Hot Pepper Varieties

[put'n the dog on]

Happy Father's Day all.

I was just curious who out there grows any hot peppers? And what varieties you grow? I do all the usual Jalepeno, Cayenne and Habanero, this year I did a few Ghost Peppers and I just started some seeds the other day for the Carolina Reaper. I use them for hot sauce and dried mainly.

This year I ordered some seeds from Hungary for paprika. I grew a hot variety and two sweet. Never grown paprika before but the plants look great. Curious to see how the Hungarian variety compares to the bland dried Bell Pepper crap we here call Paprika.

[rendezvous]

I have been only growing Green bells lately. I have grown Jalepeno, Cayenne, Habanero in the past, also Pequin and Serranos. Maybe next year...

[tkfurs]

I stay with mild varieties myself, my stomach can't handle the heat of the spicy ones.

[rendezvous]

I grew Thai peppers too. A fellow Officer told me she loved hot peppers, the hotter the better. I brought her some to try... you should have heard the choice words coming out of her. She call me every name in the book! 

[put'n the dog on]

That's awesome. I love hot foods. I'm a firm believer that it keeps you from getting sick. It's an awesome immune system booster.

I have someone at work who likes to steal lunches out of the fridge. I'm thinking about making up a special pizza sauce and forgetting my pizza in the fridge. When someone is crapping fire, we'll finally know who it is.

[rendezvous]

put'n the dog on,  BEWARE! I had another co-worker who got a phone call from his wife. His wife told him they were going to have homemade pizza, he told her to put some of the peppers I gave him on the pizza. He got home all the windows and doors open on his house, the peppers gas them pretty well... the wife and kiddies weren't to happy!

[put'n the dog on]

O I'm well aware of the gasses. I'm not allowed to make hot sauce in the house anymore. It is absolutely horrible. Now I make it on an old turkey fryer base outside. Much safer for everyone.

[rendezvous]

I learned to take horseradish serious... I took the food processor to the garage, but after running a few sections of root I removed the lid and took a good whiff, it nearly dropped me!

Lesson learned...  

[Gomer746]

Im growing some spicy bells this year, but that is it. Ran out of space pretty quick in my new boxes.

[flags]

I grow bells for cooking and I always put in a couple jalapenos and anaheim's as well. The last couple of years I've been playing with these. They're called loco peppers.



The fruit sets on in a deep purple and it turns a bright red when ripe. The peppers are about 3/4 of an inch long and they have some pretty good heat. I let them dry and give them a rough chop and use them as crushed red pepper instead of that stuff you buy in the store.

[nytrapper23]

They even look hot!

[rendezvous]

They look like jelly beans! Very cool!