Pepper hotter than the habañero.

With over one million Scoville heat units The Bhut Jolokia chili pepper from Assam, India is twice as hot as the Red Savina habañero.

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HI,

It scares me to death.

I have a client who used to like heat in his food. He went to a tasting at Jungle Jim's near Cincinnati. You had to sign a disclaimer before having a sample offered from the tip of a toothpick. The heat was so intense he began to sweat, felt his heart jumping and had thoughts of impending heart attack or sudden death. Since that experience, he has lost his interest in chasing heat.

Regards,

Here's a video of an ESPN commentator eating a Bhut Jolokia at New Mexico State University -- "It was like somebody tasered my mouth."

Matt wrote:Here's a video of an ESPN commentator eating a Bhut Jolokia at New Mexico State University -- "It was like somebody tasered my mouth."

Geez, what an idiot*: he bites, he bites again, then rubs his eyes as he cries the tears of a clown.

*Same charge could be made about people who eat cicadas.

David Hammond wrote:*Same charge could be made about people who eat cicadas.

Cause you know you are one of us!

Regards,

Also hotter than a habanero: JeffB when he sees that tilde.

cilantro wrote:Also hotter than a habanero: JeffB when he sees that tilde.

cilantro wrote:Also hotter than a habanero: JeffB when he sees that tilde.

Beat me to it. I still occasionally get tripped up when saying "habanero" aloud, because I always want to stick that tilde-n in.

Right on! That's correct, the city in Cuba, La Habana, is spelled with the letter "n." There is another, different, but similar-looking letter in the Spanish alphabet that is not in the word Habana, nor is it in related words, such as Habanero. I guess "ñ" looks more Spanish, but it's still the wrong letter. Habañero is right up there with "bruscetta" and "chipotel."

JeffB wrote: Habañero is right up there with "bruscetta" and "chipotel."

And nucular (nuclear)
I also hear chilpotle a lot
One that kills me is realitor (realtor)
Off topic, sorry.
I'm going to ask my csa grower if he can find some seeds for these. Looks like they are avail, but kinda hard to grow. He asked me what chiles I would be interested in for next year.

JeffB wrote:Habañero is right up there with "bruscetta" and "chipotel."

Yeah, but the ñ IS used in residence-type words like Norteño, so it's mostly understandable, kinda.

I've actually heard "chipottle" at a Chili's, no less, where it's all over their menu, and I'm distraught that basic Italian pronunciation instead of "brushetta" or "brus-chetta" can't seem to be taught to employees of Italian restaurants (I was recently 'corrected' on my pronunciation of Lincini from "chini" to "sini" at a nicer Italian place)

JeffB wrote:Right on! That's correct, the city in Cuba, La Habana, is spelled with the letter "n." There is another, different, but similar-looking letter in the Spanish alphabet that is not in the word Habana, nor is it in related words, such as Habanero. I guess "ñ" looks more Spanish, but it's still the wrong letter. Habañero is right up there with "bruscetta" and "chipotel."

Well, I don't know if you're a Cubs fan or not, but if you are, the prevailing pronunciation of "Ronny Cedenyo" must kill you, as there is clearly no tilde on his uniform.

JeffB wrote:Right on! That's correct, the city in Cuba, La Habana, is spelled with the letter "n." There is another, different, but similar-looking letter in the Spanish alphabet that is not in the word Habana, nor is it in related words, such as Habanero. I guess "ñ" looks more Spanish, but it's still the wrong letter. Habañero is right up there with "bruscetta" and "chipotel."

At least "bruscetta" looks like how it should be pronounced. At any rate, that's always an interesting choice for me, whether to pronounce it "broo-SHED-uh" or "broo-SKET-uh." I know the latter is the more correct Italian pronunciation, but words change when we borrow them, and, depending on the crowd, I could look like a pedantic jackass if I pronounce it "broo-SKET-uh" while everyone else is pronouncing it "broo-SHED-uh." So, in a nice Italian restaurant, I'd default to the more correct pronunciation. At a more casual less authentic restaurant, the other pronunciation.

aschie30 wrote:Well, I don't know if you're a Cubs fan or not, but if you are, the prevailing pronunciation of "Ronny Cedenyo" must kill you, as there is clearly no tilde on his uniform.

It doesn't bother me much that the Cubs have misspelled their player's name on his uniform. The pronunciation is correct, as I understand it, because the man's name is Cedeño (right?).

JeffB wrote:

aschie30 wrote:Well, I don't know if you're a Cubs fan or not, but if you are, the prevailing pronunciation of "Ronny Cedenyo" must kill you, as there is clearly no tilde on his uniform.

It doesn't bother me much that the Cubs have misspelled their player's name on his uniform. The pronunciation is correct, as I understand it, because the man's name is Cedeño (right?).

Every Spanish site I've been able to find spells it with a tilde, so the pronunciation is "correct," whether the Cubs choose to spell it with a tilde or not.

Binko wrote:

JeffB wrote:

aschie30 wrote:Well, I don't know if you're a Cubs fan or not, but if you are, the prevailing pronunciation of "Ronny Cedenyo" must kill you, as there is clearly no tilde on his uniform.

It doesn't bother me much that the Cubs have misspelled their player's name on his uniform. The pronunciation is correct, as I understand it, because the man's name is Cedeño (right?).

Every Spanish site I've been able to find spells it with a tilde, so the pronunciation is "correct," whether the Cubs choose to spell it with a tilde or not.

I always thought the announcers were inserting a tilde where there was none. Well then, someone get that man a tilde! Maybe he can borrow from the one in the title of this thread.

seebee wrote:I'm going to ask my csa grower if he can find some seeds for these. Looks like they are avail, but kinda hard to grow.

I don't know about the other pepper, by my habanero pepper plant is STILL doing well, and produced fantastically all season. I had it outside in the summer, and brought it in, and it has a bunch of peppers on it, as well as quite a few flowers. It is in a S. facing window, along with my rosemary and thyme, which also seem to still be doing well.

leek wrote:
I don't know about the other pepper, by my habanero pepper plant is STILL doing well, and produced fantastically all season. I had it outside in the summer, and brought it in, and it has a bunch of peppers on it, as well as quite a few flowers. It is in a S. facing window, along with my rosemary and thyme, which also seem to still be doing well.

I also had a great year for my habaneros - got three decent sized harvests (15 or so fruits) off of one plant. Usually I only get two decent sized harvests. I had about 8 more fruits just about turning orange before they froze. Forgot to bring them in. I did, however get about 5 quart sized jars of giardiniera out of them. Haven't cracked them yet - still working on the jalapeno/serrano jars.. which reminds me - time for my sub sammich with homemade giardiniera for lunch.

Binko wrote:At any rate, that's always an interesting choice for me, whether to pronounce it "broo-SHED-uh" or "broo-SKET-uh." I know the latter is the more correct Italian pronunciation...

It's not more correct... it IS correct.

Unless you meant that broo-SKET-ta, being the only correct Italian pronunciation, is "more correct" in an Italian-American setting. But within an Italian context, you can be absolute... there's nothing "more" about its correctness.

(Those who are fewer generations removed from the home country than I am, feel free to correct me if there's some regional variation I'm unaware of).

Dmnkly wrote:

Binko wrote:At any rate, that's always an interesting choice for me, whether to pronounce it "broo-SHED-uh" or "broo-SKET-uh." I know the latter is the more correct Italian pronunciation...

It's not more correct... it IS correct.

Unless you meant that broo-SKET-ta, being the only correct Italian pronunciation, is "more correct" in an Italian-American setting. But within an Italian context, you can be absolute... there's nothing "more" about its correctness.

(Those who are fewer generations removed from the home country than I am, feel free to correct me if there's some regional variation I'm unaware of).

I use the phrase "more correct" since American spelling does not 100% reproduce the nuances of the Italian pronunciation. For example, the "r" sound is different in American and Italian. I suppose I could use IPA symbols and post the "correct" pronunciation, but there may be dialectical variations that I'm not aware of, so I hesitate to deem any one pronunciation "correct".

So, for all those reasons, I chose my wording carefully. To be absolutely precise, I would say "broo-SKET-ta is a close English approximation of the dominant Italian pronunciation of the word bruschetta."

If there was ever a time for Antonius to chime in ...

Binko wrote:I use the phrase "more correct" since American spelling does not 100% reproduce the nuances of the Italian pronunciation. For example, the "r" sound is different in American and Italian. I suppose I could use IPA symbols and post the "correct" pronunciation, but there may be dialectical variations that I'm not aware of, so I hesitate to deem any one pronunciation "correct"

I both understand and appreciate that you hesitate to speak definitively. I tend to be careful about such things too. And broo-SKED-da versus broo-SKET-ta strikes me, as you say, as a matter of nuance. Likewise flipped Rs, vowel formation, etc. But when people replace the SKET with a SHED, we're talking about an entirely different word... much like the difference between habanero, with and without tilde. One's just wrong. And I'm embarrassed to admit I've been using the wrong one up until today

I'm wondering if this will force stevez to change his sig