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Slowest burn pepper?

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PodHopper

What hot peppers have you found to be a sleeper when it comes to the burn?  I want something that you're like "eh, this isnt half bad, i'll have another"...."holy smokes, i regret the first one!" 
 
Also, bonus points for a hot pepper that the heat subsides the quickest.
 
Tough to say, definitively. Never made a sauce with Bubblegums. I made a sauce last year that was a combo of red Scotch Bonnets and 7 Pot Lavas that was a bit of a creeper, and the heat lingered for a while. Not nearly as much as the raw pods though
 
i haven't eaten too many varieties yet but my friends and I were greatly surprised by CGN21566.
to me it started with great citrusy and almost fruity flavor, and we all wondered where the heat was. it hit us much later while we were busy expounding on our disappointment. to me it was an intense pins and needles burn that had all of us with eyes watering. supposedly hab level heat though. 
 
as for the fasted to dissipate...i've read that tepin (and related) peppers have a decent burn and is done fast. I've tried a tepin x lemondrop and it was delicious.
 
Putting something into a sauce changes its characteristics and flattens its burn profile.  I don't really know how to explain it, because it varies heavily depending on how the sauce is made.  Eat a whole habanero and then try a habanero based sauce.  You can practically set your watch by the burn profile of the whole pepper and define a very spiky profile to the burn.  The burn profile of the sauce will be relatively flat, by comparison.  Still hot, but not as much of a curve due to the additional ingredients.
 
Bhuts and Nagas will definitely creep on you, but the worst creeper I ever personally ate was a whole Chocolate Moruga Scorpion the size of a golf ball.  It was like "Geez, that was brutal.  Wait...is it getting hotter?  Holy crap, it hasn't peaked!"  You can see a perfect example of that moment at about 5:50 in this old ParadiseWeiss video.  It's the bit where he's mid sentence and the sudden realization it has not peaked cuts off all rational thought.
Also love his advice of the day near the end.
 
For quick dissipation; as I said, you can almost set your watch by a 5 minute habanero burn.  Nothing for 20 seconds or so, then immediately hot, peaks about 2-3 minutes and quickly declines to a moderate background warmth by about 5 minutes in.  Some of the 7-Pot BBG (especially yellows) do the same thing on a slightly slower scale.  Nothing...nothing..getting hot...HOT...then *poof* it's not really hot anymore.
 
100% Jay's peach ghost scorpion. Everyone was talking about this one a couple of years ago. I made a big deal about them and finally brought a couple to hot pepper night. About 12 of us tasted some and it had a watered down taste and wasn't all that hot at all. Everybody started talking bad about the pepper. All of a sudden, about 3 minutes later, the bartender, who also tried the pepper, started sweating and turning pink. Within about 30 seconds everyone started looking the same way and saying holy crap, and that kind of thing. So, in this case, a good 3+ minute time release heat. Tom
 
I had a Chocolate Bhut the other day that I thought was going to be a total dud. No heat at all for about 2 minutes, then a good 10-15 minute build before it finally peaked.

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cycadjungle said:
100% Jay's peach ghost scorpion. Everyone was talking about this one a couple of years ago. I made a big deal about them and finally brought a couple to hot pepper night. About 12 of us tasted some and it had a watered down taste and wasn't all that hot at all. Everybody started talking bad about the pepper. All of a sudden, about 3 minutes later.....
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Good call! Forgot about that one. Perfectly accurate description too! "Watered down taste," then 3 minutes later it feels like your tongue is in a freakin' vice ;)
 
Burgundy BBG for this year so far. I was already talking about how I didnt get much burn off the early ones when it crept in. Nice one for sure. Body tingle and everything. Almost scary imagining how hot it'll end up.
 
Red brainstrain started hot and continued to kick my ass for the next 30 minutes. Hottest thing I have ever eaten, period, and the biggest creep. Which is surprising, given that my first thought was "holy face rape, this is going to kill me" and it kept getting hotter.
 
austin87 said:
Red brainstrain started hot and continued to kick my ass for the next 30 minutes. Hottest thing I have ever eaten, period, and the biggest creep. Which is surprising, given that my first thought was "holy face rape, this is going to kill me" and it kept getting hotter.
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The brainstrain are really funny that way.  I was legitimately fearful of the first red one I tried, because red peppers seem to universally hit me harder than even chocolates for some reason.  I thought the first few brainstrain I ate were duds, because I didn't regret having eaten them.   :rofl:   Everybody else I knew was getting wholesale wrecked by even pieces of the things.  They're always stupid hot, but that strain in particular just seems to absolutely destroy certain people for some reason.
 
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