![]() Wearing gloves, he removed the seeds and veins (the hottest parts) from the chiles, and added one to the salsa. To make the salsa, Curren roasted tomatillos and grilled scallions, red onion, and a couple ghost peppers-cooking chiles also mellows out their heat, he said. I didn’t even take a bite out of it-it was just the oils on my tongue.” “Within about three seconds I felt the heat and I spit it right back out and grabbed vanilla ice cream and shoved that in my mouth until it went away. “Then I took a big chunk and I put it in my mouth,” he said. He didn’t taste any heat, so he tried a little more. So he tasted one raw, just a little bit off the end. When Curren first got the ghost peppers, he said, he was afraid he had the wrong thing-they looked just like sweet peppers. Video by Michael Gebert/ Sky Full of Bacon It does have a sweetness to it, almost like a bell pepper-a little more so, I think, than jalapeños or habaneros.” “It’s really hard to even get a flavor out of it, just because the heat’s so overwhelming. His main goal in cooking with them was to tone them down enough that the dish would actually be edible: “With the intense heat, it’s very easy for it to just blow up the dish,” he said. “It’s one of those things you almost wish man hadn’t discovered, kind of like nuclear weapons,” Chris Curren said of the incendiary chiles. ![]() By comparison, jalapeños are between 2,500 and 9,000 Scoville units.) In northeast India, where ghost peppers were first cultivated, they’re used to keep wild elephants away (they’re smeared on fences and used in smoke bombs) as well as in pepper spray and hand grenades. (It’s still the hottest commercially available chile, but earlier this year the record was broken by the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper, which can reach up to two million Scoville units. In 2007 the ghost pepper, or Naga Bhut Jolokia, was declared the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records after one weighed in at over a million Scoville heat units. The Challenger: Matt Troost ( Three Aces) Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close
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