Naga Bhut Jolokia / Ghost Pepper Superhot Chilli - CHILLIESontheWEB 10g

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Use them as you'd use a habanero, but remember that they are much hotter, up to 5 times the heat level. As you will have seen from our massive collection of chilli products, we are obsessed with capsaicin!

If you are allergic to something not covered by the 14 allergens, please check the ingredients list carefully. I personally enjoy them for their fruitiness and the fact that the peppers don't sting you with heat like a scorpion pepper (see this superhot - Trinidad Moruga Scorpion).You can reduce some of the heat by removing the pepper innards before cooking, but with superhots, much of the capsaicin (the chemical that makes peppers hot), reaches into the flesh, so they'll still be hot. The ghost chili is rated at more than one million Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) and far surpasses the amount of a cayenne pepper. In northeastern India, the peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance.

Ghost pepper pods are unique among peppers because of their characteristic shape and very thin skin. I love cooking with the heat and flavor of ghost peppers and have a number of spicy foods recipes to share with you.It is extensively cultivated in northeastern India, especially in the states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. The DRDO said that ghost pepper-based aerosol sprays could be used as a "safety device", and "civil variants" of chili grenades could be used to control and disperse mobs. It was awarded the distinction of the World's Hottest of All Spices by the Guinness World Records in 2006, topping the Red Savina Habanero, though was eventually toppled several times over. The hottest peppers in the world are members of this species, with Scoville Heat Unit scores of over 2 million.