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Does the color change bring more heat to super hots?

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sbaker

I know a guy who wants to eat the hottest pepper I have tomorrow and currently I have one huge green trinidad scorpion that has been the same size and shape for a couple weeks now, is it close to as hot as it will get or will it get significantly hotter and I should put it off? also would putting it in a bag with some bananas so it will hopefully ripen effect heat at all?
 
Ripening will introduce sugar into the fruit,and some heat loss will occur. The hottest point that a pepper can be is when it just starting to ripen.
 
The comment above me is somewhat right. the early stages of ripening produce the hottest pepper. I still think there are several stage of "red" and I usually let it ripes to the first initial "bright red" or "yellow-orange-red" for the Scorpion and won't let it darken, which adds more flavor or sugars (that were converted from Capsaicin).
 
Yeah, just leave it to me to answer a serious question when im sleepy as heck.

Thanks for correcting that, Omri :)
 
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