For Thanksgiving this year, I heard that I could get a Turducken from the Loblaws up the street all pre-assembled.  For the uninitiated, a Turducken is a turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken.  To me, this was a very exciting thing.  I don’t really know why it’s exciting – but it is.  [...]

A couple months ago I tried making ice cream using dry ice. It turned out really well. The added benefit of making ice cream with dry ice is for the first 24 hours after it’s made, the ice cream is carbonated which gives it a really neat texture.

My Naga Jolokia Pepper plants are finally producing peppers!  They are indeed hotter than hell.  Unlike a habanero which slowly builds with heat after you eat it, the Naga Jolokia just hits you with a wave of heat the second it goes in your mouth. These peppers are ridiculously hot.  So hot, I don’t know [...]

In 2007 Naga Jolokia Peppers were confirmed to be the hottest peppers in the world.  Twice as hot as the previously known hottest peppers.  Immediately after finding out about these things I ordered seeds online from New Mexico State University and started growing them. I now have two surviving plants that have gotten huge but [...]