Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Another one to try out

 




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  1. OK - I gotta ask - chicken marinated in milk and hot sauce? Is this something I've been missing out on for the last 40 years?

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    1. I can't say about the addition of hot sauce, yes it seems you have not known about the milk bath. I suppose it is the lacto bacillus which breaks down the meat.
      I have used it only on beef, figuring chicken soft enough.

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    2. Buttermilk, not milk. The sour in the buttermilk helps break down the meat. Soak em for about 4 hours in the fridge, best chicken fingers you'll ever have.

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  2. No ghost peppers.

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  3. I've seen chicken soaked in buttermilk for making fried chicken.

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    1. Yes buttermilk, certainly before dredging and frying…

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  4. Ghost peppers are off the charts so beware is all I can say. I put heat on everything basically but find these ridiculous to be honest. Think of the habanero being mild comparatively.

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  5. I love hot stuff and I used to ask for 11 on a scale of 1 to 10 when I would order szechuan or vindaloo. Tabasco is tangy to me. But ghost peppers are wayyyyyy, wayyyyyy, wayyyyy out of my league. For those that don't know, there is a unit of measure, a scoville, for rating how spicy hot something is:
    ht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale

    A green/bell pepper is like is like a 10. A jalapeño is around 2,500 to 10,000. An habanero is between 100,000 and 350,000. Those will light you on fire and keep you burning for hours. Ghost peppers are 750,000 to 1.5 MILLION scovilles. I can't even begin to imagine how painful that would be. Maybe it would be like chewing on some lava. Mmmm, tasty lava. Needs salt. I have two funny pepper stories if you keep reading. I used to buy one habanero, chop it up, and put it in my favorite 24oz jar of salsa. That was about as much heat as I could take. One time I was chopping up an habanero, I washed my hands afterwards, and then, innocently scratched my face under my eye. Well, a few minutes later my eye started watering like crazy. It took me a minute to connect the dots. I mean I had washed my hands! With soap and water! I had dried them on a towel. I barely touched my finger to my face. Yet my eye was watering for a good 30 or 40 minutes. I always wore gloves after then when chopping habaneros.

    Funny story #1
    I had a friend who decided to grow his own ghost peppers. He was pretty eccentric in a lot of ways. So he tells me he grew a batch and they are hot. Asks me if I want any. I say NOOOOOOO thank you. Habaneros are plenty hot for me. A few days later we are talking and he says, "I got a funny story for you." I was making salsa and I chopped up some ghost peppers. The wife wanted to go some place and I said, "Sure, just let me go to the bathroom first." My friend, Chris, had washed his hands after chopping. However, he had not worn any gloves. He then went to the bathroom and with his washed hand grabbed his equipment to aim. There was transfer. He found out real fast. He said for the next 30 minutes he was standing in the shower with the cold water running. Haha, use caution.

    Funny story #2
    This is second hand but I don't think the guy who told me would make it up. He was at a party where some guy got drunk and someone tempted him into eating an entire habanero pepper. I'm not sure if it was a bet or a dare or someone just being a jerk but drunk guy took the challenge. And, to his credit, he ate an entire habanero pepper. He kept it down too. Didn't throw up or go to the hospital or jump off a balcony. No cries for milk, ice cream, or mommy.

    However, the story does not end there. The next day ... this guy's wife came home to find the guy sitting on a bag of ice on the couch with no pants (and I assume no underwear)! Ahahahaha. He told his wife, "My butthole is on FIRE!" That wasn't the end. It go so bad that he had to insert some ice cubes to control the pain. Owwwwwww!

    Remember, kids! Habaneros are not your friend.

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  6. I tried a drop of a ghost pepper sauce on a fried egg once and thought I was going to die. I too like heat on most of my food, but those things are just completely nuts! They almost make habaneros seem like a Melrose pepper

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