Texas chili judge

[ryandalling]

youve obviously never eaten a whole habanero.....

There is this place down the street... they serve this habanero chicken mac n'cheese. They have strips of habanero laid on the top of the plate when they serve it... which for some reason I thought were green peppers and popped in my mouth.... I thought my lips were seriously dripping off of my face... and then the exit was just as painful....       Just not sure I can do the milk cube thing. 

[TiAvenger]

There is this place down the street... they serve this habanero chicken mac n'cheese. They have strips of habanero laid on the top of the plate when they serve it... which for some reason I thought were green peppers and popped in my mouth.... I thought my lips were seriously dripping off of my face... and then the exit was just as painful....       Just not sure I can do the milk cube thing. 

baby ones... mature ones are orange.... and about 50 times hotter if you leave the seeds and veins in.... roast em and they get worse.

Dad and I make a mango salsa with them, you have to wear gloves or get horrible burns..... but it tastes so awesome 

[Buckethead]

I actually really like Dave's Insanity Sauce. A good sized drop, about the size of a dime, livens up a pot of Mac 'n Cheese.

I also laugh every time I see the label.

"Great for use in sauces, soups, and stews. Also, strips wax floors and removes driveway grease stains." 

[rgramjet]

I feel ya Dog....I am of the same school cut from the same cloth.......But, an entire Habanero will change ones life.  It aint pretty.

[rgramjet]

baby ones... mature ones are orange.... and about 50 times hotter if you leave the seeds and veins in.... roast em and they get worse.

Dad and I make a mango salsa with them, you have to wear gloves or get horrible burns..... but it tastes so awesome 

My uncle makes something similar called "Cortidos".  The dilemma is, you only feel the heat once you stop eating them.....sweet, hot, crunchy, delicious.  Stop eating it and you want to cut your own tongue out.

[TiNi]

i make my chili with a chipotle pepper paste
it's go a medium hot smokey flavor, not a burn-your-butt-out hot

[Vindingo]

I had a similar experiance as VisceralReaction -

A friend of mine had a decorative cayenne pepper plant sitting on her porch.  The little pepers were so bright and colorful that I didnt think it was real.  I grab a pepper, crack it in half then put it on my lip.  It was real and very hot.  About 5 min later after I go to take a leak I get this terrible burning sensation on my  .   Dannon yogurt works well at quenching the flames too 

I am all for spicey food and I love to cook spicey thing, but when it gets too hot to enjoy the flavor it is just a waste. 

[the_Journeyman]

Habenaros have to best flavor IMO of the hot peppers, the Caribbean peppers a very close second that aren't quite as hot.  However, I do remember the 1st time I was exposed to a habenero.  I took a nice big bite of it whole.  My mouth and tongue went numb.

JM

[KnightofNi]

one of the local guys was telling us how he ate a picked habanero and popped it in last night with dinner.

he also said he was a bit tender after the morning coffee and again later lunch went through him.

he says this as he is dipping his chicken tenders in siracha (sp?)

[ducati_tim]

I have been trying to get my hands on a Ghost Chili http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_chili

One of the guys that works with me in Bangalore has been looking for them, but so far has not been able to find them in South India. They have been measured at 855,000 Scoville units. Yikes 

[Monsterlover]

That's crazy hot.  If you read the Wiki article it lists under "uses:"  As a spice or eaten alone.  Who in their right mind would eat that by itself?  Who's stomach could withstand that?  They should rename that the "anus disintegrating pepper"