![]() ![]() It hurt even worse exiting my body the next day. Nevertheless, my mouth burned for at least 10 minutes after consuming a bowl of beans, and I could feel the heat in my stomach for about 2 hours. I was afraid this would concentrate the capsaicinoid and make it even hotter, but instead the oils must have evaporated because it was a little more bearable. I later turned the leftovers into refried beans. I love hot foods, but this made it tough to eat, even for me. I put a pepper measuring just a little more than an inch square into an half-gallon pot of pinto beans, and it made the whole batch astonishingly hot. While cutting into a Carolina Reaper pepper I could smell the capsaicinoid. The Carolina Reaper is an hybrid between the La Sofriero and Naga Viper peppers.Ī Carolina Reaper pepper grown in my garden next to a matchbook for size comparison. Scoville units measure the concentration of capsaicinoid, the substance that makes peppers hot. This is 200 times hotter than a Jalapeno and 4 times hotter than an Habanero. The Carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the world, producing fruit with 2,200,000 Scoville units. When I replanted it outside this spring, I didn’t expect it to produce peppers, but it finally has. There is not a good sunny place in my house, and the plant gradually lost all of its flowers and many of the leaves. ![]() I planted it in May of 2018, but it didn’t start flowering until October, and I was forced to dig it up and bring it inside the house before it was killed by a frost. I’m growing a Carolina Reaper pepper plant in my garden this year. ![]()
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