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Title: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: festus on November 19, 2017, 08:32:32 PM
Last spring I started some hot pepper plants from seeds that cost 4 packs for a buck from the Dollar General store.  One variety was labeled habanero with orange colored fruits on the label.  The result was completely different from the photo.  Don't know if these are Carribean Red, Red Savina, or an unknown hybrid.

The last few years I've grown scorpion, ghost, Carolina Reaper, fatalli, and several other super hots.  Ghost is pretty much as hot as I can handle, the reapers and the scorpions don't have much flavor other than searing heat. 

Whatever this hybrid is, I like it and canned several jars of unfermented sauce using fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, red wine vinegar, salt, and other ingredients this past summer.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: gstours on November 19, 2017, 11:51:32 PM
Save your seeds and replant.  Sounds good though. Do they all get red?  Are the green ones less hot?   Just wondering?
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: STRIPER LOU on November 19, 2017, 11:56:10 PM
I pretty much like them all. I did get a batch of pickled habanero's from a gentlemen from sunny cal that were so hot, it took me nearly a year to finish the jar.

If its like putting a torch on your tongue with no flavor, .. I'm out.

..............Lou
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Post by: conchydong on November 19, 2017, 11:58:42 PM
Bahamian bird peppers because that is what I grew up with.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Shark Hunter on November 20, 2017, 12:10:19 AM
Every time peppers come up. I think of John.
I'll stick with Jalapeno's. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCnMFIfNeQ
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Dominick on November 20, 2017, 12:17:29 AM
Chili Relleno is a gamer.  I wouldn't do that.  I won't go higher than pickled jalapenos.  I like the heat in poblanos and pasillas but they aren't always hot.  Dominick
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: FatTuna on November 20, 2017, 12:57:37 AM
Man that ghost chili video was hard to watch.

This one time I ordered a bowl a chili when I was up in Montreal. They cooked it with some super hot peppers that were supposed to be removed before serving. Someone dared me to eat it and I got really sick. Let's just say that I couldn't ski for the rest of the trip and it burned like fire every time I went to the bathroom for days. Never again.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: MarkT on November 20, 2017, 01:14:50 AM
Serrano is the hottest I like to go.  Some of the really hot chillis are like putting a flame thrower in your mouth.
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Post by: ChileRelleno on November 20, 2017, 03:20:26 AM
Daron, I still have some of those Carolina Reapers pickled in the fridge.
I've been working on them, but damnation and hellfire are those suckers hot as Satan's shat.
I tried to make salsa with'em but nobody could handle it with even a 1/2 a teaspoon minced.

I've never met a Chile Pepper I was scared of, and I've ate'em all...  Even the Carolina Reaper.
I eat Habeneros like most folks eat Jalapenos, Ghosts are where it starts to get significantly hot for me.

Right now I've a nice big jar of freshly pickled Jamaican Scotch Bonnets that are freaking delicious and fairly mild.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: MarkT on November 20, 2017, 03:41:23 AM
Scotch Bonnets are fairly mild? Son, you've burned out your tongues heat sensors!
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: happyhooker on November 20, 2017, 03:56:34 AM
Jalapenos are pretty easy to grow; not necessarily the hottest, but pretty good.

In the last couple of years, we've grown pepperoncini (sp.), which usually aren't too hot, but tasty.  You can can 'em up & eat 'em all winter.  We have also tried corne de toro ("horn of the bull"), which are sometimes hot but not blazing.

Frank
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: David Hall on November 20, 2017, 04:25:09 AM
Habanero is a good pepper with good flavor and about as high on the heat scale as I care to venture.  I grew some ghosts this year and we tried one.  Nope! Can't see how the heck I can use it.  I love a good hot pecante
With Serrano and or Arbols.  I pickled jalapeƱos, serrano, Arbols, whole and chopped with garlic.  Love them on a cracker.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: happyhooker on December 03, 2017, 03:33:23 AM
Quote from: festus on November 19, 2017, 08:32:32 PM
Last spring I started some hot pepper plants from seeds that cost 4 packs for a buck from the Dollar General store.  One variety was labeled habanero with orange colored fruits on the label.  The result was completely different from the photo.  Don't know if these are Carribean Red, Red Savina, or an unknown hybrid.

There's a hybrid Habanero-type called "Burning Bush" that has short (less than 3") fruit that can be green to orange; pretty hot.  Ghosts are pretty short fruits too, but blazing hot.  "Mariachi" hybrids are short fruit, green, yellow, orange, red, and just a tad hot.  There are many more varieties, I'm sure.

If you got the seeds for a quarter, they maybe weren't any sort of hybrid (did the packet say so?).  As far as saving seeds, many hybrids won't breed true from saved seeds.

Frank

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Post by: oc1 on December 03, 2017, 06:02:51 AM
We have a little pepper that the birds move around and comes up from seed here and there.  It's called Hawaiian Pepper but the same plant is called Chili Pequin in South Texas and it is naturalized there too.  They're good pickled but to too hot for me right out of the jar.  We usually just pick fresh to cook with.  One pepper for every two or three servings seems to be about right for most dishes.

I used to like jalapenos but Texas A&M University horticulture screwed them up by breeding a variety that grows much faster and produces heavily on a short plant.  For a while they were usually marked "TAMU" in the stores.  Now, TAMU is about the only thing growers produce because it is so economical.  Trouble is, they do not have the heat and flavor that the old varieties did.  The stubby dark green ones with thick flesh and some brown netting pattern on them were the best.
-steve
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: day0ne on December 03, 2017, 06:18:37 AM
TAMU grew those with less heat on purpose. That was the whole idea.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: theswimmer on December 03, 2017, 03:20:55 PM
Down in Fresno we still have the traditional truck farms thanks to the large Asian population.
Many still grow the real Jalapeno not the TAMU hybrid.
The real Jalapeno is still my fave. Great flavor and texture and depending on who grew them just the right amount of heat.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: CooldadE on December 03, 2017, 03:36:54 PM
Flea...
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Big Tim on December 04, 2017, 03:18:06 PM
Quote from: Shark Hunter on November 20, 2017, 12:10:19 AM
Every time peppers come up. I think of John.
I'll stick with Jalapeno's. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCnMFIfNeQ

I just love the kids laughing in the back ground  ;D
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Dominick on December 04, 2017, 04:52:34 PM
I make chili rellenos using poblano peppers.  Usually I make 6 at a time.  Usually out of the 6, 3 will be hot and 3 will be no hotter than a bell pepper.  Does anyone know what to look for to get the hot tasting poblanos?  When they are hot they still have a great taste.  I don't like anything that fires up the mouth with heat but gives no flavor and does not allow you to taste anything else.  I like fire roasted jalapenos which are tamed by the fire roasting.  Dominick
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Decker on December 04, 2017, 08:20:48 PM
I don't know that I've ever eaten a fresh habanero, but strangely, habanero hot sauces burn me less than some others.  Habanero always has a pleasant anesthetic effect, warms me up and calms my stomach.   Maybe the sauce is very weak, but I like the  way a meal sits with it.  Very satisfying.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: festus on December 05, 2017, 02:21:24 AM
Quote from: Decker on December 04, 2017, 08:20:48 PM
I don't know that I've ever eaten a fresh habanero, but strangely, habanero hot sauces burn me less than some others.  Habanero always has a pleasant anesthetic effect, warms me up and calms my stomach.   Maybe the sauce is very weak, but I like the  way a meal sits with it.  Very satisfying.
I've made habanero hot sauce cut with carrots to retain color and water down some of the heat.  Recipe is similar to this one in the link.  Also canned it in half pint jars by the boiling water bath.  IMHO it isn't that hot but very flavorful.

http://happyolks.com/carrot-habanero-hot-sauce/
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: festus on December 27, 2017, 08:47:51 PM
Here are some pics to warm you up. 34 degrees here.

First pic is my first attempt at making a super hot sauce several years ago.  Used ghost and 7 pot hot peppers, cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, garlic, onions, sea salt, cut with tomatoes, bell pepper and a few other choice ingredients. Second pic is the result.  This stuff is long gone and many more batches have been made since.
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: Sluggo on December 28, 2017, 04:16:58 AM
my wife being from Sichuan likes very spicy food.  Knowing this my boss gave me some homegrown peppers and tells me  " they're not too hot I eat them "  I've never seen this type pepper before and he seems way to proud of them. So I take them home explain to her that I think my boss is playing a joke on her.
the next day my boss and coworkers who are obviously in on the joke ask so what did your wife think of those peppers?
I tell him she said "you should grow peppers for adults not children" 
Guess the joke was on them
Title: Re: What's your favorite hot pepper?
Post by: fishmeluck on December 28, 2017, 11:05:05 PM
My favorites are the chile de arbol in red salsa and red guacamole and the serrano chile in green salsa and green guacamole, among other ingredients. I like my spicy foods spicier than most Americans but only when the peppers add to the overall flavor of the dish. Not sure why but I'm not very fond of jalapeno, and I don't know their names but really like the peppers in Indian and Thai curries.