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Be sure to wear gloves and avoid all contact with your eyes. But, you should remember that they are up to five times the heat level. In a large dish, the heat stands out, but the flavor stand still. You can even finely chop it to use in cooking larger meals such as a pot of stew or chile. Their intense heat, as well as their fruity flavor, makes them great for any form of cooking. Dehydrate and grind them into powders or chili flakes for an amazing additive. Ghost peppers are great when used in the making of hot sauces. If you can stand the heat, it is truly a taste you’re going to want to try. They instead give you this fantastic blooming heat that bursts with flavor. The ghost peppers also do not sting you with heat, unlike the scorpion pepper. The best way to enjoy them is in your cooking, rather than raw.
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For 10-15 minutes, the burning intensifies, and after 30-40 minutes, it subsides. But, once the heat kicks in, expect watery eyes, hiccups, and sweating with shortness of breath. When you taste the Ghost pepper, your first flavor is the intense fruity sweet chili flavor for up to 30-45 seconds. The ghost pepper tops out at 1,041,427 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), and the Carolina Reaper can reach up to 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU). As hot as the Ghost pepper is, the Carolina Reaper has more than double the spice of the ghost pepper at its hottest. Both are intensely hot, and they have a sweet and fruity flavor. The Ghost Pepper and Carolina Reaper can be favorably compared. The hottest ghost pepper can be said to be 416 times hotter than even the mildest jalapeño pepper which should average about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units on the Scoville Scale. This is 208 times hotter than the average jalapeño pepper. The Ghost Pepper measures at 1,000,000+ Scoville Heat Units. The ghost pepper was relatively unknown as the hottest pepper in the world, but that changed when the Indian Defence Test Laboratory found out that that the pepper Scoville rating was off the charts. Do note that ‘Naga’ means ‘cobra snake’ in Sanskrit. The ghost pepper is also known by names such as Naga Jolokia, Bih Jolokia, or ghost chile. The word ‘bhut’ which means ghost, given from the Bhutia people, most likely because the heat sneaks up on you like a ghost. World Records for the World’s hottest pepper from 2007 to 2010. When it got there, it was planted in a unique climate, bred by local hands, and before you know it, we got the spiciest chile in the World at the time. Where did the ghost pepper come from? What probably happened was that the chile pepper during its 16-century global trek, arrived through unknown means to Northeast India. Bhut means ghost and jolokia means pepper. The ghost pepper is also known as the Bhut Jolokia. The ghost pepper belongs to the Capsicum Chinese family like Habanero, Scotch Bonnet, and Red Savina. They have only been cultivated in the Western World since the turn of the century. The ghost pepper has been around for generations and is originally from Northeast India. They are usually red, although they could also be yellow-orange, purple, chocolate, or even white in some color variations.
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The present owner of the world record hottest spices is the Carolina Reaper. When ripe, the peppers measure 2.5 to 3.3 inches long. In the long run, it was unseated by a new wave of super-hot chile peppers. In 2006, the Guinness Book of World Records deemed it the world’s spiciest tropical species which outdid the Red Savina Habanero. The Ghost pepper is said to be one of the hottest peppers in the World.