First Carolina reaper. Be honest with me. How bad will it be? For reference I find a ghost pepper tasty, and a very respectable heat. Plan is to make 2 pounds of shrimp (with seasoning) using just one pepper. It’s a small pepper and I have small hands.
by ita420
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bad
See if it passes the eye test
2 pounds of shrimp for that 1 pepper should even it out a little bit, but you’ll still probably get some insanely inedible bites while others won’t have enough at all.
“Why don’t you eat up and we’ll tell ya?” -Lloyd Christmas
Only one way to find out
Boof it
I cut a slice of one of my reapers.
Put in on a cracker with a slice of cheese.
Good pepper taste. Then the wave of heat.. I could feel my heart beating in my gums. It faded. I ate another. Same result.
Then my stomach started to hurt. It felt like someone had kicked me. Hurt all night and I slept like crap.
They are no joke.
Not only bad, but put your seatbelt on because it doesn’t end quickly. Not LSD long, but enough for some regret to sink in real good like.
Cut it in half then try a vertical sliver of it.
If you sauté that in a pan, even the air will be too spicy
Serious answer from someone who hasn’t cooked with raw peppers for safety reasons.
I would make a sauce with it by blending the pepper with maybe some garlic paste, citrus, seasoning, and maybe a bit of honey or simple syrup.
I’d try to put it in a pan and saute just to get the pepper mash cooked a bit so you aren’t just eating raw reaper in a sauce.
Have a lid or good ventilation because you will accidentally gas your abode, rendering it uninhabitable for half an hour like I did once.
Haha, if you are asking the question, then the answer is extremely bad. Likely if you pop the whole thing in, the whole thing will be coming back up (if you are lucky). Otherwise you are in for a world of hurt internally for many hours.
Domini, domini, domini….
Oh man, I remember my first Reaper…..
Put some toilet paper in your freezer ahead of time.
Bad?
Bad.
I think it varies by person. Like I can eat reapers and be happy, but ghosts make my insides hurt. For some people it’s the opposite. I think you just gotta try them all and find your hot spot.
I would not use the whole thing with a batch of shrimp. Though if you were my friend, I would highly recommend doing that so you would cough your way through the cooking process and then be a mess while trying to eat the shrimp dish
Ide say rub it on your hands for good luck. Then go touch your twig and berries.
Should be a good time from what I’ve read in here!
Reaper isn’t that bad, i enjoy it thoroughly and if you like ghost peppers you’ll enjoy it too especially the pungent aroma and flavor.
I hope your affairs are in order.
You ever eat a mouthful of bees? That’s the only way I could describe it and I’ve been stung on the tongue by a bee. That’s what I get for having a whiskey sour sitting out in the coastal plain. Honestly the reaper was worse but I did stress my plants out solely for heat
Unless you have an enormous tolerance to heat eating this straight is gonna make you hurt.
I suggest trying it in a much larger dish that will dilute the heat some.
You should be wearing gloves. Don’t rub your eyes. Scrub under your fingernails.
Imagine if Cook County politicians were put in charge of your digestive tract for a night. Shitshow
Es muerte
Imagine the worst case scenario.
Worse than that.
Carolina reaper is the only pepper to put me on the floor hiccuping and dry heaving uncontrollably and sweating through my shirt. I eat spicy food all the time, and indian/korean cooking is my jam, but that pepper is from hell itself.
Every minute you think it won’t continue to get hotter, it will. By minute 5 you’ll be regretting it while realizing there is nothing you can do as that red hot ball sits in your stomach, while googling if anyone has ever died due to ingesting a hot pepper.
Little goes a long way, better as an ingredient than raw imo.
Not bad at all, now scratch your balls that hand.
Really bad.
That will be some spicy ass shrimp; sounds delicious though. I would explain the heat from a reaper as such:
Have you ever seen videos of the gas chamber that we send US troops in to give them faith in their cbrne gear? Yeah, they make you exercise and take your gas mask off to speak while in there. That shit sucked for 15 mins afterwards. A ripe Carolina reaper is about 5x worse than that.
I grew a bunch. Friend of mine ate one whole. He was sweating and crying but the next day he said the worst part was the crippling stomach pain. Have fun
Reapers ate the only peppers that give me heartburn and hiccups. Scorpion sauces are the only sauces where I have to be carful.
Just have some popsicles, milk and tums ready.
I ate a whole one cause that’s what I do with all my first ripe pepper plants of the season and my god I knew I was going to regret it before I even started and my stomach cramped in the spot that it was in for the next 5 hours I’ve never felt food travel thru my abdomen like that but I sure felt that the entire way thru to the point that I could track it
You should be wearing gloves
Don’t be a bitch. If you grew it, then eat it. Those are the rules of gardening.
It’ll suck but that’s the game when you grow superhots.
It’s the stomach ache that gets you
Bad enough you shouldn’t handle it with bare hands. I air-fryer dried a load of them once. Surprisingly the air wasn’t spicy but i did hafta scrub out the whole fryer cause it was making everything else spicy. I wasn’t born with a lotta buffs but I’m glad “inhuman capsaicin tolerance” was one of em
Looks pretty painful. Let us know how it goes!
Wet wipes ahoy.