Ghost Pepper Guanchalai

[Perazzimx14]

Last week I ordered up some pork bellies and also some jowls. The jowls were very nice and meaty. After trimming the glands and stringy fat they were ready for the cure.

Guanchalai

Cure #2
Salt
Sugar
Ghost Pepper, dried and ground
Thyme
Rosemary
Juniper

Trimmed and ready for 10 days of curing in a 37 degree fridge.



Fast forward 10 days and pulled from the cure and ready for rinsing.



Rinsed weighed and meat hook applied, ready for the chamber where I anticipate it'll take 3 to 4 weeks lose between 30 & 40% of their weight.

[Sheepdog]

I notice that the recipe lists Ghost Pepper in singular form. Those are some brutally hot peppers...

[Ncdan]

The ghost pepper is no longer the hottest pepper. A gentleman in NC has produced one much hotter called the "Grim Reaper "

[Perazzimx14]

The Ghost pepper have not been the worlds hottest pepper for quite some time. Lots of hotter one's out there. Yes they are hot but not excrusiatingly hot.

CAROLINA REAPER- 2,200,000 SHU (SCOVILLE HEAT UNITS)

TRINIDAD MORUGA SCORPION - 2,009,231 SHU

TRINIDAD CHOCOLATE 7 POT - 1,853,396 SHU

TRINIDAD SCORPION BUTCH T - 1,463,700 SHU

TRINIDAD SCORPION 7 POT - 1,291,800 SHU
 
TRINIDAD BARRACKPORE - 1,200,000 SHU

BHUT JOLOKIA (Ghost Chile) - 1,041,800 SHU
 
JAY'S PEACH GHOST SCORPION - 900,000 SHU
 
JAY'S RED GHOST SCORPION - 800,000 SHU
 
RED SAVINA HABANERO - 577,000 SHU >

ORANGE HABANERO - 350,000 SHU

AFRICAN BIRD'S EYE - 190,000 SHU

JALAPENO PEPPER - 2,500 SHU

BELL PEPPER - 2,500 SHU

[kingoffleece]

Who's the guy who figured the extra 200,000 on the top end?!

Mo hotta, mo betta!

[Perazzimx14]

I notice that the recipe lists Ghost Pepper in singular form. Those are some brutally hot peppers...

Yep, each jowl got its own personal dried and ground Ghost pepper .

[Ncdan]

Who's the guy who figured the extra 200,000 on the top end?!

Mo hotta, mo betta!

Ed Currie is the sickO who did that 😂

[bigbikerrick]

I wonder where Mexican Chile Tepin falls among that list?  The Mexican folks around my neck of the woods pride themselves in their ability to eat very very hot chili peppers,especially the "macho men". I know these tiny little devils are a heck of alot hotter than Jalapenos! 
Rick.

[Perazzimx14]

I wonder where Mexican Chile Tepin falls among that list?  The Mexican folks around my neck of the woods pride themselves in their ability to eat very very hot chili peppers,especially the "macho men". I know these tiny little devils are a heck of alot hotter than Jalapenos! 
Rick.

Chiltepin scoville 50,000 to 100,000

I tried to grow chilipen's but it was a failure. Unfortunately they are cost prohibitive to buy in the quantities I'd use.

[Travman]

I noticed the Jalapeño and Bell pepper had the same rating. That doesn’t seem right.

[Perazzimx14]

I noticed the Jalapeño and Bell pepper had the same rating. That doesn’t seem right.

This was a copy and paste from Alamo Pepper. I think then mistakenly added 2,000 to the bell pepper.

[Rough Edge racing]

 We eat spicy food on a daily basis...Hot by most standards but not so hot you can't taste the food..Different hot peppers have different tastes....Are you guys peppering food so their nothing but hot?

[Perazzimx14]

We eat spicy food on a daily basis...Hot by most standards but not so hot you can't taste the food..Different hot peppers have different tastes....Are you guys peppering food so their nothing but hot?

Not in the least. You can have extreme heat and extreme flavor. 

[Lannis]

We eat spicy food on a daily basis...Hot by most standards but not so hot you can't taste the food..Different hot peppers have different tastes....Are you guys peppering food so their nothing but hot?

I was traveling in Florida and stopped at a little Thai restaurant on their first opening week.   I chose a red snapper in some kind of Thai sauce.   The sauce came in "hotness" on a scale of 1 through 10.   

Only one young guy in the restaurant spoke English, so I asked for some guidance on the heat levels.   He asked me if I ate hot Mexican spices or chiles, and I said that I could generally eat the hottest peppers in a home-style Mexican place, which are generally the level of an orange habanero, but not beyond that.

He told me I would probably like the "5" level on my snapper.   So I did.   It was very tasty, but it was the hottest thing I've ever enjoyed.   A "6" would have burned my mouth enough to spoil it.

Afterwards, when he asked how I liked it, I told him I liked it very well - the fish was cooked perfectly (we don't get much red snapper at home) and the sauce added a lot to it.   I then asked "Who in the world gets the "10"-level sauce? "

He said "That's really only for Thai guys.   Back home, it's a social occasion when you eat that.   It makes the sweat come out of your pores all over your body, like a steam bath, and they sit around and eat and sweat and socialize like in a steam bath - it's considered healthy and purges your system like steam does".

He was very earnest about it and had no reason to lie, so I assume it's true.   So it's not always for the "flavor"!

Lannis

[Texas Turnip]

I grow jalopena peppers and found that on the same plant the hotness of the peppers vary from mild to very hot.

Now if it is "so hot you have to wipe your ass with a snow cone" then that is HOT.

Tex

[Lannis]

I grow jalopena peppers and found that on the same plant the hotness of the peppers vary from mild to very hot.

Now if it is "so hot you have to wipe your ass with a snow cone" then that is HOT.

Tex

Yep, that's the main problem with hot stuff.  Going down, you can help the burn with yogurt (like the India-Indians do) or ice cream.

On the other end, there's no help .... just live and learn!

Lannis

[Dilliw]

Yep, that's the main problem with hot stuff.  Going down, you can help the burn with yogurt (like the India-Indians do) or ice cream.

On the other end, there's no help .... just live and learn!

Lannis

That's why Ed's company (Reaper) is named the Puckerbutt Pepper Co.   

Classic Ed:  https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ed+eats+pepper+x&view=detail&mid=C57F87BD8607933A718FC57F87BD8607933A718F&FORM=VIRE

[Cam3512]

Yep, that's the main problem with hot stuff.  Going down, you can help the burn with yogurt (like the India-Indians do) or ice cream.

On the other end, there's no help .... just live and learn!

Lannis

I always joke about having to put the toilet paper in the refrigerator the night before...