Just last year, some mad hot pepper professor stumbled upon the Bhut Jholokia, now nicknamed the ghost chile. Subsequent lab tests have revealed that the little fucker is officially the hottest chile pepper in the world — nearly double the amount of “Scovile Heat Units” as the habanero. Apparently, the ghost chile is a naturally occurring species native to North Eastern India, where it’s not unusual to use them as weapons. Armies in India and Myanmar use ghost chiles to make tear gas. It’s also not unusual to gnaw on one in between bites at the dinner table.
We think this is nuts. We know because we obtained a bag of the things and spent a recent Friday night passing a pepper around the room just barely licking it or, at the most, nibbling on it. (This is also about the time when we lamented the fact that “chile in my eye” was not an easily searchable phrase on the Internet).
So, after careful consideration, we came up with one simple recipe recommendation for you real chile heads out there: a ghost chile syrup that we’re calling Ghost Killah. Now you won’t find this pepper in your neighborhood store just yet, but don’t fret, you can order bags of them (we are being serious) from the Chile Pepper Institute: (505) 646-3028. But be prepared for the sting, they run more than $30 a pound!
Ghost Killah
2 cups agave nectar
1 ghost chile
1. Using latex gloves, slice open the chile and remove all seeds.
2. Put a small saucepan over medium heat and add agave nectar.
3. Toss in chile pieces and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
4. Fish out chile and serve with fresh fruit or baked goods.
Beverage: Port Brewing’s Hop 15
Soundtrack: Mogwai’s “Acid Food”
Holy shit! Dangerous indeed. But why wasn’t Buss in on this? His reaction would have been priceless.
Holy shit! Dangerous indeed. But why wasn’t Buss in on this? His reaction would have been priceless.
ME WANT
I wonder if this dude has rode the ghost: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/04/1170523946619.html?s_cid=rss_smh
(Result #6 for “chile in my eye,” I’m sure you’ve already read it)
Haha!
Did you ever get my helpless email about a particular chile-in-eye scenario I had?
What’d you do? Dunk yer head in milk?
Wow. I’m surprised you all just passed it around ungloved like that with nary a red eyeball in sight.
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Wow. I’m surprised you all just passed it around ungloved like that with nary a red eyeball in sight.
Definitely be needing a super oily hot IPA for that one. I had some wicked 6 out of 5 spicy thai the other day; thank the lawd for Workhorse IPA.
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holy moly,that stuff is hot
You folks r baked as hell. As I would be if I was doing that!
I live in Vancouver Canada Where can I get some ghost chiles
Crazy hot! We added habanaros for a lil heat lol and put it on top of an eight pound burger in lubbock TX we used around a quarter pound of ghost chilies and all yall could do was LICK it?? Man up!
so how hot is this stuff tho? I am trying to make a bbq sauce from some ghost peppers i have but need some solid info on how much to use to get the heat somewhat tolerable
OH, MY GOD WHEN I TOOK A BITE OF THE GHOST CHILE THE ZEST BURNED THE SIDE OF MY LIP, NOW I LOOK LIKE I HAVE HURPIES. IT HURTS LILE %&!@%&%!