In 2005, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute in Las Cruces, New Mexico, [20] found ghost peppers grown from seed in southern New Mexico to have a Scoville rating of 1,001,304 SHUs by HPLC. I love cooking with the heat and flavor of ghost peppers and have a number of spicy foods recipes to share with you. We add new videos year-round, with all the tips and tricks you need to know to grow your own chilli plants from seed at home, from our experts here at the Farm. You can reduce some of the heat by removing the pepper innards before cooking, but with superhots, much of the capsaicin (the chemical that makes peppers hot), reaches into the flesh, so they'll still be hot.

Use them as you'd use a habanero, but remember that they are much hotter, up to 5 times the heat level. You might consider growing them in a greenhouse where you can control temperature and humidity more directly. The name bhüt jolokia (ভুট জলকীয়া) means 'Bhutanese pepper' in Assamese; the first element bhüt, meaning 'Bhutan', was mistakenly confused for a near- homonym bhut (ভুত) meaning 'ghost'. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The bhut jolokia is a naturally growing pepper that can be found primarily in northeastern India and neighboring Bangladesh. Originating from North East India this chilli was the Guinness World Record holder as the hottest chilli in 2007 at 400 times hotter than Tabasco! Despite chilli not being at all addictive in the traditional sense, nearly every culture worldwide has incorporated it into their cuisine in some way. However, in the race to grow the hottest chili pepper, the ghost chili was superseded by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper in 2011, the Carolina Reaper in 2013 and Pepper X in 2023.

You can certainly compare a ghost pepper to a Carolina Reaper propagated by Ed Currie as both are intensely hot and both offer up a sweet, fruity flavor.Bhut Jolokia'—The World's Hottest Known Chile Pepper is a Putative Naturally Occurring Interspecific Hybrid" (PDF). Paul Bosland of the Chile Pepper Institute, if you ate a large amount in a short period of time, it could kill you. It may take up to 40 days or more and care is needed to ensure the seed receives the right amount of water to aid germination.

Novel Formation of Ectopic (Nonplacental) Capsaicinoid Secreting Vesicles on Fruit Walls Explains the Morphological Mechanism for Super-hot Chile Peppers". The seeds should be sown in either a heated propagator or a heated greenhouse and kept at a constant high temperature. Bhutan pepper' in Assamese [4]), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India.

The ghost pepper was in the running for the hottest pepper in the world for quite some time - in fact, it actually held the Guinness Book of World Record's record for the world's hottest pepper from 2007 until 2010. However, as hot as the ghost pepper is, the Carolina Reaper has more than double the heat of the ghost pepper when it is as it's hottest. The hottest ghost pepper is 416 times hotter than the mildest jalapeno pepper, which averages about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units on the Scoville Scale, and about 208 times hotter than the average jalapeno pepper and about 3 times hotter than the hottest habanero pepper. Bhut Jolokia can need a little extra help with pollination either by hand-pollinating and/or placing near to a Habanero type chilli pepper.

If you do experience burning sensations, see my post on How to Stop the Chili Pepper Burn On Your Skin.In northeastern India, the peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance. Unlike most peppers, ghost peppers produce capsaicin in vesicles not only in the placenta around the seeds but also throughout the fruit. In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. They were officially the hottest peppers around, declared the World's Hottest of All Spices by the Guinness World Records in 2006, though was eventually dethroned by a new wave of superhot chili peppers. Hi Mike, is there a degradation in flavour or taste or color to this ghost chilli pepper when subjected to 180 degree temperature ?