Just wondering if there's any daring super-hot Chili fans here??
I've been growing Chillis for a long time, from everyday 'Birds eyes' to Pretty hot Habanero's, and just got the first fruit off my Trinidad Scorpion plant.
The Scorpions are currently the worlds second-hottest chilli's, just recently losing the Guiness World record to the California Reaper.
I ate the Trinidad Scorpion last night... WOW!! I've had some hot Chillis before, but absolutely nothing like this one... Started off tasting like a nice sweet capsicum, thought 'hmm that isn't as bad as I thought', then a slight heat built up, thought ' an, here it comes'... And it kept coming... Thoughts quickly went from 'here it comes' to 'uh oh' to 'what the hell have I done' to 'Arghhhhhh S#%*!!!!!!!'... Lol I felt like my head was going to explode, throat and sinuses burning, teary eyes, sweating like crazy... I had no choice but to wimp out and break out the milk. Well, the heat was like one of those trick non-extinguishable birthday candles; died down for a second or two, then Woosh! flames again...
... After about half an hour and an entire litre of milk, it finally cooled to a tolerable level...
For comparison, a Jalapeņo scores about 8,000 Schoville units, Habanero's are about 300,000, and the Scorpions were listed in the Guiness book of Records at 1.2 million
Wow, what a rush!!
For anyone interested, there's a Chilli festival at the Fitzroy Hotel in Windsor the night of the 24/5/14, where there will be a Scorpion-eating comp... I'm having second thoughts about entering now though... Lmao