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I was watching "Man v. Food" on the Travel Channel last night, and the challenge was a "Hell-Burger" in San Antonio. It had Jalapenos, Serranos, Habaneros and Ghost Peppers.

They made a big deal about how the Ghost Pepper was the hottest in the world at 1,000,000 Scoville units.

Grant, what's the deal on that?

Anyway, he finished the burger and had to wait 5 minutes before he could drink any milk. Only the fourth person to ever finish the challenge.

Those are the same ones that he grows, the Bhut Jolokia. While Grant only eats a sliver of them in his videos there is an Indian woman who can eat something like 30-40 of them at a time. A woman from India that I work with gave me some pickles that had been made with those peppers, but I was too big of a wimp to ever try them.

PGY Tiercel wrote:Those are the same ones that he grows, the Bhut Jolokia. While Grant only eats a sliver of them in his videos there is an Indian woman who can eat something like 30-40 of them at a time. A woman from India that I work with gave me some pickles that had been made with those peppers, but I was too big of a wimp to ever try them.

I ate more than a sliver in the second video. PGY is right though, bhut jolokia, naga jolokia, ghost pepper... they're all one in the same.

That video never gets old...ever.

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

PGY Tiercel wrote:Those are the same ones that he grows, the Bhut Jolokia. While Grant only eats a sliver of them in his videos there is an Indian woman who can eat something like 30-40 of them at a time. A woman from India that I work with gave me some pickles that had been made with those peppers, but I was too big of a wimp to ever try them.

I ate more than a sliver in the second video. PGY is right though, bhut jolokia, naga jolokia, ghost pepper... they're all one in the same.

I forgot you took a bigger bite, I should have said the woman ate 30 of them without crying

If I had a electro-physiology rig I'd love to put that stuff on some neurons and see what they do. Capsaicin is typically used to study neurons responsible for pain and irritation. I'd be curious to see how they react to extract of Bhut.

PGY Tiercel wrote:

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

PGY Tiercel wrote:Those are the same ones that he grows, the Bhut Jolokia. While Grant only eats a sliver of them in his videos there is an Indian woman who can eat something like 30-40 of them at a time. A woman from India that I work with gave me some pickles that had been made with those peppers, but I was too big of a wimp to ever try them.

I ate more than a sliver in the second video. PGY is right though, bhut jolokia, naga jolokia, ghost pepper... they're all one in the same.

I forgot you took a bigger bite, I should have said the woman ate 30 of them without crying

If I had a electro-physiology rig I'd love to put that stuff on some neurons and see what they do. Capsaicin is typically used to study neurons responsible for pain and irritation. I'd be curious to see how they react to extract of Bhut.

You can't tell me there's not SOMETHING on campus in Ann Arbor that we could play with one of these things on....

Like the new lab I'm going to? Give me some time to learn the set up and then we can torture some dissected neurons.

PGY Tiercel wrote:Like the new lab I'm going to? Give me some time to learn the set up and then we can torture some dissected neurons.

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!

PGY Tiercel wrote:Like the new lab I'm going to? Give me some time to learn the set up and then we can torture some dissected neurons.

Count me in!

Current view (yesterday) of one of my bhut jolokia plants... I count at least 16 peppers in this view...

PGY Tiercel wrote:

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

PGY Tiercel wrote:Those are the same ones that he grows, the Bhut Jolokia. While Grant only eats a sliver of them in his videos there is an Indian woman who can eat something like 30-40 of them at a time. A woman from India that I work with gave me some pickles that had been made with those peppers, but I was too big of a wimp to ever try them.

I ate more than a sliver in the second video. PGY is right though, bhut jolokia, naga jolokia, ghost pepper... they're all one in the same.

I forgot you took a bigger bite, I should have said the woman ate 30 of them without crying

If I had a electro-physiology rig I'd love to put that stuff on some neurons and see what they do. Capsaicin is typically used to study neurons responsible for pain and irritation. I'd be curious to see how they react to extract of Bhut.

She ate 51 of those bad boys to claim the world record. In fact, she said something like she always ate bhut jolokia peppers when she was a kid, when the other kids were eating fruits and berries.

Oh, and a bhut jolokia pepper is 16x less concentrated than pure Capsaicin, and 5x less than pepper spray.

UK Peregrine wrote: She ate 51 of those bad boys to claim the world record. In fact, she said something like she always ate bhut jolokia peppers when she was a kid, when the other kids were eating fruits and berries.

Oh, and a bhut jolokia pepper is 16x less concentrated than pure Capsaicin, and 5x less than pepper spray.

Fine give me s**t. Maybe I just want to see what a bhut does at the cellular level, but it's cool you can be a D*ck. I mean its not like I'm stressed to the point of growing an ulcer. I'm just trying to finish a PhD with an experiment that crapped out, living alone in an empty house on an air mattress, absolutely reaching my breaking point of common decency and sensitivity in dealing with 2 guys of the alternative lifestyle dicking me around in buying my house (2 weeks past the closing date now, due to whole bunches of crap), and the new Boss is already breathing down my neck. My life is peachy right now.

PGY Tiercel wrote:

UK Peregrine wrote: She ate 51 of those bad boys to claim the world record. In fact, she said something like she always ate bhut jolokia peppers when she was a kid, when the other kids were eating fruits and berries.

Oh, and a bhut jolokia pepper is 16x less concentrated than pure Capsaicin, and 5x less than pepper spray.

Fine give me s**t. Maybe I just want to see what a bhut does at the cellular level, but it's cool you can be a D*ck. I mean its not like I'm stressed to the point of growing an ulcer. I'm just trying to finish a PhD with an experiment that crapped out, living alone in an empty house on an air mattress, absolutely reaching my breaking point of common decency and sensitivity in dealing with 2 guys of the alternative lifestyle dicking me around in buying my house (2 weeks past the closing date now, due to whole bunches of crap), and the new Boss is already breathing down my neck. My life is peachy right now.

At least you seem to be handling it well.
Seriously, hope it gets better!!!

PGY Tiercel wrote:dealing with 2 guys of the alternative lifestyle dicking me around

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

PGY Tiercel wrote:dealing with 2 guys of the alternative lifestyle dicking me around

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Yep, Let me provide a list of things as a Home buyer you should/should not do.

1. Don't show up to see a house at 8:00pm after agreeing to come the next morning. Especially if the home owners just got back from being gone for 10days (well 5 out of the 6), and being told that the owners do have a baby and young children.

2. Don't scheduling the home inspection for 8:00pm because you don't want to take off of work but just have to be there. You're buying a house, put some effort into it. It Doesn't go over well when the inspector shows up late and again there's that whole kids/baby situation.

3. Don't Change jobs after you have been pre-approved for a loan, but haven't gotten the final approval. Banks/Underwriters don't like it. This only caused a 2 week delay for us.

4. Don't decide to add your partner to contract/loan after getting pre-approval. Again just creates more work for the bank/UW.

5. Turn in all the G*dD%$N paperwork before the closing date so your loan gets approved.

6. If you do 3 and 4 and don't do 5, have the decency to let the home sellers know more that 24 hours before the closing that the loan hasn't been approved.

I think this list could go on, but just a highlight of my home selling experience.