The Scoville Scale

I use quite a bit of hot sauce. Sriracha isn’t hot but it adds garlic and chili flavor to about everything. I’ve tried Marie Sharps after some recommendation. It’s a carrot based habanero and really not that hot. More or less a Tabasco replacement.
I’ve always liked Daves Insanity sauces. Right now I’m rockin the Ultimate Insanity and the Ghost pepper. The Ultimate Insanity is supposed to be 3x hotter than the regular version. It is spicy but not so much I couldn’t pour a line down a taco or something :wink: . But for half the price on amazon when I bought it the Ghost pepper bottle is where it’s at. It has better flavor and doesn’t separate in the bottle into oil layers, because of the extract concentrate, like the ultimate insanity. So it’s less messy to use.

I got 7 Habanero plants in the ground - 6 are Caribbean Red's, 1 Scotch bonnet. I put them through the food processor, jar them, add olive oil and garlic and have them for the rest of the year, plus more to give away to friends/family Smile. I've been picking a couple already, green, but the Caribbean Red's have a kick already.

Think the hottest peppers I've had had been from my garden, dehydrated, jar'ed in olive oil - came out incredibly hot. Fingers went numb for a day or two handling them. Garden grown Caribbean Red's are the best! Wink I've eaten challenge hot wings that were incredibly hot, but my dehydrated ones were hotter.

Use it quite often. Red Savina Habanero and done right, without the taming effect of carrot. Gotta love it!

We grew our own Habanero for a while and would slice up a fresh one on burgers, eggs, whatever. We’ve gotten a bit out of the habit though.

When we go to our favorite Mexican food restaurant we always ask for Extra Spicy Pollo Chipotle, love the stuff, and it’s important to know if the owner’s wife Angela is cooking! She makes it “hurtcha hot”! Jose will be cautious and afraid to cause damage. Angela has no such concerns and we love how she does it!

I have eaten a Habanero raw before. Took a healthy bite of it and really was amazed at the delicious flavor and how sweet it was. Thought I’d gotten one that wasn’t hot. It got down into my stomach and decided to make itself known. :slight_smile:

One of the funniest vid’s I’ve ever seen on Facebook was of a black woman that was talking up the value of fruits and vegetables. Held up a bright orange Habanero and called it a Cherry, “Isn’t this one cute!” and she bit it in half and started chewing. Then said, “I think this one is some kind of pepper.” And then she stuffed THE REST OF IT IN HER MOUTH! Chewed it up and then put on the funniest performance I’ve ever seen. I could watch it every day for a week and have six pack abs. Seriously!

“Eating the ”Cherry”“:

Just had my meal today; four burritos with habanero (six of them) sauce made from boiled peppers, including two orange bell peppers, lime, and cilantro. After boiling for ten minutes, I blend them and the result is a nice, mean bite. Washed all that down with two Bud Lights. I am now ready to doze off. :slight_smile:

Nothing about Rusty Joe is rusty, for sure! And healthy too, I’d bet!

DAAAYYUUUUUMMM! You serious, Dude!

You Texans got it made! Actually we got a pretty good Latino population in this area, our church now has a Latino asst. pastor and Latino services. All I care bout though is the food - we got a great Spanish/Mexican restaurant close by, and yes, also an excellent Chipotle dish I get often - ask for as hot as they can make it.. Really good!

I tried growing some ghost, jalapeno, and banana peppers last year, got them all about 1' tall and they all died on me

I dont have any real good hot sauce here, just some Tabasco and Franks Red Hot. we will cook chicken breasts soaked in the Franks and italian dressing quite often. Besides that, the hottest thing I eat regularly is jalapenos. Get them on my sandwiches for work and on pizzas...

Ill try just about anything spicy, but its got to have a good flavor. Not big on chipotle, dont like the taste. A lot of the real hot sauces I have tried have the heat, but the flavor is not there

Going to try my hand at some pickling some green beans and cauliflower this weekend. Got a dill brine recipe I have been tweaking, and think I got it finalized for my first batch

Per pint jar:

1/2 cup vinegar

1/2 cup water

1 tablespoon salt (using pink sea salt)

1 med clove garlic (may do two)

1 teaspoon dill seed

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper

3 pepper corns

Bring the water, vinegar and salt to a boil and stir to dissolve the salt.

All the other ingredients will go right in the jar.

Want to add some jalapenos to it, but not sure how much yet

PS: Thats not my recipe, looked at a few different spicy dill recipes and tweaked them a little and got it down to a per pint amounts because I do not have a large canner, can only do 3 pints at a time

Add a little baby Habanero or two to that recipe and I’ll bet it’d be delicious! :slight_smile:

Once, when we had a few plants, a Habanero matured and turned orange when it was tiny, I mean about the size of a green pea or kernel of corn. I figured it wouldn’t be hot because it was so tiny. WRONG! hahaha

Ill see what the grocery store has. maybe a small slice of jalapeno and a small slice of habanero per jar

We have found what is called “Wickles” Wickedly hot pickles. They use a Cayenne pepper and some garlic, sometimes a couple of smaller Cayennes in the pint. The labels shows a Cayenne pepper and a pickle dancing with each other. We like em, they really add that something special to a burger or hot dog.

Oh, and don’t let the price fool you at the grocery store! They’re like $6xx a lb right? It’d take like 40 of em to make a pound! Usually 4-6 of em is a buck or so.

Pulsar, ghost peppers are really particular about soil, sun and heat they get. I had to import soil in from Hawaii to get them to grow properly

We got Wickles up here. Love their relish. Bought a jar and I put it on basically everything. Sarahs uncle had some Wickles Pickles, but they had a bread n butter flavor to them, which I dont like. But they had a nice spice

Wow! Importing soil for the plants is going way overboard! But I guess if you really really want to grow great heaping gobs of your own Ghost peppers…. the pepper plants are usually very prolific and make way more peppers than some folks expect.

We just planted 3 outside our back door and they make dozens and dozens of peppers each plant, with quite a long spell of production. :slight_smile: Really enjoyed watching the little greenie meanies grown into brilliant orange Nuclear disasters. :slight_smile:

I dont know what happened to them. All three types turned white and died after the first day outside. They were still in the potting soil in solo cups, and I made sure it was plenty warm out before I brought them out

How warm is “plenty warm” in Maine? The peppers are generally a warm to hot weather plant. With nights in the low to mid 70’s and days from 95 to 115 the habanero seemed to thrive here.

It was well up above 70s, maybe even 80s when I put them out. Was last year, so I dont remember exactly

edit: http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/tomato-leaves-turn-white.htm

Its for tomatoes, but I am pretty sure that is probably what happened. Shock from going from my indoor grow light to full sun

Trying to figure out why they would have only made it through the first day. Pretty much had to be the temperature, can’t figure why they would have gone down so fast. They’re usually pretty hardy plants.

It is not about the heat of the outside weather, it is about maintaining a soil temperature at 70F or higher after moving them outside. Did you buy growing plants or start from seeds? Potting soil has some additives that really burn the roots. If you can find 15-15-15 soil and you can put a heating pad under at night, you might be able to grow a nice sized plant. Also keeping the keeping the Ph level between 6-7, you will get the beat flavor to heat ratio.

I started them all from seeds. Like I said, it probably was shocked from going from one grow light to full sun light. That is the only thing I can figure