This may not be what you're looking for, but, I grew the bhut for a friend that wanted one, and I'm now stuck with a vigorous plant that I am overwintering. I got hundreds of peppers from the one plant, and had no clue what to do with them. I have worked with different recipes, and think in time, a person could certainly get used to the heat. Not me, but SOMEONE. ;)

I forget what it is called but some people can't feel pain. I remember a video of an Indian woman eating dozens of Bhuts and rubbing them in her eyes.

Craziness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vv_tf6ySEM

I have always loved spicy food and test my tolerance all the time. Especially when it comes to challenges, I love to compete and eat more of the hottest stuff and watch the next guy suffer and lose.

But i dont know about those Bhut Jolokia's, never tried one, never grew one. Habanero yes, i have both grown and eaten those, and they got plenty of heat!!!! Do i eat Habs raw? for the most part no! i like the hot peppers used in my cooking, where the heat level can be controlled by the amount of pepper used will be balanced out with the volume, mass, taste of the other foods in the meal.

For the most part i believe that the hottest pepper bullcrap is more a hobby and a game performed by folks to fulfill some competive void.

I love spicy foods and hot peppers but you aint gonna see me wolfing down bhut jolokias or any other pepper of comparitive heat unless there is money or a challenge on the line.

Jim

P.S. I dont think age has anything do with it Greg, Maybe if ya eat enough Bhuts you'll burn yer taste buds out and be able to eat em by the bushel.

The habanero isn't even close to the jolokia. I grew it last year because I didn't think it would be much hotter than a habanero. Boy was I wrong!

:)
But i dont know about those Bhut Jolokia's, never tried one, never grew one.
For the most part i believe that the hottest pepper bullcrap is more a hobby and a game performed by folks to fulfill some competive void.

You made me smile!

I ate a piece of dried Bhut last Summer...yeah, it was amazingly hot.

Josh

I like superhots but don't eat them like cherries either.

I can't understand why people have no problem using milder hot peppers in a certain proportion for salsa but think they have to use the same amount of a super hot in the same amount of salsa or whatever.

To me the only difference in super hot use is I use less of them in whatever I'm making and have to let it blend,since there is less pepper per other ingrediants proportion wise.
You don't use the same number of Jalapenos in something as you do Habaneros,depending on your taste in spiceyness/heat.
Why should super hots be any different?

last year I tried to grow the Bhut, I don't know if it was me, or the unusually cool summer we had, but my plants did not produce anything. Left still yearning to feel the burn, I recently found a product on ebay that was billed as "smoked habs,red peppers, and bhut jolokia" The product arrived, and upon opening smelled incredible, smoky and hot... I cautiously removed the shaker top, with thoughts of sneezing foremost on my mind, then slowly dipped the tip of my slightly moistened pinky finger into the blend. I pulled back the digit and looked at it, covered in dark burnt orange, I flicked my tongue at it, and contact was made, ready for blast off I thought.... but I got nothing but a tingle :-(

I contacted the seller, and expressed my concern, figured maybe just blend ratio was off, I've had it happen b4...
he agreed to send me some pure bhut to add in, which arrived today. I'm dipping my finger in this stuff and eating it and all I get is this slight tingle, it starts of like it's going to burn like heck, but just fizzles out???

looking for opinions before I review product on ebay... anyone ever smoke habs or bhuts before? does it take the heat out? I've been growing habs and Thai dragons for years, then dehydrating and grinding, and my stuff if way hotter then this alleged hottest pepper he's selling.

thanks all...

Rip off IMO.

i smoke habs and bhuts every year- smoking makes them hotter, if anything (probably just by virtue of dehydrating them a bit). sounds like bunk to me. he probably kept his own seed thinking his peppers wouldn't cross-pollinate.

Sacr3dZ,

I concur with biscgolf. Drying peppers (smoked or not) intensifies the heat in my opinion. If you can feel the heat from other hot peppers raw, you will definitely feel the heat (pain) from the Bhut (fresh or dried). You don't have an email set up on your profile. Send me a note at ottawapepper (at) hotmail (dot) com. I smoked some of my Bhuts last fall. I'll send you a sample. If it gets through the border, you can experience the real deal. It is HOT!

Bill

thanks for your input, thought maybe I was one of those freaks that could rub them in their eyes HAHAAHAHA

thank you Bill, you should have a email with contact details, I'm really looking forward to it. The product i bought was in no way bad, in fact it had a awesome taste. This was my first experience with the bhut, and I just expected more from everything I had read.

Has anyone else noticed that after years of eating hot stuff you tend to become one of those crazy people who just doesn't feel moderate levels of heat any more? I can remember meeting people like that and thinking, "come on, just admit it's hot, dammit. Clearly you can stand it, just admit it's hot!"

Now i am starting to see that you really do lose your ability to identify low levels of heat. I have become one of THOSE people. I am getting complaints on some of the sauces i gave away for Christmas due to the fact that i had labeled them "medium". heh.

lol, yes, indeed I have noticed that. I can remember my first taste of pepperjack cheese, and thinking how hot it was

I think I just ruined my ability to feel heat. I was at a local wing restaurant last night - I've been working up their menu in terms of spicyness. I ordered a dozen "Jessica Alba" wings and a dozen of their challenge wings. I think the sauce on the challenge ones were about half extract! I used the 2nd hottest wings to cool down.

Besides having a painful piss that burnt for about 15 minutes, I can't feel heat today!

I made a chicken curry for dinner with a few serranos. I tried them while cooking and they tasted sweet. The same thing with cayennes in the fride. I ate about 6 before asking the wife if the peppers smelled hot. She likes heat, but they burned her nose.

This ever happen to anyone else?

yes, you'll recover in a couple of days...extract is vile.

"Jessica Alba" wings....hahaha...that's gotta be hot! ;)
Great marketing.


Josh

tmacmillan... this has happened to me before. give it time, you're spicy calibration is out of whack. it'll eventually come back to normal if you lay off jessica alba for a bit.

I spent a weekend making my way through one Bhut. I kept burning myself over the two days. Refusing to give in, i wouldn't drink milk or anything else the gf suggested I do in order to stop jumping around the apartment... anyways, after that weekend, my spice tolerance reached a new level. I could feel the heat from eating a lot of spicy, but it didn't hurt. I started tasting a lot more of the chile.. and then realized I'd lost the ability to judge the amount of heat in my cooking. I started burning everyone... took a trip 2 months later, where I didn't eat any spicy for 2 weeks, and i think i'm about back to "normal"

Hi Bill/ottawapepper
my envelope arrived today, thank you very much!
I believe that I am now a confirmed freak LOL I am getting about the same level of heat from yours, as the stuff I bought on ebay. I found something in your accompanying letter curious though... you said that most folks primarily feel the heat on their tongue and back of throat. I get a slight tingle on the very tip of my tongue, nothing anywhere else. Normally I will get a all over mouth burn from a habby, so perhaps it's just the nature of the pepper?

I took some next door to see if my neighbor thought it was hot, it lit him up pretty good, so I guess I'm just defective.

2, possibly 3 seeds survived the post office, I look forward to giving that a shot! when I was a kid, I put seeds in a damp paper towel and wrapped in foil to sprout.. is that an acceptable way???

Thanks again!!

Mark/Sacr3dz