NEWS
DON’T TRY THIS
AT HOME
American YouTuber Films Himself Vaping World’s Hottest Chilli Pepper
Vape fan Russell Hawkins is
passionate about two things in life…
his vaping and his love for super
hot chilli peppers.
They are two passions he managed to
share side by side until one day he had a
brilliant (or perhaps not so brilliant) idea
and decided to combine the two.
American Russell wondered what
it would be like to vape the world’s
hottest chilli so he embarked on a little
experiment and shared the results with
his YouTube subscribers.
He decided to use the Carolina Reaper
chilli as his new vape flavour - the variety
which is regarded as the world’s hottest
chilli pepper scoring a massive 2.2 million
units on the Scoville scale of chilli hotness.
If 2.2 million Scovilles sounds hot then
it is. By way of comparison a standard
Jalapeño chille comes in at around
2,500 Scoville units.
The stunt that Russell did has been
likened to drinking liquid pepper spray
and that is also something that you
really shouldn’t do at home, or
anywhere else for that matter.
Russell first dried the the chilli and then
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ground it down into a fine powder which
he added to a chocolate coffee flavoured
vape juice and allowed the mixture to
steep for three weeks.
He said: “I like to have a coffee every
morning with some Carolina Reaper
added to it for a bit of a kick and this
is my morning coffee every day.
“I figured that as I already had this
chocolate cappuccino flavour e-liquid
then it would be ideal to add some
Carolina Reaper to it so I ground it
down into a really fine powder and
took it from there.”
After he had done steeping the liquid
to ensure the chilli was well and truly
infused into the juice, he dripped it onto
a Sigelei 150 watt box mod and vaped
it at 80 watts.
As he dropped the fiery liquid onto his
wick he warned viewers not to copy
his stunt and then looked worried as
he prepared to vape the liquid.
At one stage it looked as though he
might back down but he quickly took
a large lung full of the home-made
e-liquid and waited for the effects to
kick in.
He did not have to wait long at all.
Almost immediately he was coughing
and spluttering and then shortly
afterwards he was violently sick
into a bucket.
Russell said between coughs:
“Oh God, Oh God. My lungs are on fire.”
Amazingly he then decided to snort
some of the red hot powder as his next
trick with predictable results. This time
he told viewers: “Oh my God. My nose
is on fire.”
He reported that the stunts had made
him violently sick for ten minutes and
said he was thankful that he did not need
to call for paramedics after the fiery hits.
It does not look like this will be Russell’s
new all day vape and he doesn’t think it
should be yours either.
His final words of warning were:
“Once again, don’t try this bullshit at
home. Don’t do this. Don’t do it at all.
It’s not good. I didn’t need 911, but
definitely don’t ever try to vape anything
hot, especially the world’s hottest
pepper.” Having seen the video I think it
fair to say that this is one flavour which is
unlikely to catch on any time soon.