Naga Bhut Jolokia Or Ghost Peppers

[Mr King]

For my birthday a couple that I am friends with gave me a novelty gift. It is a can that contains a potted ghost pepper plant seed. The can's top comes off, and it has what looks like a soda can opening you pop open on the bottom for drainage. Then supposedly if the conditions are right and you water it, it will sprout and grow fruit.

 

Never had anything with ghost peppers. Like to cook with habaneros, use them in soups and in my spaghetti sauce. Ghost peppers are supposed to blow habaneros out of the water heat wise. I wonder what their flavor is like. Habanero flesh tastes like crap, but they add a really nice amount of heat to what ever you're cooking them with. Where as Thai chili's which can be as hot as habaneros, have a better flavor in my opinion especially when dried and ground.

 

Going to have to do some research to find out if it is too late in the year for me to try to grow this plant.

 

[Mike Steele]

I have never understood the obsession with heat vs flavor. What use is dish if you can barely eat it. To say nothing of the "after effects"

[Harold Jones]

The nice thing about chili peppers is the more you eat the more you can eat. I have a ghost pepper plant in the garden this year, hopefully it will produce. It will take some experimenting to figure out what it's good for, but I don't make spicy dishes just for the heat, I like the different flavors that different kinds of peppers bring to the food.

[Mr King]

I have never understood the obsession with heat vs flavor. What use is dish if you can barely eat it. To say nothing of the "after effects"

 

A good dish is one where you can taste the other flavors in contrast of the heat from the peppers. Which is one of the reasons why I am a fan of Thai food. I think people just have a different tolerance for heat. I can still differentiate flavors in dishes despite them being quite spicy where others would just be tasting the spice. Another reason people enjoy spicy food, including myself, is the endorphin rush it gives you.

[Mr King]

Went to a local chili parlor that also serves a full menu. They have in my opinion the best pork tenderloin sandwiches in town. So I got one with fries. They sell a variety of hot sauces, and if you ask they will bring out a basket of different ones for you to try with your meal. I got said basket and proceeded to pull one out at random and mix with my ketchup for my fries. Did not mix it around to well, and dipped a fry in then took a bite of mostly hots sauce. Next thing I know my face is turning read, and I feel like I am a cartoon character with steam coming out of my ears. Taking a look at the bottle, it read Mad Dog 357 Special edition 600,000 scovile unit hot sauce. Which explained the tasty pain I was experiencing. Asked the waitress and she told me that is the hottest one they sell. You have to be 21 and have a valid ID to purchase it. Would of bought a bottle but they were out of fresh ones.

 

Found it online though.

 

http://www.hotsaucew...7maddogcoe.html

 

[Archie Pellagio]

I have never understood the obsession with heat vs flavor. What use is dish if you can barely eat it. To say nothing of the "after effects"

 

"My dick is bigger than your dick" syndrome?

I'm a massive fan of spicy food, everything we ate as kids had boat-loads of chilli in it, so I'm quite accustomed to spicy, but I'm not a fan of super-duper-chernobyl-grade spice just for the sake of it.

[snafu_72]

I believe you get to a point where another Scoville unit or two hundred thousand really doesn't matter. In fact after a certain point the taste buds on the tongue go into reflexive shock. Basically the nerve endings have been stimulated to a point that the endorphin level in the brain is saturated. Thereafter you're just adding fuel to an already out of control fire. It is satisfying in a masochistic sort of way to say that you can brush your teeth with pure capsacian oil and that you place a ghost chili under your pillow at night to scare Chuck Norris away and then eat it in the morning when he's not under the bed. However, the chase for the absolute hottest pepper on earth, or the hottest food on earth is a great attractant. There is always someone rolling into town that wants to take on their fastest gun just to prove they can. Sometimes they live to tell the tale. Sometimes they end up shot full of holes. I guess in a free society you pays your money and you take your chances!

[Mr King]

Its been a year, and the same couple that got me the canned hot pepper plant made me a gift basket of hot salsas, Amish habanero bread and butter pickles, spicy tortilla chips, and a potted plant claiming to be the words hottest chili. The salsas are Mrs Renfro's Mango Habanaro Salsa, and Ghost Pepper Salsa. Both are quite delicious. I am surprised at how tasty the mango one is, as I have never had a salsa with fruit in it. I am quite lucky to have such good friends.