My heat freak of a father is planning to get ghost pepper seeds! He wants to grow and cook the single hottest pepper in the world. In India, they use the damn thing as elephant repellent. I love spicy food, but this is getting out of hand!
This sounds amazing and I want stories.
The pepper I speak of registers a 1,000,000 on the Scoville scale. That's about ten times a habanero chili, three times the hottest things most restaurants are allowed to serve, and 1/3rd of the way to civilian-grade pepper spray. 16,000,000 is pure capsaicin. You quite literally cannot get a spicer thing than that, not that it matters considering capsaicin is pretty much toxic.
Special equipment is needed to cook the ghost pepper without harming yourself in the process, and by "cook", I mean "strip of waxy coating and dip in the pot for half a second". The rest is smeared on fences. The elephants won't touch the stuff, due to not being crazy like humans.
The pepper is so powerful that even individuals who have built up a moderate amount of capsaicin resistance can be effected badly. The body will attempt to reject somthing so painful on instinct, so even eating the thing can prove difficult. Retching and nausea are to be expected in those with experiance. Temporary deafness lasting up to three days and a deisire to die are expected in those without experiance.
And my father wants to order seeds of this damned thing so that he may grow them. Even worse, there is a farm in the very state I live in that does and can grow them, so climate won't be an issue. Well, at least we won't have to worry about anything eating them as they grow...
Author
Topic: Things that made you sad today thread. (Read 9702736 times)