r/HotPeppers • u/TheAngryCheeto • Aug 18 '24

Are ghost peppers considered superhots? Discussion

I picked my first red ghost pepper and I've been trying little slivers with dinner. It's the first pepper I've tried that was hotter than a habanero.

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u/LettuceOpening9446 Aug 18 '24

Your new name is Capsaicin Kevin! Now, off to more competitions you go.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

I also hate the taste of habanero 😂 always have

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u/LettuceOpening9446 Aug 18 '24

Really? That's interesting. What are your top 3 tasting peppers? For hots, mine are chocolate hab or scotch, bonnet, sugar Rush Red, and lemon drop. Superhots: red ghost, red scorpion, and yellow 7-pot Primo. Will be trying some new unique peppers this season. So that could change.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

I like all of them but habanero I did like the chocolate habanero I had though

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u/LettuceOpening9446 Aug 18 '24

Yeah, completely different flavor than the orange or red ones.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '24

I’ve never had the red they any good

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u/LettuceOpening9446 Aug 18 '24

Best tasting, IMO. Everyone gets caught up in the beauty of the stripey, and I get it. I grew the peach 3 years ago, the stripey 2 years ago and the red last season. I'm growing the red again this year and added the sugar rush cream, which has a more bulbous shape.