Hello everybody! Hello!
This is Michael. We've met. You know who I am.
We've got a big plate full of peppers here, and we are going to, today,
tackle our first super hot pepper.
God help us.
How you feeling about that? Feeling pretty good about it.
How are you feeling about it? Not good.
This is another one of Josh's gifts to you. Right.
Thanks Josh. Thanks a lot Josh.
We've got two here; the first one is- I don't know if we'd consider this a super hot
But it is one of the hotter ones that we've had. This is a Thai Dragon!
Sounds brutal. Sounds pretty rock'n'roll.
Looks like a cigarette even, like this is pretty gnarly looking,
and this one supposed to be pretty spicy.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 Scovilles,
and this one is ripe also, which makes it, I believe, even hotter.
The one we had last episode was actually hotter than this; little green one, but that one was unripe.
So that one was not very hot. So this is actually hitting like what that one was supposed to do.
Okay.
So my guess is that this is probably the hottest one that we've dealt with so far.
This is one of the many cultivars of pepper that's endemic to Thailand,
and this is known as long pepper in Thailand.
Josh uses it the same as a jalapeno or serrano.
Although it has a flavor that particularly goes well with Southeast Asian cuisine.
All right. Let's ride the dragon!
Oh, Jesus Christ...
So I'm gonna eat this little teeny ring here, and Michael is gonna have this entire half.
I'll start off with the lower end and we'll see... You'll build your way up.
If you see the first episode Michael does not feel things the way other people feel things.
So I am highly affected by peppers, I like spicy things, but they do bother me.
Michael does not usually feel spice. Right. I mean things have to get pretty hot before I start to notice.
I know this is going to be hot.
Sweet!
That's a very similar flavor to the mutt pepper.
He said that this mutt pepper from episode one might have some of the Thai in it.
It's like an unsweet raspberry.
[Coughs]
Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. It's actually not that bad.
No, I've got nothing, like nothing at all. Like even with the mutt pepper-
I felt, which we put at three on our pepper-scale. Yeah.
which is going to be the new scale by which all peppers are graded.
Yes, of course. We're going to replace Scoville units.
We're just gonna have the official Jared/Michael pepper scale.
Right.
But yeah, we mug that one as a three this one I mean, no spice so far.
Maybe we just need to eat more of it.
Go for it dude!
Alright, so this is a half of it. Yeah. I'm hoping there's some heat in there somewhere.
Have fun.
[Chuckles]
There is sweetness to it. Yeah.
There's no heat. It's still not killing you?
I'm not feeling anything.
Are you getting anything out of it? I'm getting a little bit.
But it's like in the back of my throat.
Back in episode 1 when we did Josh's mutt pepper -
I felt heat in my throat.
Yeah.
Now I feel, I mean, nothing yet. There's a chance it hit me in a minute or two.
Now I am feeling a little something in my throat.
Yeah, it's building for me. I feel like it's growing. For me it has crossed from a 2...
It's climbing the scale. Well, I'm at about a 4 now.
It's about 4, like it climbs to it to a higher heat than the mutt pepper.
But it doesn't get anywhere near as high as those little yellow devils.
And our cooling...
[Coughs]
What should we call this? It's a rice pudding cup.
No, no, like what is our like our fire extinguisher?
That's what we should go with, it's our fire extinguisher.
That sounds pretty lame.
Our painkiller of the day is rice pudding. So we've got the milk,
we've got a little bit of graininess in it. We've got some sugar.
Let's see if this kills the the heat.
I mean, I'm kind of just doing this for the ceremony right now, because it's already gone for me.
Really?
Yeah.
Kills it immediately. The moment I put that in my mouth all the fire in my mouth goes away.
Everything in my throat is still there. Does the heat come back?
Yes.
I say this is as effective, if not more effective than the milk. As we continue to do these episodes
There should be one where we're just like, okay, we're out of painkillers here.
We're out of fire extinguishers and we're like chewing on sticks of butter.
All right, we've got one more and this one- Tell them what it is Jared.
This is a scotch bonnet habanero.
The Thai dragon that we just had has a maximum on here of 100,000 Scoville units,
this one has a maximum of 400,000.
Great.
At its maximum, this is 50 times as hot as a jalapeno.
So you have the choice of eating entire one of these or 50 jalapenos right now.
Okay.
All right. Did you want to do the 50 jalapenos?
We'll do this one.
I forgot to bring them.
It looked like you're holding it like it's gonna-
Explode?
Yeah. Alright.
I think you're going for a big piece, good.
I'm going to go for the smallest one.
It's like Cheers! What if I miss and it went straight in your eye?
Poke me in the eye with a pepper, and I'll poke you in both of your eyes with one!
Alright, let's do it. Okay.
So nothing yet, but as we've seen with previous peppers sometimes the heat just...
settles in a bit like... That's how peppers get you.
I can imagine think this is like a breeding mechanism. Like a way to disperse the seeds in nature,
like a bird comes down and tries a little bit, and it's like "oh this is sweet".
So it eats like a whole bunch of the peppers, and it flies off and it dies in the air,
falls down and then its body is used...
It fertilizes the seeds, right?
Exactly. That's horrific.
Nature is horrible.
You're just assuming that's what's going on. i have no heat.
I'm getting a fruity taste, but not like berries, more like...
I wanna say like mango.
Are my taste buds not working? I just taste sour pepper. Just sour?
It is a little sour.
We've also, today, just filmed six peppers in a row.
There is such a thing as taste bud burnout. Right.
So after you eat so many things, especially strong flavors, sometimes your tongue is just like,
you know, what middle fingers up. You're on your own, man.
You're done. I'm not doing this anymore.
Do you want to eat a little bit more? Yeah, let's do some more.
I'm serious, he's got like half a pepper in his hand.
This is the last one we're doing today. Yup.
All right, merry christmas. All right, okay, yeah taking like two little strips of it.
It's very bitter. It is a little bit bitter.
Little bit like an herbal kind of bitter, like an herbal cough drop.
I'm definitely getting heat.
Mainly towards to the back of my tongue. There's really not much else. There's not really much much flavor there.
Okay. I'm also feeling like heat right here.
So your stomach has like a bunch of peppers in it, right? Right, but...
I mean, it feels like it came from this, like I do feel heat in the back of my throat.
Yeah.
But it's tolerable.
I like the flavor of it, you know, you're not getting too much of it.
I don't really... I mean I don't care for the flavor.
I appreciate the heat. I appreciate the way that the heat distributes itself.
It's hard to compare it heat wise to the little yellow ones, because we only ate one of those.
I think.
I'm not having that.
You didn't want it to be that kind of show.
Like stuff your cheeks with them.
Yeah, you sweat a little bit Yeah, I feel like my eyes are the watering a little too but...
I would take like an entire one of these for a pot of chili.
Right. And it would give like a little bit of flavor, a little bit of bitterness, which can go well with chili.
Definitely some heat. And enough heat probably for an entire pot in just one pepper.
So on a scale of one to ten,
where so far:
The yellow ones were a 5.
A Jalapeno is a 2, what would you say this is?
That's 6, I would imagine. Yeah, I would go 6, I did not need my rice pudding.
I mean the other thing about it is that the heat came and went.
Like it didn't stay...
It came on slowly, but then it's also pretty much gone at this point.
Between the scotch bonnet and the Thai Dragon that we just had,
Do you have a favourite? The scotch bonnet.
I think the Thai Dragon was a little bland to be honest.
Yeah, I was going with this also for flavor and for heat.
This one it's a little bit more useful to me, but both are good.
And once again: Thank you Josh! Thanks Josh.
For kindly sending these to be and torturing us a little bit.
When I asked Josh if he had any special shout out or anything,
he said go and support your local farmers market, which is always a good idea.
Michael is an accomplished comic book artist. You can find out more about the stuff he does in the links below.
Me, you know who I am. So I will see you next time!
[Whispers] Goodbye.
𝅘𝅥𝅮 "019 Ffuge No Five" by Miranda taylor and Mike Hunchback 𝅘𝅥𝅮