Taste? What taste???
Just a word of warning to do with these beasties: Please don't give these ultra hot chillies to anyone who does not know what they are getting into, and certainly NEVER TO CHILDREN!
If you are handling these for the first time, they are safe to handle without gloves if the fruit is whole. If you cut these, wear gloves - while your fingers may not feel the heat, touch yourself anywhere with chilli-juice coated fingers, and you will be in a great deal of pain. This I know from personal experience!
I had worn gloves when cutting a whole lot of habaneros, but the gloves got a nic in them while cutting
. I washed my hand 3 times with strong dishwashing detergent. I went to the little boys' room, and soon after I felt the heat of these habaneros on my member for five hours! Wasn't excruciating pain due to having washed my hands so much, but it was certainly very much there and not comfortable!!!
Another funny/horror story of mine: I make a wonderful chilli oil using my habanero chillies. I knew it was very potent, and only use it sparingly. BUT! the capsaicin oil that gives the chillies their intensity, is actually very volatile, and its effects are greatly heightened when heated. I dripped four drops of my habanero oil into the hot chicken soup we had for dinner that night.
OMG!!! The spike of pain was so intense on my tongue that I felt a jolt of electricity surge through my tongue!!! I overloaded the capsaicin receptors in my tongue so much that they freaked and cut out!!!
The jolt hurt too. But, I no longer felt the sting of the chillies and I just ate my soup as normal,
. The fruity taste of the habaneros I could taste, just not the sting. The receptors calmed down shortly after and I can feel the sting of chillies.