World’s Hottest Pepper

[Neonmoon 38129]

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x
 

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“Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. A jalapeño, by comparison, measures just 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, while a serrano can land between 10,000 and 23,000 SHUs.

The previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, which was also developed by Currie, averaged 1.64 million SHUs.

Currie described the feeling of eating a whole Pepper X: "There's an intense burn that happens immediately. Then your head kind of feels like, 'Oh no! What's going on?' And then your body just starts reacting. You get it in your arms, you get it in your chest," he said.

"It has no real throat burn like the Reaper, but that comes on later when you're in pain."

 

Hard pass

[Trey3216 15349]

28 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x
 

Hard pass

Dumb 

[TornACL 7718]

I can't imagine eating a jalapeno and then being handed another pepper to try that is ~500 times hotter. Fuuuuuck that.

Edited October 18, 2023 by TornACL

[Braff Zacklin 13625]

1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x

[Neonmoon 38129]

What kind of psycho eats a scotch bonnet or habanero and is like, nah, I want something that makes my insides hurt. 

[Slacks 6821]

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

What kind of psycho eats a scotch bonnet or habanero and is like, nah, I want something that makes my insides hurt. 

[Slacks 6821]

Can't lie... I love hot sauce. I put Reapers, Ghosts, and Scorpions with other less deadly (feeling) peppers, and boil or ferment them.

Boiling them makes everyone cough and tear up. 

I'll try X or a Dragons Breath with some sweet and hot peppers and some side peppers (cayenne, Thai, maybe Habs) in a sauce if I can find them. 

I'm not opposed to a bite from a Reaper, Scorpion, Ghost... But I'm not just eating them to eat them like a Serrano. That's just crazy. 

 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

11 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Can't lie... I love hot sauce. I put Reapers, Ghosts, and Scorpions with other less deadly (feeling) peppers, and boil or ferment them.

Boiling them makes everyone cough and tear up. 

I'll try X or a Dragons Breath with some sweet and hot peppers and some side peppers (cayenne, Thai, maybe Habs) in a sauce if I can find them. 

I'm not opposed to a bite from a Reaper, Scorpion, Ghost... But I'm not just eating them to eat them like a Serrano. That's just crazy. 

 

I grew some this year that came up as volunteers. They didn't set peppers at all this summer. They finally started to after it cooled off some. They will light you up. Kinda Tabasco shaped, but a little smaller. Upright on the plant. I don't know what they hybridized from but they are dangerous as hell. Little bite sized bombs.

[Slacks 6821]

5 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I grew some this year that came up as volunteers. They didn't set peppers at all this summer. They finally started to after it cooled off some. They will light you up. Kinda Tabasco shaped, but a little smaller. Upright on the plant. I don't know what they hybridized from but they are dangerous as hell. Little bite sized bombs.

Yeah, our plants did nothing this year, then we just quit trying with the water. 

I need to figure out a fall superhot plan of some sort. 

[Slacks 6821]

12 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I grew some this year that came up as volunteers. They didn't set peppers at all this summer. They finally started to after it cooled off some. They will light you up. Kinda Tabasco shaped, but a little smaller. Upright on the plant. I don't know what they hybridized from but they are dangerous as hell. Little bite sized bombs.

Cool. Where did you get the X seeds? 

Our Reapers might still make it (even though I accidentally set one of raised beds on fire... don't judge me.

[cactusflinthead 27601]

29 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Cool. Where did you get the X seeds? 

Our Reapers might still make it (even though I accidentally set one of raised beds on fire... don't judge me.

I really don't know. I had Tabasco, cayenne, banana, and some jalapenos in there last year. No telling which ones were the parents. They came up everywhere. Big tall plants. They kept growing all summer, big fat leaves and flowered well, but would not set bud. I cut them back because they were crowding out other stuff. Zero fucks given, kept on growing. I left one alone that is back by the compost pile. It's about 4' tall. Little light green peppers about an inch long. One nibble was enough to light me up. I'm thinking it's primarily Tabasco but they are a little smaller than a true Tabasco.

[52-80 19185]

8 hours ago, TornACL said:

I can't imagine eating a jalapeno and then being handed another pepper to try that is ~500 times hotter. Fuuuuuck that.

would you rather eat 500 jalapenos, or 1 pepper 500x hotter than a jalapeno

[77horn 216]

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Ed Currie, founder of PuckerButt Pepper Company 

 

[Jerry Callo 8704]

12 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

What kind of psycho eats a scotch bonnet or habanero and is like, nah, I want something that makes my insides hurt. 

Catfish Cooley

[Texzilla58 4738]

If a pepper is basically being raised to be made into bear spray or paint stripper I will hard pass.

I used to be able to eat a fresh habanero without much discomfort. In 00 I had extensive sinus surgery and once healed my scoville chart got rearranged. Now anything beyond a jalapeño will split my head in two.

['stache 21823]