Tuffy P made hot muffins tonight. I don’t just mean they were hot out of the oven. No no no. These were savoury muffins, made with cheese and hot chiles. You may remember that I dried a batch of scotch bonnets the other day and ground them up in a coffee grinder. Tuffy P added a teaspoon of these babies to the muffins. Most interesting. On first bite the cheese mitigates the effects of the chiles but somewhere into bite #2, whammo, the chiles hit a home run, over the bleachers and out into the parking lot. Those puppies are hot and delicious.

Here’s a video of a guy who tests the heat of chiles by the unscientific method of videotaping himself eating them. This is the scotch bonnet video (he has several others). It’s interesting to watch how long it takes for the heat to really seriously kick in.