I make my own fermented hot sauce from Carolina Reapers. I grow the peppers and I eat a lot of the hot sauce–all the time. So, I can eat my hot sauce but I can not eat a Carolina Reaper. I tried once and I lost a good part of a day. I was rolling around my back yard puking for 2 hours while my nieces and nephews watched laughing. Then I took a piss and lava came out of my penis and took me to another time and space dimension of pain. That damn pepper beat the shit out me worse than a flurry combination from Mike Tyson at the height of his powers. Never again. It’s not worth it. Don’t do it. You will learn nothing and you will not feel like you accomplished something. It was awful.