I haven’t tasted raw Reaper peppers because our chillies haven’t ripened yet. The Carolina Reaper is described as having a fruity, sweet taste with a hint of cinnamon and chocolate undertones, as well as being hot. Here’s a quote from the Guinness World Records that describes what the Carolina Reaper tastes like.
#CAROLINA REAPER PEPPER SCOVILLE SCALE UPDATE#
UPDATE NOTICE: This post was updated on Mato include new content.I have to warn you… Carolina Reaper plants are huge! Be sure to make a note of their size if you grow them too. For the mildly adventurous, we recommend exploring the habanero and the Scotch bonnet – still seriously hot, but you’ll keep your sanity intact. These are for extreme eaters who seriously love the pepper scale. It’s not even for the mildly adventurous. This is spiciness that’s not for the timid. It has the wicked name, the heat, and the taste to be the new chili pepper rock star.įor both of these chilies, use caution. But the Carolina Reaper’s rep is growing quickly. Its reputation has built a cult-like following over the years that’s hard to topple. Sure the Carolina Reaper is the winner in heat, but the ghost pepper overall is just more widely available – at least in product form. Their store carries a nice selection of Reaper products. Be sure to check out the PuckerButt Pepper Company too – the growers of the Carolina Reaper. And there are a few brave supermarkets that’ll carry ghost pepper hot sauces. Through online vendors, you can buy many ghost pepper and Carolina Reaper hot sauces and more. These are two big-name chilies, and there are many hot sauces, mustards, salsas, powders, rubs, and other spicy foods that use them. Unless you grow them yourself, these are likely your best options. You can find dried chilies of both types, as well powders, online. Some specialty stores, gourmet supermarkets, and farmer’s markets may carry them, but you’ll need to shop around. These peppers are just too hot for most stores. Are they available fresh or dried in stores?
In this way, they share a lot with the milder -yet-still seriously hot – habanero and scotch bonnet chilies, though these two are available in a lot more places. The sweetness of both of these chilies is often taken advantage of in hot sauces, by pairing these chilies with tropical fruit and other sweet ingredients. It’s a slow burn in the case of both chilies – it takes 30 seconds to a minute for the heat to begin to hit and then it intensifies over the period of half an hour before dissipating. You do get to taste these peppers before the heat hits. The tasteīoth of these peppers have a surprising sweetness to them, but the Carolina Reaper has been bred to be likely the sweetest super-hot pepper of the bunch. These are just too hot for most everyone unless the pepper extract has been diluted with other ingredients. Their real culinary following comes as the foundation for extreme hot sauces and salsas than as a raw cooking pepper. That’s NOT recommended by the way, but plenty of people go for the ghost pepper challenge. Sure the Reaper wins on pure SHU (it is currently the official world record holder), but really gloves and a gallon of milk are needed for eating either of these chilies raw. Let’s put that in jalapeño reference point numbers that we can all grasp: at the minimum, this duo will be 107 times hotter than a jalapeño (the mildest ghost pepper to the hottest jalapeño) and at the max, we are talking 880 times hotter (the hottest Carolina Reaper to the mildest jalapeño). The Carolina Reaper eclipses it at 1,400,000 to 2,200,000 SHU. The ghost pepper tips the Scoville scale at a walloping 855,000 to 1,041,427 Scoville heat units. And the Reaper? Double the ghost pepper heat and that’s where the story begins…or ends…in a mouth aflame. The ghost pepper is so hot that it’s used in military grade pepper spray. They are so hot that it’s best to use gloves to just hold them.
When you are dealing with the super-hot peppers like these two, the conversation of heat differences is splitting hairs. Are they available fresh or dried in stores?Ĭarolina Reaper Vs.But what are the differences and how easily are they found? Let’s review in our PepperScale Showdown.
These are two mega-hot chilies, there’s no doubt. In the Carolina Reaper, you have the blazing up-and-comer that has shocked the world. In the ghost pepper you have a rock star and internet YouTube sensation. Frazier of the hot pepper world, at least in terms of pure power and popularity.
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