Originally Posted by
shipwreck
I had a bumper crop of peppers a couple summers ago. Heres what I did, but originaly it was for spraying on my garden to keep pests down naturaly.
Dried the peppers out. Totaly dried. then made some tea out of it by boiling. Strained the liquid, mortared and pestled the remainder, and strained it(used a very very fine strainer made for mixing ceramic glazes).
Put it in a bottle with an adjustable sprayer. was spraying my tomatoes, and one of those big red hornets started buzzing me. sprayed it, and it knocked it out of the air.
Sprayed it on the ground, and it died.
So, I started carrying it around on the bike. It worked well, but the sprayer is the weak link. If it leaks at all, and gets on the hands, and one wipes sweat out of thier eyes, they will fall off the bike right away and be unable to see for twenty minutes or so. I know this.
Growing your own. I like that. I've noticed some ultra-high-BTU peppers in specialized seed catalogs....
Maybe some of the ethnic food aisles and stores would be additional possibilities. When traveling in some parts of the world, there are probably sauces and powders available that are unusually hot, and even inexpensive as well.