Carolina Reaper Dethroned: Pepper X is the New King of Peppers.
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I'll stick with my ghost peppers or any variety within that realm of heat. But ghosts tend to have the flavor I chase in a good pepper or sauce - a wonderful smokey flavor. I can handle heat and even enjoy it, but I don't chase it. I've tried lots of "artisan" sauces that were just a mediocre sauce with that extract in it for heat and I cannot stand the stuff. I've got a few brands I'm loyal too but I prefer to make my own. Each year I grow a variety of peppers and make my sauce, then can it for the next year. It's actually what got my wife to start liking spicier foods.
From a similar experience, yes. It's like the difference between second and third degree burns. You think you've reached the pinnacle of pain and then you try to climb a taller mountain. Plus, I've never seen Chili Klaus hurting that badly.
On the ghost pepper front, I have to say I can't stand them. For me they have a metallic taste that is highly unpleasant.
I don't chase heat for heat's sake, but to me a ripe ghost pepper has a wonderful floral and tropical fruit taste. Sliced very thinly with some cream cheese on crackers and a good beer on the side make a great snack.
... just when you thought a human butthole couldn't possibly take any more pepper damage... 
... just when you thought a human butthole couldn't possibly take any more pepper damage...
Sadly I had to give up on tasting very hot 
peppers 
The two Carolina Reaper pastes in the picture messed me up badly. While I had no problem eating them and could eat a lot, it used to keep me awake at night.
To my credit I finished both the bottles of Carolina Reaper paste before giving up on spiced dishes. The Ghost Pepper powder in the picture is still completely full after four years (Less half teaspoon full)
The heat I can now tolerate is Birds Eye Chilli Pepper. Depending on potency I sometimes have a few as condiments with meals.
peppers The two Carolina Reaper pastes in the picture messed me up badly. While I had no problem eating them and could eat a lot, it used to keep me awake at night.
To my credit I finished both the bottles of Carolina Reaper paste before giving up on spiced dishes. The Ghost Pepper powder in the picture is still completely full after four years (Less half teaspoon full)
The heat I can now tolerate is Birds Eye Chilli Pepper.
Depending on potency I sometimes have a few as condiments with meals.
Now bird's eye chills are dang tasty.Sadly I had to give up on tasting very hot
The two Carolina Reaper pastes in the picture messed me up badly. While I had no problem eating them and could eat a lot, it used to keep me awake at night.
To my credit I finished both the bottles of Carolina Reaper paste before giving up on spiced dishes. The Ghost Pepper powder in the picture is still completely full after four years (Less half teaspoon full)
The heat I can now tolerate is Birds Eye Chilli Pepper.
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My limit is ghost peppers. 1M is it for me. It's an ethereal hour of spiritual enlightenment eating one of those. The colors one sees are absolutely stunning.
Years back we had an issue with our dog Jesse eating from the cat litter box. I sprinkled some habanero powder in the box.
Poor Jesse dry coughed for about 10 days. Bless her heart, she lived 7 more years and never even looked at the cat litter box again.
Bragging rights I suppose. Having a bottle of Pepper X Sauce in your larder would be something that certain folk would feel they have to have.
"In an effort to protect his intellectual property and see profits this time, Pepper X pods and seeds will not be released. The only way to taste Pepper X will be through sold hot sauces".
But then that is assuming it passes the FDA tests as fit for human consumption
I wonder if it might be used as a substitute for Nitromors?
Jay.
Is Pepper X the pepper formerly known as Twitter?
I used to really like hot peppers. My dad grew them, and picking them fresh really gave the best flavor:heat ratio. Just being hot, without flavor, wasn't enjoyable for me. In college, when food money was very tight, and the heat in my attic apartment was scarce, I'd go across the street to this little Mexican health food store, where a gold-toothed senorita would make me a hot pepper burrito for $3. I ate a lot of those.
Then, at some point, I scorched my tongue on hot soup, or pizza or something, and when it healed, my tongue was super-sensitive to spicy hot. Anything with even relatively mild heat was painful. I still enjoy hot peppers on a cheese steak, or in Pho. I cook with more mild peppers all the time. But my days of enjoying hot peppers by themselves are over. In fact, as I type this, I feel a head heat coming on, just thinking about it!
I used to really like hot peppers. My dad grew them, and picking them fresh really gave the best flavor:heat ratio. Just being hot, without flavor, wasn't enjoyable for me. In college, when food money was very tight, and the heat in my attic apartment was scarce, I'd go across the street to this little Mexican health food store, where a gold-toothed senorita would make me a hot pepper burrito for $3. I ate a lot of those.
Then, at some point, I scorched my tongue on hot soup, or pizza or something, and when it healed, my tongue was super-sensitive to spicy hot. Anything with even relatively mild heat was painful. I still enjoy hot peppers on a cheese steak, or in Pho. I cook with more mild peppers all the time. But my days of enjoying hot peppers by themselves are over. In fact, as I type this, I feel a head heat coming on, just thinking about it!