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Posted by Zenster 2007-08-02 05:58|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 I have some. I got the seeds, germinated them, and now I have some fairly big plants with lots of peppers. If anyone wants to try them let me know. I also have some of tha Naga Morich.ne doesn't actually put the chili in anything, you just dip it in whatever you are cooking and that is enough. I have to be careful when tending the plants and wear latex gloves.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-08-02 08:00||   2007-08-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Um, no thanks.
If negotiations fall through, and I declare war on my ass I'll get in touch with you.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-02 08:46||   2007-08-02 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 "Maybe this bhut jolokia can help change things here," says Ranjana Bhuyan

Yeah, I'd guess so, if you can use it as a tear gas. How long before the Bangla Police units get this and we hear of "tales from the crosswind gazette"?
Posted by BA 2007-08-02 08:57||   2007-08-02 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Does this contribute to global warming ?
Does it melt ice when sprinkled across surface ?
Can it be used to make ethanol ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-08-02 10:18||   2007-08-02 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks for the offer, Deaconman, but I have a rule about not eating things that have to be handled with welding gloves.
Posted by Mike N. 2007-08-02 10:45||   2007-08-02 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Welding gloves don't work, Mike N. They are permeable.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-08-02 10:57||   2007-08-02 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmm... my oldest brother may be interested in these. Not only does he love spicy food, his garden is continuously raided by deer.

Of course, the last time he tried to keep them out with hot peppers, the deer developed a taste for them. But it's possible a 1,000,000 Scoville pepper would be enough to deter them.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-08-02 11:34|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-08-02 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Years ago I read an article on hot peppers in either Scientific American (back when it did science and not politics) or Science.

Article made 3 basic points:

hot peppers are one of the most concentrated ways to ingest vitamin C and A

C in particular is lost from the body through sweating & if you map the areas in the world where hot peppers are grown and eaten, it coincides roughly with the hottest places people live.

Locals who say they have special immunity to peppers are lying/misleading. Lots of these tribes rub the oils from the peppers on their babies' gums and tongue. Eventually this kills off the taste buds & nerves, allowing the kids to ingest their daily recommended dose without complaint.

Me, I stick with blander foods than that. But then my ancestors were genetically selected for other challenges .....
Posted by lotp 2007-08-02 12:10||   2007-08-02 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Deacon,

You scare me on levels that I can't even begin to describe.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-08-02 12:18||   2007-08-02 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Deacon, when you harvest & prepare those chilis, keep them outdoors, wear a gas mask & stand upwind from them as you cut into them. Do the rest of us Rantburgers a favor & make sure we are ALL upwind of you.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-02 12:28||   2007-08-02 12:28|| Front Page Top

#11 I plan to wear Tyvex. I'm going to make a Super version of Satan's Toejam. I have Orange Habaneros, Carribean Reds, Naga Morich, and Bhut Jolokia. Watch the night sky towards the mountains of East Tennessee in a couple of weeks. You might just see an orange or red glow.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-08-02 12:46||   2007-08-02 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 It's the water supply I worry about .... ;-)
Posted by lotp 2007-08-02 13:09||   2007-08-02 13:09|| Front Page Top

#13 If negotiations fall through, and I declare war on my ass I'll get in touch with you.

Snark O' the Day™ gold medal instant winner!

I've got a friend that would drool at the thought of getting his hands on some of these gut bombs. He is a true chile-head, as in: Totally addicted to chiles. Ingestion of really hot peppers artificially stimulates your bodies pain receptors—even if it doesn't feel artificial at the time—which releases natural painkillers called endorphins. This is the mechanism behind the "runner's high" that long distance foot racers experience as their bodies fight extreme fatigue.

Endorphins are akin to a naturally produced morphine and nearly as addictive. Chile-heads become quite habituated to having large quantities of it in their bloodstream. As proof, I've watched my friend, William, spoon down my Agent Orange™ Habanero salsa—known to my pals as Salsa Muerte—like it was so much babyfood.

Deac, if you were to send some of those sick puppies out here, I would be happy to investigate rounding up some odd pepper specimens for you. Like the manzana chile, called so—manzana means "apple" in Spanish—because it is the only chile to have black seeds. They weigh in at a mere 100,000 to 350,000 Scoville units.

Perhaps you can confirm my own observation about really hot chiles: They tend to have the most delicate flavor of all. Actually, this could just as easily be attributed to having the endothelial layer in your mouth chemically seared off, but Habanero chiles have a subtle flavor that disappears with too much processing. This is why using the Naga in order to reduce inventory is not such a wise idea. Sure, you'll get all the heat but that delicious pepper flavor will have been lost.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-08-02 13:58||   2007-08-02 13:58|| Front Page Top

#14 I grew some of my own Habaneros about 15 years ago, wonderfully hot & humid weather produced an abundant crop. I knew they were really hot so I cut into a ripe one, removed a cube of flesh 1 millimeter on a side, smelled it -- wonderful fruity odor, a little like orange blossoms, then tasted it cautiously. Indescribably delicious flavor, which lasted about 1.4 seconds before my mouth exploded in flames. I spat out the pulp immediately & rinsed out my mouth, but it was too late. My mother was in a room about 20 feet away, and she started coughing. I started coughing. Both our eyes started running. We evacuated the house, after thoroughly airing it we went back in. I threw out the remaining crop. The pain in my mouth & hands wore off after about a week. The feelings there made me thing of charred, smoking flesh, but there was no visible injury. That stuff's too dangerous for amateurs.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-02 14:27||   2007-08-02 14:27|| Front Page Top

#15 I spat out the pulp immediately & rinsed out my mouth, but it was too late.

Cold water, especially ice water only makes it worse.

Several years ago I flew into Austin, Texas to cater a friend's birthday party. I made nine kinds of salsa including my Agent Orange™ Habanero salsa. In hindsight, arranging them in order of heat was probably not enough and I should have labeled them as well. Some assclown loaded up a corn chip and, saying the Habanero was mango salsa, give it to a girl at the party. Standing in the kitchen I watched this poor young lass dash into the kitchen—tears streaming down her face—and make a dive for the icemaker. I held her off and got out a bottle of frozen vodka from the freezer, poured her a shot and told her to "rinse and spit". She was okay after about half an hour.

The only things that really cut the capsicum oils are very hot liquids—which I do not recommend—or alcohol which dissolves the oil. Milk is supposed to help but any chilled liquid tends to congeal the oils on whatever surface they're in contact with.

My own first run-in with Habaneros was no less painful. Knowing full well what I was dealing with, while chopping up one or two peppers I studiously avoided touching my fingers to any other part of my anatomy. It was hot in the kitchen, so I wiped the back of my hand across my forehead. After a few minutes another bead of sweat trickled down into my eyes and it was lights out!

To my great chagrin, the kitchen's owner didn't have any ice in his freezer. I had to scrape out the frost and pack that into my eye sockets. I was temporarily blinded for almost half an hour and the pain was excruciating. It too me a year or two to finally figure out that just the tiny spray of juice that landed on the back of my hand while cutting the chiles—subsequently rubbed across my forehead—was enough to mingle with my sweat and do the job.

On another occassion when I was making a dozen different salsas, I peeled all of the roasted peppers by hand and experienced what felt like a second degree sunburn on my hands for an entire week thereafter. Since then, I wear latex gloves or simply remove the peppers' stems and then puree the whole mass, straining it if I want a sauce instead of salsa cruda.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-08-02 15:01||   2007-08-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Deac, just for you:

The hottest pepper extracts in the world.

This list's topper is:
Blair's 16 Million Reserve
That's it. The race is over.
It's chemically impossible to get any hotter !
Not really a sauce, but worthy of inclusion.

What you will find inside the Famous Reserve bottle is amazing,
a 1ml pharmaceutical grade vial filled with this Pure Capsaicin Crystal.
No more than 999 Bottles will be offered




Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-08-02 16:08||   2007-08-02 16:08|| Front Page Top

#17 The capsacin dissolves in vegetable oils. AH9418 is right, though. Habeneros have a citrus flavor and great smell, if you don't get any in your nose. I was making BBQ sauce last winter and let the sauce boil over onto the eye. I had to do much the same thing. My throat, eyes, and nose burned and I had to air out the house. I had to leave the stove eye on for a while till it all burned off.
When I get them harvested I'll send you some Zen.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-08-02 16:12||   2007-08-02 16:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Hot stuff, Deac, so to speak. Let me know what you need from out West. I have access to all sorts of cool stuff. Maybe some berber chile powder for Ethiopian cooking? It makes a killer cubed beef and vegetable stew. I'll be more than happy to snag some manzana chiles if they're still in season. My friend William will wet himself when he hears about this.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-08-02 16:35||   2007-08-02 16:35|| Front Page Top

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