Scottie,
They were obviously playing a trick on us!!! Ex didn't fall for it. I did.
Good friends, no matter! I lived, after a couple minutes!
Probably why I dropped the hot pepper habit.
Best,
Andy
Arcata, once or twice.
Scottie said...
> That pepper probably was a birdseye chile. For Thai cooking, I prefer
> Thai Dragon or a chile that they call prik ki nu (rat turd chile,
> translated).
>
> From what I know, the hottest chile pepper so far cultivated would be
> the jolokias from India. On the Scoville scale, they are a few times
> more powerful than the habenero.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Scottie - Humboldt County, CA
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:09:14 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>>Kswck said...
>>
>>>
>>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>>> m...
>>>> Corey Richardson wrote:
>>>>> Some WWW sites say that the Red Savina is the hottest. Some say the
>>>>> Habanero, Scotch bonnet or sometimes the Naga Jolokia.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what really *is* the hottest chilli?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have to wonder if it is a matter of personal taste. Years ago we
went
>>>> to dinner at a Thai restaurant with another couple. We had mussels
with
>>>> two different hot dipping sauces. My wife and her friend thought that
>>>> one sauce was much hotter than the other, but the husband and I
thought
>>>> the other sauce was hotter.
>>>
>>> Penzy's catalog lists the Piquin pepper at 140,000 Scoville Units-the
>>> highest.
>>
>>#1 Bud and girlfriend invited us to a Thai restaurant in L.A., the name
of
>>it escapes me. I was encouraged to taste a pepper, green, almost the size
>>of a pea. It was hotter then hell! They were served in a small bowl for
>>those who chose to add them to their meals.
>>
>>NOT as hot as habaņeros, fer sure!
>>
>>Andy
>