How hot do you go?Any favorite varieties?Any you grow yourself?
>>21625534Habaneros and scotch bonnets are greatScorpion peppers and Carolina Reapers are the best, but you can't use more than 1 per pound of other food unless you're a masochist
A got a hold of a jar of this, hearing that aji peppers are very fruity and sweet, but this tastes so bitter and earthy. Not bad, but not fruity at all to me. More like carrots and turmeric, even though the only ingredients are the pepper, salt, and citric acid. Is this normal for capsicum baccatum or did being ground to a paste cause some oxidation and make it taste different from how a whole fresh pepper would be?I'm wondering what to even cook with it
>>21625541i got a jar of that to make lomo saltado purely due to an autist on /a/ incessantly posting an image claiming 'nagatoro likes lomo saltado'. i agree on the bitterness. I was not expecting that.
>>21625534habaneros are my personal favorite. go well with lots of stuff, and i put them in canned foods i've occasionally made. i've grown some myself - they ended up alright.
I like it when it's so hot that I cry like a little bitch.
i don't get to try too many, but one guy I knew grew scorpion peppers and those kicked my ass, loved 'emmy new boss, she grows habaneros but won't eat them so gives them to me
>>21625535based
What is the lactose intolerant version of peppers?
>>21626396Bell peppers and other sweet peppers with no heat at all
>>21626408Yes. Those do work for me for the most part but what is it called when one cannot consume peppers of the spicy variety?
>>21626430Beingabitch-itis. It's curable with treatment though
>>21626469What is the treatment? I eat spicy food, I shit my pants. Nothing I can do about it. I tried to adapt and eat it more often to try to overcome, but to no avail. I would just have to live with the consequences. But what sort of life is that?
>>21625534I grow bell peppers, jalapenos, cayenne and habaneros.
>>21625534Jalapeños are the hottest I can handle. I'm a bitch when it comes to heat. Which sucks, because I love the taste of serranos and habeneros.
>>21626480Work your way up and eat it more regularly
>>21625534>subject field>not a generalNewfag.
>>21626480have you tried different types of pepper. they don't all have the same compounds and can different effects. ripeness changes it a lot also. try a ripe red jalapeno for example, they get sweet and the spice is milder.
>>21626720It's only been a handful of times but when I catched a red jalapeno (usually turning orange/not all the way red) among the greens in the produce i grab it and a couple of the regular. they seem spicier for some reason, but also jalapenos vary wildly from bell pepper to wtf why can't they all be like this. I've heard the scarring on the skin makes a difference too
>>21626567It's pepper general
>>21625547I used it to make a stir fry sauce for some shrimp and noodles and it came out really nice. The bitterness goes away when mixed with other things, and it compliments the other ingredients while adding a nice complexity and a little heat>soy sauce>grated ginger>grated garlic>aji amarillo paste>lemon juice>splash of red boat fish sauce>splash of cheap saké>toasted sesame oil>mustard powderDelicious
moths ate my peppers
>>21625534Red habaneros are the best but way too spicy to eat raw so i make fermented hot sauce out of it>>21626525Dry them, make a powder and use a tiny bit of it
>>21625534I mostly use jalapenos, I used to grow them myself but I've been too busy recently. I also have chili tepins growing wild around my yard. A friend gave me some dried up scorpion pepper and I've found that a small amount can kick a pot of chili up a notch but I've had no luck growing my own. I might try serranos next year.
>>21627396Hey me too. Wtf is their problem
I do like peppers and keep a bag in my freezer, but don't always feel like wearing gloves or washing my hands or dirtying a knife to cut it up, so I do the stupidly hot saucesgonna load up on these, finally tried it, i didn't think they'd actually put something this spicy in a "fast food" restaurant
grew some thai birds eye chilles and some other dark thai variety. my birds eyes got fucked by some strong wind so had to harvest green/early and they were not very spicy but had a good flavour anyway. oh well ill try again next year. the other plant is just beginning to ripen so fingers crossed. thanks for reading my blog
My jew peppers are taking forever to ripen
Why is it that I can drink scorpion pepper hot sauce but any decently hot raw pepper disables me completely?
>>21625776>my new boss, she grows habaneros but won't eat them so gives them to methen why does she grow them? does your boss have the... HOTS for ya?
>>21629280The "scorpion" sauce is probably only like 1% scorpion.
>>21625534I once at a raw bird's eye chilli and that was the exact upper thresh hold for me, if it was 1% hotter I would have started to worry. I could eat hotter peppers than that if they were incorporated into a dish the way a normal person would eat peppers
>>21629315>then why does she grow them?I used to grow peppers for my macaw
