It turns out that dog was just barking.I wouldn't do it if you have asthma or heart conditions. Within 20 minutes I can feel my face and have stopped sweating. It’s a firework that burns bright and intensely for a short time, from burning to bearable, and I’m left with that glowing feeling like the evening after a day in the sun. Unfortunately, evolution didn’t take into account people’s desire to test themselves with stupidly hot ingredients. The only reason they are hot is because they’ve developed a defence mechanism to prevent animals eating them. You have to sit and remind yourself that the thing about chili peppers is that no matter how hot they are, they are not actually burning you. It’s a bad culinary trip I just need to ride out. I now just know what milkshakes in hell taste like. Nobody said this was an easy thing to eat.Īs it turns out, with the Carolina Reaper, drinking milk, and then eating some yoghurt, does little to ease the burn. It’s best to drink milk or yoghurt if you ever need to kill the pain of a hot chili, although downing lots of milk can make you throw up, as it’s not wildly uncommon to have nausea after eating one of these. It’s like trying to wash a greasy pan with just cold water – nothing gets removed. I’m craving cold water, but I know water just moves the heat molecules about. Sweat is running off my forehead into my eyes, the right-side of my face feels horrible and I’d quite like this to stop now. ![]() Now my ears are popping and I think I can hear a dog talking to me from three streets over, but that might just be… nope, pretty sure that’s a dog who sounds like Scooby Doo. I’m not sure how that happened, but here we are. Flicking it with my finger I can’t feel a thing. This is like it’s emanating out in waves. The heat is a deep, numbing feeling, rather than the sharp sting of some other chili peppers or the nasal burn of something with mild heat like wasabi. This is a million scovilles of chili heat battering me from the inside of my face outwards. It’s a bit of a weird sensation to be dripping with sweat – literally dripping off my nose in this case – but fine everywhere else. The sweats come on near instantly, but it’s all from the neck up. At first, there’s a bit of pain but hey, it’s not so bad. ![]() In a way, it’s like being kicked in the balls. Like Freddie Krueger, you think it’s dead then it comes back to get you when you go to bed at night and you inadvertently give yourself Guantanamo Glasses.Īnd here come the fireworks. Even after a washing of hands and the passing of four or five hours, when you go to take you lenses out at the end of the night, having handled a chili pepper comes back to hit you. ![]() You’re really meant to be wearing rubber gloves to do this, especially if – like me – you wear contact lenses. There aren’t a whole lot of seeds in the middle and it chops up nicely. When you cut the pepper it feels softer than others certainly not hard like a bell pepper. It’s about 300 times hotter than even the most intense jalapeño pepper. It comes in at around 1.5 million Scoville heat units, and the Guinness World Book of Records clocked that as the hottest on the planet. But right now, the Carolina Reaper is where the heat is. In fact, by the time you read this, it may not be the hottest on the planet any more, things are moving pretty fast in the world of stupidly hot chili peppers. It’s a piece of horticulture-meets-chemical-warfare that is part of an ongoing escalation in hot chili peppers. It was created by a man in South Carolina by crossing a Ghost Chili - the second hottest pepper in the world - with a habañero.
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