When working with any super hot peppers, it is important to wear gloves when handling the peppers both in raw and dried forms. The name bhüt jolokia (ভুট জলকীয়া) means 'Bhutanese pepper' in Assamese; the first element bhüt, meaning 'Bhutan', was mistakenly confused for a near- homonym bhut (ভুত) meaning 'ghost'.

We slow dry our chillies to give them a distinctive smokey taste which adds lots of flavour and heat into any dish.However, as hot as the ghost pepper is, the Carolina Reaper has more than double the heat of the ghost pepper when it is as it's hottest. In northeastern India, the peppers are smeared on fences or incorporated in smoke bombs as a safety precaution to keep wild elephants at a distance. Ghost pepper pods are unique among peppers because of their characteristic shape and very thin skin.

The DRDO said that ghost pepper-based aerosol sprays could be used as a "safety device", and "civil variants" of chili grenades could be used to control and disperse mobs. The first chilli to hit the landmark 1 million Schoville Heat Units mark and the pepper that put chilli challenges firmly on the map! If you do experience burning sensations, see my post on How to Stop the Chili Pepper Burn On Your Skin.In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. Watching naga videos always go the same way, after a few seconds "it’s not that hot" after 1 minute its "I’m dying"! Bhut Jolokia is still one of the hottest pepper in the world and if you compare its SHU to a Jalapeno chilli at a mere 2,000 5,000 SHU, it puts into perspective why the Indian Government is experimenting with using it in hand-grenades! As a small, family run business, we cannot afford to do this, so instead we provide as much information as we can. Paul Bosland of the Chile Pepper Institute, if you ate a large amount in a short period of time, it could kill you.