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True chile pepper eaters all over North America are laughing their heads off over recent news of a warning triggered by a medical journal not to eat Carolina Reapers because they could trigger thunderclap headaches.
Why are experienced pepper eaters so amused? Well, we’ve all eaten various heat levels of chilli peppers. Some of us have had interestingly intimate experiences with them, we eat them daily and a Carolina Reaper really doesn’t scare us, even though it is deadly hot.
What we do know gives us the ability to laugh at the poor guy with the thunderclap headaches. We know that respect for chile peppers is required when one starts delving into the “superhots”, of which the Carolina Reaper is one.
This is a big boy pepper, one that requires training and ability and, yes, lots of practice to eat whole ones like candy. To make an analogy to weight lifting, one does not simply wake up in the morning, decide they’re going to deadlift 1000 pounds and successfully do it on the first attempt without perhaps ripping a few tendons in their arms, shoulder and back, the same goes for superhots. One is simply not born with the inherent ability to just eat whole Carolina Reaper peppers.
Those of us who know and understand that a habanero averages about 200,000 SHUs, also understand that 1,500,000 SHUS is a heck of a lot hotter, and with Ed Currie just announcing that the Guinness has recognized the Reaper as having a higher than 1.6 million average, well, you can easily understand that for someone who has only ever eaten Jalapenos, ingesting a whole Carolina Reaper, is a fool if they don’t expect to be affected by it for a week. Eating a Carolina Reaper when you’re not ready for it, is like stepping in front of a speeding freight train. You might survive, but it’s going to hurt for a good while.
I’ve been eating hot peppers a long time. I really love the Carolina Reaper, but I don’t mess with it. It’s a pepper I respect a great deal and I recommend that other people respect the pepper.
The, cautionary tale here is NOT “don’t eat the Reaper”, it’s actually, “respect the Reaper”. It really is a lovely pepper. It’s got a nice flat sting on the tongue and fires up from the inside like a furnace coming to life. It’s a long slow burn into a really nice feeling, all over – body glow, like a good warm hug from the Devil himself.
And if that doesn’t sound wonderful to you, all I can say is, Buddy, you better fear the Reaper.
And if you do overdo it on the chile pepper heat, we agree with the writer of the Star Article, don’t chug milk, although, we disagree about the citrus, especially since our peppers are packed in citrus juice.
We highly recommend something cold and sweet and creamy. The multiple chemical and thermic reactions are perfect for killing the chile heat. Try our Antidote on a dish of your favourite vanilla ice cream.
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