The new hottest chili pepper in town packs a spicy and potentially deadly wallop. Credit: Mirrorpix/Newscom via Zuma
The new hottest chili pepper in town packs a spicy and potentially deadly wallop. Credit: Mirrorpix/Newscom via Zuma
No thanks. Super chiles. Jalapeños. And Habaneros for flavoring. That’s it for me.
Really?
I'm a fire eater and know my way around Mombasas and Habaneros, I've even dabbled with Ghost in tiny doses, so I'm not an amateur, but with that experience, comes the realization that weapons grade heat isn't something to be toyed with.
Ghost pepper puree, the planet would be a better place without idiots like that making decisions.
Soon to be a popular challenge on YouBoob.
Yes, there was a counter for buying baked goods and then there was a wall probably 40 feet wide that contained what seemed like every hot sauce known to man.
We stood there and read as many titles as we could stand cuz we were laughing so hard.
For example, "So Hot Ya Won't Know What Hit Cha" and a set of four bottles which were in ascending order of hotness all having to do with how bad that particular lower spot will feel if you eat it.
They would probably put this Dragon's Breath in a special room with key card access.
I didn't buy any hot sauce, but their poppy seed rolls were delish.
The chili pepper arms race moves fast. ‘Pepper X’ has already supplanted the Dragon’s Breath pepper as hottest, clocking in at 3.18m Scoville units:
http://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a55687/pepper-x-hottest-pepper/
It’s not a hot pepper unless your mouth goes numb, you break out into a sweat, you drool uncontrollably, your ears ring, and your skin itches.
I learned my lesson with one of those million scoville Carolina Reaper sauces. I like hot sauces and was given the bottle as a gift, so like I would do any other hot sauce, I made some fried potatoes and splashed a liberal amount over them. I knew it was a dumb idea as soon as I took the first taste as the heat and pain overpowered everything, but stupidly I went ahead and finished an entire bowl as my mouth had already went numb at that point. Flash forward a couple hours and I was in the bathroom with the WORST stomach ache of my life, projectile vomiting the contents of my stomach, I honestly thought I was in serious danger of death.
This can’t be covered under the 2nd Amendment as the founding fathers couldn’t have thought of the pepper arms race and what that would do to society. We must ban the manufacture, sale, and import of all peppers over six Scoville units. This must be done for the children as they will eat anything.
A local distillery makes a gin made with ghost pepper as part of the botanical mix. No heat but a rather interesting earthy flavor.
Well now, I’m gonna go and develop a pepper that has at least 5 million heat units. I’ll call it This Pepper Certifies That I am a Psycho.
I will then grind up a few of them and sprinkle the resulting powder over Ithaca, so that Behind Liberal Lines won’t have to worry about them mean liberals anymore.
But seriously, WTF is wrong with these people???
DANG!
There is no reason to create these super hot peppers. The only market is for those morons who think it hilarious to goad their drinking buddies into eating one.
No, thanks. I enjoy a little kick to some dishes but I want to enjoy the flavor of the dish rather than writhe on the ground in screaming pain.
As a fan of hot sauce, beer, and Scotch, may I opine that the Scoville units arms race, the IPA/hops arms race, and the peat arms race have all gone so far beyond the point at which things stop tasting good that I’ve pretty much jumped off the train.
BFLR
That’ll sear your hemorrhoids.
Asian spicy food makes my bronchial tubes sweat, and I end up with a wet cough that sounds like a death rattle.
Some flavor, spice and a little heat are fine by me, but I fail to see the attraction in eating something that causes discomfort to the degree that some of these peppers do.