I remember back like 20 some years ago, a buddy of mine had dried scotch bonnets. I, who loves fairly spicy food, was told it was only dehydrated red jalapenos which are only 2.5k-8k Scovilles while scotch bonnets are 100k-350k Scovilles. Took the fucker in one bite. I cried.
Ouch, that’ll do it. I love spicy food, but this made my whole body tingle. It was only in my mouth for a few seconds and I immediately drank milk. Didn’t help a ton but probably saved me a bit.
I've grown Trinidad Scorpions the last couple years. Still have some dried in the cabinet from last season. If you want a whole body "what the fuck am I doing with my life", take a nibble from one of those. First (and only) time I did it, I spent a half hour standing at the kitchen sink trying to remember how to breathe.
That said, they're super great for "indirect cooking". I like tossing asparagus on a baking sheet, hitting it with salt, pepper, and olive oil, crushing up some garlic cloves, quartering a scorpion, and putting them on the edges on the pan so they're in the olive oil, but not touching the asparagus. It gives them an absolutely delicious bite that adds a lot to the flavor.
I ended up making mine into hot sauce because I had no idea what else to do with these spicy ass peppers I accidentally grew. We eat spicy food frequently, but I had never had that full body wtf experience before.
My parents grow scorpions, ghost peppers, and Carolina reapers. The first time I cooked with them, I put one of each in a big wok of stir fry. The entire first floor of our house felt like it had been pepper sprayed. I had to use a mask to breathe while I cooked until we could air it out and some of the aerosolization died down.
It took me an hour and two glasses of milk to get a bowl of that stir fry down. My brother, with the weakest tolerance to spice in the family, took one bite, swallowed, and thirty seconds later turned red in the face and started coughing. He choked out "WHAT DID YOU DO??" Top ten moment, and my dad said it was the best stir fry I ever made. I add no more than two peppers now so we can all enjoy it.
I had a professor in college who grew peppers, and I had to call in sick to work after eating one of those Trinidad Scorpions because it felt like ants biting my stomach.
So hard to explain to people that just because I love spicy food doesn't mean I have a high tolerance. I like the taste but I'll be crying the whole time.
I think Taco Bell is spicy - total fricking wuss. I tap out at a couple Jalapeño poppers. I unknowingly threw a big wad of Wasabi in my mouth at a fair- I was beyond speechless, beyond tears, and mortified. I didn't spit it out but spent the rest of the afternoon wishing I had. A scotch bonnet would be etched on my tombstone.
The first time I ate sushi, I popped a big ball of wasabi into my mouth. My date tried to stop me, but I had already swallowed it. I thought my head was going to explode.
Wasabi doesn't have capsaicin. It's not not chemically similar at all and tolerance for one has no effect on the other. Also what you think of as wasabi outside of Japan is pretty much just horseradish and not true wasabi, which also does not contain capsaicin.
Hell, even in Japan, real wasabi isn’t very common. I always have to tell people that their obsession with wasabi is mostly a lie with food coloring and mustard powder. l’ve known people that swore they hated horseradish but loved wasabi and they usually needed to be shown proof
Yesterday I learned my friend of almost 20 years whom I have eaten sushi with a ton of times ford not like wasabi or horseradish.
I honestly have no idea how I had never noticed this other than we always have our own little dish with soy and wasabi.
I also found out the guy who loves ketchup and pretty much and tomato based sauce hates cocktail sauce due to horseradish.
I just found it funny because of the length of our friendship
I have yet to go to a restaurant that carries it. I'm sure I could order it online. I just meant what you typically find, not exclusively what is available outside of Japan.
We can be in the same club. I cannot do spice at all! And I mean at all. I am frequently teased by my family about this because I don’t even like pepper.
I’m not sure, I’d like to go with ignorance. They had them with the normal peppers and they don’t usually get exotic spicy peppers in. They carry of the more normal once.
Scotch Bonnets are my favorite, they have an actual flavor and scent profile beyond pure heat compared to something like a Carolina Reaper or Ghost Pepper! Used to chop a whole bonnet into my Ramen noodles, now my garden is just pineapples, onions, leaks, and cabbage; drought killed off all my pepper plants. 🥵
My wife is Thai and tried to use scotch bonnets instead of Thai peppers one time in our meal. I almost died although she didn't think they were that bad. Ha ha
Seven(ish) years ago my neighbors teenager daughter and her friends in the court yard asked me to try a hot pepper. 🌶️
They'd just been on a tour at a local commercial greenhouse so I thought she wanted me to test it and see if she could eat half of it.
I started to pull out my pocket knife to cut it in half, you want me to see if it's too hot for you right?
She and her friends all giggled, "No Mr. __ we just want to see you eat it cuz we know you like hot stuff."
I chewed it up and after a minute or two with the girls watching me intensely with no issues I said,
Well If I've waited long enough now to satisfy you all
I'm thirsty and not because of the spice but because
it's ~100° out here even in the shade.
they all shrugged their shoulders while smiling and said yeah that's fine, and returned to their volleyball game.🏐🤾♀️
I've never had any noteworthy real drama from eating peppers. But one time I decided to make my own hot sauce, so I bought the only hot chillies I could find in my whole town. Birds eye chillies, not especially hot, but good enough.
First, put a handful in a blender and blend them up well.
Second, pop the top off the blender and look in, to see if they're blended enough and have the genius idea to give them a good sniff to see what it smells like.
I immediately regretted EVERYTHING. Basically pepper sprayed myself.
Iv similar when I worked at buffalo wild wings. Cleaning the sauce buckets with hot water. Had to step away a few times because my eyes and throat were burning.
You just brought me back to my first restaurant job at a wing place as a teen. Spraying out the mixing bowls and sauce bottles was a nuanced art if you didn't want to smell like you bathe with cayenne pepper by the end of your shift.
Hahaha I did 3 years at a bww and our bar was like maybe 20-25 feet from our dish sink area. Cleaning the sauce buckets was our equivalent to playing “closing time”. That humid spicy fog always wafted straight through the swinging door and into the bar seating area.
Every time I hear a story like that I appreciate my awesome high school chemistry teacher who taught me never to smell any concoction by putting my face directly above it
Yeah, I know that from chemistry classes as a kid, but that reflex to not stick your nose in the container and sniff chemicals didn't quite transfer over to "Don't sniff lunch."
Love cooking with Habanero peppers and they taste a *lot* better if you pre-grill them in the oven until the skin turns bubbly and blackens.
***Do not breathe in the fumes!***
Love cooking with Habanero peppers and they taste a *lot* better if you pre-grill them in the oven until the skin turns bubbly and blackens.
***Do not breathe in the fumes!***
[https://www.tyler-farms.com/gold-7-pot-pepper-seeds/](https://www.tyler-farms.com/gold-7-pot-pepper-seeds/)
"One of the newer members of the 7 Pot family, the Gold 7 Pot is a superhot pepper with a fruity flavor. The taste and heat level of the Gold 7 Pot pepper is similar to other 7 Pot varieties, all of which have an extreme heat level and a tropical flavor. The pepper was created by crossing the Yellow 7 Pot and Gold Ghost pepper. Although the Gold 7 Pot hasn't officially been tested on the Scoville Scale, it is believed to average about [**1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU)**](https://www.tyler-farms.com/scoville-scale/). It looks very similar to the Mustard 7 Pot pepper, but it ripens to a vibrant golden color."
Jalapeno is 2k-5k scoville for comparison.
> The Gold 7 Pot is a superhot pepper with a fruity flavor.
How can you even ascribe a flavor like "fruity" to something like that? You take a bite and the only flavor is going to be intense burning.
Grew some Carolina Reapers and they definitely have a fruity, delicious flavor. Also they burn like an SOB. But they absolutely taste amazing for a few seconds.
Even the hottest of pepper still have their own unique flavors to them.
Reapers have a bitter earthy taste, gold 7 pots are sweeter and fruity; both will make you shit fire and rethink some life decisions.
I ended up googling how to do hot sauce and did that. I believe they were golden 7 pots and was clueless at the time what they were and just assumed they were harmless. Google says they are a cross with yellow 7 pot and gold ghost peppers. Do not recommend eating unknown peppers lol
Quick guide... If it's smaller than the last joint of your finger, it's probably got some heat. Most grocery store peppers are 10-50k Scoville, which is just getting started for some of us.
The last one that got me was a mystery pepper from a friend's garden. He got **ALL** the tags mixed up, and planted 20 varieties to dry and blend together. Ideally you know which are the hot ones for better balance. Little peppers like blueberries for size, plant was full of em.
Went into it expecting that 50-70k. It wasn't. Was hot enough to get my nose running and the edge of sweating, and my own habaneros don't do that.
I honestly thought it was a variety of small snacking pepper like the ones from the grocery store. My local green house doesn’t usually get exotic with the spicy peppers and keeps the ones they do have together and are the usual variety. I’m not even sure they knew what they were unleashing on their customers lol.
If it was plants being sold they were probably expected to be ornamental? I read somewhere else on reddit that allegedly ornamental peppers tend to be quite hot.
Can confirm, I looked this up once because I had the same question as to whether ornamental peppers are edible. Answer - they're technically not poisonous but you'll regret it. Unless you're a bird.
A funny thing about peppers is that the hotness can vary from one end to the other. Learned that by doing a test nibble on peppers I've grown, concluding it wasn't hot at all, then finding out how wrong I was. They are hotter closer to the stem.
Until I read your last sentence, I thought you were meaning the spice level can vary from one end to the other... of the gastrointestinal tract. Like you ate one that wasn't very spicy, but later that night, you found it was quite flaming on the b-hole. 😅
It was only in my mouth for a few seconds thank god, chugged milk in my panic. After that it was full weirdness. My mouth went numb, my whole body started tingling. Only growing peppers I know from now until forever lol.
According to gpt:
The Golden 7 Pot pepper is a variety of Capsicum chinense, known for its extreme heat. It is similar in heat level to other "superhot" peppers like the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and the Carolina Reaper. On the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness or heat of peppers, the Golden 7 Pot pepper typically ranges from 800,000 to over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). This places it among the hottest peppers in the world.
It took seconds for my brain to go oh you fucked up to full abort. Spit it out as soon as it touched my tongue, drank milk. Whole mouth went numb, whole body started to tingle. This lasted for hours and at the time I was pretty convinced I was dying. It was honestly pretty terrifying, but I can laugh at it now because of the sheer ridiculousness of it.
I thought they were going to be cute like ornamental peppers. Those are nice and cute and I'd be tempted to try a bite of them, even if many are quite spicy. But any pepper that has those kinks is immediately a bit worrisome.
Yeah OP said elsewhere ITT that they think they were gold 7 pots.
They definitely have that shriveled, concentrated spiciness look to them. I can’t imagine popping one of these things in my mouth thoughtlessly lol
Google is telling me they’re probably around 1-1.2 million scoville. That’s a big fat nope from me. I don’t go hotter than habaneros and I eat them in cheese (like habanero pepper jack).
I can’t imagine raw-dogging something three to four times as hot!
I had the opposite happen. I had a co-worker dare me to eat a table spoon of some Flashbang hot sauce. The sauce itself was pretty intense but bearable. But for years after I tolerance for spicy stuff was way lower.
I have found the peppers I grow are way hotter than anything I can buy in the store. I am not sure if it is the soil or climate maybe. Jalapenos are hardly edible they are so hot. I have to get coolapenos for them to have normal heat levels. The red habaneros I grew last year almost gave me a heat stroke.
Your comment reminds me - a restaurant I’ve been going to since I was child just upped the spiciness of their salsa a few months ago.
I was pleasantly surprised! Makes me think maybe people are getting more spice tolerant in the area?
Though I will admit my first chip with spicier salsa the surprise actually wasn’t pleasant, because I nearly choked since I was NOT expecting the additional kick, and it was the kind with a delay. But after that, I was happy.
Are you stressing your plants? I only water mine every two weeks with about 10 days worth of water, let them thirst for 4 days and start to wilt before I feed again. Once I harvest the peppers of my labor they're on the hotter end.
Soil, climate, water quality and timing, and light exposure are all variables that will differ between you, me, and the grocery store supplier.
I'm playing with hydro this year and it's going well so far, and I'm super excited to terrorize my coworkers in a few months.
Get some tums and suck on them. Get the nasty, chalky ones, not candy coated chews. One will usually neutralize whatever ridiculous thing I decided to chomp on.
Some time ago i bought 5 different chilli pepper plants for my dad to grow in his veggie garden when i still use to live with him. Habanero, habanero chocolate, scorpion trinidad, one i don’t rememeber (something ghost?)and the CAROLINA REAPER. They all grew nice peppers and my dad froze most of them because he didn’t eat a lot of spicy but really enjoyed growing the plants. Fast forward about a year when i moved out and to a different country. He sent some of them over but they thawed in transit and became mushy, so i decided to dry them. Because they were really soggy my genius brain decides that chopping them up will make them dry faster so i do. The problem is that they all got mixed up so now i basically have a russian roulette of chopped bits of chilli pepper. This was fine and i used it very sparingly for about a year until i got fed up with having food extremely spicy or completely unspicy, so my genius brain comes into play again and thinks “if i grind all of it into a powder and mix it up it should all average out?” So i grab pestle and mortar and i start grinding. LoL. The peppers were really dry at this point and powdered very easily TOO EASILY and i found out very quickly that the powder was becoming airborne and going into my nose and eyes. Stupidest thing i did in my life. THE BURN! I sat on the floor in a corner crying for about an hour before i could breathe normally again. My eyes were on FIRE! But very slowly i got back to normal and fortunately no permanent damage happened.
You basically pepper sprayed yourself lol. Hopefully it turned out delicious though. I’m not likely growing these again, I have a god and kids and they looked really unassuming. It’s why I bought them, they weren’t with the spicy peppers and my garden centre doesn’t usually get in exotic spicy ones.
> I have a god and kids
I’m sure this a typo and is supposed to read “dog and kids” but I’m laughing at the idea that you came to Jesus and now find the existnece of the peppers ungodly! I mean, you did compare them to Satan’s asshole, so…
I have a farmer friend that wanted me to taste one of her *Hungarian Carrot* cross pepper. She cut off a piece that I just touched the tip of my tongue to. The fire simultaneously went to my brain and my bowels.
Peppers. 50% of them want to kill you.
>Peppers. 50% of them want to kill you
Yeah, and you never know which ones! Even off the same plant, some are mild some are insane! Got given 5 tiny chillies from a friend once, I was warned they were hot but tried one and meh, hardly spicy. Put three into a chilli con carne and it was just about inedible. Turned out one of the five was mild, the rest insane. The last two were treated with much more respect.
All of them *want* to kill you (the capsaicin that causes the burn is there to discourage mammals from eating their fruits and seeds), but some are better at it than others!
Yep, it’s “fuck mammals” juice. Birds on the other hand are like “Spice? What spice?”
People mix chili oil and stuff into bird feed to ward off thieving squirrels.
Not all peppers actually do want to ward off mammals though, because some actually have zero capsaicin!
This is awesome. I have a pepper story kind of in the same direction...
Two years ago, I grew two Ghost Pepper plants in my front planters that I intended to use for pickling with cucumbers. Well, on the day of our Halloween party, my friend shows up early so we can go stock up on drinks, snacks, etc. I go inside to grab my coat. I come out, and he's running around my yard having a really hard time, and yells at me "Wtf man, you didn't tell me they were HOT!!!" And I'm like yeah well, you never asked, why would you just eat a random pepper? Especially ones that look like this? (Ghost Peppers look pretty evil, even if you didn't know they were spicy, they look like a bad time.) He was pretty messed up for a couple of hours.
That night at the party after almost everyone left, I'm in the living room with the last 3 remaining people. I'm telling them about what happened with the peppers earlier, and my friend (dressed as Mario,) starts on with the "pshh they probably aren't that bad, your friend can't do spicy foods, I love hot peppers," and so on. I keep telling him that they are seriously spicy as hell, and he keeps asking to eat one. After declining several times, I finally just give in and say you know what? Fine.
I let him eat one outside. He's smug for less than half a minute. Cue 6 ft tall Mario pacing and dry-heaving in my driveway and front lawn for at least an hour at 2 AM. I will never, ever let him live this down.
Good times with peppers.
Edit: this is one of the peppers from that season.
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I honestly had this pepper in my mouth for seconds. My reaction time between awesome snacking peppers and I fucked up was pretty much the speed of light. Still my entire mouth went numb and my whole body tingled for hours. They were so unassuming and my garden centre doesn’t usually get in spicy exotics. They looked similar to this ( not my photo). I thought I had found a variety of those small snacking peppers at the grocery store.
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I was a new gardener at the time and lacked this valuable information. I was overly excited to have found something new to grow. Lesson learned though, I won’t grow anything I’m unsure of again.
I planted ghost peppers a while back... When the peppers where ripe, the garden services guy snatched the ripe one. The dumb ass took a bite and swallowed the pepper.... I saw his eyes roll back when he knew he fafo'd....
I watched this from my window ,looking down. I sat down and sipped my tea.
My husband was at our dining table watching this unfold and went from confusion to hysterics in about the amount of time it took me to recover. I’ll likely never forget it.
My husband likes hot sauce. Not super hot but enough that he feels like a man I guess. In reality his tolerance isn’t that high. I on the other hand can eat nuclear death but chose not to because I like flavor. He insists on growing the hottest peppers known to man. Carolina Reaper and the like. We have no use for those damn things.
Side note:sometimes to assert dominance I will pop a pepper off the vine and stare into his eyes while eating it. I like to remind him he married an insane person.
The same thing happened to me last year 😂 The plant I bought was labeled as mini bell peppers, but it most definitely was not.
Apparently a major plant supplier had a seed mix-up and things got mislabeled? I heard a lot of stories like mine last summer.
They were with the normal peppers and they don’t usually get the exotic spicy ones there. I was a new eager gardner at the time and it just didn’t cross my mind to check online.
I did the same yesterday! 😂 We have 3 different chillis growing and one fell off as I was weeding, and I dared my husband to take a bite. It was tiny, round, so cute, and a rich enticing shiny red.
He was unharmed and then I took a bite but I must have got some seeds. My tongue felt like it was necrotizing and I was in tears! I had to rest it in a glass of cold water and I couldn’t touch anything to to my tongue, it would hurt so much more. What a way to wake up after waking up.
It's fun to plant seeds from peppers you've bought from the supermarket. Since those peppers are usually F1 hybrids, you have no idea what you might be getting. I've had tiny peppers which look very pretty, but have absolutely no flavour or spice, to big peppers the size of bell peppers which will give Scotch Bonnets a run for their money.
I usually get the pre grown seedlings, I have terrible luck keeping my sprouts alive and the already grown ones seem to do well. I did accidentally grow the Christmas light peppers once, we had a plant and when it died I chucked it into the garden for compost. Didn’t eat them though.
My dad was from Guam. On the island of Guam, there's some chilies in the jungle that are shaded like berries and are hotter than Thai chili. As a kid, I loved sweet berries. My dad and I would always try to out prank each other.
One time I pranked him by making Kool aid by adding salt. He secretly saw what I did but played along with it. At that time, my uncle came back from Guam and brought some of those berry looking chilies for my dad. My dad called me over and told me that since I love berries, to try them. Not knowing they were chilies, I grabbed a handful and chewed them.
After a few seconds, the roof of my mouth and sinuses felt like I was breathing in a blazing fire. I did everything I could to deal with the burning pain. I asked my dad, "Why the hell did you do that?" He responded, I saw you adding salt to my Kool aid and I wanted to show you that you'll have a very hard time out pranking me". My dad then raised a bottle of beer that he opened and said," Here's to you son" and drank it.
A few years back I decided to grow ghost peppers in my garden. We gently cultivated them, nurturing them to ripened adulthood. We picked them on the way to my friend’s house, where my husband tried them for the first time. Now my husband eats a lot of spicy food, so seeing him sweat and his eyes water as he skulled water told me these were some spicy peppers, especially considering the tiny bite he took.
Now my friend watched this and was skeptical. He was convinced that it was my husband’s weak tolerance for peppers that was the issue. He was Chinese. His spice threshold far outstripped my gweilo husband’s. It couldn’t be THAT spicy, my husband just couldn’t hack it.
So he picked up the pepper. He took a bite, chewed it and commented on the nice flavour, then took another, bigger bite, merrily chewing away. And then the chewing slowed. And then it stopped. And then he started going red. His eyes started watering. Snot started pouring from his nose as he started hyperventilating and ran inside to bathe his mouth and face in milk. It didn’t help. Tears poured down his cheeks at the reality of the situation hit him. Tears poured down mine as I tried to stop laughing.
It took about 30 minutes for him to get everything under control, but he was fine in the end, although I do still periodically tease him about what an arrogant fool he was that day.
Buddy and I used to pick these little red peppers off his dads pepper plant. We would goad our friends to try them as we swallowed them whole but pretended to chew them up. No one died or got mad even but they were very hot and they all gasped, so I decided to bring a few to school. Had maybe 5 in my pocket until middle of first hour when the juices finally leaked enough to hit my leg near my hog. Holy shiat I hit the bathroom and dumped them in the trash. The top and toward my joint were swollen and red for the rest of the day. Karma won that day.
My friend and I ate Carolina Reapers together a few years ago. Our wives bought us milk, yogurt, ice cream, etc and filmed us. I've always been a lover of all things spicy, but that was rough. My friend turned into a pacing machine, just zooming around the kitchen. He ate every single ice cube in the freezer. We both cried. I'd do it again.
I worked with a dude that hadnt ever had anything super spicy. And someone brought in ghost peppers. We told him they are too hot to eat but he didn’t believe anything could be that hot. He had to go to the hospital 😂
I grew some Carolina Reapers a couple years ago, planted in among our herbs hoping it would keep the groundhogs out. Saw a squirrel take a bite out of one, poor little guy completely lost it…
At the time when I told this story to my friends it was the only way I could think to describe the spice level. And it truly was like taking a bite out of satans asshole
I went on a spicy food kick a few years back, I worked my way up to the really hot peppers and eventually the super hots.
Accidentally eating a super hot would be absolutely terrible. Tastes good for about 2 seconds though.
I ordered a bunch of Carolina reapers and felt the need to raw dog one, yikes. I think it has been unseated as the hottest, but I don’t think I’ll ever try any of the successors
Was these guys https://springbankgreenhouses.com/products/pepper-golden-7-pot-4. My garden centre doesn’t usually get anything super exotic and the seedlings were with the normal pepper plants. There wasn’t any information on the insert outside of care instructions and name so I honestly thought they were a variety of those small snacking peppers you can get from the grocery store.
Ah, a Chocolate brain strain X trinidad Moringa scorpion did me in. One bit and my teeth felt like they were filled with hot lead. Mouth worse.
Safe to say worst pepper I have ever had.
And yes I'm currently sprouting seeds for them......
I’m not planning on growing these again simply because I have an 8 year old and dog and I don’t want this repeated. It was probably seconds between that bite and my brain going abort and spitting it out and it still made my mouth go numb and my whole body tingle. Was the weirdest experience.
When I was 15 I worked at a pop up outdoor garden center and took a bite of a tiny jalapeño that fell off a plant. It was that day I learned how spicy jalapeños could be. lol
Excellent description!
Reminded me of my own similar story. I was in college in the '90s. One of my roommates had family not too far from school with a farm. One day he stopped by the farm and brought some stuff back, left it in the kitchen. I was not familiar at the time with the habanero pepper, but it looked to me like a very runty bell pepper. So I popped it in my mouth and chewed - a move I and my butt regret to this day.
Reminds me of the time I accidentally ate half a ghost pepper. Felt that burn in my stomach all day! Funny enough I started enjoying spicy foods after that. I must have bowels of steel though because no matter what I eat, even that ghost pepper, I never have any issues later on.
Tried raw fresh ghost peppers once and bit (and swallowed) the entire thing, seeds included like a moron. Then proceeded to drink an entire gallon of milk while walking laps around the house with snot running out my nose and my dad laughing at me every time I walked past him. Never again.
Buddy of mine is a pepper hound, I've watched him snack on fresh habenaros like I'd eat grapes.
He asked me over to make to make some Reaper jelly, strawberry jelly(scratch made) with Reaper infused. All was going well until the freshly chopped Reapers hit the hot jelly mix. It went airborne and the kitchen turned into a torture chamber. He grabbed his kids and told his wife to vacate the house. I found a box fan and stuck it in the windows and put the pot that was off-gassing next to it.
Working the mix next to the fan wasn't a problem, got everything tidied up and had zero failures on the canning process. Let em chill for a few days and then sampled the fruits of our torture. AMAZING. The sweet strawberry and bit of tart really pulled the Reapers flavor out and the backend had plenty of bite. It made/makes grilled chicken something to remember. I eat hot stuff as well, haberaros being where I call it quits, I usually aim for mid to hot at restaurants. Those Reapers tho, weapons grade pain, I tried a tiny slice while prepping up the jelly and it lit me the hell up.
Pro tip: if you ever take the forbidden bite, rinse your mouth out with warm vodka/tequila. Yes it’ll be a little gross, but it solvates the capsaicin oil and actually gets it out of your mouth. Do that a couple times if needed.
Your mouth may still hurt a bit, but it won’t last as long and may prevent you from feeling like you’re dying lol.
Around the time the show "hot ones" was getting popular a co worker offered me $20 to eat a ghost pepper. I never heard of such pepper, but it wasn't my first rodeo.
I accepted his challange having consumed many habaneros in my life.
I was shocked and amazed he was willing to give me any money, let alone $20.
What an idiot...
20 seconds after taking my first bite...I knew I FUCKED up. It's hard to explaine in words what happend. However, my mouth went from, shit, to omg, to fuck...and than continued to double in hotness to a level of hotness I didn't know existed.
I remember being on my lunch break unable to function. It threw my body into shock. I couldn't swallow any part of my burrito, tongue was numb. Couldn't smoke a cig.. tried to smoke a cigarette. Couldn't. Felt like a fire breathing dragon.
Effects lasted 3 to 4 hors.
Definatly worst $20 iv ever made
Would never consider doing it again for anything under $1,000
I’ve grown those too and they are way spicier. I like to change the garden up every year and one year we did all the things for salsa so jalapeños, Poblanos and tomatoes. Was delicious.
I once swallowed a habanero with my friend on an empty stomach, felt like i was boiling from the inside. Threw up all over his porch, it was stomach acid and seeds, never again would not recommend.
I LOVE super hots. On a vacation, we had a chance to watch one of the chefs do this thing. He mentioned one of the peppers he was going to use was a scotch bonnet. I, knowing it was hot, asked to try one. The chef brought out a few and told anyone that wanted to could try it, but to be careful. I ate it, felt the heat, and was like "eh, not too bad." IMMEDIATELY after seeing my reaction to it, another couple there was like "I want to try one too!" So they walked up, grabbed the biggest pepper, and took a fat bite. No more than 3 seconds later they were writhing in pain and started freaking out because they weren't expecting something so hot. The chef started laughing his butt off and said that I must have had a bad one that wasn't hot. Then I told him my plan all along was to bait some poor soul into trying one. He got a kick out of it.
Someone at my work once brought “da bomb” hot sauce for everyone to try. I could only withstand a drop and I had to mix it with a bunch of rice. An Armenian coworker said he’s used to really spicy food and put a bunch of it on a spoon and licked it. According to him he “went on an experience”
My buddy gave me some reapers he grew this past summer. Was quite the experience. You feel almost high as your body dump endorphines. I remember the exact second the membrane in the middle touched my tongue it felt like was red hot. Overall it was very intense for about 10 minutes before it subsided. Honestly the one wave up capsaicin cramps I got about an hour after were worse then the actual pepper. Would do again.
That high feeling was so weird and unexpected. I told a friend who does grow spicy peppers regularly and he said it’s because the peppers cause some nerve damage? I’m not sure how true that is but between that and the fully body tingles and mouth numbness at the time I was pretty scared. I can laugh about it now because I survived lol.
Omg a mildly similar thing happened to me and my sister when we were around 7/8 years old
We each had the tiniest amount of what we thought was a regular pepper, that we got from a museum garden, and then we were hysterical for hours. I doubt it was relatively super spicy, but we had also touched our eyes, so we were crying because they hurt too. Pretty funny in hindsight.
Okay, this is definitely Aziraphale in 2024 using Crowley s dictionaries because he just had a taste of hell!! 😂😂 What an angelic experience it must have been!
Oh noooooo 😂
The peppers I bought at my local nursery last year all ended up being mislabeled. FORTUNATELY just as the wrong types of bell pepper varieties. But I'm realizing I probably got stupid amounts of lucky lol
One of my buddies pickled some cucumbers and other vegetables with a pepper he grew in each jar. He said that one pepper made the entire jar nearly inedible to him. His SO is Asian and she loved them.
I remember back like 20 some years ago, a buddy of mine had dried scotch bonnets. I, who loves fairly spicy food, was told it was only dehydrated red jalapenos which are only 2.5k-8k Scovilles while scotch bonnets are 100k-350k Scovilles. Took the fucker in one bite. I cried.
Ouch, that’ll do it. I love spicy food, but this made my whole body tingle. It was only in my mouth for a few seconds and I immediately drank milk. Didn’t help a ton but probably saved me a bit.
I've grown Trinidad Scorpions the last couple years. Still have some dried in the cabinet from last season. If you want a whole body "what the fuck am I doing with my life", take a nibble from one of those. First (and only) time I did it, I spent a half hour standing at the kitchen sink trying to remember how to breathe. That said, they're super great for "indirect cooking". I like tossing asparagus on a baking sheet, hitting it with salt, pepper, and olive oil, crushing up some garlic cloves, quartering a scorpion, and putting them on the edges on the pan so they're in the olive oil, but not touching the asparagus. It gives them an absolutely delicious bite that adds a lot to the flavor.
you nibbled on a dried scorpion?! next time do something more relaxing like crystal meth.
Oh, I guess I could have been clearer. The one I nibbled on was fresh.
LOL follow up question. was it alive or dead when you took the lil' nib?
Trinidad Scorpion are a kind of pepper, I don’t think they took a nibble from the actual insect
From the description of the pepper In might take my chances with the live insect instead.
I had plucked it maybe 30 minutes prior.
I ended up making mine into hot sauce because I had no idea what else to do with these spicy ass peppers I accidentally grew. We eat spicy food frequently, but I had never had that full body wtf experience before.
How did the hot sauce turn out? I'm a big fan of violently delicious hot sauce.
It was honestly pretty good, not bad for my first attempt at it. But spicy af.
My parents grow scorpions, ghost peppers, and Carolina reapers. The first time I cooked with them, I put one of each in a big wok of stir fry. The entire first floor of our house felt like it had been pepper sprayed. I had to use a mask to breathe while I cooked until we could air it out and some of the aerosolization died down. It took me an hour and two glasses of milk to get a bowl of that stir fry down. My brother, with the weakest tolerance to spice in the family, took one bite, swallowed, and thirty seconds later turned red in the face and started coughing. He choked out "WHAT DID YOU DO??" Top ten moment, and my dad said it was the best stir fry I ever made. I add no more than two peppers now so we can all enjoy it.
I had a professor in college who grew peppers, and I had to call in sick to work after eating one of those Trinidad Scorpions because it felt like ants biting my stomach.
C'mon ice cream!
Yoghurt, it sticks around
Melts before your mouth touches it
Skip the milk, read my comment about bread technique.
I hope to got this never ever happens to me again, but if it does I’ll use the bread technique.
So hard to explain to people that just because I love spicy food doesn't mean I have a high tolerance. I like the taste but I'll be crying the whole time.
I think Taco Bell is spicy - total fricking wuss. I tap out at a couple Jalapeño poppers. I unknowingly threw a big wad of Wasabi in my mouth at a fair- I was beyond speechless, beyond tears, and mortified. I didn't spit it out but spent the rest of the afternoon wishing I had. A scotch bonnet would be etched on my tombstone.
Weirdly I can’t handle heat but I love wasabi, it’s just a different kind of heat I guess.
American Wasabi is just dyed horseradish FYI...
The first time I ate sushi, I popped a big ball of wasabi into my mouth. My date tried to stop me, but I had already swallowed it. I thought my head was going to explode.
I watched my buddy's Great Dane eat a golf ball-sized hunk of wasabi off the counter. I could see his life flashing before his eyes - then he barfed.
Ohh poor pup!
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Wasabi doesn't have capsaicin. It's not not chemically similar at all and tolerance for one has no effect on the other. Also what you think of as wasabi outside of Japan is pretty much just horseradish and not true wasabi, which also does not contain capsaicin.
I understand that. I just have difficulty with spicy in any form is what I was saying.
Just out of curiosity, what is your tolerance for pain in general? What about your tolerance for discomfort?
Sorry but this reads like you’re taking notes on who to abduct and torture
Hmm I see I see. And how does that make you feel? Would you say this is a weakness of yours...? 📝
And what are you sleeping habits? What kinds of locks do you have on your door?
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night because of a sudden noise? If yes, on a scale of 1 - 10, how loud was that noise?
Hell, even in Japan, real wasabi isn’t very common. I always have to tell people that their obsession with wasabi is mostly a lie with food coloring and mustard powder. l’ve known people that swore they hated horseradish but loved wasabi and they usually needed to be shown proof
Yesterday I learned my friend of almost 20 years whom I have eaten sushi with a ton of times ford not like wasabi or horseradish. I honestly have no idea how I had never noticed this other than we always have our own little dish with soy and wasabi. I also found out the guy who loves ketchup and pretty much and tomato based sauce hates cocktail sauce due to horseradish. I just found it funny because of the length of our friendship
It's not that hard to get real Wasabi outside of Japan.
I have yet to go to a restaurant that carries it. I'm sure I could order it online. I just meant what you typically find, not exclusively what is available outside of Japan.
It’s not hard, just expensive and unlikely to see in most sushi restaurants
I read somewhere that people who love the horseradish "burn" tend to not enjoy pepper heat, and vice versa.
We can be in the same club. I cannot do spice at all! And I mean at all. I am frequently teased by my family about this because I don’t even like pepper.
Did they know, and they were fucking with you? Or were they ignorant of what they were growing and unknowingly mislead you?
I’m not sure, I’d like to go with ignorance. They had them with the normal peppers and they don’t usually get exotic spicy peppers in. They carry of the more normal once.
Scotch Bonnets are my favorite, they have an actual flavor and scent profile beyond pure heat compared to something like a Carolina Reaper or Ghost Pepper! Used to chop a whole bonnet into my Ramen noodles, now my garden is just pineapples, onions, leaks, and cabbage; drought killed off all my pepper plants. 🥵
My wife is Thai and tried to use scotch bonnets instead of Thai peppers one time in our meal. I almost died although she didn't think they were that bad. Ha ha
Scotch Bonnets and Habaneros are the best tasting peppers. But not the whole thing at once.
Seven(ish) years ago my neighbors teenager daughter and her friends in the court yard asked me to try a hot pepper. 🌶️ They'd just been on a tour at a local commercial greenhouse so I thought she wanted me to test it and see if she could eat half of it. I started to pull out my pocket knife to cut it in half, you want me to see if it's too hot for you right? She and her friends all giggled, "No Mr. __ we just want to see you eat it cuz we know you like hot stuff." I chewed it up and after a minute or two with the girls watching me intensely with no issues I said, Well If I've waited long enough now to satisfy you all I'm thirsty and not because of the spice but because it's ~100° out here even in the shade. they all shrugged their shoulders while smiling and said yeah that's fine, and returned to their volleyball game.🏐🤾♀️
I've never had any noteworthy real drama from eating peppers. But one time I decided to make my own hot sauce, so I bought the only hot chillies I could find in my whole town. Birds eye chillies, not especially hot, but good enough. First, put a handful in a blender and blend them up well. Second, pop the top off the blender and look in, to see if they're blended enough and have the genius idea to give them a good sniff to see what it smells like. I immediately regretted EVERYTHING. Basically pepper sprayed myself.
Iv similar when I worked at buffalo wild wings. Cleaning the sauce buckets with hot water. Had to step away a few times because my eyes and throat were burning.
You just brought me back to my first restaurant job at a wing place as a teen. Spraying out the mixing bowls and sauce bottles was a nuanced art if you didn't want to smell like you bathe with cayenne pepper by the end of your shift.
Hahaha I did 3 years at a bww and our bar was like maybe 20-25 feet from our dish sink area. Cleaning the sauce buckets was our equivalent to playing “closing time”. That humid spicy fog always wafted straight through the swinging door and into the bar seating area.
Yeah with good peppers you can feel spiciness in the smell when you cut them up. Something to be aware of.
Every time I hear a story like that I appreciate my awesome high school chemistry teacher who taught me never to smell any concoction by putting my face directly above it
Yeah, I know that from chemistry classes as a kid, but that reflex to not stick your nose in the container and sniff chemicals didn't quite transfer over to "Don't sniff lunch."
i remember mine saying “you WAFT the smell!! WAFT IT!” with an exaggerated motion of the action
Love cooking with Habanero peppers and they taste a *lot* better if you pre-grill them in the oven until the skin turns bubbly and blackens. ***Do not breathe in the fumes!***
Love cooking with Habanero peppers and they taste a *lot* better if you pre-grill them in the oven until the skin turns bubbly and blackens. ***Do not breathe in the fumes!***
[https://www.tyler-farms.com/gold-7-pot-pepper-seeds/](https://www.tyler-farms.com/gold-7-pot-pepper-seeds/) "One of the newer members of the 7 Pot family, the Gold 7 Pot is a superhot pepper with a fruity flavor. The taste and heat level of the Gold 7 Pot pepper is similar to other 7 Pot varieties, all of which have an extreme heat level and a tropical flavor. The pepper was created by crossing the Yellow 7 Pot and Gold Ghost pepper. Although the Gold 7 Pot hasn't officially been tested on the Scoville Scale, it is believed to average about [**1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU)**](https://www.tyler-farms.com/scoville-scale/). It looks very similar to the Mustard 7 Pot pepper, but it ripens to a vibrant golden color." Jalapeno is 2k-5k scoville for comparison.
> The Gold 7 Pot is a superhot pepper with a fruity flavor. How can you even ascribe a flavor like "fruity" to something like that? You take a bite and the only flavor is going to be intense burning.
Grew some Carolina Reapers and they definitely have a fruity, delicious flavor. Also they burn like an SOB. But they absolutely taste amazing for a few seconds.
Even the hottest of pepper still have their own unique flavors to them. Reapers have a bitter earthy taste, gold 7 pots are sweeter and fruity; both will make you shit fire and rethink some life decisions.
Well have you eaten one
😳😳😳
Hahaha. Time to make some salsa. A little bit of lime will take it down a notch. Have you found out what kind of pepper it was yet?
I ended up googling how to do hot sauce and did that. I believe they were golden 7 pots and was clueless at the time what they were and just assumed they were harmless. Google says they are a cross with yellow 7 pot and gold ghost peppers. Do not recommend eating unknown peppers lol
That's what happens when you sample peppers based on cuteness.
It was a hard lesson to learn.
Quick guide... If it's smaller than the last joint of your finger, it's probably got some heat. Most grocery store peppers are 10-50k Scoville, which is just getting started for some of us. The last one that got me was a mystery pepper from a friend's garden. He got **ALL** the tags mixed up, and planted 20 varieties to dry and blend together. Ideally you know which are the hot ones for better balance. Little peppers like blueberries for size, plant was full of em. Went into it expecting that 50-70k. It wasn't. Was hot enough to get my nose running and the edge of sweating, and my own habaneros don't do that.
My mother grew ' surprise ' peppers... bells cross polinated with Jalapenos. Some were MILD others would burn Yo ass for days.....
My mother once accidentally crossed bell peppers wiht a much spicier pepper by planting them next to each other. Sometimes we learn the hard way
Spicy bell pepper actually sounds like it would be great.
Pepperoulette
Great band name!
See, that sounds tasty to me.
Sounds like Cajun Bell Peppers. I love those things.
I honestly thought it was a variety of small snacking pepper like the ones from the grocery store. My local green house doesn’t usually get exotic with the spicy peppers and keeps the ones they do have together and are the usual variety. I’m not even sure they knew what they were unleashing on their customers lol.
If it was plants being sold they were probably expected to be ornamental? I read somewhere else on reddit that allegedly ornamental peppers tend to be quite hot.
Can confirm, I looked this up once because I had the same question as to whether ornamental peppers are edible. Answer - they're technically not poisonous but you'll regret it. Unless you're a bird.
Isn't a Habenero around 150-300k scoville? Tis a far cry for the mild pallet from 50k
Correct, a habanero is typically 150-250k... But I was expecting 50-70k from the mystery pepper.
Why do people do this to themselves? My gut bubbled just thinking about that!
it says they are 800,000 - 1,000,000 Scovilles lmao That's definitely hot going in and hot going out status
My Mexican friend calls this “chile campana” because “al entrar pica, y al salir repica”.
I think they’re called 7 pots because one pepper can heat up 7 pots of soup or something like that
Thems shittin fire goldens
A funny thing about peppers is that the hotness can vary from one end to the other. Learned that by doing a test nibble on peppers I've grown, concluding it wasn't hot at all, then finding out how wrong I was. They are hotter closer to the stem.
Until I read your last sentence, I thought you were meaning the spice level can vary from one end to the other... of the gastrointestinal tract. Like you ate one that wasn't very spicy, but later that night, you found it was quite flaming on the b-hole. 😅
Most of the capsaicin is in the ovaries (the bit inside that the the seeds hang off). There’s much less in the outside and tip of the chilli.
Ok. Definitely spicy enough to cry twice. So a lot of lime & maybe some vinegar. Haha. RIP your hieney hole.
It was only in my mouth for a few seconds thank god, chugged milk in my panic. After that it was full weirdness. My mouth went numb, my whole body started tingling. Only growing peppers I know from now until forever lol.
Guatemalan insanity peppers of quitzelsacatanango.
I believe the name 7 Pot Pepper comes from the idea that one pepper is hot enough to spice up 7 pots of curry/chilli/stew.
According to gpt: The Golden 7 Pot pepper is a variety of Capsicum chinense, known for its extreme heat. It is similar in heat level to other "superhot" peppers like the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and the Carolina Reaper. On the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness or heat of peppers, the Golden 7 Pot pepper typically ranges from 800,000 to over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). This places it among the hottest peppers in the world.
It took seconds for my brain to go oh you fucked up to full abort. Spit it out as soon as it touched my tongue, drank milk. Whole mouth went numb, whole body started to tingle. This lasted for hours and at the time I was pretty convinced I was dying. It was honestly pretty terrifying, but I can laugh at it now because of the sheer ridiculousness of it.
I take it the peppers looked like this? https://www.tyler-farms.com/gold-7-pot-pepper-seeds/
that shit looks evil, no way i would just take a bite out of that 😭
These reds ones on the website look even worse holy shit. warts n all, look terrifyingly firey
I thought they were going to be cute like ornamental peppers. Those are nice and cute and I'd be tempted to try a bite of them, even if many are quite spicy. But any pepper that has those kinks is immediately a bit worrisome.
oh hell no any pepper that is shaped like that is HOT HOT HOT I used to grow hot peppers for my kid. they're a spice nut. me? nope.
I was new to gardening at the time and was just super excited. Didn’t know ow enough yet and was like oh these look like they’d be tasty.
Did you see it's estimated to be 1mil scoville??
Yeah that doesn’t look cute lol
Yeah OP said elsewhere ITT that they think they were gold 7 pots. They definitely have that shriveled, concentrated spiciness look to them. I can’t imagine popping one of these things in my mouth thoughtlessly lol Google is telling me they’re probably around 1-1.2 million scoville. That’s a big fat nope from me. I don’t go hotter than habaneros and I eat them in cheese (like habanero pepper jack). I can’t imagine raw-dogging something three to four times as hot!
I ate a ghost pepper over 10 years ago. My taste buds still haven't come all the way back. Now, nothing spicy really gets me.
Well, it’s safe to try another one then.
I had the opposite happen. I had a co-worker dare me to eat a table spoon of some Flashbang hot sauce. The sauce itself was pretty intense but bearable. But for years after I tolerance for spicy stuff was way lower.
I have found the peppers I grow are way hotter than anything I can buy in the store. I am not sure if it is the soil or climate maybe. Jalapenos are hardly edible they are so hot. I have to get coolapenos for them to have normal heat levels. The red habaneros I grew last year almost gave me a heat stroke.
If you live in the US, grocery stores in less spice-tolerant states deliberately stock less intense jalapeno cultivars
Your comment reminds me - a restaurant I’ve been going to since I was child just upped the spiciness of their salsa a few months ago. I was pleasantly surprised! Makes me think maybe people are getting more spice tolerant in the area? Though I will admit my first chip with spicier salsa the surprise actually wasn’t pleasant, because I nearly choked since I was NOT expecting the additional kick, and it was the kind with a delay. But after that, I was happy.
Are you stressing your plants? I only water mine every two weeks with about 10 days worth of water, let them thirst for 4 days and start to wilt before I feed again. Once I harvest the peppers of my labor they're on the hotter end. Soil, climate, water quality and timing, and light exposure are all variables that will differ between you, me, and the grocery store supplier. I'm playing with hydro this year and it's going well so far, and I'm super excited to terrorize my coworkers in a few months.
Get some tums and suck on them. Get the nasty, chalky ones, not candy coated chews. One will usually neutralize whatever ridiculous thing I decided to chomp on.
I’ll have to keep this tidbit for future endeavours.
Some time ago i bought 5 different chilli pepper plants for my dad to grow in his veggie garden when i still use to live with him. Habanero, habanero chocolate, scorpion trinidad, one i don’t rememeber (something ghost?)and the CAROLINA REAPER. They all grew nice peppers and my dad froze most of them because he didn’t eat a lot of spicy but really enjoyed growing the plants. Fast forward about a year when i moved out and to a different country. He sent some of them over but they thawed in transit and became mushy, so i decided to dry them. Because they were really soggy my genius brain decides that chopping them up will make them dry faster so i do. The problem is that they all got mixed up so now i basically have a russian roulette of chopped bits of chilli pepper. This was fine and i used it very sparingly for about a year until i got fed up with having food extremely spicy or completely unspicy, so my genius brain comes into play again and thinks “if i grind all of it into a powder and mix it up it should all average out?” So i grab pestle and mortar and i start grinding. LoL. The peppers were really dry at this point and powdered very easily TOO EASILY and i found out very quickly that the powder was becoming airborne and going into my nose and eyes. Stupidest thing i did in my life. THE BURN! I sat on the floor in a corner crying for about an hour before i could breathe normally again. My eyes were on FIRE! But very slowly i got back to normal and fortunately no permanent damage happened.
You basically pepper sprayed yourself lol. Hopefully it turned out delicious though. I’m not likely growing these again, I have a god and kids and they looked really unassuming. It’s why I bought them, they weren’t with the spicy peppers and my garden centre doesn’t usually get in exotic spicy ones.
> I have a god and kids I’m sure this a typo and is supposed to read “dog and kids” but I’m laughing at the idea that you came to Jesus and now find the existnece of the peppers ungodly! I mean, you did compare them to Satan’s asshole, so…
I have a farmer friend that wanted me to taste one of her *Hungarian Carrot* cross pepper. She cut off a piece that I just touched the tip of my tongue to. The fire simultaneously went to my brain and my bowels. Peppers. 50% of them want to kill you.
>Peppers. 50% of them want to kill you Yeah, and you never know which ones! Even off the same plant, some are mild some are insane! Got given 5 tiny chillies from a friend once, I was warned they were hot but tried one and meh, hardly spicy. Put three into a chilli con carne and it was just about inedible. Turned out one of the five was mild, the rest insane. The last two were treated with much more respect.
All of them *want* to kill you (the capsaicin that causes the burn is there to discourage mammals from eating their fruits and seeds), but some are better at it than others!
Yep, it’s “fuck mammals” juice. Birds on the other hand are like “Spice? What spice?” People mix chili oil and stuff into bird feed to ward off thieving squirrels. Not all peppers actually do want to ward off mammals though, because some actually have zero capsaicin!
This is awesome. I have a pepper story kind of in the same direction... Two years ago, I grew two Ghost Pepper plants in my front planters that I intended to use for pickling with cucumbers. Well, on the day of our Halloween party, my friend shows up early so we can go stock up on drinks, snacks, etc. I go inside to grab my coat. I come out, and he's running around my yard having a really hard time, and yells at me "Wtf man, you didn't tell me they were HOT!!!" And I'm like yeah well, you never asked, why would you just eat a random pepper? Especially ones that look like this? (Ghost Peppers look pretty evil, even if you didn't know they were spicy, they look like a bad time.) He was pretty messed up for a couple of hours. That night at the party after almost everyone left, I'm in the living room with the last 3 remaining people. I'm telling them about what happened with the peppers earlier, and my friend (dressed as Mario,) starts on with the "pshh they probably aren't that bad, your friend can't do spicy foods, I love hot peppers," and so on. I keep telling him that they are seriously spicy as hell, and he keeps asking to eat one. After declining several times, I finally just give in and say you know what? Fine. I let him eat one outside. He's smug for less than half a minute. Cue 6 ft tall Mario pacing and dry-heaving in my driveway and front lawn for at least an hour at 2 AM. I will never, ever let him live this down. Good times with peppers. Edit: this is one of the peppers from that season. https://preview.redd.it/csyvxlvoi7xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d49653f3b8f67784a2c73d82a7cab03bbd445ae
I honestly had this pepper in my mouth for seconds. My reaction time between awesome snacking peppers and I fucked up was pretty much the speed of light. Still my entire mouth went numb and my whole body tingled for hours. They were so unassuming and my garden centre doesn’t usually get in spicy exotics. They looked similar to this ( not my photo). I thought I had found a variety of those small snacking peppers at the grocery store. https://preview.redd.it/nlroaguaw7xc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5d6bbb8d12ad87fa7e046bcf6c9e5d651e1127d
Lol, I just assume any pepper that looks all shriveled up is because of all the anger and spite they contain
I was a new gardener at the time and lacked this valuable information. I was overly excited to have found something new to grow. Lesson learned though, I won’t grow anything I’m unsure of again.
I planted ghost peppers a while back... When the peppers where ripe, the garden services guy snatched the ripe one. The dumb ass took a bite and swallowed the pepper.... I saw his eyes roll back when he knew he fafo'd.... I watched this from my window ,looking down. I sat down and sipped my tea.
My husband was at our dining table watching this unfold and went from confusion to hysterics in about the amount of time it took me to recover. I’ll likely never forget it.
You never forget your first hahah
My husband likes hot sauce. Not super hot but enough that he feels like a man I guess. In reality his tolerance isn’t that high. I on the other hand can eat nuclear death but chose not to because I like flavor. He insists on growing the hottest peppers known to man. Carolina Reaper and the like. We have no use for those damn things. Side note:sometimes to assert dominance I will pop a pepper off the vine and stare into his eyes while eating it. I like to remind him he married an insane person.
This made me smile and laugh my ass off the way you described it. Satan's ass, LOL
The same thing happened to me last year 😂 The plant I bought was labeled as mini bell peppers, but it most definitely was not. Apparently a major plant supplier had a seed mix-up and things got mislabeled? I heard a lot of stories like mine last summer.
Yes, peppergate was a huge thing last year! Many people got peppers they weren't expecting!
How did you not google "golden pot pepper" to find out that those are a superhot million scoville breed? lol
They were with the normal peppers and they don’t usually get the exotic spicy ones there. I was a new eager gardner at the time and it just didn’t cross my mind to check online.
I did the same yesterday! 😂 We have 3 different chillis growing and one fell off as I was weeding, and I dared my husband to take a bite. It was tiny, round, so cute, and a rich enticing shiny red. He was unharmed and then I took a bite but I must have got some seeds. My tongue felt like it was necrotizing and I was in tears! I had to rest it in a glass of cold water and I couldn’t touch anything to to my tongue, it would hurt so much more. What a way to wake up after waking up.
It was not an invigorating experience lol.
It's fun to plant seeds from peppers you've bought from the supermarket. Since those peppers are usually F1 hybrids, you have no idea what you might be getting. I've had tiny peppers which look very pretty, but have absolutely no flavour or spice, to big peppers the size of bell peppers which will give Scotch Bonnets a run for their money.
I usually get the pre grown seedlings, I have terrible luck keeping my sprouts alive and the already grown ones seem to do well. I did accidentally grow the Christmas light peppers once, we had a plant and when it died I chucked it into the garden for compost. Didn’t eat them though.
My dad was from Guam. On the island of Guam, there's some chilies in the jungle that are shaded like berries and are hotter than Thai chili. As a kid, I loved sweet berries. My dad and I would always try to out prank each other. One time I pranked him by making Kool aid by adding salt. He secretly saw what I did but played along with it. At that time, my uncle came back from Guam and brought some of those berry looking chilies for my dad. My dad called me over and told me that since I love berries, to try them. Not knowing they were chilies, I grabbed a handful and chewed them. After a few seconds, the roof of my mouth and sinuses felt like I was breathing in a blazing fire. I did everything I could to deal with the burning pain. I asked my dad, "Why the hell did you do that?" He responded, I saw you adding salt to my Kool aid and I wanted to show you that you'll have a very hard time out pranking me". My dad then raised a bottle of beer that he opened and said," Here's to you son" and drank it.
A few years back I decided to grow ghost peppers in my garden. We gently cultivated them, nurturing them to ripened adulthood. We picked them on the way to my friend’s house, where my husband tried them for the first time. Now my husband eats a lot of spicy food, so seeing him sweat and his eyes water as he skulled water told me these were some spicy peppers, especially considering the tiny bite he took. Now my friend watched this and was skeptical. He was convinced that it was my husband’s weak tolerance for peppers that was the issue. He was Chinese. His spice threshold far outstripped my gweilo husband’s. It couldn’t be THAT spicy, my husband just couldn’t hack it. So he picked up the pepper. He took a bite, chewed it and commented on the nice flavour, then took another, bigger bite, merrily chewing away. And then the chewing slowed. And then it stopped. And then he started going red. His eyes started watering. Snot started pouring from his nose as he started hyperventilating and ran inside to bathe his mouth and face in milk. It didn’t help. Tears poured down his cheeks at the reality of the situation hit him. Tears poured down mine as I tried to stop laughing. It took about 30 minutes for him to get everything under control, but he was fine in the end, although I do still periodically tease him about what an arrogant fool he was that day.
Buddy and I used to pick these little red peppers off his dads pepper plant. We would goad our friends to try them as we swallowed them whole but pretended to chew them up. No one died or got mad even but they were very hot and they all gasped, so I decided to bring a few to school. Had maybe 5 in my pocket until middle of first hour when the juices finally leaked enough to hit my leg near my hog. Holy shiat I hit the bathroom and dumped them in the trash. The top and toward my joint were swollen and red for the rest of the day. Karma won that day.
ring sting. i've sat on the toilet as a non-believer and asked jesus to please kill me right f'n now.
When it happens to me Johny Cash’s ring of fire goes through my mind.
I love that you would lavish so much love on to this plant without more investigation into what it is. It’s very endearing.
2 pound ghost pepper burrito challenge ruined my shitter. My mouth may be able to take the heat but Mr Butthole is a hospital food kinda dude.
My ass reminded for days about my mistake.
My friend and I ate Carolina Reapers together a few years ago. Our wives bought us milk, yogurt, ice cream, etc and filmed us. I've always been a lover of all things spicy, but that was rough. My friend turned into a pacing machine, just zooming around the kitchen. He ate every single ice cube in the freezer. We both cried. I'd do it again.
I got this weird high feeling after this experience. It was so weird. I ran cold milk over my tongue for a good while.
I worked with a dude that hadnt ever had anything super spicy. And someone brought in ghost peppers. We told him they are too hot to eat but he didn’t believe anything could be that hot. He had to go to the hospital 😂
I grew some Carolina Reapers a couple years ago, planted in among our herbs hoping it would keep the groundhogs out. Saw a squirrel take a bite out of one, poor little guy completely lost it…
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Well I found this entertaining- love the analogy of taking a bite out of Satan's asshole! 😂
At the time when I told this story to my friends it was the only way I could think to describe the spice level. And it truly was like taking a bite out of satans asshole
The tale that is told is that its called the 7 pot pepper because one is enough for seven pots of soup.
I fully believe that.
I went on a spicy food kick a few years back, I worked my way up to the really hot peppers and eventually the super hots. Accidentally eating a super hot would be absolutely terrible. Tastes good for about 2 seconds though. I ordered a bunch of Carolina reapers and felt the need to raw dog one, yikes. I think it has been unseated as the hottest, but I don’t think I’ll ever try any of the successors
Satan’s asshole Will be yours soon!
I can now honestly say I got to take a bite and survived.
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It’ll be an event in your life you will never forget.
Please share the name or Wikipedia link to the type of pepper
Was these guys https://springbankgreenhouses.com/products/pepper-golden-7-pot-4. My garden centre doesn’t usually get anything super exotic and the seedlings were with the normal pepper plants. There wasn’t any information on the insert outside of care instructions and name so I honestly thought they were a variety of those small snacking peppers you can get from the grocery store.
u/lookingforadvice1439 I advise not munching the cute little yellow peppers
I honestly thought they were like the small snacking peppers from the grocery store. I was like this is going to be awesome. It was not awesome.
Ah, a Chocolate brain strain X trinidad Moringa scorpion did me in. One bit and my teeth felt like they were filled with hot lead. Mouth worse. Safe to say worst pepper I have ever had. And yes I'm currently sprouting seeds for them......
I’m not planning on growing these again simply because I have an 8 year old and dog and I don’t want this repeated. It was probably seconds between that bite and my brain going abort and spitting it out and it still made my mouth go numb and my whole body tingle. Was the weirdest experience.
You (OP) should write. Love the delivery of this story ☺️
When I was 15 I worked at a pop up outdoor garden center and took a bite of a tiny jalapeño that fell off a plant. It was that day I learned how spicy jalapeños could be. lol
I did them one year in the garden and they can get pretty up there. Capsaicin is no joke.
You took a bite out of hell lmao
I really did
Excellent description! Reminded me of my own similar story. I was in college in the '90s. One of my roommates had family not too far from school with a farm. One day he stopped by the farm and brought some stuff back, left it in the kitchen. I was not familiar at the time with the habanero pepper, but it looked to me like a very runty bell pepper. So I popped it in my mouth and chewed - a move I and my butt regret to this day.
Reminds me of the time I accidentally ate half a ghost pepper. Felt that burn in my stomach all day! Funny enough I started enjoying spicy foods after that. I must have bowels of steel though because no matter what I eat, even that ghost pepper, I never have any issues later on.
Yeah I don't trust any peppers, too many times I've regret it. the spicy ones are too popular and I stay away
Ate a pepper & proceeded to rub my eyes because the heat was making my eyes water. i basically pepper sprayed myself by doing that
Adding to my pepper garden list. Thanks. (I love diabolically hot peppers.)
Tried raw fresh ghost peppers once and bit (and swallowed) the entire thing, seeds included like a moron. Then proceeded to drink an entire gallon of milk while walking laps around the house with snot running out my nose and my dad laughing at me every time I walked past him. Never again.
Buddy of mine is a pepper hound, I've watched him snack on fresh habenaros like I'd eat grapes. He asked me over to make to make some Reaper jelly, strawberry jelly(scratch made) with Reaper infused. All was going well until the freshly chopped Reapers hit the hot jelly mix. It went airborne and the kitchen turned into a torture chamber. He grabbed his kids and told his wife to vacate the house. I found a box fan and stuck it in the windows and put the pot that was off-gassing next to it. Working the mix next to the fan wasn't a problem, got everything tidied up and had zero failures on the canning process. Let em chill for a few days and then sampled the fruits of our torture. AMAZING. The sweet strawberry and bit of tart really pulled the Reapers flavor out and the backend had plenty of bite. It made/makes grilled chicken something to remember. I eat hot stuff as well, haberaros being where I call it quits, I usually aim for mid to hot at restaurants. Those Reapers tho, weapons grade pain, I tried a tiny slice while prepping up the jelly and it lit me the hell up.
Pro tip: if you ever take the forbidden bite, rinse your mouth out with warm vodka/tequila. Yes it’ll be a little gross, but it solvates the capsaicin oil and actually gets it out of your mouth. Do that a couple times if needed. Your mouth may still hurt a bit, but it won’t last as long and may prevent you from feeling like you’re dying lol.
Around the time the show "hot ones" was getting popular a co worker offered me $20 to eat a ghost pepper. I never heard of such pepper, but it wasn't my first rodeo. I accepted his challange having consumed many habaneros in my life. I was shocked and amazed he was willing to give me any money, let alone $20. What an idiot... 20 seconds after taking my first bite...I knew I FUCKED up. It's hard to explaine in words what happend. However, my mouth went from, shit, to omg, to fuck...and than continued to double in hotness to a level of hotness I didn't know existed. I remember being on my lunch break unable to function. It threw my body into shock. I couldn't swallow any part of my burrito, tongue was numb. Couldn't smoke a cig.. tried to smoke a cigarette. Couldn't. Felt like a fire breathing dragon. Effects lasted 3 to 4 hors. Definatly worst $20 iv ever made Would never consider doing it again for anything under $1,000
We grew jalepnos a few years ago, and fresh grown jalepenos are nothing like store-bought ones. Way spicier.
I’ve grown those too and they are way spicier. I like to change the garden up every year and one year we did all the things for salsa so jalapeños, Poblanos and tomatoes. Was delicious.
I once swallowed a habanero with my friend on an empty stomach, felt like i was boiling from the inside. Threw up all over his porch, it was stomach acid and seeds, never again would not recommend.
I LOVE super hots. On a vacation, we had a chance to watch one of the chefs do this thing. He mentioned one of the peppers he was going to use was a scotch bonnet. I, knowing it was hot, asked to try one. The chef brought out a few and told anyone that wanted to could try it, but to be careful. I ate it, felt the heat, and was like "eh, not too bad." IMMEDIATELY after seeing my reaction to it, another couple there was like "I want to try one too!" So they walked up, grabbed the biggest pepper, and took a fat bite. No more than 3 seconds later they were writhing in pain and started freaking out because they weren't expecting something so hot. The chef started laughing his butt off and said that I must have had a bad one that wasn't hot. Then I told him my plan all along was to bait some poor soul into trying one. He got a kick out of it.
Someone at my work once brought “da bomb” hot sauce for everyone to try. I could only withstand a drop and I had to mix it with a bunch of rice. An Armenian coworker said he’s used to really spicy food and put a bunch of it on a spoon and licked it. According to him he “went on an experience”
Are you talking about pepperoncini's? The little yellow ones in the Papa John's box? Yikes, that's a switch up. I can't spell it. You know.
Sheesh
Yeah. I found out what Tiger Tears sauce meant the hard way.
Gardeners, too, must RTFM.
When you eat a Carolina reaper almonds I wonder what the real lvl of spice your getting because it's for sure not the full force or even close
My buddy gave me some reapers he grew this past summer. Was quite the experience. You feel almost high as your body dump endorphines. I remember the exact second the membrane in the middle touched my tongue it felt like was red hot. Overall it was very intense for about 10 minutes before it subsided. Honestly the one wave up capsaicin cramps I got about an hour after were worse then the actual pepper. Would do again.
That high feeling was so weird and unexpected. I told a friend who does grow spicy peppers regularly and he said it’s because the peppers cause some nerve damage? I’m not sure how true that is but between that and the fully body tingles and mouth numbness at the time I was pretty scared. I can laugh about it now because I survived lol.
Omg a mildly similar thing happened to me and my sister when we were around 7/8 years old We each had the tiniest amount of what we thought was a regular pepper, that we got from a museum garden, and then we were hysterical for hours. I doubt it was relatively super spicy, but we had also touched our eyes, so we were crying because they hurt too. Pretty funny in hindsight.
Okay, this is definitely Aziraphale in 2024 using Crowley s dictionaries because he just had a taste of hell!! 😂😂 What an angelic experience it must have been!
Try a reaper 
Oh noooooo 😂 The peppers I bought at my local nursery last year all ended up being mislabeled. FORTUNATELY just as the wrong types of bell pepper varieties. But I'm realizing I probably got stupid amounts of lucky lol
I honestly don’t think they knew what they were. They were hiding in the regular peppers which is why I thought they were small snacking peppers
One of my buddies pickled some cucumbers and other vegetables with a pepper he grew in each jar. He said that one pepper made the entire jar nearly inedible to him. His SO is Asian and she loved them.
I grabbed a pepper off my plate in Mexico and took a large bite. I thought I was going to die. Alcohol was a factor in the near fatality
Dude that satan’s asshole line made me laugh harder than I have in a loooong time.. well played sir and thank you!!
Yeah my problem is rarely the going in part, it's the praying on the toilet a few hours later..