I've eaten ghost pepper, way too much accidentally. Took over four months to heal my digestive system. I could tell what areas it most hit. Interesting experience I don't want to repeat. Ghost pepper is excellent as a topical pain killer and muscle relaxant.
I never thought of adding black pepper to vanilla ice cream, that's cool. I'll have to try it. Have you tried blueberry with basil? (in ice cream specifically).
I feel the pain from just reading this. A lesson for life! I have never had ghost peppers, although I had plans to try. I actually need to rethink tis one :D
It was ground dried ghost pepper and I spilled too much into the tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic I was roasting for soup (about 3/4 of a teaspoon for a soup of about seven servings) and thought, oh well, I should be able to handle it. Wrong, so very wrong. Ghost pepper can be eaten, but a pinch in what I made above would have been enough. Also, avoid getting it airborne, etc. 😂
Knowing my luck, I would have rubbed this pepper over my eyes as I have done many times with chilli while cooking :D
I imagine you are little more careful with the amount(and type!) of paprika you add to you food 🤣
Ahhh, hahaha, so you know the pain of it all. I have burned everything except my insides until the ghost pepper incident in late 2021. Never will I eat it like that again, N E V E R. Number one worst experience ever with chilies.
I took the ground ghost pepper out of the kitchen. It's now relegated to careful (NO airborne) topical use only. The other is in a liniment and I am extremely careful when applying it now (low spray by accident, not fun).
It is so odd that you need to be so extremely carful with food :D Reminds me of the preparation of sea urchins, where one untrained move decides whether a guest survives dinner or not;/
Well, those ones are way up at the top in terms of heat units, as in dangerous levels if used incorrectly, imo.
Have you prepared said sea urchins? I think I've had it in sushi, but it's been a long time.
I think to work with sea urchins you actually have to be the very top of the top chefs to be fair. Plus I live in UK, so there are no such delicacies available fresh here:) I've just read about it few times, and still find it interesting why would people risk to eat poisonous creatures:)