Topic: for all the chileheads out there

[astrobeck]

who doesn't love a nice ristra?

Vintage Diana with Ektar

[Diane Peterson]

Love this!

[tani.P]

I can feel the burn! Love how the flags echo the chiles.

[Francois]

Somehow, this is making me feel hot

I wonder at how many scoville units these rank at?

[LT]

I wonder at how many scoville units these rank at?

I'd say about 15,000 or thereabouts :-)

Great PIC becky.

[Urban Hafner]

Great image. It comes at the right time for me. Someone burned chilis in the oven in our building this evening. So much so that the fire brigade had to come as everyone was coughing from all the vapors! Not drying chilis like that (I assume that was the idea) is "chili 101" ...

[Francois]

I wonder at how many scoville units these rank at?

I'd say about 15,000 or thereabouts :-)

Great PIC becky.

So, that makes them either Serrano pepper, Peter pepper or Aleppo pepper

Here's a great article on the scoville scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale

Very interesting... it can at least prevent heavy sweats and intense burning

[Late Developer]

I was "lucky" enough to experience a "naga" chilli curry when on holiday in Sri Lanka last year. It was hot but within tolerances that allowed the flavour of the other ingredients to be evident. That said, it did stimulate the mucous production. I had watering eyes and a runny nose (yuk, I know  ) for a couple of hours afterwards.

[LT]

I was "lucky" enough to experience a "naga" chilli curry when on holiday in Sri Lanka last year. It was hot but within tolerances that allowed the flavour of the other ingredients to be evident. That said, it did stimulate the mucous production. I had watering eyes and a runny nose (yuk, I know  ) for a couple of hours afterwards.

I grew a load of bhut jolokias (a variant of the naga- ghost) last year. With the right conditions they get over a million scovilles, although probably not in my north facing yard, sadly. I froze them and cook with them regularly (still have a freezer full) , althoughthe air is like someone has pepper sprayed the house for about 5 hours after cooking, so I'm banned from doing it when Mrs t is in. They are so fruity and tasty that the burn is worth the pain :-)

[Urban Hafner]

Hm. I need to grow some chili again next year. We will have two huge balconies ... and a two year old. But then I have a few months to think about safety measures