Hi from New Jersey

Synastral

Synastral

So i'm kinda new to the chili scene(like two weeks ago i started finding interest in hot foods) and i decided to join this forum just to roam around looking at threads. I ate a habanero pepper yesterday and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I've watched alot of chili related videos (the crude brothers, tedbarrus, etc) and I've just kind of fallen in love with the idea of building up my tolerance for the pain. Unfortunately i haven't been able to find too many peppers outside of jalapenos in my local grocery store. My friend gave me the habaneros and i want to eat more, and maybe eventually be able to enjoy the taste.  :P So how long has it taken you guys to be able to eat raw whole habanero peppers without it being unbearably painful? I'd love to even move into the even hotter stuff like Bhut Jolokias, Butch T scorpions, and Carolina Reapers too. 
 
Welcome from Romania!
I have seen different people eating hot peppers, most on youtube. You can search for Nigel (also THP member), a man who review hot peppers, but one who knows what he is doing. There are many other brainless people torturing themselves, and put this on the ned, with proud. Weirdo....
I think eating hot peppers is more a matter of taste, I am eating for their taste, not to be the coolest guy who's eating hottest pepper as other eating popcorn. I enjoy more in the taste.
Now, eating a whole raw habanero at once, never tried so far, and even don't want to do it. I am sure will feel nothing but pain, as you did. Anybody call me chicken? So what? I have tried 7 Pot BS red, also Dorset Naga. Small pieces, of course. Am I proud? No, why sould I be? As I told, the taste is more important for me.
So I can't answer to your question about how long it tooks, since I never trained for this. But my sincere advice is to enjoy the taste, there are so many incredibly nice taste you could not believe. If just want to burno your tongue and troath, try pure capsaicin.
Of course you have to improve your tolerance, in order to enjoy the flavor of superhots, they have their charm too, and also taste. And the best advice would be to start growing your own peppers, so you will have different levels of heat and flavors to try, and work at your tolerance.
 
Later edit: You can find here some topics on how to protect your stomach, and avoid painful cramps after eating superhots.
 
Welcome to THP from another member from the Garden State. If you are near a Whole Foods they may have some different varieties of peppers to try(the store closest to me does). You can also try farmers markets, although you may have to wait til next season for that.
 
:welcome:  to the THP forums from SC! Nice and slow is the way to go when eating peppers- enjoy the peppers, not just as a means to build your tolerance to get to something hotter. Pepper tolerance varies even with the individual. For one week I can handle a certain degree of heat/pain, then the same heat/level pepper the next week will seem too much.. so I have to dial it back some. 
 
Habaneros in my area go from mild (the ones you can usually get at the grocery), to the very hot (local farm grown with the occasional really hot grocery batch as well). Start with just eating slivers from the very bottom of the pepper, then working up the sides, and then try nibbles of the placenta/seed/top parts. Might be agonizing, but you'll like it. ;)  It did not take long graduating from Jalapeno/Fresno's to where I now eat Habaneros daily with breakfast- 2-4 of the more mild, 1-2 of the hot ones when they are available- pop' um' like grapes! (except the red ones I found last week..they made me re-respect the Hab! ..lol..)
 
I definitely don't want to just build up my tolerance to eat hotter peppers, i want to build up my tolerance so i can enjoy the taste of those hotter peppers. :)
 
And what is Nigel's youtube channel? I tried looking for it but i couldn't find anything. 
 
I rather like the taste of the super hots, even if I can't taste mush anyway LOL Just a little will add heat and taste to just about anything I eat.  
 
Synastral said:
I definitely don't want to just build up my tolerance to eat hotter peppers, i want to build up my tolerance so i can enjoy the taste of those hotter peppers. :)
 
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This is good!
I remember a guy returned on THP after a while, telling he had to treat himself because the problem he had, can't find the topic now. If I remember exactly, he had stomach problems previous starting to eat hot peppers, and this led him to doctors.
 
Hey Howdy from Florida Indiana!!           :welcome:
 
Also remember that it also isn't just about eating raw peppers.  Processing or cooking with them opens up so many new doors, and there are so many different flavor profiles of varying heat levels available that you can spend ages just figuring out what peppers to use in which recipes.  A lot of fun experimenting.  :)
 
PapaBill said:
Hey Howdy from Florida Indiana!!           :welcome:
 
Also remember that it also isn't just about eating raw peppers.  Processing or cooking with them opens up so many new doors, and there are so many different flavor profiles of varying heat levels available that you can spend ages just figuring out what peppers to use in which recipes.  A lot of fun experimenting.   :)
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I would love to incorporate peppers into my food as much as i can but i'm only 16 and not in charge of what's for dinner most of the time. Plus most of my family can't even eat jalapenos.  
 
Synastral said:
 
I would love to incorporate peppers into my food as much as i can but i'm only 16 and not in charge of what's for dinner most of the time. Plus most of my family can't even eat jalapenos.  
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You can start with simple things, just cut small pieces of peppers, small pieces of ham, fry for 2 minutes, throw some eggs, mix, voila. You can add the peppers from the very beginning, or later with the eggs. This is an "emergency food" among others I do when need to finish in 2-3 minutes. Just be ready to hear the others yelling about the heat and smell flowing in the air :)
 
:welcome: from Hawaii. It's kinda late in the season for most growers near you but you might still find someone selling boxes of pods in the classified section.
Failing that, you will find very generous seed vendors who will be glad to help you get started for next season. Judy at pepperlover.com is one who helped me get some varieties I didn't even know I wanted til I joined this forum. Also, there are vendors who are selling dried peppers and powders that you can check out to keep you warm and fuzzy through winter.
 
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