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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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Hi all.
It seems that things are "hotting up" in the world of chillis.
The new world record holder as of this year is the Naga Viper. Its a three way variety which includes bhut jolokia and others so isn't stable. However it does have 1.37M Scoville units which makes it 37% hotter.
Needless to say you want to use two pairs of gloves when cutting this, and a face mask + gloves. Skin contact would hurt, eye contact could even cause temporary blindness.
On the flip side, putting the juice from this in someone's morning coffee would give a whole new meaning to "wake-up call" so don't do this.
Reading the article mentioned explained why frying hot chilli is a bad idea, guess what I did... Yup. Ow.
-A (current project:- growing chillis using parts from flat screen monitors and an ultrasonic fogger)
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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Ow. OwOWOWOW. Ow. I second the note about not touching eyes etc, I did that and it REALLY HURTS! Felt like a red hot needle in the eyeball and took ten minutes to go away.
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Location: Wimer Oregon, Wewt for sticks!
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I as well, participated in a similar hotwings challenge. The wings being prepared with an unknown amount of bhut jolokia peppers, and the rules being slightly different, only allowing for 6 minutes for consumption. Nothing to this day has been the same... anything marked "hot" is just not. It's down right scary stepping into something like that, as while you wait for your dish to be prepared you find yourself looking at the horror photos taken of the eatery's victims. All of them slimy with perspiration and mucus, their skin burned lobster red save their eyes... glazed over and sunken in a pit of pale white. By the end, I was indeed dripping sweat and snot... but luckily not as bad as some.
Most people I talk to really wonder about the odd, seemingly masochistic qualities, of extraordinarily spicy food... but it's true that you reach a point where it becomes euphoric, and your sense of taste shifts. Bitter becomes sweet, and the like.
In closing, I cannot emphasize enough, the importance of washing your hands REPEATEDLY and still refraining from touching any sensitive parts (known from experience) for a minimum 48 hrs (as stated from my girlfriend... also from my experience). ;)
In Addendum: I would like to thank the powers that be (divine or gastrointestinal) for the lack of a bowl destroying aftermath.
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