7-Pot Douglah
Capsicum chinense
Background
The 7-Pot Douglah in an extremely hot 7-Pot pepper from the nation of Trinidad. They pods have thin walls with a bumpy exterior. The ripe color is brown. There is some debate if this is the same as the 7-Pot Brown/Chocolate. It is the 3rd hottest pepper in the world, topping out at around 1.8 million scovilles. The pod I tried was grown and sent to me by Jesus Rosario, or Puerto Rico.
Notes
Pod weight: 8.1 grams
Amount eaten: 1/4 pod
Heat: 8
Flavor: 7 – Very mild, slightly floral, hardly any bitterness
Burn Profile: Mostly mouth, some back toward ears
Effects: Some initial stomach discomfort, but went away soon after.
Cap Cramps Potential: Got pretty severe cap cramps about 30 minutes after eating, and I had eaten prior to eating the pepper.
Review
It had a strong 7-Pot-ish aroma. There was a lot of placental tissue, which was tinted light brown. The interior walls of the pod were covered with a light beige lining. The 1/4 piece I tried tasted very mild, with an almost sweet flavor, and just subtlety floral. The heat slammed me right after swallowing. It brought a lot of salivation right away, and intense mouth burn. The burn crept back toward my Eustachian tubes. Soon after swallowing, I felt a burn down through my chest, with some slight stomach discomfort. That went away quickly. About 30 minutes after the tasting I got pretty bad cap cramps that persisted off and off for a few hours.
Video
Video Transcript
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Hi this is Peter Stanley, welcome to my channel
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Tonight I’m going to do a taste test
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on a 7-Pot Douglah
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it’s a very hot
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7-Pot strain
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that comes from Trindad
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it’s a very large pod
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you can see the
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It’s got a really pimply skin
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wrinkly
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I read that, see it’s kind four kind of lobes
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I read that it’s the 3rd
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It’s rated as the third hottest pepper in the world
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by the guiness book
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the Carolina Reaper being first
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and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
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in second, this one
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tops out at
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not all of them are this hot but
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this type tops out at around 1.8 million Scoville units
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definitely not going to do a whole pod
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test on this, probably a quarter pod
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but that should give me a good taste and
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feel for the heat
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also
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this was sent to me by Jesus Rosario
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he grew this as well
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he’s from Puerto Rico
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and he’s a master grower
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and
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he produces some really beautiful plants
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and pods
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you can find him on
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the Pepper Lovers community on Google plus
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and I’ll put a link to that
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in the description
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so lets go ahead and
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get this weighed and cut open
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and we’ll take a look at the inside
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8.1 grams
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really should be wearing gloves
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I’ll get this on my skin I’m sure
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wow
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it’s beautiful
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I can smell it already
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a lot of placenta
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real thin wall
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these super hots, the ones with the thin walls
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bumpy skin, and all the placenta
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usually really hot
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you kind of see the
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lining on the inside
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I don’t know if that’s an extension of the placenta
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or something else, but
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it looks pretty oily
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yeah, it’s beautiful
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it smells very 7-Pot ish
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really strong
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okay we’ll go ahead and take a slice
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and see how it tastes
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alright, I’m back
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took a
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half of that bigger piece
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a good quarter piece of that
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I did pick the seeds out, I’m gonna save them
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alright here goes, the
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7-Pot Douglah
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wow that’s hot
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it’s one of those, the heat doesn’t hit you until after you swallow it
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but it’s a
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wow
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the actually flavor of it when I was chewing was kind of mild
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a little bit floral
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a little more of an after taste
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really wasn’t bitter
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I could taste maybe a tiny bit of bitterness
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on my tongue but
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wow, it’s pretty searing right now
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tongue
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already going right back to the back of my throat
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feel it down in my gut
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wow it’s hot
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glad I only ate a quarter pod
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nose is running a little bit
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salivation started
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kind of feel the heat down through my chest
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yeah, that’s a really hot pepper
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I’ve seen mixed reviews on
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7-Pot Douglahs on flavor
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that it’s kind of bad
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this one really didn’t have a bad flavor to me
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the actual flavor
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was kind of mild chewing it
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it had more stuff going on after I swallowed
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it was mostly kind of a mild floral, slightly sweet
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wow
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feel like kind of the gas pressurizing
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pressure in my stomach
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from it
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yeah, it’s mostly
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kind of just sitting back in the back of throat now
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back toward the Eustachian tubes
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it’s one of those that kind of takes your breath when you swallow it
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takes a second to kind of recover
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I don’t think I could handle a whole pod of this
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I’d probably throw up if I did
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yeah, I think it’s peaked
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don’t think it’s gone down any but
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yeah it’d be a really strong powder
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or sauce ingredient
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wow
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yeah
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the back of my throat’s kind of drying up
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my stomach feels okay now pain wise
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I did eat beforehand which is always a good idea
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before I try an superhots
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yeah it’s mostly still just burning the very back of my throat
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little bit on my tongue
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feel a tiny bit light headed
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a quarter pod
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is not as
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you know
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you get a good sample of the whole pod
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if I’d eaten the whole pod it’d have been really
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intense heat and pain wise
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this year my pod tests
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I want to really go more for
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getting a good
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sample of the pepper and the flavor and heat
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without
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hurting myself really, I don’t want to make it more of a
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challenge or a stunt, but just
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get a good sample of the pepper and how it
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tastes
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and the effects of it
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so
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that’s what I’m going for this year with my pod reviews
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pod tests
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I think that’s about it, it’s starting to go down a little bit
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thank you Jesus for sending me that
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I really appreciate it and
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thank you all for watching
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hope you liked that
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