Sounds yummy! I had chocolate habanero and that's the only Habanero that I like. Now for the true test a 7 pot pod whole :-) Sounds like you have a good variety of peppers. Fatalii's have a great flavor especially in a sauce. Mark

I worked out this recipe after trying Jacques Torres 'Wicked Hot Chocolate'(which was wickedly good but wickedly expensive to mail order). Wicked Hot Chocolate About a cup or a little more milk Two squares Ghiradelli 100% cacao about 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes dash cayenne about 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp vanilla (added after heating rest of ingredients) barely heaping to heaping tsp honey This may sound very weird, but it's dark, slightly bitter, strong and with a little afterbite of the pepper. And it's absolutely delicious. Use whole milk and maybe even add a little cream.

i don't know how you could improve on raves from recipients, but jacques torres was rated #1 by these taste testers... "Best Fancypants Mix: Jacques Torres: This was like eating a melted chocolate bar, a really good dark one. "Would definitely drink a whole cup of this," agreed tasters. There's a half cup of milk per every 1/4 cup of mix (that's a whole 2-to-1 milk-to-chocolate ratio!), which contains solid chocolate nuggets mixed with the powder. It's definitely indulgent, but also very drinkable. Slightly salty to balance the sweetness." mariebelle sounds positively decadent: "Most Indulgent (and Priciest): Mariebelle Aztec Hot Chocolate: So thick, this almost reaches pudding levels. "Amazing. Like drinking liquid chocolate sauce!" You could definitely refrigerate this in a pie crust and serve it. There's a whole 2/3 cup of single-origin Colombian cacoa shards per every 1/2 cup of milk. That's more cacoa than milk! Each sip goes down slowly, painting your esophagus. It feels like it should be served over ice cream, a la hot fudge. This is a splurge�"it probably works out to a couple quarters per sip. And don't be confused by the "Aztec" part. It's not spicy, cinnamony, or spiked with any other unexpected spices." Here is a link that might be useful: jacques torres rated best by these tasters

One nice alternative if you want but can't have an instant hot is an electric kettle---we got one a few months before our remodel, and have been using it for all sorts of things. It boils far faster than our kettle did on the gas stove, and I also love the auto shutoff. No more trying to remember if I turned the stove off after I'm at work! It will have its own space in the new kitchen, and will be the primary source for hot water. We are also in the extreme minority in GW land and only have one water source in the kitchen---not even a fridge line! (Okay, technically it's split for the d/w, so I guess that's 1.5...) It's what we had before and we liked it, so we kept it that way. Works for us. I like the idea of an instant hot, but we have a small kitchen and the under-sink real estate was too valuable to put one in. I contemplated a pot filler, but our stove is close enough to the sink that we wouldn't gain that much. Friends who have one that is very close to the sink still love it because it allows them to fill pots with a child in one arm. You still have to put the child down to empty it, of course, but makes it a little easier! We have a hot water dispenser at work, which I do use, but I do find the water is not quite hot enough for tea. I use it anyway for that since I'm lazy, though. :) (You also may be able to change the settings; no clue how it works, exactly.) I've seen steamers (someone around here who posted a finished kitchen recently has one, I think) and they're very cool, but really only logical to have if you steam things virtually every night or if you have a really large kitchen with space that isn't needed for other things.