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Finally took the plunge.

staffing

staffing

I don't know why, but I have never eaten a habanero. Well...I know it is because of a healthy respect for the heat of the pepper. It doesn't make sense, though, because I chop up a hab. to put in my sat. morning omelet every weekend...so I started thinking that maybe I could handle the heat.
On top of that, it's kind of odd (or wimpy...take your pick) to be a chilihead that hasn't taken the plunge.

Anyway, I ate one last night after dinner...and one of my guests decided to eat one to. Man....the flavor was intense, and the pepper nice, crisp, and juicy. It took well over a minute for the full heat to hit me. It was hot....but for some reason, I expected to be floored by the heat. I did break a sweat on my brow, and my tongue experienced some serious heat, but at just about the time I was contemplating a glass of milk, it started to dissipate.

A couple of minutes later, I was fine....total uncomfortable period was perhaps 5-7 minutes. Not bad....actually more enjoyable than not...and I definitely experienced a definitive endorphin rush.

My friend, on the other hand, didn't fare so well. He slammed 3 glasses of milk, swished his mouth out with vodka (a trick rumored to help) and was in pain for quite a while.

After my experience, I'll likely do it again...and now am not quite as afraid (note the word "quite) of eating my first naga.

Just thought I'd share.
 
DevilDuck said:
Um.... Be afraid of the naga. That's all I have to say about that.
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LOL!!! I've seen pix / videos. I'm not a fool. At the same time, I will eventually have to take that plunge as well...call it a stupid stubbornness. Keep in mind that it took me years to eat my first hab. We'll see.

I still respect habs...don't get me wrong....I think I had them built up to be much more painfully hot than they were....and that is why it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was still hot. Very hot. :onfire:
 
Congratulations on your habanero eating accomplishment! Which type did you eat?

All this is new to me so I think I will hold off until I have grown my own this season and then maybe, just maybe I will try it. Then again ???????

Some people are more tolerent to the heat than others with me being one of the others. I'm learning tho . . . slowly

Butch
 
AKButch said:
Congratulations on your habanero eating accomplishment! Which type did you eat?

All this is new to me so I think I will hold off until I have grown my own this season and then maybe, just maybe I will try it. Then again ???????

Some people are more tolerent to the heat than others with me being one of the others. I'm learning tho . . . slowly

Butch
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I hear ya, Butch. After reading the exploits of many of the people here, I felt like I was on the low end of the tolerance scale. You read so many posts about people who put extract on everything....and extract is hot. Period.

I put about 10-12 drops of Jersey Death in my soup last week (what I live on at school) and lost a gallon in sweat. Not a huge fan of the taste of extract either....unless it comes from The Creator....I like "zero".

What started this last night was putting drops of Toxic Waste (a very hot extract sauce). After eating it, it wasn't as hot as I remembered, and I chalked it up to the bottle being in my fridge for a couple of years.

If you've tried extract sauces (as most in here have) a hab isn't any hotter...and in many cases, isn't as hot as the hotter extracts. Of course, eating a whole pepper, more surface area of your mouth gets exposed, but there you are.

It was kind of a rite of passage for me...not something I'll do every day. But I have to tell you....that was the tastiest, most crisp and juicy pepper I've ever munched. That alone made the experience worth it.
 
I think Habs have one of the loveliest flavours out of all the chillis and you have the heat too. I like to eat Habs raw but I'd never look upon someone being wimpish for not doing it, everyone has their own heat and taste preferences. I'd think more of someone who admitted that the heat would be too much for them. But I'm glad you enjoyed it Staffing, that's how it should be.
 
I agree with DD be afraid of the Naga I ate the bottom of one which is the mildest part of most chile's and 3 hours late my mouth was still on fire no joke they are what they say they are.
Dan



LET IT BURN
 
nagas are for war not eating, but I tell you I've eaten orange habanero grownin the peak of our OZ summer which almost have killed me. lol
 
DevilDuck said:
Um.... Be afraid of the naga. That's all I have to say about that.
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bowhunter said:
I agree with DD be afraid of the Naga I ate the bottom of one which is the mildest part of most chile's and 3 hours late my mouth was still on fire no joke they are what they say they are.
Dan
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stillmanz said:
nagas are for war not eating, but I tell you I've eaten orange habanero grownin the peak of our OZ summer which almost have killed me. lol
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OMG what forum am I in..i'm blind,.i can't see :cool:....Nagas are a pepper like any other o.k so maybe a hundred others all packed into one vicious beast of a pod, but they have their own flavor as with all the other peppers. You start cooking/sauce making with those natural flavours & you'll be experiencing the scovilles without the fear.
 
Getting a little sweat is a nice thing, once in a while.
Eating fresh whole habs will get you that, and it's also a great method for maximizing the taste.
Although fresh habs can't be bought like tomatoes here, we do have a pepper that's easier to find - African Birdseye.
About the same heat as Orange Habanero, just not as tasty.
Of course I don't think one should eat something that's over the top for him/her.
For example I've tasted a whole pepper not too long ago, and it was hotter than I thought.
Compared to Scoville rated sauces, I would say it's about 500,000SHU (Just my guess, don't kill me). I will NOT repeat that mistake.
It's a great pepper to cook with, but not for eating whole.
I've eaten way hotter things, but it doesn't mean I'll repeat them.
Willing to try anything once.
 
Sorry don't want to start an augument but there is no way an African birds eye is as hot as an Orange habanero. Orange habanero Have been scorvilled around 200 000 shu++++ African birds eye are hot and they hit you in the lips like thai birds eye making them feelhotter than they are.
Wait tillthose nagas are podding foryou then you will no your alive.

@bent I agree nagas ahve a beautiful flavour I just think people need to fear them a little...like cops lol
 
stillmanz said:
Sorry don't want to start an augument but there is no way an African birds eye is as hot as an Orange habanero. Orange habanero Have been scorvilled around 200 000 shu++++ African birds eye are hot and they hit you in the lips like thai birds eye making them feelhotter than they are.
Wait tillthose nagas are podding foryou then you will no your alive.

@bent I agree nagas ahve a beautiful flavour I just think people need to fear them a little...like cops lol
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African Birdseye are most noticeable at the back of the mouth, even down the throat (Not lips).
From the tests I've seen most Orange Habanero peppers are 150,000SHU - 200,000SHU.
Most African Birdseye peppers are 100,000SHU - 150,000SHU.
Both of them can get hotter, but around here they're about the same heat.
 
Again not starting an augument but if I had a gun to my head and someone said either eat theAfrican birds eye or eat the Orange habanero I'd eat the African birds eye and not think twice.
In Australia we have many of the frutecens "bird eye" peepers including the african variety they are nasty dry hot but they aren't going to drop you and in tears and make you blow snot out your nose lol
where as in my experience habanero types like the Orange certainly will.
Have you done acomparison as I have? lol
 
I have done a comparison, and that's where the statement came from.
In the last couple of weeks I've tried several kinds of Birdseye peppers so I could choose which I want to grow.
Most of them are nothing like the African Birdseye. it's no doubt the hottest one. I am talking about the original African Birdseye from Sudan.
I remembered Orange Habanero as a peppers that causes tears, and African Birdseye (a pepper I eat more often) as one that doesn't.
That made me think (for a while) that the Orange Habanero is way hotter, but apparently both of them won't cause me to shed tears. well not anymore.

It's not an argument, but unless something is seriously wrong with my mouth, they're about the same heat.
 
I guess these sudanese peppers must be damn hot, are you growing any out this year, post some pics I'd like to compare with what I have. They are frutescens species? I know some stressed frutecens are very hot.
 
I am growing them this year, but they're too young for now.
I'll go to the local market on Wednesday, to see if they have any.
If they do, I'll mail you some seeds (Do you think it's possible to send fresh pods from Israel to Australia without killing them?).

You just reminded me... I promised Bent a long time ago I'll send him so seeds. :lol:
Guess I'll be sending two packages to good ol' oz.
 
I'm sure the Aussie weather will make them even hotter. ;)
If I can't find them in the local market, I'll get them from somewhere else.

Bent @ just keep them away from that Siam of yours. :lol:
 
Omri said:
Bent @ just keep them away from that Siam of yours. :lol:
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:lol: I don't know, it looks like it's turned the bird/hab into a pod producing machine. Truth will be in the tasting of course. Few more weeks & we will know.
 
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