So what does one do with Ghost Peppers?
 

I bought one just for fun to see how it would grow here. Didn't have any expectations.
But the darn thing is producing like mad. I have at least 7 pretty good sized green ones and dozens more coming. And this is in a 3 gallon pot! It's head got lopped off early so it has three main branches and is really quite a pretty plant.

So...other than repelling elephants and making scary tasting video's for Youtube :shock::cry:, what do people do with these?

I like hot peppers, but mostly Serrano, Thai, and this year Joe's Long Cayenne, (which is awesome btw!)

Are they best dried? Or is it just for fun and not eating?

You can make salsa but you only need a small amount.
In my opinion they are over rated too hot is too hot.

Food should have flavor not somthing to show off how hot you can make it.

Worth

We make a fruit jam and then add 1 red bhut jolokia to the whole batch of 12 half pints. The sugar tones down the heat a bit and the flavor is awesome.

We also pickle chile peppers or jalapeños and add a few slices of the bhut to each jar. Great addition to sandwiches, hot dogs, etc.

You can always dry them, grind them into a powder, and add the powder to any casserole.

Um, besides setting annoying neighbors (or neighbors children) on fire?

Maybe make a homemade barbeque sauce with them..I purchased a bottle of bbq sauce several months ago that had the ghost peppers in it and it was awesome!!And flaming hot!!It loses some of its heat when you cook with it,but if you use it straight from the bottle as a sort of dip,it keeps its heat..

I haven't tried it with a bhut, yet, but a habanero or three is great in a big pot of lentils. Add some rice, and it spreads the heat over a large amount of otherwise bland food.

If you make chili, stew, or something similar. You can
spice it up by adding a little bit of ghost pepper. If you
dry it you'll have it alll winter to spice up your dishes.
You can also give it away to someone you know that loves
very hot, hot, peppers. I made ghost pepper powder
last year and gave it as a little christmas present to one
of my friends.

[QUOTE=roper2008;306140]If you make chili, stew, or something similar. You can
spice it up by adding a little bit of ghost pepper. If you
dry it you'll have it alll winter to spice up your dishes.
You can also give it away to someone you know that loves
very hot, hot, peppers. I made ghost pepper powder
last year and gave it as a little christmas present to one
of my friends.[/QUOTE]

A one gram vile of ghost pepper powder would last me all year and I like hot stuff.:lol:

Worth

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

So my BIL makes these veggie smoothies for his health, his doctor put him on a strict diet because of heart and diabetes problems. He can't have much salt anymore, so he's been adding a few of my other peppers (jalapenos, padrons, sweet heat, thai dragon and long cayenne's ) to the smoothies to give some kick to all the kale and other veggie juices.

Yesterday he took two red ripe ghosts even with all the warnings from us. He was undaunted, signed the waiver, and took them home. The report was that half a pepper would have been enough for 4 smoothies, and it was the hottest he'd ever had, but not as bad as he thought and he's still alive! lol!

But they may also not be as bad as they could be, because I've really babied these pepper plants and they only get 3/4 a day of sun (but it's still very warm in their area even in the shade). Lots of water too. Maybe because of that, none of them are really, really hot. I've been able to eat the jalapenos and even the long cayenne's right off the plant, crunching away on them as I water. (as long as I don't eat the seeds)

Anyway, I do have several friends who love reeeeally hot peppers, so I think I'll let the Ghosts get red ripe and dry them for powder and do the Christmas gift thing. Thanks again all!

I grow ghost peppers and give them to the brother in law. (I dont want them, too hot for me, I prefer Datil peppers) Brother in law makes hot pepper jelly and gives them away as Xmas gifts. For him hotter is not better its the bragging rights.

[QUOTE=guruofgardens;303158]

You can always dry them, grind them into a powder, and add the powder to any casserole.[/QUOTE]

Don't do what one guy I know did. He was using his blender to grind Habaneros into power and took the lid off. It was quite a while before he could back into the kitchen.:cry:

You can use them in spaghetti sauce, pots of chili, salsa or in anything one uses spicy peppers in. If you don't want it hotter than Jalapeno or whatever your favorite chili pepper happens to be, use less.

The super hots are not all about heat. There are flavors that are unique to each type that you will get nowhere else.

Also, you can freeze them. They will retain all their heat and flavor.

There is no way I would grow anything that hot. It's way too dangerous in my opinion. Now if one was raised in a hot pepper culture then that is a different story but for the average Joe-Schmoe, I wouldn't touch them.

[QUOTE]So what does one do with Ghost Peppers?[/QUOTE]

Make insecticide! Especially good on insects as big as a grizzly bear!;)

Hey Redbaron I resemble that bear LOL

I would mix them with other peppers in our fermented hot sauce, which then gets used to make salsa. The other ideas, especially using it as a dried seasons and the hot pepper jelly, and adding to fruit jelly sound really good, too.

I mix dried hot peppers with garlic oil and spray on my plants to detour aphids. The rest I mix with the rest of my peppers hot and sweet with some garlic and onion and make a hot pepper relish its killer good...

Smoke 'em
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What I do is feed them to the Pepper Pack. :) OBTW, one of the Pepper Pack members made ABTs (Atomic Buffalo Turds - do a google search) out of them.

Good luck.

Randy

p.s. BTW, ABTs are much better than it may seem, but you might want to give them a try with Jalapenos first...or another favorite of mine Jaloros.

There is a fellow that makes a slurry (blender) of the bhut, dilutes it with water and sprays it on the undersides of homes. says it keeps termites away. In India, where the pepper comes from, they paint fences with it to keep rougue elephants away. My wife makes me eat it to keep the honey's away.

Send them to me for recycling. I will properly dispose of them with motha earf in mind.

Frank Very nicely done with the video.

I just heard about a restaurant that makes a vegetable dish with ghost peppers in the sauce. The dish is called Devil's Vegetables. Here's how it's described on the menu:

"Assortment of vegetables cooked in a VERY spicy ghost pepper sauce – MUST SIGN WAIVER). FINISH IT & GET UNLIMITED BEER FOR A WEEK!"

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Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!

I ended up not doing anything with them. Back in post #9 I mentioned my brother-in-law had them green/raw in a smoothie.

Don't know if it's related to the Ghost pepper per se, but a week later he was in the hospital with a bleeding stomach lining problem. Had to have some extra blood added with a transfusion. Seems he was slowly leaking a bit of blood over time. Doctors wasn't sure if it was the peppers, but told him to lay off all the peppers and he did and is fine now. So...Don't have them raw in smoothies!

On a second note, it seems to be a very cold tolerant pepper. I took all my peppers in late fall and put them under our covered patio. As our winter was really cold for our area, most of them did not make it.

However, the Bhut Jolokia was the one out of three total who lived over quite nicely. Lost most of it's leaves, but the stems stayed green and last month it started leafing out and now is almost the same size as last fall. No flowers yet, but I re-potted it into fresh soil so we shall see.

It was the prettiest of all my peppers, lots of lush small bright green leaves and really shiny bright red peppers. I guess I'll just grow it for it's looks!

The last time I grew them (a few years ago) I would sit down to a plate of mixed hot peppers straight out of the garden. I would cut up and compare the different flavors as well as the heat. The heat of the ghost after a few pieces didn't seem any hotter than the hab's, but the ghost was definitely more pungent in flavor.

Last year, I took everything from sweet banana peppers to ghost and dried them...then mashed them all together creating a really tasty pepper flake that I use and nearly everything! I love it...

This year I will make more. I shared about a gallons worth of the pepper flake mix that folks truly enjoyed. it had a kick. although you can have less hot and more mild for something less deadly :P

I love hot! This year the mix will be cayenne, habanero, serrano, jalapeno, thai chili, ghost and trinidad scorpions...

Very nice video Mr.Z

Loved Frank's vid.

Well done video, Slim.

Ghost Pepper Salsa and hot sauce. Wear gloves when processing super hots!