What is the hottest pepper you have ever eaten?

[Conchaga]

I knew a guy who ran a hot sauce shop. I tried all kinds of his stuff. Habaneros are the spiciest I've tried. I didn't know there were two kinds. I think I've tried them both and should have picked the other kind on the poll. I think that the regular habaneros are better.

Also, remind me to never ask qc for a blow job.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Just lube yourself up with that gel stuntmen & pyrotechnics use. You'll be fine.

 

[schrodinger_hated_cats]

Just lube yourself up with that gel stuntmen & pyrotechnics use. You'll be fine.

:laugh:

Kepler Cat-- she was one of a kind.

After she passed away, I got my Tonkinese (Siamese?? Who knows... he was a stray kitten that someone found and brought to the animal hospital where I worked at the time so we don't really know for sure). He's 4 years old now-- this is his kitten pic at 6 weeks.

His name?

Schrödinger...

And no, he hates hot peppers.

 

[Aquehonga]

What peppers are black pepper made fromhpquestion:

 

[schrodinger_hated_cats]

What peppers are black pepper made fromhpquestion:

Not related to any of these.

Black pepper is Piper nigrum, a different critter altogether. However, Chris Columbus thought that the chili pepper was related to P. nigrum, so that's how the name "pepper" came to be associated with chili/Capsicum "peppers". It was Columbus who actually introduced chili peppers to the Old World.

 

[DarthSikle]

Dr

 

[Blindgroping]

I haven't eaten a habanero directly, but I have cooked with it and eaten that.
TQ has eaten two stuffed habaneros I cooked once.

Roasted salsa.

 

[missmanners]

Hmmm-- I'm at a loss, because true "salsa peppers" are tapered and a little slender, though not as skinny as a cayenne. Closer to, oh, an Anaheim or... wait. I may have it here. Is this it? 6-8" long, light yellow-green and not very tapered or wedgy like a jalapeno.

If so, pick the serrano option. You might have gotten a hot example of a hot banana pepper.

I was talking to a gardner friend and he seemed to think I was describing some sort of mutant hungarian wax. Color shape and size were similar to hungarian wax, but these were 10 times hotter than the hungarian wax my mom used to pickle.


mm

 

[SSgt_Sniper]

MM, sometimes the peppers can be affected by the soil conditions they are grown in.

For example, My friend Lee has a garden in which he grows Bells and Banannas. You have to ask him what side of the garden the Banannas grew in because the soil of the garden in different in one side than in the other and the Bananna peppers grow in the part that has a lot of clay in the soil base will be jalapeno hot.

Slightly off topic here, those of your growing your own stuff what kinds of things do you choose to grow outside of peppers?

I do potatoes some years, green beans, sometimes strawberries (some of this stuff depends on my mood that year come planting time) Onions every year (usually both whites and yellows) and Garlic every couple of years. (Just a few bulbs lasts me a while so not every year)

The one thing I do not do and people here sometimes get huffy about it is tomato plants. I don't like them. I like tomato sauce just fine (considering that two thirds of the crap at the store has tomato sauce in it I'd be screwed if I didn't like it) but I do not like tomatoes themselves, and since I don't plan on making my own tomato sauces, they'd just sit and go bad. So I don't do them.

 

[FBI parte due]

Fresh tomatoes are heavenly, especially raw. Fried green tomatoes are good, too, and it's hard to find unripe tomatoes in stores up here.

 

[missmanners]

The one thing I do not do and people here sometimes get huffy about it is tomato plants. I don't like them. I like tomato sauce just fine (considering that two thirds of the crap at the store has tomato sauce in it I'd be screwed if I didn't like it) but I do not like tomatoes themselves, and since I don't plan on making my own tomato sauces, they'd just sit and go bad. So I don't do them.

This sounds like me. What dont you like about tomatoes? Because I hate them. However, there is one variety I will eat and thats the only ones I'll eat. I grow one plant each summer. I also grow zucchini and canteloupe.


mm

 

[schrodinger_hated_cats]

I'm lucky in that I can grow stuff here most of the year, even if it's just fresh herbs.

Let's see-- I have 'maters (Beefsteaks and Romas are going still, but the Sweet 100 cherries and the Celebrity are done for the season); broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts for winter growing; the okra is winding down FINALLY (it goes like mad here); I had leaf lettuce in the spring; and I still have herbs like basil by the bushel (it seems), oregano, mint and chives. Basil is a MUST since I love to make my own pesto.

Nothin' better than spreading homemade pesto on fresh toasty Italian bread, then topping it with fresh homegrown tomato, bell peppers and imported Parmigiano-Reggiano or quattro formaggio cheese. Pop that under the broiler, til the cheese melts. Yummerzs!!

Or, take a pita, spread it with hummus, top with cucumber and fresh tomato and a basil leaf or two (or some oregano)...mmmmmmmmmmm!

What variety of tomatoes WILL you eat, MM??

 

[missmanners]

Celebrity. Perfect size, not a lot of slimey seeds all over the place, and that sweet meaty taste is so good! Like I said, salt, buttered toast and a thick slice of a Celebrity...yummm. I leave them on the vine until they are as ripe as they can get before rotting.


mm

 

[schrodinger_hated_cats]

Celebrity. Perfect size, not a lot of slimey seeds all over the place, and that sweet meaty taste is so good! Like I said, salt, buttered toast and a thick slice of a Celebrity...yummm. I leave them on the vine until they are as ripe as they can get before rotting.


mm

I had 3 Celebrity plants this year. They were great producers. However, they are determinate and as such have a shorter production time here than others. They put out like a $2 hooker and they are wonderful, like you said, but they just don't take the intense heat of mid-summer here like other varieties. My Romas go dormant (pollen-wise) when it gets really hot, but theyre indeterminate so they come back when it gets a little cooler. They're doing great again now. Same with my Beefs.

Tomato pollen tends to become sterile when it gets really hot, so almost all of my tomatoes slow down in mid-summer. The indeterminates come back, though. That's why I plant both kinds. I love tomatoes, so I always plant plenty for fresh eating and for sauce. In fact, I'm eating spaghetti with homemade sauce right now-- homegrown tomatoes for the base, with homegrown bell peppers, basil and oregano for flavoring (besides the other necessaries).

Are you organic?

 

[Conchaga]

I make my own pesto as well. What's yer recipe?

 

[Bickendan]

Raw, jalepeños. Cooked and in foods, up to habeñeros. Particularly a chicken in a bbq-habeñero sauce, yum.

Jalepeños give me the hicoughs, though, so I don't care for them too much :/

 

[schrodinger_hated_cats]

I make my own pesto as well. What's yer recipe?

Pretty much to taste, but it uses fresh basil, a couple cloves of garlic, EVOO to consistency (roughly 4 parts packed and stemmed basil leaves by volume to one part EVOO), parmesan and Quattro Formaggio cheeses, pine nuts, a little black pepper and just a little salt.

I never really follow formal recipes. I make my stuff up as I go along, and I keep notes so if something turns out super-good I can make it again the same way. I'm just blessed with a knack for making food taste good. Sadly, I know people who can't make ANYTHING taste good, even with a recipe. I'm just lucky like that I guess.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

This sounds like me. What dont you like about tomatoes? Because I hate them. However, there is one variety I will eat and thats the only ones I'll eat. I grow one plant each summer. I also grow zucchini and canteloupe.


mm

I love zucchini. One chinese restaurant used to make chicken & zucchini in brown sauce, which was heavenly. But they closed, and no other place seems to make it, and I have to special order it and pay extra.

I love fresh tomato in sandwiches, in salads, in salsa, etc. I don't chomp on them like apples, that's a bit much. But a favorite easy sandwich of mine is hummus, sliced tomato and mustard on a roll.

I don't grow anything. I have a small apartment and all my windows are too secured to put plant boxes in them. Also I hate growing things. I'm what you call a consumer. I keep the economy going!