October 18, 20232 yr https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x Quote “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
October 18, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, Neonmoon said: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x Hard pass Dumb
October 18, 20232 yr 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, 20232 yr by TornACL
October 18, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Neonmoon said: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206450553/worlds-hottest-pepper-guinness-record-pepper-x
October 18, 20232 yr Author What kind of psycho eats a scotch bonnet or habanero and is like, nah, I want something that makes my insides hurt.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
October 18, 20232 yr 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
October 18, 20232 yr 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
October 18, 20232 yr 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.
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