It burns! It burns!
Sunday, January 2, 2005 at 11:42 PM | Food

They really should put the Scoville unit rating on packages of hot peppers. One of the hot peppers I bought just before Christmas, put into a chicken-and-shrimp stirfry, was enough to have us guzzle two litres of milk. True enough, I also added some chile and garlic sauce, but all I was tasting — all I could taste — was fresh hot pepper. Ow. One may well be sufficient for a huge pot of chile.

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