I've grown Carolina Reapers on and off for a few years now, so this will be interesting I've ordered a few different seeds and hot sauces from Ed Currie's company (Puckerbutt Pepper Co.) and each time he personally emailed me a thank you for my order, and we chatted about growing peppers a bit. He strikes me as a very humble guy. New Guinness World Record spiciest pepper, 'Pepper X,' is three times as spicy as Carolina Reaper
I hear you. All I do with those super hots is use them sparingly making batches of fermented hot sauce. They'll ruin a pot of chili and trying to eat even a small sliver of a raw one is a foolhardy venture
What would you really use it for, home made pepper spray? Ever see someone doing the one chip challenge? No way I'd even do that.
I like jalapeno , but beyond that is too hot for me. I've grown habanero and some Thai chili. Don't fill a dehydrator with Thai chili in the kitchen. Never got into fermenting them.
You're not wrong considering extracts from some peppers are used for crowd control in certain places.
I love spicy food! I haven’t tried the insanely hot peppers as of yet though. I realized about a year ago my tolerance for spicy food may be higher than average. We had a chili contest at work and one guy made a really spicy batch. People took one bite and were sweating. I had multiple servings. LOL.
That's what I think about it as well. I like some heat, but heat with no flavor is dumb. This reminds me of the time our friends had a "chili dump" at a Halloween party. Everyone brings a bit of chili and puts it on a communal crockpot. Well, that one idiot put the 5 ghost pepper chili in and ruined the whole batch.
Lol, I've dehydrated hot peppers in the house once. And just Once that is. Now I do that outside only. I find that when I make jerky, I have to add a bunch of hot pepper to it, otherwise it gets eaten way too fast.
Anyone try these? Couple years ago a co-worker brought in a bag. I had 4-5. That's about as hot as I'd prefer ( I don't remember what flavor he had). I've had some nasty Thai and chili that was unbearable, the Takis I could tolerate.
I love spicy foods but at a certain point I get the hiccups. I don't like my supper to be a challenge.
This guy's a lunatic: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaseTheHeat I'm pretty sure he's a recovering addict, hence the drive to power through the pain until the body turns it into euphoria as a defense mechanism to stay conscious.
