"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:07:35 -0500, "Thomas"
scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote:

I wrote:
For whom? Most of my peppers aren't on any Scoville
list I've ever seen. Besides, I already know how hot they
are.

LMFAO,
Well,
Clearly these already established numbers seem to matter little to
you.
Do you know the difference between a bell pepper and a cayenne, or for that
matter a habnerro?

Oh hon, I'm a pepper geek. It's pathetic; I'll natter away for hours
about everything from the growing of peppers to what to do with the
harvest. I'll merrily argue the relative merits of _C chinense_ vs _C
baccatuum_ until people's eyes glaze over and they desperately flag
down Ronald, their Trekie friend to escape the onslaught of pepper
trivia.


Anyone can grow nondescript peppers and say they are
"hot" or not.....

Exactly, which why I need a reference point for friends who
don't know a Scoville from a hole in the ground, but who would
like to have some peppers they can enjoy.


I encourage you to go with an established set of standards.

Why? Even when I talk to other pepper geeks and chiliheads, we
don't talk Scovilles. I'll be gushing about how wonderful the
Pimento De Chiero pepper is, and they'll ask me if it's hotter
than a jalapeno, and I'll say it's more like a cayenne. They
don't say "is it between 2500 and 5000 Scovilles?" and I
don't answer "More like 30,000 Scovilles."

And then there's the problem of different peppers having the
same or similar names. I've seen two versions of the Pimento
De Chiero, both known as a scent pepper, but one spelled "ie"
and the other spelled "ei" The one I'm growing (ie) has a small,
smooth yellow pod, while the other (ei) appears to have a larger, more
habanero-type pod. So, having a handle on the heat of the actual
peppers in my backyard does me more good than referring to a very
general, non-specific chart that may or may not have the pepper I'm
growing.

ObAside: Of course, being a pepper geek, I'm going to have to track
down the "ei" one and grow it to compare to the "ie" one so I can
drone on endlessly about which is likely the true scent pepper.

Of course I
could grow....hmmm let's see.... Billybobs worlds hottest peppers..and
then
say, well "all my rowdy friends say these here peppers are "reasonably
hot",
but then again you have the "bubba" that comes along and says " these here
peppers ain't nuthin!"

Yes! And so, if you want to be able to give "bubba" a pepper he'll
find hot, you need to know what he considers hot, not how many
Scoville units are in that particular pepper.

Just because your peppers aren't on the list means nothing.

It means the list is not very useful to me.


Penelope


That was impressively diplomatic...
PENELOPE FOR PRESIDENT ! ! !

"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
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I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are in
mixed company!

yes, the chinesis peppers do not burn twice, perhaps not every one but all
my pepper eating friends would rather eat habs than cayenne or japs. Japs
only seem worse I guess because I eat more at a time.

John!


So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?

"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
...
I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are in
mixed company!

yes, the chinesis peppers do not burn twice, perhaps not every one but all
my pepper eating friends would rather eat habs than cayenne or japs. Japs
only seem worse I guess because I eat more at a time.

John!


So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?

"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
...
I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are in
mixed company!

yes, the chinesis peppers do not burn twice, perhaps not every one but all
my pepper eating friends would rather eat habs than cayenne or japs. Japs
only seem worse I guess because I eat more at a time.

John!


So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
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"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
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I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are
in
mixed company!
So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?



"and it burned, burned, burned..." LOLOLOL

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
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"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
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I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are
in
mixed company!
So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?



"and it burned, burned, burned..." LOLOLOL

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
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"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
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I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are
in
mixed company!
So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?



"and it burned, burned, burned..." LOLOLOL

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:30:31 -0400, "Ken Anderson"
wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote:

snippity do dah

Just because your peppers aren't on the list means nothing.

It means the list is not very useful to me.


That was impressively diplomatic...

preen

PENELOPE FOR PRESIDENT ! ! !

No...no! What did I ever do to you!


Penelope
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:30:31 -0400, "Ken Anderson"
wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote:

snippity do dah

Just because your peppers aren't on the list means nothing.

It means the list is not very useful to me.


That was impressively diplomatic...

preen

PENELOPE FOR PRESIDENT ! ! !

No...no! What did I ever do to you!


Penelope
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:30:31 -0400, "Ken Anderson"
wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
"Thomas" scythicon311@yahoo(dot)com wrote:

snippity do dah

Just because your peppers aren't on the list means nothing.

It means the list is not very useful to me.


That was impressively diplomatic...

preen

PENELOPE FOR PRESIDENT ! ! !

No...no! What did I ever do to you!


Penelope
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:39:54 -0400, "GA Pinhead"
wrote:

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are
in
mixed company!
So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?



"and it burned, burned, burned..." LOLOLOL

You guys are sick!


Penelope, I like that in a man.



--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:39:54 -0400, "GA Pinhead"
wrote:

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
"GA Pinhead" wrote in message
I was going to use it's actual name, the s&*% fire scale... but we are
in
mixed company!
So we know what Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is really all about?



"and it burned, burned, burned..." LOLOLOL

You guys are sick!


Penelope, I like that in a man.



--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

hmmm..
are you not familiar with the habanero pepper? I will be honored to
define this pepper. Please give me a day or two to extract my
reference book from storage (we're moving) and I will happily
enlighten you.


5 days and counting

hmmm..
are you not familiar with the habanero pepper? I will be honored to
define this pepper. Please give me a day or two to extract my
reference book from storage (we're moving) and I will happily
enlighten you.


5 days and counting

lol.....it's funny to me that anyone is counting, at any rate I finally
found the book and the time to scan the info.
Enjoy!
http://users4.ev1.net/~tominama/habanero.htm
"Mark Ingram" wrote in message
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hmmm..
are you not familiar with the habanero pepper? I will be honored to
define this pepper. Please give me a day or two to extract my
reference book from storage (we're moving) and I will happily
enlighten you.


5 days and counting