Hah. I'm having second thoughts about pepper jelly maybe I'll use only half a pepper.

I found that adding a tiny amount of Bhut to my previously hottest chili powder made it MUCH more interesting.

that guy had to be crazy.

Sandy, frying them makes them a lot less hot. I'd have to guess about 1/3 of the heat with fried peppers. You lose a lot of that searing affect as well. Don't get me wrong, they are still pretty hot. A slice of reaper, primo, or even a douglah is at an obvious high level compared to bhuts. At hot pepper night we will have a basket of mixed peppers that are fried, with onions and jalapeños added. Sometimes, there will be 6 types of red peppers in the mix, and you don't know what picked until it is too late. After we have got used to reapers in the basket, quite a few times I have heard someone say, "oh, that was only a ghost pepper". I won't say that compared to a reaper, eating a bhut is like eating candy, but it is almost like that. Next spring I should have some Bhutlahs to pick, which I think will bring hotness to a whole new level.

Tom, that just sounds seriously crazy to me -- in a GOOD sort of way, of course!

either way it's still crazy to me.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here we are in this hot pepper group and I'm not having anything spicy fort Thanksgiving dinner because my son and his wife are doing all the cooking.

There's always tomorrow for the spicy food, Frank !

making a beef brisket today for dinner tomorrow. it's always better the next day.

herbie43 said:Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here we are in this hot pepper group and I'm not having anything spicy fort Thanksgiving dinner because my son and his wife are doing all the cooking.

That's why you always carry your pepper powder with you. Every day is a spicy day, no matter who is cooking when you have your little vial of hot pepper powder with you! Spent my first Thanksgiving in 57 years not at parents place. Stayed home with my wife and had a great spicy meal without the drive. She got to see the parade for the first time in 33 years.

"That's why you always carry your pepper powder with you."

And in case of a mugging it can become a weapon !!

We had to travel for this holiday and by that I mean we travelled upstairs to our sons house.

Frank, that seems like quite a reasonable distance !

I know but coming down those steps on a full stomach is not easy. 😀

Tom - I visit your website often to see if you have anything listed under powders but so far there is nothing there.. In a few months you will be hearing from me with my order for powders.

Someone over in the Hog Wild Piggy Swap just referred to "pepper heads".

I think she didn't want her husband drying super-hot chilies in her tea-and-herb dehydrator ... and ruled out indoor chemical warfare during grinding.

Are super-hot peppers covered in the Geneva Convention?

Franklin, I think you will really like Tom's powders.

Even if, every time I hear it, I hear a Klingon sneering contemptuously about "Powders ... and liquids ... for the SICK!" Little do they know. I think those Klingons would be squealing and whining and running home with tails between their legs after getting a good dose of Tom's Scorpion Mix or Brain Strain.

I saw a Klingon on the tram in Vegas once...

This is what an Italian food table looks like at Christmas time

My favorite word in Italian is "mangiatutto" ("Eat it all").