are fruiting before the Habaneros this year
are fruiting before the Habaneros this year
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Wow! According to Wikipedia, "The ghost pepper has an average of about 1 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), compared to a jalapeño with around 8,000 SHU or a habanero with up to 350,000 SHU.
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yeah and I have a regular Ghost Pepper plant and a Chocolate Ghost Pepper plant plus 2 Habanero plants that are flowering and starting to toss out pepper podsOriginally Posted by UTAH
Wow! According to Wikipedia, "The ghost pepper has an average of about 1 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), compared to a jalapeño with around 8,000 SHU or a habanero with up to 350,000 SHU.
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and this one scares the crap out of me
The chocolate ghost pepper, also known as the Bhut Jolokia, has a Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) rating of 800,000–2,000,000, which is considered extreme heat. This is hotter than the average ghost pepper, which has a rating of around 1 million SHU. The chocolate ghost pepper's heat builds up over several minutes and can create a powerful endorphin rush.
The chocolate ghost pepper is a natural variant of the red Bhut Jolokia that originated in Northeastern India. It has a wrinkly, pointy shape and a brown hue, and its flavor is slightly sweeter with a hint of smoky.
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As I was fond of saying when a teen, "Bitchin'.
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I've already seen videos of Eric eating his home-grown brain-burners, so I didn't need to learn the hard way that my Mom didn't raise any young'uns dumb enough to bite into an active volcano...Jalapenos do everything I want a pepper to do...Every time I come here I learn something. Today, that was it....Ben
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It’s my not so humble opinion, any real cooking with peppers equal to habanero peppers really detracts from traditional flavor.
on a side note, for seed dispersal, it makes no evolutionary sense fir peppers to be hot.
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I’m not knocking jalapeños, but have you tried serrano peppers in your cooking instead? I have found jalapeños to be very inconsistent regarding heat.I've already seen videos of Eric eating his home-grown brain-burners, so I didn't need to learn the hard way that my Mom didn't raise any young'uns dumb enough to bite into an active volcano...Jalapenos do everything I want a pepper to do...
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I have not had a lot of exposure to fresh ghost peppers simply due to limited supply. I do have dried ghost pepper since that is easier to find. Occasionally I go to an Old Order Mennonite grocery store and they have a very large selection of spices---including an excellent ghost pepper and salt offering. I remain impressed by my "plain brothers" who increasingly offer very spicey items that they themselves would not touch. If there is a buck to be made, they will find it
My main local grower had some chocolate habaneros a few years ago and they were my first taste of them. They are clearly hotter than green, red, or orange but do have a similar taste. When I told him they were a "step above" the others he stopped selling them mixed with the other colors and segregated them to their own boxes----at a "step above" price
He has not (as yet) planted any ghost peppers, but who knows what this year might bring
I have also been gifted a few Carolina Reapers which are hotter (X2) than the Ghost Peppers---but they offer nothing remarkable in taste and are simply hot as hell---which in fact was the goal of the guy who developed them. I guess the hot wing crowd like them where it seems good is judged by the number of tears that flow with the sweat.
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Can’t look.. askeert that the picture will burn my eyes.. never acquired the taste..
As Tom Leher said..
“ Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war
But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps”
Have been told that “I’m a delicate f@#$&*g flower”..
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Hot just to be hot has ruined many a dish. I prefer peppers to be used as flavoring.
On a side note. I have found that Lucerne is making a Carolina Reaper cheese. Just enough heat to spice up a burger.
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Agree.. not hot just to be hot.. I like buffalo wing sauce and Franks.. they add flavor .. but not too hot..
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I agree on the premise that being hot just to be hot is pointless at best. That said, I know my tolerance of heat is much higher than it once was. That presents a problem for me in my cooking since most of what I do is "to taste". My wife does not have the same tolerance as I have and I can not always taste her threshold of pain
So---I have to be very reserved at the stove---I will get my chance at the table where my bowl of ground hot pepper is never out of reach. I also have learned not to add salt until after I have added pepper and retasted---what once needed salt is now just fine
The jar on the left was on the trip with me
That is probably 90% habanero and 10% Thai green chilies
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Amen.
Wifey thinks the mild sauce served with chips at our Mexican restaurants is hot. Staff don't like it when I bring in my own Scotch Bonnet "Busha Brown" sauce made in Jamaica - but I tip them well when we leave.
Now, the above may make me sound like a Heat Queen - but no. As mentioned above, in this thread, the flavor has to come along with the heat.
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I have a similar issue in restaurants. I carry a supply with me in a contact lens case. I try to not be obvious when I add my pepper but occasionally the wait staff will see me and occasionally will ask me what I am doing. At high end restaurants I just leave them in my pocket
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I really don't understand the obsession with how hot I can get a pepper. As has been stated above the only thing peppers do for me is flavor. Nothing more nothing less.
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