What can I do with a bunch of ghost peppers?

[Buzzrock 14921]

Neighbor grew them on a lark and left me a bag of about 20 of them yesterday. My hate tolerance is more in the jalapeno, maybe habanero range. I'm going to take one and rub it on the siding where I've had a squirrel chewing, but have no idea what to do with the rest of them.

[immamac 42857]

2 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Neighbor grew them on a lark and left me a bag of about 20 of them yesterday. My hate tolerance is more in the jalapeno, maybe habanero range. I'm going to take one and rub it on the siding where I've had a squirrel chewing, but have no idea what to do with the rest of them.

Give them to someone who likes hot peppers. 

[tx 3 putt 76980]

[DalTxHornFan 3102]

 

[ztejas 43464]

I'd just throw them away or find someone that wants them. Trying to cook with stuff like that is basically like starting a meth lab in your kitchen. 

[jimmyjazz 45963]

I don't understand why people deal with that kind of heat.  I like jalapenos, serranos, maybe a habanero now and again, but beyond that, what's the point?  Fuckin' weirdos.

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

I’d dry them, grind them, put that in a shaker and add it to my food. 

[Surly Bevo 24966]

Exorcise some fecal matter

[Buzzrock 14921]

I found a pretty simple hot sauce recipe. Might try assembling that outside (not in the kitchen).

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

2 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

 

Wood

[Texzilla58 4738]

I hav a buddy in Memphis that in his old age grows all kinds of hot chilies. Ghost. Reapers, scorpions. He eats them. I used to eat really hot peppers but I had extensive sinus surgery in 02 and have t been able to go much beyond a jalapeño since. So he offers to send me some and I decline.

[52-80 19162]

homeopathic nasal decongestant

[tejas60 3533]

7 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Wood

which one?

[South Austin 52515]

12 hours ago, ztejas said:

Trying to cook with stuff like that is basically like starting a meth lab in your kitchen. 

There was an episode of Diners, Drive Ins and Dives where Guy Fieri was in some midwestern burger joint known for a hot pepper sauce that was a combination of the hottest shit like ghost peppers, Carolina reapers, habaneros, etc.  The guy who had been making that sauce for years roasts the peppers outside of the restaurant about 20 yards from the building.  He had developed a tolerance for it over time, but when Guy got to within about 10 feet of the grill he started coughing and tearing up like he had just been gassed by a SWAT team. 

Edited September 6, 2023 by South Austin

[b_p 448]

Turn on your video camera, eat three of them, and down a fifth of Fireball.  Post on YouTube and profit.

 

[Nathan Jessep 147]

The full episode was worth watching. These people are psycho. 
 

 

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

I'm out beyond habanero.  That's as far as I can go and still discern some sort of flavor.  After that your body goes into survival mode reacting to a poison.

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I'm out beyond habanero.  That's as far as I can go and still discern some sort of flavor.  After that your body goes into survival mode reacting to a poison.

That’s never been my experience. I don’t know how people say they can’t taste something because it’s too hot. The hottest sauce I’ve ever had was blistering hot but tasted fantastic. I’d break out into a sweat and have to get a bunch of extra napkins because my nose wouldn’t stop running. And while it was exceedingly hot, the burn didn’t really seriously set in until I stopped eating. But it never lost its flavor. I just kept on eating. And man, it was good. It was a deeply religious experience.

Then after I was done I would just relax and experience the pain. That was the only food that ever caused enough pain to stimulate an endorphin rush. That got me high for about 20 minutes or so. And it was a sauce served at a rib joint during the annual Jazz & Rib Fest downtown so it was always on a sunny summer day and I enjoyed my buzz relaxing on the grass listening to live jazz in the park. Also, I developed a tolerance pretty fast and the same ribs on Sunday weren’t as much of a challenge as they were on Friday. They still got me off but it wasn’t as much of a shock to the system. 

[Brisketexan 105152]

Man.  It's like you don't even know how to shove things up your butt.

PM NowThis, he can help.

[Sbbruin 21858]

4 hours ago, b_p said:

Turn on your video camera, eat three of them, and down a fifth of Fireball.  Post on YouTube and profit.

 

Catfish Cooley is the man.

[Carl Spackler 3483]

2 hours ago, Nathan Jessep said:

The full episode was worth watching. These people are psycho. 
 

 

Was gonna post the link until I saw you beat me to it.  That episode was tremendous.  The dude who won the contest was just impervious to stuff that would put 99.9% of the population down for the count.

[irishtexan 11521]

You could make a fermented table sauce. You dilute the heat of the peppers with other ingredients, allowing to flavors of the peppers to still shine through, but not blow your asshole open. I made a hot sauce with like 10 habaneros, two large sweet Mediterranean peppers, a half a pineapple, some ginger and some garlic and it turned out fantastic. It's a great way to bring out the flavors of a pepper that's practically too hot. I did make a version with two ghost peppers and a bunch of red jalapenos but, to be honest, it came out a little too hot for me (and everyone else I've given some to). I still use it, but sparingly. Instead you could make a version with a handful of ghost peppers, some milder red peppers, oranges or pineapple, and whatever other shit you want to throw in there. Making table sauce is about the only thing I've been able to do with peppers that are spicier than serranos. 

[Tailgate 3022]

When cooked right with the right amount, key point, ghost pepper is one of the best culinary peppers for heat fans. It’s a great building heat and doesn’t need to be “knock you socks off.” All in moderation. But great smoky features that work well with a lot of recipes/proteins/etc.

Just try some Popeyes ghost wings.

[jimmyjazz 45963]

I think I'd need to make about 10 gallons of sauce to use one ghost pepper.  Not my thing.  I love the flavor of habaneros or scotch bonnets, but that's my max on heat.  I do think they taste better than more common peppers like jalapeno and serrano peppers, but damn, they're hot.  More fruity than grassy, if that makes sense -- it's how I interpret it.

['stache 21817]

Eat them raw then board a plane to Spain. 

[Texzilla58 4738]

homeopathic nasal decongestant

My wife uses that stuff. I do occassionally. She buys it on Amazon. She started it to get rid of migraines. But if you get the rebound from Afrin the pepper spray will fix you up.

[Llewelyn Moss 210]

Grind into a paste then mail to an enemy

 

Seriously though, those things are pure misery and gasoline

Edited September 7, 2023 by Llewelyn Moss

[Scary Stranger 1715]

Man.  It's like you don't even know how to shove things up your butt.
PM NowThis, he can help.

19 posts to get to the obvious answer.

[Hook1997 5367]

I like lots of hot stuff but I once went to a restaurant in Rockport and they had a spicy burger.  When the cook says he will pay for your meal if you eat the whole thing, it’s a bad idea to try, two bites and I was done.  

[smuggs 9353]

9 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

I like lots of hot stuff but I once went to a restaurant in Rockport and they had a spicy burger. 

 

[creeper 98]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/paqui-one-chip-challenge.html

A kid just died after eating a Reaper chip:

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One of the last things Harris Wolobah, 14, of Worcester, Mass., ate before he died was a single tortilla chip in a coffin-shaped box that bore an image of a skull with a snake coiled around it, his mother said.

Lois Wolobah said her son’s school called last Friday to tell her he was sick and that she needed to come and get him.

When she arrived, Harris was clutching his stomach in the nurse’s office, she said in an interview on Tuesday.

He showed her a picture of what he had just consumed: a single Paqui chip, dusted with two of the hottest peppers in the world, the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper. The label on the box said “One Chip Challenge” and carried a warning — “Inside: One Extremely Hot Chip.” Paqui tortilla chips are made by Amplify Snack Brands, a subsidiary of the Hershey Company.

 

 

Ms. Wolobah said she took her son home, but after about two hours he passed out and was rushed to a hospital, where he died. He had faced no underlying health conditions, she said.

 

[Texzilla58 4738]

Hershey will probably be offloading that snack company cheap this afternoon..,

[jimmyjazz 45963]

Jeez . . . did he bleed out or something?

[Deej 76806]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Jeez . . . did he bleed out or something?

He ate it after taking some fentanyl. 

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

Those Paqui chips have been around for some time now.  Be interesting if they actually link it as a cause of death.  

[closetojumping 62740]

33 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Those Paqui chips have been around for some time now.  Be interesting if they actually link it as a cause of death.  

I had an employee take the "one chip challenge" with the Paqui chip a few years back. He did it as a stunt after lunch in front of the rest of the office and the bet was that he couldn't drink a glass of milk for 10 minutes. He made it, but he paid the price. He sweated through his clothes, had to lay down for more than an hour, and then apparently experienced something unholy in the bathroom that could be heard from the hallway.

We sent his ass home. He showed up the next day and said he hadn't eaten anything since, had been sprinting to the bathroom for the better part of the evening, and then it effected his sleep. This was a decently in-shape dude in his 20's. 

One other stupid bet story involving such things. I was working at a corporate shop when ghost peppers became the rage. The IT department had some sort of contest involving ghost pepper oil. They had a dropper and were putting certain amounts on chips to see who could handle it.

One of the older Indian ladies, who claimed to eat super hot curries all the time, decided to one-up the group. She took the dripper, loaded it up, and then squeezed it into her mouth and swallowed. It caused her to faint. They wheeled her out in a gurney and an ambulance took her to the hospital. She missed work for a week and allegedly filed some sort of grievance or complaint against the corporate entity that led to a settlement.

[TonyTexas 10515]

There is a YouTube series called Hot Ones where the host interviews celebrities while eating wings of ascending levels of heat. It’s funny to watch as they go higher and higher on the Scoville scale. 

[South Austin 52515]

The first time I ever cooked with habaneros, I made the mistake of mincing them without gloves.  I washed my hands thoroughly.  About 30 minutes later I took a piss.  Bad mistake.  For the next several hours I felt like I just got back from a Texas Tech sorority party. 

[Pato del Muerto 52507]

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[ztejas 43464]

9 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The first time I ever cooked with habaneros, I made the mistake of mincing them without gloves.  I washed my hands thoroughly.  About 30 minutes later I took a piss.  Bad mistake.  For the next several hours I felt like I just got back from a Texas Tech sorority party. 

Yeah even habaneros you have to be careful working with. Me and a buddy were making a salsa one time and threw in maybe a pepper or two into the blender. He took the top off the blender after we ran it and got a blast to the face of the aerosoled pepper mix. It wasn't incapacitating or anything but safe to say it'll wake your ass up in the morning. 

Ghost peppers are a whole 'nother level. Which is why my initial advice was just to throw that shit away. It's not worth fucking your evening up or pissing your wife or kids off or whatever because you wanted to try and find a way to cook with it. Yes, you can cook with them. Yes, they have a nice flavor. But I'm going to let someone else do the dirty work and glove and goggle up. I'll try whatever the end result is - I have a high spice tolerance - for me the juice just isn't worth the squeeze when it comes to preparing ridiculously hot peppers. (I think most Ghost peppers are 6x or more hotter than habañeros).

[closetojumping 62740]

54 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The first time I ever cooked with habaneros, I made the mistake of mincing them without gloves.  I washed my hands thoroughly.  About 30 minutes later I took a piss.  Bad mistake.  For the next several hours I felt like I just got back from a Texas Tech sorority party. 

I once cored like 50 jalapenos without gloves. I didn't know better and didn't realize that that was a big no-no. I also washed my hands so as to avoid burning my eyes later when I removed my contacts. About an hour after coring, I felt like my hands were on fire. That did not go away until the following morning.

When I started looking up stories on that kind of thing, I read some wild shit. Some woman in a catering business cored over 1000 jalapenos for an event without gloves. She had to be physically restrained at the hospital to keep from harming herself and they gave her morphine for some time period to get her through the experience. 

[Gene Parmesan 4007]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Yeah even habaneros you have to be careful working with. Me and a buddy were making a salsa one time and threw in maybe a pepper or two into the blender. He took the top off the blender after we ran it and got a blast to the face of the aerosoled pepper mix. It wasn't incapacitating or anything but safe to say it'll wake your ass up in the morning. 

Ghost peppers are a whole 'nother level. Which is why my initial advice was just to throw that shit away. It's not worth fucking your evening up or pissing your wife or kids off or whatever because you wanted to try and find a way to cook with it. Yes, you can cook with them. Yes, they have a nice flavor. But I'm going to let someone else do the dirty work and glove and goggle up. I'll try whatever the end result is - I have a high spice tolerance - for me the juice just isn't worth the squeeze when it comes to preparing ridiculously hot peppers. (I think most Ghost peppers are 6x or more hotter than habañeros).

All the new hybrid peppers were created with the purpose of setting Scoville records.  Before then something like a habanero was probably about as hot as you could find in nature.  Now these new hybrid peppers make a habanero seem like child's play, and habaneros will fuck up the average joe.  The sadist that eat shit like reapers and ghost peppers would give the cenobites a run for their money. 

[NorthLoop 14214]

7 hours ago, smuggs said:

 

This should've been the 2nd post on this thread. 

[jimmyjazz 45963]

Yeah, the handwashing with normal hand soap doesn't work too well, because the oils typically aren't water soluble and the soap isn't all that effective.  I learned the hard way by blending a habanero in some homemade salsa and then rubbing my eye long after I had "washed" my hands.

I've heard dish soap is much better.  For me, if it's habanero, it's gloves.  I can deal with jalapenos and serranos.

[Teamdirtyleg 1060]

3 hours ago, South Austin said:

The first time I ever cooked with habaneros, I made the mistake of mincing them without gloves.  I washed my hands thoroughly.  About 30 minutes later I took a piss.  Bad mistake.  For the next several hours I felt like I just got back from a Texas Tech sorority party. 

Same, except I removed my contacts that night.  It was not good

[NWBuck 8570]

Here's how you know you're stupid:

Cut all your peppers and onions and such for chili. 

Scrape seeds and stems and stuff into the sink/garbage disposal. 

Turn on the disposal. 

Profit. 

[DoobieWah 1445]

#1. To wash your hands after handling peppers, use Dawn dish soap. It's pretty much the best for cleaning grease and oils. 

 

#2. After reading the ghost (pepper) stories above, I'm starting to think Buzz's neighbor may not like him very much. 

 

 

[DoobieWah 1445]

I forgot to add I posted this pic on the potato chip thread. I haven’t tried them yet and now I’m not sure I want to. 
 

 

The lobster ones weren’t anything special tbh. 

[956 Worldwide 34715]

I am pretty sure that ghost peppers are actually used and grown in northern India. I still wouldn’t touch them in my own kitchen or house. If you’re inclined you might find someone near you who would do the work to turn them into a hot sauce. 
 

Reapers and others like that are just grown to set world records for measured heat. Actually eating them is dumb. It’s sort of like getting one of those Bonneville Salt Flat rocket cars and taking it to the store. 
 

 

[South Austin 52515]

5280 Burger Bar on Far West has a burger called the Ring of Fire, which is topped with sauteed serranos and habaneros along with their Ring of Fire sauce. I'm not sure exactly what's in the sauce, but I think it's a puree of the same peppers.  Whatever it is, it's at the outer end of my heat limit.  Tasty, but any more heat and the heat sensation overpowers the food.  If you order that burger you get your second beer half off.