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No one respects the flame

Zippylip
Zippylip Posts: 4,768
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
First one to finish that lyric wins the prize :ohmy: .

I have completed the Naga Jalokia experiment. My ultimate goal was to pick one off the plant & pop it into my mouth. To ease into this, I thought I’d work my way up in four stages.

Stage One: cook it to death. You may recall if you saw the post, I sauteed the pepper in olive oil with onions and incorporated it into a dizzy doughnut. Cooking it like this allowed a lot of the heat to vaporize & escape. The finished product had good heat, but was not overwhelming. It was tasty.

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Stage Two: I still wanted to cook it, but wanted to lock in much more of the heat, so I minced it & beat it into two eggs for a frittata (caramelized onions & the leftover naga-nut). This way, the pepper only cooked for about 3 minutes, and surrounded by the eggs, most of the heat was trapped in the dish. The heat was much better as a result, mouth was on fire throughout, very good.

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Stage Three: Completely raw but on a plain ham & cheese sandwich. This was supposed to be the final stage prior to popping a whole one in my mouth. However, I made it just over half way through this sandwich at work when I was overcome with such a profound distress I could not finish it. Not distress in the Arkansas Death Pepper sense, but in a very bad, vile, loathsome and regrettable sense. At one point, it felt like there was a Mapp torch hitting the back of my throat, an acrid, putrid, filthy, burning hot nightmarish debacle it was. I will not ingest another of these raw.

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This ends the experiment.

I failed to accomplish my goal, and now appreciate why wild elephants avoid contact with these peppers

See you soon
happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania
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  • FlaPoolman
    FlaPoolman Posts: 11,677
    :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: Maybe you can use them to light the egg :woohoo: Just set a few on the lump and stand back :woohoo: :woohoo: :evil:
    Where you been hiding?
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    Pat that is not a bad idea, I think these things could sponteneously combust if left to their own devices; been buried in work mang, busy busy busy, but looking forward to slowing it down a few notches next week, you're bringing the cooler right :laugh: :laugh:
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • bubba tim
    bubba tim Posts: 3,216
    Peppers 2
    Zippy 1

    Peppers Win! :woohoo: :woohoo:

    How was the next day? :sick::sick::sick:
    You must master temp, smoke, and time to achive moisture, taste, and texture! Visit www.bubbatim.com for BRISKET HELP
  • FlaPoolman
    FlaPoolman Posts: 11,677
    I wish but I'm flying in also. Instead of a couple cheap coolers that crack :whistle: we can pool our money and get one like Sparky's. Only drawback is we would have to hire 6 people to carry it :whistle: :laugh: :laugh:
  •  
    Great experiment Zippy, glad it was you and not me! I wouldn't finish that lyric for all the tea in China, I'm scared to death at what the prize might be. :blink: :blink: :blink:
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    Great post, thanks for sharing your pain. ;)

    Gator

     
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    hey timothy, what's up. Peppers did win this one, un-f'n real, but on the bright side, no next-day issues, once I get'm down, that is the last I hear from them usually.
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Rolling Egg
    Rolling Egg Posts: 1,995
    quite like the ones badly burned
  • bubba tim
    bubba tim Posts: 3,216
    You would not want to be around Bubba after eating a few of those. WMDs.... :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
    You must master temp, smoke, and time to achive moisture, taste, and texture! Visit www.bubbatim.com for BRISKET HELP
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    well, considering that the last prize I gave away for 'Name-that-Lyric' was a week of bubba tim living on your couch, I don't blame you :laugh:
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    or 12 people if they're drinking what's in the cooler right
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    play it again, you're one word off
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Rolling Egg
    Rolling Egg Posts: 1,995
    fools badly burned
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    excellent song from a great writer, I will now mail you a batch of naga seeds (when ready) so that you too can live the pain, if you so choose (email me a mailing address if you dare :evil: )
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Rolling Egg
    Rolling Egg Posts: 1,995
    You gonna mail em in a metal tin? Sounds like they might burn thru paper :woohoo: :woohoo:
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Dude,

    I'm a chilihead but you are all cohones. My hat is off to ya man.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • bubba tim
    bubba tim Posts: 3,216
    Cohones? When did you get them back? lol :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
    You must master temp, smoke, and time to achive moisture, taste, and texture! Visit www.bubbatim.com for BRISKET HELP
  • no one repsects the flame
    i have only myself to blame
    i wanted the fame
    for eating the pepper of flame
    i am hanging my head in shame
    as this pepper i could not tame.
    glad my fridge is full of beer
    and pepper season is finished this year
    my tongue still feels the sear
    my wife is bending my ear
    as soon as my vision is clear
    i will cook something on the egg
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    dude this was a foolish move, but after climbing to the second rung from the top last summer with all those red savinas, I figured, how bad could it be to eat a pepper twice that hot... well I'll tell you, it was not good, not in any respect, just a terrible, horrible several minutes, just aweful - but they are good cooked, so I may just soak'm in vinegar & pack in olive oil for future cooking applications
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: that is spectacular william, and says it all, & it all be true
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • i will find the e-mail i sent about the hot sauce from the other night .. clean it up and post it.. do not boil adps or elefant peppers in vinegar in the house all kidding aside i was ill for 36 hours
    back in a bit with my tale of woe
    bill
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    below is the slightly cleaned up version of the e-mail i sent tuesday evening after simmering adp's in salted vinegar [in the house] to make my version of tobasco
    yes i was ill for 36 hours after and like zippy i will not do this again.. unlike zippy i cannot eat adp

    caveman’s club you to death sauce made with real Arkansas death peppers

    33 adp’s 1 ½ cups vinegar , 1 ¼ teaspoon Maine sea salt. 1 teaspoon turbindo sugar yields 6x 50 ml containers of ccytd sauce or 1.2 cups..

    There was some waste ,, like when I turned on the blender and the almost boiling vinegar pepper mash exploded out the top of the blender,, I forgot hot stuff in the blender explodes and yes I had my hand and a towel on the top,,,, the kitchen and cupboards are splattered with it ,,, [note to self: Arkansas death peppers , like Japanese knives , do not mix well with adult beverages]
    . Some more waste with the vacuum packing process. As this was a first attempt and the ccytds was heated to boiling and put into boiled bottles and vacuum was attempted ///// I would store in the fridge.. the shaker top may clog and need to be removed, I opened the orifice but it may not be enough ,, I really don’t give a flying f_ _k if pours out on your food or not ,, if you are dumb enough to try one drop you can try a bunch..

    Now for the story behind the story with your friend
    Dr. Obvious….
    My f_ _ _ _ _ _ _ kitchen is covered in vinegared death pepper mash. Imagine going to a health club for a steam bath but instead of water the room is filled with vaporized franks hot sauce till it drips off the end of your nose like Emily littela and joyce brothers at the health club on Saturday night live. The splatter on my neck has blistered , my lungs are hacking up mucus. My skin burns on my face and arms, I can barely see.. my lips and nose , thankfully, have gone numb as the nerve endings are rendered forever useless.
    My youngest child, who has not spoken to his mother in 2 months, crept out of the house on his hands and knees [like the place was filled with smoke from a fire] and went to study at his mother’ house. All the doors and windows are open and 5 fans are going.
    After 3 glasses of wine , I have to pee and I am afraid to touch my **** or even get it out of my pants for fear, it too, will blister .
    I will be mailing the sauce to Mr.’s JLockhart29 ,Zippylip and Beanie Bean this week.. in plain brown wrapping without a return address , just like the porn you get in the mail . please delete this e-mail so I do not get found out when you go into convulsions and end up in the hospital .. I believe this is called plausible deniability.
    I really have to pee if there is anyone in the immediate area willing to help please show up asap . I have latex gloves if you don’t want to touch it ..
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    that is a keeper bill
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Are you over the experimenting Mark? I think not!

    Ross
  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    Oh my god! Marc, I have been sitting here reading this and wondering "WHY" :pinch: and then Bill posts....... and I am crying I am laughing so freakin' hard :lol: and still wondering "WHY" I like hot and can take a good amount of heat. I am almost to the bottom of my Daves limited that comes in the coffin, about 6 or 7 years old. just a drop in chili makes it all warm and cozy, I will have to hunt some down. LOL you guys are just to funny!
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    You people are NUTZ!! Never could understand why anyone would want to put anything painful in their mouth. Much less again and again!

    That said... my son is one of you. At least I think he's my son. :blink:

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • i got two offers of help tuesday night
    the first from an ex employee
    she said " i am on my way but i need valium wine latex gloves and a blindfold
    the second from a friend and neighbor."joe".
    "chris and i are rolling on the floor laughing , guess i am just going to have to suck it up and help you out..... so i am sending chris right over to your house...
    that was funny
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    bill,

    ROTFLMFAO. Perchance would you send a bottle my way in exchange for something milder? You are too funny man.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • need your address will be putting the labels on tonight
    50 ml bottle use at your own risk .. hopefully i inhaled and absorbed most of the toxins and you will not go into convulsions and die
    my forum e-mail link is my daily e-mail and i think oyu have my address anyway.
  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    Bill, are you coming to Atlanta?
  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    That's funny. Sorry you did not hit your goal Marc. You gave it your best! :)
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
    Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
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