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Hot Pepper Contest 08/27/2011
Tim Veseling Back Row 2nd from left, Valerie Dugger 1st row, left end.
Center in back row is winner Paul Joy. Congrats Pauly!!! |
The 4th Annual Hot Pepper Contest sponsored by Cobinsteinz Farms in Overland Park, KS was a blast. Not as many contestants as in the previous years but still about 16 showed up to volunteer for the torture. Contestants start with an Aneheim Pepper, reated at about 2,500 Scoville Units, easily pass through the Jalepeno at 5,000, then to the Multicolored Cayenne at 50,000, and finish with the Ghost Peppers at over 1 million Scoville Units. This isn't the end though. You can see the list of peppers posted on the tables and the number of each that they must each before progressing to the next round. A time limit of 1 minute per round made everything a little more exciting. After multiple of some of the 'lesser' peppers, it come down to the last two contestants Paul Joy and my brother, Tim Veseling, who have finished 1st and 2nd the last 3 years. Then they have to eat multiples of the dreaded Ghost Peppers. Unfortunately, Tim only made it through about half a dozen of those before enough was enough. I want to give honorable mention to my niece Valerie Dugger for making an effort and finishing 12th.
