You might try mixin up some dish soap with water in a pump sprayer like a glass cleaner bottle and spray 'em with that. If it's a bug of some sort it'll coat 'em with an emulsion layer and suffocate 'em and it won't hurt the plant. If it's some sort of mold lookin stuff then I'd take the pot to a plant store and let 'em look at it so they can make a recommendation for the best course of action.

I really like shreddin peppers and cookin 'em up into lotsa stuff so I keep a tub in the fridge of ready to eat/cook with shredded ones. There's a lil 4 cup food processor sittin on the kitchen counter and that's about all I ever do with it.

Took a file sharin trip to fossils place recently and his GF had made me up a buncha jalapenos and serranos that she'd roasted and man they were yummy! She's a helluva cook so I was treated to some great home cookin while I was there

Maybe try puttin a few small slices into an omelet or stir 'em into some scrambled eggs. If they turn out to be uber hot try addin one to a 4-6qt. batch of beans or chili.

You can tone down the heat quite a bit by cookin 'em into somethin and then addin sour cream to the dish. When I make tacos I skip the lettuce and tomatoes an just eat 'em with meat, shredded peppers and cheese. Addin a lil sour cream on top of that adds a different taste and could help if yours are really HOT.

The ghost chiles have gained such a popularity here that I can even buy hot sauce made with 'em in the grocery store now, though findin the peppers themselves in a store is rare. I did see my local grocery store started carryin Thai chiles lately, which are another really hot pepper, but at $8 a lb. I just passed on 'em