My brother has a tepin plant growing......... its more like a woody tree.
Gets lots of small round berry like chillis on it that are suposed to be very hot. I will let you know soon and may get a picture of it when im there next. Its a great looking chilli.
Aparently its the origional chilli.......... the one all others are derived from
an awsome choice!
For all those on the seed list...... the seeds are packed up and the wife will post them off tommorow if she gets a chance.
I have included a small bag of dry ground 7 Pod and it should be treated with respect!
I used to preserve them in vinigar but the heat and flavour leaches out into the vinigar and there just not the same.
Indian woman downs 51 chillies in red-hot record
Posted Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:32am AEST
An Indian woman is hoping to enter the record books as the world's 'hottest' woman after munching 51 fiery chillies in two minutes, organisers of the feat said.
Anandita Dutta Tamuly, 26, chewed her way through the chillies before an audience late Thursday (local time) in India's north-east.
She consumed the chillies in the company of British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who was producing a television show on food and anchoring the event in Jorhat, 300 kilometres east of Assam's main city of Guwahati.
"In two minutes, Anandita gobbled 51 red-hot chillies without batting an eyelid or shedding a tear, and also smeared seeds of 25 chillies into her eyes in one minute," Atul Lahkar, a chef who organised the show, said.
The chillies are known locally as bhut jolokia and are a staple of local diet in Assam. They are recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's hottest chilli pepper.
Guinness World Records had "asked us to provide them with a recording of the feat supervised by someone responsible. We asked Ramsay to be the adjudicator," said Diganta Saikia, another coordinator.
Ms Tamuly said she became hooked on hot peppers when she was five-years-old.
"I had a sore tongue and my mother applied a chilli paste to cure the infection. After that I developed a penchant for chillies," Ms Tamuly said.
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