Told my wife I wanted to get better at eating spicy foods. She went to a farmers market and came back with a handful of peppers. I have since dried and powdered them but have no idea how to even start using these (aside from the habanero). Even just grinding them messed me up.
by NiceBike800
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How are you with jalapeños and such?
Like are you diving into the deep end?
get straw
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Hey OP, I started with putting them on anything I thought was bland like pastas, chicken, roasted veggies, etc but just a little at a time and kept the shaker with me to add more if I needed it. Now I like to just rain down pepper flakes into my pastas and dishes in amounts that would kill my husband— especially now that I can handle it. But don’t fret if you can’t handle it— no shame in drinking milk and tapping out whenever you feel uncomfortable. You should enjoy your food!
Reaper or bust
I used to grind peppers as well. Not worth it at all. Just buy the dried pepper flakes. And when you pour them into the pepper grinders do that outside with a mask on.
As far as how to handle these, habanero shouldn’t but that spicy so start with that one. Then just do very small amounts of the ghost/scorpion ones until you know how much you can handle. Then do that much or add a little more each time to keep moving your tolerance level up.
Eventually you may start enjoying it. Or not, and then you can decide super spicy isn’t your jam and that’s fine as well.
Start small and work your way up from there. When you’re getting pretty confident with a good amount of the habanero you can work your way up to the ghost pepper or reaper (I forget which is hotter). To be quite honest there is a point where there’s really no reason to continue eating hotter peppers, anything much past about 350k scovilles and you’re just jerking off. I’ve had daves insanity sauce, I’ve eaten a ghost pepper with about 30lbs of crawfish just taking a bite off it every once in a while to maintain a good burn, I can handle some pretty spicy shit. But my daily driver hot sauce is scorpion tabasco which gets plenty fuckin hot if you use enough of it, and if that’s not available I’ll eat a habanero or two with my meal if they’re particularly mild habaneros.
Try to enjoy it for the flavor more than the heat and you’ll build tolerance to the heat over time. Less is more. It’s fun to eat something that blows your damn head off every once in a while but it’s really unnecessary to do it every day.
i put powdered ghost pepper on everything. im eating some right now actually.
just 2-4 *tiny* shakes in a bowl of food and your good to go.
edit – yeah im not surprised that grinding them messed you up. you gotta be real careful with this stuff getting airborne. keep the clouds clear of your face holes lol
Your wife can try to kill me any time 🤣
Enjoy Brotato!