Re:Sriracha founder reveals the 'secret' wholesale price of ...
by darkspaten on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @06:12PM
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Good luck building up tolerance; I found it to be a lot easier than I thought it might be. I was given a few Ghost Pepper seeds in the Spring and prior to the last Fall harvest I worked up to a tolerance of about two tablespoons of chopped peppers. However, like any tolerance, once you do this 'lesser' peppers such as habanero cease to have much impact.
On the scoville scale, the ghost pepper sits very near the top, with a rating of ~1 million scoville units, which sits comfortably above the average consumer-grade pepper spray. Eating it ... tastes like pepper spray.
That said, since then, I've decided to build up a tolerance to it. I've always enjoyed spicy foods, and the spicier the better, but the ghost pepper has proven to be a tough nut to crack, as I've yet to get past using it in fairly small amounts in flake form.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_chili