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Post by daylilydude on Jul 5, 2018 6:23:44 GMT -5
Do you grow peppers for the heat or sweet aspect?
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Post by daylilydude on Jul 5, 2018 6:25:58 GMT -5
I used to love the blazing heat, but as of me getting older... not so much!
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Post by pondgardener on Jul 5, 2018 7:24:04 GMT -5
To eat, jalapeño hot is about right, especially with roasted green chiles. But to make salsa, habaneros and scotch bonnets give it some kick.
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Post by guruofgardens on Jul 5, 2018 7:25:15 GMT -5
We grow many peppers with and without heat. I use the hot ones in chili and fruit jams. I give most of them to my son who makes wonderful fruit sauces that at times can make my hair curl!
We also pickle jalapeños for adding to sandwiches. They are the most versatile pepper for most dishes.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 5, 2018 7:28:19 GMT -5
I love the sweet colored bell peppers but I also like the mildly hot ones like Jalapenos and Poblanos.
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Post by spike on Jul 5, 2018 7:51:01 GMT -5
Not into the blazing hot stuff. I do like a little heat as they add a touch of "spice" and lots of flavor!
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Post by september on Jul 5, 2018 9:59:43 GMT -5
About 3/4 of my pepper plants are sweet, some bells, some elongated. 1/4 are hots, mild to medium hot. Just have not found uses for the super hots in my cooking range, the ones I tried just went to waste.
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Post by horsea on Jul 5, 2018 10:03:20 GMT -5
The "hottest" I can stand are the beautiful Hungarian Black. Does anyone know how this is classified, ie, what type of pepper it is? Thanx.
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Post by paulf on Jul 5, 2018 10:48:28 GMT -5
The sweeter the better. From very sweet up a little bit of heat is OK. Black Hungarian Peppers are Capsicum Annuum, a mildly hot (5000 to maybe as much as 20,000 Scoville Units). They are in the shape of a Jalapeño and get very dark purple to almost black. Pretty fruit and pretty purple flowers.  |
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 5, 2018 10:50:39 GMT -5
Here's some info on Hungarian Black, horsea www.pepperscale.com/black-hungarian-pepper/Habaneros are some of the sweetest peppers, daylilydude, so you can grow for heat and sweet! lol Seriously, though, while I grow a lot of really hot peppers, the superhots I only grow out of curiosity - they don't have as much habanero flavor, IMO, and obviously, you can't use as much in a dish, to get that flavor. To me, it's all about flavor. I frequently try to find a milder variety (yes, I did say that! lol) with a similar taste, so that I can use more. This is why I experimented years ago, to find the perfect pepper to make nam prik pao; while Thai dragons tasted great, the 70-80k heat index made it too hot, for most, and I must have tried a dozen or more varieties, before finding a 40-50k variety that fit the bill. And some jalapeños that are hotter simply don't have the jalapeño flavor of others. And many varieties of Asian peppers I have tried through the years were simply hot; sometimes bitter, and don't have the flavor of the Thai peppers I grow every year. |
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jul 5, 2018 11:30:44 GMT -5
I grow all kinds of pepppers. I grow sweet and a little heat for eating and salsa making, but my main growing efforts are for the crazy hots for tasting and fun. If I have a poor year for the sweeter peppers, I can always find them at a local farmstand. I cannot find Bahamian Beast Chocolate or Fatalii peppers at one.  |
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 5, 2018 14:12:12 GMT -5
I'm not much of a pepper eater unless I'm trying to get rid of a stomach virus. When a stomach virus hits, I find the hottest salsa I can find and drink a cup of it. It will make you puke your toenails up, but you will feel better afterwards. At least it does for me. YMMV.
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Post by horsea on Jul 6, 2018 1:03:35 GMT -5
paulf, pepperhead212, I grew Hungarian Black one year. If you leave them on the plant, they turn red. And taste wonderful. Just wonderful. Thanks for that lovely photo, Paul. hairymooseknuckles, You drink a cup of hot salsa when sick?  I will remember that if I should ever get a stomach virus. I hope it's not a case of the cure worse than the disease...My husband likes to tell me that people who take cold showers never get sick - but they do have cold showers.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 6, 2018 9:22:55 GMT -5
horsea, For a little while you will think you're dying, but after everything has exited out of your stomach, you begin to feel better. I discovered that trick by pure accident over 20 years ago. I was sick, bad sick. Whenever I would vomit, I could taste a bitter bile. We have a pretty authentic Mexican restaurant nearby and I went in and got some salsa to go. The rest is history.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 6, 2018 9:29:40 GMT -5
Just think, hairymooseknuckles, if you eat enough peppers, the virus won't want to be there in the first place! lol  |
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 6, 2018 10:43:40 GMT -5
Just think, hairymooseknuckles , if you eat enough peppers, the virus won't want to be there in the first place! lol  You got right! |
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Post by paquebot on Jul 8, 2018 0:12:08 GMT -5
I grow the sweetest and hottest and in between. The sweet and warm ones are for me but Carolina Reaper are for several African friends. No way would one ever find me even trying to nibble one of thore!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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I will remember that if I should ever get a stomach virus. I hope it's not a case of the cure worse than the disease...My husband likes to tell me that people who take cold showers never get sick - but they do have cold showers. 
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