donuts or one large pizza?
00:1718 Krispy Kreme donuts.
00:19Oh my God, those donuts are like air.
00:20They go down fast, especially if they're warm.
00:22I love pizza, but crust always slows you down.
00:2518 donuts, so easy.
00:28Those won't even make it home from the drive-thru.
00:30At Virgil Virgil, woke way too early
00:32and then just wondered how do competitive eaters
00:34not just die from the amount of salt and s*** in their body.
00:38If somebody tried to eat 70 hot dogs for the first time,
00:41they might die.
00:41That's kind of like the person who ran the first marathon.
00:43They died, but now millions of people can run a marathon
00:46because they know how to train.
00:47Eating 70 hot dogs, I've trained and made my body adapt to it.
00:50Our bodies are absolutely amazing.
00:52At NotBubbaWallace, I can't understand why anyone
00:55would dunk a bun in water instead of just eating hot dogs
00:58like a sane person and washing it down with some water.
01:00Well, apparently NotBubbaWallace
01:02isn't very competitive in anything.
01:04Dunking the bun makes it faster.
01:05We're skipping the step of having to drink the water,
01:08right, by dunking.
01:09I'm eating one hot dog using the wet bun as a sip of water.
01:12It helps swallow the hot dog.
01:13That's the way it works with competition.
01:15It's not always pretty.
01:16For the upcoming contest, there's a no dunking rule.
01:19I've been practicing eating hot dogs without dunking.
01:22I have to take the right size bite, right amount of water.
01:24See how fast I can get this bad boy down.
01:28Mm, pretty slow, but that's about it.
01:45At James W. Bell Music,
01:47how does one train to eat so many hot dogs?
01:49My training isn't too much different from like a runner.
01:51Runners have to run, eaters have to eat.
01:53It's hard because I can't practice every day.
01:55Once a week, I'm doing a practice contest
01:56and then there's a recovery period, a cleanse, a fast.
01:59So I'm empty for my next practice.
02:00Day of contest, I like black coffee.
02:02The acid from the coffee gets things in your stomach
02:05while moving around and you're ready
02:07and a little amped up from the caffeine.
02:08I wouldn't call it a drug, but I do think caffeine helps.
02:11At NYDesignGuy, what do competitive eaters do
02:14after the contest?
02:15Do they purge or just digest?
02:17Either way seems uncomfortable.
02:19The best competitive eaters do digest the food.
02:21I only get sick if there's something wrong.
02:22If I'm dehydrated or the food's bad.
02:24When you say uncomfortable, that's where I'm really lucky.
02:26I kind of like the feeling of being bloated.
02:28That's one of the things that works in my favor.
02:30I'm trying to stay vertical and stay walking around.
02:32It helps the food settle deep and starts digestion.
02:34After that, then I'm thirsty
02:35and I just want to go to sleep and have some crazy dreams.
02:38Some contests, I'm putting on a lot of weight.
02:40The most I've gained is,
02:41I think it's been more than 20 pounds
02:43and it takes about five days for me
02:45to get back to my normal weight.
02:46But I love it.
02:47At Carl I Winning, do professional eaters like lose
02:51from stopping because their jaw hurts,
02:52not because they're full?
02:54Yeah, you're absolutely right.
02:54Your jaws and your throat muscles
02:56slow down a lot of competitive eaters.
02:58Like the food settles at the back of their throat
02:59because their throat muscles are weak.
03:01Really important for us to train those muscles
03:04and get them strong.
03:05At I'm Nasty Nat, how do competitive eaters not choke?
03:09Just swallowing whole hot dogs like nothing.
03:11I have seen people choke.
03:13It's always the person, it's their first contest
03:15and they're just trying to keep up.
03:16It's always turned out okay.
03:18Run DMC912 wants to know,
03:20anyone else wonder how people get into competitive eating?
03:23Do they enter regional tournaments and work their way up?
03:25I'm genuinely curious.
03:26I did my first contest when I was 21.
03:28It was at a casino in Reno.
03:30They offered me a free hotel room.
03:31I was like, heck yeah, I'll do it.
03:32I tied for third and I was like, oh my God,
03:34I'm gonna do another local one.
03:36Three contests later, I was at Coney Island
03:37on the 4th of July and I got third.
03:39In order to be a good competitive eater,
03:40you have to love eating.
03:41It's always easier to eat a lot of food if you like it.
03:43At TW for Fat asks, how do competitive eaters
03:46not gain weight?
03:47Dude, I do gain weight and it's a battle.
03:49I have to be aware of it because if I lose track
03:51of my long-term calorie intake, I gain weight.
03:53Then I start losing contests.
03:55I hate losing.
03:56Without getting graphic, I'm taking in thousands
03:58and thousands of calories during a contest.
04:00There's no way to absorb all those calories.
04:02Things are running through me.
04:03My normal routine after contests is to eat super high fiber,
04:07keep everything moving, low carb, no starches.
04:09Doing cardio helps me with my breathing during a contest,
04:12but I don't depend on cardio to burn calories necessarily.
04:15I try to get into a calorie deficit in order
04:17to get back to normal weight.
04:18Some people chipmunk while they're eating.
04:20They kind of overstuff their mouth
04:21and they keep food in their cheeks.
04:23Kind of amateur way to eat.
04:24You're not moving the food efficiently.
04:26You want to keep everything moving at the same pace
04:28and not letting it build up.
04:29At Jiggy PA, serious question for competitive eaters.
04:32Do y'all actually taste what you're eating?
04:35Or of course we taste it.
04:36It's like a race car driver.
04:37Can they tell if they're driving on a crappy road?
04:39I really like when it's good food.
04:41I really hate when it's a food that I love
04:43and they did a bad job with it.
04:44Oh, there's nothing worse than that.
04:46If it's taste I like, it definitely is easier.
04:48The first couple of minutes of a contest,
04:50I'm a fat guy having fun.
04:51If there's a flavor I don't like,
04:52it hits me again and again and again.
04:54Everything's more work when it's not a good taste.
04:56At J66DSKC, do eating competitions
05:00have weight classes like fighting?
05:01Because I'm positive that for my weight class,
05:04I could absolutely smoke most people.
05:06There's no weight classes.
05:07For the most part, men and women compete next to each other.
05:10Big and small compete against each other.
05:12The healthier you are, the harder you can push your body.
05:13There are big guys who can eat a lot of food.
05:16Great guys, but they can't do it in 10 minutes.
05:18All the top eaters are pretty healthy.
05:20I wish I was a little bit more fit, but I love to eat.
05:23At Odal wants to know,
05:24anyone ever examined the health of competitive eaters?
05:26I wonder, is it any worse than normal?
05:28One of my biggest splurges is my doctor.
05:31He does my blood work
05:32and there have been times where I go to him and I'm heavy,
05:34but he's really happy
05:35with the way everything's working right now.
05:36Most competitions aren't necessarily healthy.
05:39Any kind of athlete.
05:39I don't think we're much worse than normal.
05:41Contests and practice take a toll.
05:43Some contests are really hard on the body.
05:45It takes days to recover.
05:46Some contests are hard on the mouth.
05:48If it's a fried food, my mouth is raw for a couple of days.
05:51There's always a recovery period after a contest.
05:53You gotta be willing to put up with it.
05:55At 3T Productions wants to know,
05:57who ranks the competitive eaters?
05:58Does it matter if you eat kale or pancakes or hot dogs?
06:02America needs answers.
06:04There is a league, Major League Eating.
06:07Right now I'm ranked number one.
06:08They rank based off performance in contests.
06:10There is a kale contest, there's pancakes and hot dogs.
06:13And hot dogs are the most important contest of the year.
06:16Every food's a little bit different.
06:17Every eater has their own strengths, weaknesses.
06:19Some people are capacity eaters.
06:21Some people are good swallowers.
06:23My general training method is building tolerance.
06:25If I'm in a kale contest, I have to practice with kale.
06:28If it's hot dogs, I'm building my tolerance with hot dogs,
06:30getting my body comfortable with it.
06:32At Smitty83 wants to know,
06:34how do competitive eaters afford to train?
06:36I assume they find all the all-you-can-eat buffets
06:38that they haven't been kicked out of
06:40and plop a chair down and just go to town.
06:42I very rarely go to buffets.
06:43If I'm training for the kale contest or hot dog contest
06:47or bologna, I have to train with that food.
06:49Most of the time, sponsors will send me the food,
06:51which is awesome.
06:51But also, the food we're eating in the contest
06:54is not that much when you think about it.
06:55It costs about $40 to do a practice.
06:57I'm not eating anything for two days
06:59leading up to that practice.
07:00And then afterwards, I'm not eating very much.
07:02I'm eating vegetables.
07:03At Mventor, competitive eating crowd,
07:06what's your favorite or go-to donut consumption technique?
07:09For contests or for pleasure?
07:12Because I love bitterness of black coffee
07:14with sweetness of donut.
07:15But for contests, most donut contests,
07:17we're not allowed to dunk donuts.
07:18Alternate between eating sip of water.
07:20Alternate, if you find that rhythm
07:21and don't over stuff your mouth.
07:23At Sammy Ddub, wants to know,
07:24what do competitive hot dog eaters do the rest of the year?
07:27That is in July 4.
07:28Do they have regular jobs
07:30or is there a professional hot dog eating
07:32international circuit?
07:33Yeah, there's tons of contests.
07:34I have records in like 50 different foods and I love it.
07:38Hot dogs is probably the biggest contest of the year,
07:40but I do everything from wings, ribs, pizza.
07:42I stay busy.
07:43At DG, Jaden wants to know,
07:45how competitive eaters not get hiccups?
07:47I always be hiccuping whenever I eat quickly.
07:49I never get hiccups.
07:50I stopped getting hiccups after I was like 12 years old.
07:52You might want to go to the doctor, Jaden.
07:54I burp.
07:55A lot of times during the contests,
07:56we call it catching a burp.
07:57You have to stop eating for a second so you can burp
07:59and you have to be careful not to nothing comes out.
08:02Those are all the questions for today.
08:03Thank you for watching competitive eating support.
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