Just took a nibble and the shear amount of instant heat had me concerned. Then it really kicked in and now I am wondering what i am going to do with the rest… there's a lot.
Definitely turning most of them into flakes or powder which should last me until next season.
by Beastly4k
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Quick update. Thought my hands were thoroughly cleaned and now nostrils are on fire.
Eating fresh superhots takes practice. Don’t give up, and you’ll get it! I believe in you.
I’ll keep you in my prayers today and possibly tomorrow
ya, i’ve nibbled on my ghost peppers with an equally alarming reaction. It is simply too much.
I’ve found that I can clean them up, keeping just the fruit and dice them up relatively small. I’ll throw that diced pepper into a wire mesh filter and run some cold water over them for a few minutes to rinse the excess capsaicin and oils off. This reduces the overall heat of these super hots, completely subjective here, by about 20 percent according to my taste buds.
I can then throw them into a skillet with other vegetables, aromatics, herbs, and seasonings and cook them down, further reducing the heat levels by a substantial amount. The end result is a stir fry with a lot of heat, but it is edible. Always serve it with a side of something like Sour Cream or Full Fat Greek Yogurt. Can eat a bit between bites to take the heat off.
Bread helps too, seems to help absorb a lot of the excess oils in your saliva. Again, completely subjective so YMMV.
Some people recommend soaking the cut peppers in vinegar or alcohol to take some of the heat off, but I don’t want to flavor the peppers.
Looks like a Tornado.
I don’t eat raw pods above a ghost, I have a high tolerance but they give me cramps. The only time I do is when I have someone over who insists on trying it and I feel obligated to suffer with them. Usually dry and grind everything into salts and powders with the occasional dumb experiments that I regret like making poppers, cowboy candy, pickled reapers, etc.
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If you want to eat it raw, cut a piece roughly the size of the nail of your pinky finger, then eat that with a piece of chicken. Make it your last bite of your meal, because you won’t be too hungry after that, and you won’t be eating it on an empty stomach.
My favorite is to make indian/middle eastern inspired meat “stuff” with it. The brand of spice mixes I buy is Laziza, not sure if you have that in the US?
Hot sauces for sure
Your definitely a brave person that just looks scary. But I suppose its a rite that must be taken, you’ve gotta taste test your own crop lol
I put 4 slivers of this season’s first reaper into a bowl of soup tonight. Initial flavor and heat was nice. Then I got one of the slivers. I had to tap out. Mine are hot this year.
I like to share with people who “love” hot peppers.
I know after i grew ghost & reaper last year they must be respected !!
I ate 1/4 of a reaper yesterday. Almost had an out of body experience.
I usually make fermented hot sauce with my superhots…
I do approx 2-5 pods based on how adventurous I’m feeling in a 500mL jar with a 6% salt water solution then pack the remainder of the jar with red shepherd peppers. You can also use red, yellow or orange bell peppers but I find them sweet and better suited to habaneros or other citrusy peppers.
It’s like eating an elephant. One small bite at a time. Don’t Johnny Scoville superhot pods because he has an android digestive system that he borrowed from a T1000. He feels no pain, no pity, and no matter what, he will never, ever stop. But you will. Either praying over the porcelain throne or lava blasting it the next morning… or both. Take it slow. Eat a bell, then a pepperoncini the next day, chew a cherry bomb pepper day after that, and so on.
I carefully wore nitrile gloves to process reapers for ferment. No problem. I took off the gloves before cleaning up the wood cutting board…2 days of hot hands. Several days later, after swabbing down the board ech day, I cut up a block of dried tofu tonight, only to find that cubes of tofu that touched the board were very hot! Next time I’ll get an impermeable cutting board an leave gloves on until every bit of the mess is totally clean.
I’ve been pickling mine, makes it bearable while giving whatever else is in the jar some heat!
I decided to just eat one whole a few weeks ago. I didn’t know heat could make me throw up, but it did. Probably among the dumbest things I’ve ever done. It didn’t even feel hot, it just felt….painful. My hands and legs were vibrating. I’ve been pepper sprayed and it wasn’t as bad.
Since then I’ve diced them to about 1cm by 1cm and eaten them with chili, and thought that was delicious.
What a beauty!
I tried a 1/4 inch piece of peach bhut the other day, and it lit me up! It had a pretty good taste, though. I’m a little scared to try my RB003s when they ripen, lol
I’ve been working on “very hot” peppers this year. I have some MOA scotch bonnets, some peppers I’m pretty sure are jamaican red mushrooms (not the red scotch bonnets I thought i was growing) some “chocolate scotch bonnets” that I’m not sure what they actually are, and some yellow scotch brains.
I’ve done three or four tasting sessions so far, and the chocolate scotch bonnets and the scotch brains are a pretty intense ride and about the same heat. They take a couple minutes to hit me, and then they don’t start cooling off for until about minute 12. And it’s minute 15 before I’ve stopped having my eyes and nose run intensely.
I have some trinidad scorpions that are ripening now, so the next trip will probably be pretty intense!