Aktar Miha, from the Indus Bangladeshi restaurant in Bournemouth, said that even in its home country the naga chilli was treated with respect. “It is used in some cooking, mainly with fish curries, but most people don’t cook with it. They hold it by the stalk and just touch their food with it,” he said.
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Thoth Amon wrote:For comparison, what is a habanero rated? Jalapeno?
Jalapeno 2,500-5,000 (although the end of the article says they go up to about 8,000 - which I guess would be a record-holding pepper)
Habanero 200,000 - 300,000
There is a point beyond which you can no longer taste the flavor of a pepper through the heat - that point probably varies for different people, but the point of peppers is the flavor, not pure heat. Habaneros taste like crap, IMO, without respect to the heat.
I've had some Asian peppers that managed to exceed the heat of a jalapeno without losing the open, fresh taste that you can get from a well prepared pepper dish, but I'm guessing that above 8K SHU it's all about heat and no longer about flavor.
I recommend After Death Sauce to those of you who like spicy. A few years ago there was another nasty concentrate with death in the name that was impressive as well but I can't recall the whole name at the moment.
I typically use two drops of Endorphin Rush to a plate of food; my tolerance must be going up - used to be two drops was a whole pot of chili's worth of seasoning for me.
Incidentally Endorpin Rush is a paltry 30k-ish scovilles.
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My brother in law was just out of the army, and came to visit us down here with his dad (my father in law). We had some "Insanity Sauce" (I don't know the SHU), and he watched everyone gingerly putting 1 or 2 carefully measured drops into their food. He decided to be macho, and put something like 10 drops into his.
Sick all night long.
When native Texans or native Asian-Indians are being careful with a pepper, it's best to follow suit. It's kind of like the T-shirt: "Bomb Squad: if you see us running, try to keep up"
Having been to India... Some like it HOT! and they giggle at your little girly weakness even after having been in Texas since '78.
I was on the train to Shimla and there was this couple with three children next to me. The youngest daughter was reading a simple english comic book to practice her english and being a ferengi they struck up a conversation with me and my wife, Suzi. (If you don't know almost anyone will talk to you in India if you look western. Not just because they want to practice their english skills, but also becase you're a novelty-like a talking dog. )
She was eating a snack that looked like thin cheetoes without the coloring and she graciously offered some to me. I took, oh 3 or 4 and bit into them and almost had an immediate fit to the great delight of everyone on the train.
i like my pepeprs down in the low range. I do enjoy eatign jalapenos from jars or cans for soem odd reason. One day about 9 years ago I'm enjoying a tin of jalapenos and my then 18month to 2 year old son comes over to me and asks what I'm eating,i tell him and saysthey are yummy bu they are hot, he bugs me for one, i say "no they are hot", he keeps bugging me I relent and hand hima little jalapeno. he looked at it briefly and popped the whole thign in his mouth...made a "yummy" facer and started chewing...and realized what I meant by "hot" he started to spit it out and i stopped him. "You ask for the food , you eat the food"...with aa look of anguish on his face he carredi on chewing it and swallowed it. "hot wasn't it? It still tasted good anyway didn't it?". he agreed nodding his head while the hot pepper was trying to kill him. "Let's get you a piece of bread" and i led him off into the kitchen..."want another one?".
My kids actually have a pretty advanced pallette and eat most foods becasue while i was careful not to injure them or make them sick I always fed them the food i ate. They currently like spicey vindaloos when we go to an Indian restaraunt.
A few years ago there was another nasty concentrate with death in the name that was impressive as well but I can't recall the whole name at the moment.
Some like it HOT! and they giggle at your little girly weakness even after having been in Texas since '78.
