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My favorite cooking pepper is the African birds eye pepper.

Starts hot but ends with just a tingle. Great on chicken. I mean REALLY great.

Add some garlic and you have Nandos. http://www.nandos.com/

Scrumptious. They have built an empire on it.

And thanks for the corking thing. Gave me insight into which seeds to save.

Several decades ago, I was trained as a Master Gardener so some of my information is dated.
I plan on going back to school for MG updated training, although it will be 7-8 horticultural zones away from what I am used to experiencing.
All peppers are phosphorous and potash dependent both for blooming and plant hardiness; since they are solanacious,
they are related cousins to tomatoes, and potatoes, so don't forget to rotate your crops to prevent insect, soil, and plant diseases
I frequently hang out at the Weekly Gardening on Fridays, here on the FReeper sites.
Stop over some time if you have any questions on any Firday PM .

I don’t have much to compare too, Habanero is alright, but I love the flavor and heat my “Filipino Hot Peppers” have. I call them that because it is what my Filipino neighbor that gave me seeds called them, not positive, but after some research, I now believe them to be birds eye peppers, did not realize there were different strains of birds eye.

My plant grows year round here in phoenix and I get 2 crops of them, per year, tons of new blooms on it right now. Think this was the 4th year since I planted it. The hottest ones seem to come from the drier times. A wet spring cools them down quite a bit... Last spring was so wet my jalapeno’s were not much hotter than green peppers. My family is not really into the hot stuff, I sneak one in every now and then into stuff, but usually just put a crushed up dried one in a can of chili, to make what they consider hot chili actually hot. I also get some pretty hot oil at the Chinese restaurant, with their kung pao, not sure what peppers they use to make it though...

Knowing a Carolina Reaper or even a Ghost Pepper is 5 to 10 times hotter (at least) makes me apprehensive about trying one, but I would probably have to try it if the opportunity presented itself. I am planning to get some seeds to grow something else hotter... may as well be Reapers I suppose.

I recently saw a youtube video of some moron trying to smoke a dried Carolina Reaper in his bong... Then he started chugging water... Looked like he could have easily suffered the same “tear”, What a fool!