[Assam] Bhot Jalakia is now the "Guinness Book of Records" hottest chilli pepper in the world!!

Mon Feb 19 10:57:02 EST 2007

>Ram must have PVC lined guts to be able to ingest 1/4 tsp of bhwt-jolokiya
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No, no - those pvc lined guts are long gone. I can only do this with a good
helping of bhaat/dali
(I take them for Vitamin C :))

On 2/19/07, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  Yes indeed, Habanero is a close but milder cousin. I grew them last year.
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> At 7:41 AM -0800 2/19/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
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> "................It is so hot, one can barely take 1/4th of a teaspoon." -
> 1/4th of a teaspoon of Bhot Jalakia Achar? You must be brave.
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> By the way, a close cousin of this pepper is "Habanero", not as potent but
> with a warning hot smell. The plant survives mild winter in Houston, Texas,
> and comes back in spring. The fruit (if you call it that) goes from green to
> deep yellow to red and it grows to about 1 inch in diameter with a few
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> *Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> Thanks C'da
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> I always thought it as small. I think I got it mixed up with the  "kon
> jolukia" which are also "hot".  One of my friend's wife was kind enough to
> pack us a bottle of achar of the (bhot jolukia) fiery stuff.
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> It is so hot, one can barely take 1/4th of a teaspoon.
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> On 2/19/07,* Chan Mahanta* <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> At 8:38 AM -0600 2/19/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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> Whatever the pronounciation, I think congratulations are in order to the
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>  It may look real small, but it is undoubtedly the king of jolukia land
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> *** It is NOT small at all Ram. The bor-bih kind, the larger of the two
> varieties, is nearly three inches long and about 1.5" in diameter. Its
> shape is gnarled and contorted. The smaller variety, called 'lota-bih' is
> slightly smaller in girth, about 3/4" diameter, and about two inches long.
> The 'lota ( creeper or vine) -bih' got its name from the scraggly limbs of
> the plant that spread out from the main stem, umbrella like. The bor-bih
> plant it more upright and grows to three to four feet of height in Assam. In
> our St. Louis garden, it grew to about 2.5 feet in height.
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>  On 2/19/07,* Chan Mahanta* <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> Bhwt Jolokiya as some people call it, is called Bih jolkiya ( literally
> Poison Pepper) in many parts of Upper Assam, including my ancestral Namti
> area. I have grown it in my garden here in St. Louis, just for the heck of
> it. We never could eat a single one of them, because they are so ungodly
> hot.Even the smell is menacing. They however, look very pretty in autumn
> when the gnarled and bright red fruits hang from the plant against the dark
> green leaves. I dried a whole bunch of it with the aim of making squirrel
> repellant spray . But it has not yet been done or tested for efficacy.
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> micro-tea-planter, wanted to take me to show his "bhwt-jolkiya" farm. I
> wanted to but lack of time forced me to cancel it. He says they sell like,
> um, hot-cakes, in Nagaland.
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>    It depends on where you grow it. If it is in Guwahati, it is Bhot
> Jalakia. In Jorhat it would be Bhut Jalakia. The end result is the same, you
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> *Santonu Goswami <**santonu_goswami at yahoo.com* <santonu_goswami at yahoo.com>
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> *<<"The name Bhut Jolokia translates as 'ghost chile,'" Bosland said,
> "we're not sure why they call it that, but I think it's because the chile is
> so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it!">>*
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> *I think the name should be "BHOT Jalakia" not "BHUT Jalakia" as mentioned
> in the article and everywhere else. As far as I know it is the "bhot" people
> who used to bring it to the brahmaputra valley to sell in the market etc and
> that is why it is "bhot jalakia", not "bhut, the ghost" as described by the
> professor. Anyone knows about this?*
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> umesh sharma <**jaipurschool at yahoo.com* <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>*> wrote:*
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> *Haberno pepper mentioned it the article seemed like fire to my Hyderabadi
> IT techie  roommate Kiran Gudiboina  -who likes hot stuff-I put one in a
> dish for 5 people-. Bhot will be too much.*
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