How not to eat the world's hottest chili (bhut jolokias aka the "ghost chili")

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/31/07 | Tim Sullivan - ap

[aruanan]

Let me tell you a funny story.

There was a researcher here at the University of Chicago who liked hot curries. He hired Indian post-docs because they got him hot curries from India. One post-doc gave him a packet of curry and told him how much of it to use. He warned the researcher not to use more than a certain amount. Well, the researcher went home and decided that if a little was good, a lot would be better so he put the whole pack into the curry he was preparing.

Sometime during the night he awoke in acute intestinal distress. He went to the bathroom to relieve himself and saw in the toilet the entire epithelial lining of his small intestine and a whole lot of blood. He was in the hospital for a while and finally he regrew his small intestine lining. I don't know, though, if his interest in hot curries was renewed.

This is not an urban legend. I know that researcher. And, no, I am not he.

[Professional Engineer]

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[Hilltop]

I once complained to the wifey that the buffalo wings were never hot enough.

Dear wifey went to the local farmer’s market and purchased a Jamaican concoction with scotch bonnet mash as the main ingredient, not out of guile mind you.

I’m reclining in the ole’ recliner, wifey dear brings the wings and some golden fries and a cold libation.

I took one bite of dear wifey’s buffalo wings and was paralyzed, lapsed into an altered state, and had to fetch my weapon of choice, hold the gun to my head to finish the rest.

Later, I read the label. Simply stated, “add one drop per gallon of chili.”

I no longer complain about hot wings.

[Jaysun]

Anyone up for Scotch Bonnets? I think we’ve got some growing in the garden.

Thanks, but no thanks. Those things seem purpose made to increase the suicide rate.

[Tainan]

Hot Chili pepper ping

[TheSpottedOwl]

I just bookmarked the site! I’ll have to look and see if they’ll take personal checks. Mr. Great Horned Owl is sitting busting his gut over this thread :) 163 hot sauce selections on that site!!!

[TheSpottedOwl]

LOL! You wouldn’t believe what my bf does to Hamburger Helper, or Top Ramen. My son is getting there. He made deep fried potato wedges, and had to make a seperate batch for me. He and my bf wolfed down the diabolical batch, and sucking down Natty Ice.

[TheSpottedOwl]

No kidding. Those peppers are straight from the bowels of hell. We are growing sweet banana peppers. They’re very good, and I can handle eating them. We had his little boy here for a month, and the kid was eating the hot peppers straight off the plant. No wonder we went through so much TP....

Actually, I was just informed that they are habaneros, not Scotch Bonnets. I’ll stick to Herdez Salsa Casera.

[Peanut Gallery]

habaneros...

When Professional Engineer and I met, our first date, we went to eat at Abuelos. The garnish on our dinner plates was habanero peppers. I don’t think either of us has had one of those peppers since that night. We have been married since 2003.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I know what you mean. I can’t eat anything hotter than a jalapeno. I don’t know how these critters can eat all that hot stuff. Okay, I used to try and keep up with the guys and eat all that hot stuff, but stick the the mild stuff these days.

[zoso82t]

I got to try this one, Da Bomb Ground Zero, about a month ago:

http://peppers.com/itemdetails.cfm?ID=1786

234,000 Scovilles. It felt like my brain was on fire!