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When planting your hot peppers, dig the hole about three inches too deep and pre-bury a book of matches - does wonders to the peppers.
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Originally Posted by Howdy
When planting your hot peppers, dig the hole about three inches too deep and pre-bury a book of matches - does wonders to the peppers.
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There's nothing quite like filling up a bowl, say 2/3rds with Dave's (or your personal favorite) at a poker party, then line the very top with some mild favorite. Dip your chips in the mild, eat and express your pleasure. Once you have eaten the top 'light sweet stuff' turn it over to your buddies to eat the Insanity sauce. Then ask those manly men why they are such weenies.
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Originally Posted by Howdy
When planting your hot peppers, dig the hole about three inches too deep and pre-bury a book of matches - does wonders to the peppers.
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Originally Posted by 94F150-408
Do a side by side comparision, one pepper with the matches and one without, I'll put my bet on the fact that you wont notice any difference. The heat is primarily related to the genetics of the chosen plant. Its like these poor gringoized peppers they call jalapenos and serranos in the supermarkets now, they barely have more bite than a bell pepper and have little to no resemblance to Jalapenos of the past or ones that you can get the seeds to and grow yourself for some nice fire.
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guess it couldent hurt for flavor. Boy, I'd have to guess that some of those poor supermarket Jalapenos would be lucky to be 2500 on the scoville scale!
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I ate a raw one (jalapeno) from the supermarket here in Rochester NY the other week while I was cooking chili and it was pretty mild and disappointing, now the serrano I ate later kicked my butt...
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try habaneros fresh from the plant ... will burn the hair right outta ur nose
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Originally Posted by fatman66
I ate a raw one (jalapeno) from the supermarket here in Rochester NY the other week while I was cooking chili and it was pretty mild and disappointing, now the serrano I ate later kicked my butt...
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Originally Posted by johnsdiesel
Did you leave the seeds in? The seeds are what make the pepper hot. Actually, it's the oil that's in the seeds. That's why that oil extract I posted about earlier is so hot, it's only the oil from the seeds.
actually its not the seeds themselves that harbour most of the heat of the pepper. When you cut open a pepper look at the inside of the flesh, you will notice little welts that look like water blisters covering the inside of the flesh of the fruit, this is the small glands that have most of the oil with the heat in them. In handling the peppers and cuting them , many of these glands are ruptured making the seeds very hot, which is why most people think that the heat is in the seeds themselves.
If you ever do get in trouble with the heat from your peppers, dairy products are one of the few things that help to netraulize the effects. Of couse if you went to the bathroom and are having a problem down there with the heat, you might have a hard time convincing someone thats what your up to doing a yogurt dunk.
Last edited by 94F150-408; Jul 14, 2004 at 03:54 PM.
