Hot Chilli

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Ate some naga morich pickle recently and found it quite an amazing and addictive experience. Went surfing on YouTube and came up with some links to people eating hot chillies and sauces:

YouTube - adam doing stupid stuff episode 1 Blairs mega death sauce

Part 1
YouTube - The 5 Minute Test - Blair's Possible Side Effects pt1
Part 2
YouTube - The Five Minute Test - Blair's Possilbe Side Effects pt2

YouTube - Rich Eat's After Death Sauce

YouTube - blair's possible side effects - 5 MIN challenge

[Stripey]

quite the coincidence, I've just ordered some naga seeds, along with pimiento de padron which sounds like fun :

Pimiento de Padron is an unusual dual purpose chilli from the department of Galicia in northwest Spain. There, the young, green fruit are traditionally harvested at about 5cm in length, when the seeds are still soft and the skin tender. The fruits are then fried in olive oil, topped with a little salt and eaten whole, seeds and all. At this stage of their development, some are hellishly hot, many have no heat at all, and a few fall in between. There is no way of knowing until they are eaten, though culinary thrill seekers may find this uncertainty a plus.

This year I'm also growing peach habanero, numex twilight and regular jalapeno.

the twilight is quite ornamental and as hot as your average birds-eye chilli, I've had to cut back on the amount of plants this year though as they are really prolific and I still have kilner jars packed full of the dried ones

[Skull Commander]

I had a tasty chilli for my supper tonight made with some Naga Jolakia chillis. They are quite hot but have a really good flavour. I got a bag of them dried from Scorchio hot pepper sauces and chilli gifts: the ultimate UK chili store
It's a great site and has loads of hot sauces, pickles and the suchlike.

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These two are the funniest, especially the 2nd part...

YouTube - Burning Brothers: Episode II (Part 1)
YouTube - Burning Brothers: Episode II (Part 2)

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chilli tests ,, Naga Morich

[Skull Commander]

Just realised we are talking about the same chilli pepper
Naga Jolokia pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Skull Commander

Just realised we are talking about the same chilli pepper
Naga Jolokia pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The seeds I ordered are the dorset naga ( Really Cool Seeds )

at 1.5 million scovilles I have no idea what use they might be in the kitchen, curiosity will no doubt get the better of me though

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The pickle I tried was nowhere near full strength, it was totally edible. Ate it as a dip with naan bread. Also contained garlic. Was VERY tasty. Didn't do much to the tongue, went straight for my brain. Felt like a massive rush. Kicked in 2 mins after I started eating it and lasted a good 10-15 mins. Did about a tablespoon of it in total over the course of an hour.

Next morning it sweated out during exercise and felt like tea tree oil, was really pleasant. Not too bad at the other end, much better than expected.

Not sure if there is much advantage to eating the stuff at full concentration.

Reckon this was probably around 250K scov, but that's just a guess. The bread helped a lot.

So for culinary uses I'd try mixing with olive oil, garlic and tomato puree, then cooking at a few mins, and aiming for 1/8th - 1/10th concentration. It was much tastier than habanero.

EDIT: would describe this stuff as legal drugs. I got it at The Light of Bengal. It's not listed on the menu, and only a couple of the waiters 'know' about it. Seems to be some sort of 'under the counter' type deal. They had 2 types and the second one was a bit stronger. The first time I went there they served it heated. The second time it was cold. Heated was much better, and the strong one was also more 'trippy'.

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Should also add... although the videos on YouTube are humorous, I reckon you get a much better experience by eating the stuff with bread. This way you get more into your system with fewer side effects and the whole thing is extremely pleasant. I find it harder to eat the whole bird eyes in the vindaloo than the naga pickle, although the pickle certainly gives out more 'heat', because eating the whole chilli is much more concentrated.

Dipping bread in the pickle I was able to eat a tablespoon, that was probably a similar strength to Dave's Insanity sauce, whereas I would not go shoving a tablespoon of Dave's Insanity Sauce into my gob! But a couple of minutes after the stuff gets inside you, the effects become quite pronounced.

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Ordered some of this stuff last week, hasn't arrived yet but I'll let you know what it's like:

Mr Naga Very Hot Chilli sauce from Mr Naga - a flavour like no other...