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Originally Posted by beppe
Habanero chili peppers are rated 100,000–350,000 on the Scoville scale.
There was no way to curb the fire. Tried with ice water. It just got worst. Tried with beer. Like the mouth of a volcano. The natives were all with flat indifferent faces, but you knew that inside they were rolling on the floor because when they touched something all the glasses in the bar tinkled. And a woman had her belly vibrating so that her earrings were swinging like mad. Finally somebody said something that sounded like leche. But with that explosive accent they have, like leeecheh. It worked. 3 glasses of milk did the trick. So that lunch also was busted. At least I had the milk. |
That was cruel, I only use maybe 1/4 of the pepper per dish because it has so much heat. If that had happened to me I would from then on waited for someone else to eat before I started.
Coincidentally, yogurt or sour cream would have put out the fire too! A friend of mine once forgot to put on some gloves before chopping them and her fingers burned for days poor girl.