Growing ghost peppers

[Casey K.]

In Latino households, hot peppers are what is used as a substitute for soap when kids would mouth off to the parents or grandparents. I did that once when I was 4 and never did it again.

Are you Latino, Pan?

 

[PanzoN88]

Are you Latino, Pan?

Yes I am

 

[Casey K.]

Cool deal! What's the hottest pepper you've eaten?

 

[PanzoN88]

Cool deal! What's the hottest pepper you've eaten?

Ghost peppers

 

[Tricocyst]

ghost peppers suck i'm one of those that would rather be able to taste my food with the heat, so habenero is about as hot as i go. However you gotta try them once right? So be prepared my lips turned red and were swollen for about an hour, the burn from the ghost pepper lasted a good 30 agonizing minutes, don't drink or try and get the burn to leave by any of the housewives remedies (sugar, baking soda, etc.), it just makes it worse.

Oh and wear gloves if you're preparing the pepper for cooking, nitril gloves not the cotton kitchen gloves, and don't get any of the raw juice near your face, the ghost pepper is the most commonly used pepper for the base of military grade pepper spray.

And the one thing to remember, use less, the heat increases over time. So if you make like a chili dish and use the ghost to spice it up, then put the left overs in the fridge for a quick dinner a few days later, that quick dinner will be hotter than the original meal. This is true with all chili peppers though, they mature and increase in heat. So if you're looking for the hottest possible heat from your pepper, use it at it's ripest state, just before it starts to turn bad.

30 minutes? geez the habanero burnt me up for a good 10 minutes... 20 minutes longer at a much higher heat intensity.. this keeps sounding worse and worse.. I had plans to try milk/bread/honey as a remedy for the heat.. but now I don't even know if I can handle it lol :/

 

[kormath]

30 minutes? geez the habanero burnt me up for a good 10 minutes... 20 minutes longer at a much higher heat intensity.. this keeps sounding worse and worse.. I had plans to try milk/bread/honey as a remedy for the heat.. but now I don't even know if I can handle it lol :/

you gotta try it once It lasted 20-30 minutes. The chili my brother was cooking had to simmer for 20 minutes and i had to decide what i wanted to cook and eat instead of the chili lol. My mouth was still burning after the chili was done, not as bad as at first, but it was still there. It affects people differently though, just like pepper spray, some people can get sprayed and fight through it keeping their eyes open etc. like you're supposed to. Others, like me, fall to the ground screaming lol

I use that method for my daughter. My aunt & parents use to use soap/dish detergent but I'm not doing that because there's chemicals in soap....so I use a hot pepper when she lies or back talks.

cayan pepper powder is what my parents used. They used to do the soap trick until my older brother got sick from it. Someone told them to give us a 1/2 teaspoon or so of cayan pepper powder instead. Think that's where i grew my fondness for cayan, jalapeno, etc.

I've noticed that cooking a pepper actually increases the intensity of the capsaicin. Would you agree?

Yep, i've noticed this with Serrano peppers. I'll nibble them as i chop them up to toss in whatever dish, usually chili or taco soup, and they do seem hotter after they've cooked.

 

[IamKrush]

In Latino households, hot peppers are what is used as a substitute for soap when kids would mouth off to the parents or grandparents. I did that once when I was 4 and never did it again.

I used to just get the hand for mouthing off. Now you eat peppers with out the mouthing off

 

[PanzoN88]

I used to just get the hand for mouthing off. Now you eat peppers with out the mouthing off

This never happened to me, but there are many that would break brooms, mops sticks, or whatever the parent could find to break over their kids back if peppers didn't work. That is why most Latinos have extremely well behaved kids. Both of my aunts (my mothers sisters) have 10+ kids and most of them are well behaved.