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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:19:21 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote: What are Devil's Tongue peppers? I've seen you mention them several times. They're a yellow habanero-type pepper, _C chinense_, and right up there with the hottest of the hot peppers. I think Reimers seeds and Dave DeWitt's company both claimed to have tested some and had them come out hotter than Red Savinas last year. You can go to www.chiliplants.com, click on "Chile Chart" and scroll down and click on "Devil's Tongue" is you want to see a picture. Once they're that insanely hot, I don't see what difference a few Scovilles one way or the othe; but then I'm a pepper geek, not a chilihead. The brother of one of my co-workers *is* a chilihead, and he says they taste hotter than Red Savina's and Chocolate habs. I think they impart a nice flavor to the hot pepper oils and vinagars I make, but I'm not about to munch one! Penelope |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:19:21 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote: What are Devil's Tongue peppers? I've seen you mention them several times. They're a yellow habanero-type pepper, _C chinense_, and right up there with the hottest of the hot peppers. I think Reimers seeds and Dave DeWitt's company both claimed to have tested some and had them come out hotter than Red Savinas last year. You can go to www.chiliplants.com, click on "Chile Chart" and scroll down and click on "Devil's Tongue" is you want to see a picture. Once they're that insanely hot, I don't see what difference a few Scovilles one way or the othe; but then I'm a pepper geek, not a chilihead. The brother of one of my co-workers *is* a chilihead, and he says they taste hotter than Red Savina's and Chocolate habs. I think they impart a nice flavor to the hot pepper oils and vinagars I make, but I'm not about to munch one! Penelope |
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Yuck yuck...
I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. I do like your scale though. I figure more people would understand a scale with 3 numbers rather than one with 300,000... And more people have eaten El P salsa than have heard of Scoville. And as we all know, that scale is based on how much of another substance it takes to counteract the heat... John! "Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message ... I enjoy growing peppers, and I have varieties of all heat levels. and as anyone who has ever grown peppers knows, there is no such thing as a pepper shortage this time of year, all the plants are pumping out peppers! For me, part of the enjoyment of growing anything is being able to share. So, here's the problem, I have found that "hot" is a relative term. I brought in some peppers to one of my co-workers who insisted he liked hot peppers. "These are really, really hot, now," I warned him; but he assured me he liked 'em hot. Apparently he doesn't like 'em *that* hot, cause he was back in here complaining about my devil peppers. I didn't have the heart to tell him those weren't even close to the hottest ones I have. Anyway, I'm starting to use what I call "The Old El Paso" scale. Almost everyone has had Old El Paso salsa at some time or another, so I ask them what level - mild, medium, or hot- of Old El Paso salsa would they eat, or would they consider Old El Paso far too wimpy.Yes, I know there are far better salsas out there, both homemade and commercial, but Old El Paso seems to be so ubiquitious, it's a handy reference. It has narrowed things down a lot, but there are still a few who are convinced they like much hotter peppers than they really do. And then there are those annoying people who think that liking hot peppers somehow makes them kewl. I will confess to making pepper poppers out of Devil's Tongue peppers to take to parties just to watch that sort start making all kind of excuses about why they can't have anything hot tonight! Some of them even get all scaredy at the Lemon Drop poppers, and they're merely hot. Penelope |
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Yuck yuck...
I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. I do like your scale though. I figure more people would understand a scale with 3 numbers rather than one with 300,000... And more people have eaten El P salsa than have heard of Scoville. And as we all know, that scale is based on how much of another substance it takes to counteract the heat... John! "Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message ... I enjoy growing peppers, and I have varieties of all heat levels. and as anyone who has ever grown peppers knows, there is no such thing as a pepper shortage this time of year, all the plants are pumping out peppers! For me, part of the enjoyment of growing anything is being able to share. So, here's the problem, I have found that "hot" is a relative term. I brought in some peppers to one of my co-workers who insisted he liked hot peppers. "These are really, really hot, now," I warned him; but he assured me he liked 'em hot. Apparently he doesn't like 'em *that* hot, cause he was back in here complaining about my devil peppers. I didn't have the heart to tell him those weren't even close to the hottest ones I have. Anyway, I'm starting to use what I call "The Old El Paso" scale. Almost everyone has had Old El Paso salsa at some time or another, so I ask them what level - mild, medium, or hot- of Old El Paso salsa would they eat, or would they consider Old El Paso far too wimpy.Yes, I know there are far better salsas out there, both homemade and commercial, but Old El Paso seems to be so ubiquitious, it's a handy reference. It has narrowed things down a lot, but there are still a few who are convinced they like much hotter peppers than they really do. And then there are those annoying people who think that liking hot peppers somehow makes them kewl. I will confess to making pepper poppers out of Devil's Tongue peppers to take to parties just to watch that sort start making all kind of excuses about why they can't have anything hot tonight! Some of them even get all scaredy at the Lemon Drop poppers, and they're merely hot. Penelope |
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Penelope Periwinkle wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:19:21 -0500, zxcvbob wrote: What are Devil's Tongue peppers? I've seen you mention them several times. They're a yellow habanero-type pepper, _C chinense_, and right up there with the hottest of the hot peppers. I think Reimers seeds and Dave DeWitt's company both claimed to have tested some and had them come out hotter than Red Savinas last year. You can go to www.chiliplants.com, click on "Chile Chart" and scroll down and click on "Devil's Tongue" is you want to see a picture. Once they're that insanely hot, I don't see what difference a few Scovilles one way or the othe; but then I'm a pepper geek, not a chilihead. The brother of one of my co-workers *is* a chilihead, and he says they taste hotter than Red Savina's and Chocolate habs. I think they impart a nice flavor to the hot pepper oils and vinagars I make, but I'm not about to munch one! Penelope Thanks. That sounds a lot like "fatalii", which I like and is supposed to grow well up here but I haven't had any luck with them. I wouldn't believe everything I read at Reimers. I bought some of their Indian PC-1 peppers a few years ago and they weren't all that special, just hyped. My interesting pepper this year was "dundicut", scavanged from some dried peppers I bought at an Indian market. I got very poor germination and a weak start with those pepper seeds, but I have fresh seeds now for next year. The peppers have a good flavor, are quite hot but not much more so than a good jalapeno, and they are *very* seedy so I mostly ate them green while the seeds were still soft. They look about like red and green gumdrops. :-) Bob |
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Penelope Periwinkle wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:19:21 -0500, zxcvbob wrote: What are Devil's Tongue peppers? I've seen you mention them several times. They're a yellow habanero-type pepper, _C chinense_, and right up there with the hottest of the hot peppers. I think Reimers seeds and Dave DeWitt's company both claimed to have tested some and had them come out hotter than Red Savinas last year. You can go to www.chiliplants.com, click on "Chile Chart" and scroll down and click on "Devil's Tongue" is you want to see a picture. Once they're that insanely hot, I don't see what difference a few Scovilles one way or the othe; but then I'm a pepper geek, not a chilihead. The brother of one of my co-workers *is* a chilihead, and he says they taste hotter than Red Savina's and Chocolate habs. I think they impart a nice flavor to the hot pepper oils and vinagars I make, but I'm not about to munch one! Penelope Thanks. That sounds a lot like "fatalii", which I like and is supposed to grow well up here but I haven't had any luck with them. I wouldn't believe everything I read at Reimers. I bought some of their Indian PC-1 peppers a few years ago and they weren't all that special, just hyped. My interesting pepper this year was "dundicut", scavanged from some dried peppers I bought at an Indian market. I got very poor germination and a weak start with those pepper seeds, but I have fresh seeds now for next year. The peppers have a good flavor, are quite hot but not much more so than a good jalapeno, and they are *very* seedy so I mostly ate them green while the seeds were still soft. They look about like red and green gumdrops. :-) Bob |
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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 |
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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 |
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:20:05 -0400, "GA Pinhead"
wrote: Yuck yuck... I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Bidet scale, I like that! That's such a delicate way to word something that's anything butt delicate! Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. There are a lot of ways I sort my peppers, butt that's not one I used. Do you really find habs more digestible or are you pulling my leg? Penelope, or the toilet paper... |
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:20:05 -0400, "GA Pinhead"
wrote: Yuck yuck... I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Bidet scale, I like that! That's such a delicate way to word something that's anything butt delicate! Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. There are a lot of ways I sort my peppers, butt that's not one I used. Do you really find habs more digestible or are you pulling my leg? Penelope, or the toilet paper... |
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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. An added variable which makes the scoville unit rather less definite anyway is that different varieties are hotter or less hot depending on how they are grown. Simply assuming that a habanero will be rated as 3 zillion on a standard scale makes too many assumptions. I was happily munching on some relatively mild chillis the other day ( grown by myself ) and suddenly came across one that hurt. If all your friends do tests each time they eat a pepper so that they know exactly how many units on the scale suits them, and if you then test your peppers as well, bingo, otherwise the Old El Paso method is probably more 'real world' useful. |
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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! "Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:20:05 -0400, "GA Pinhead" wrote: Yuck yuck... I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Bidet scale, I like that! That's such a delicate way to word something that's anything butt delicate! Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. There are a lot of ways I sort my peppers, butt that's not one I used. Do you really find habs more digestible or are you pulling my leg? Penelope, or the toilet paper... |
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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! "Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:20:05 -0400, "GA Pinhead" wrote: Yuck yuck... I use the Bidet scale... it does not matter how much the mouth gets burned, it is the other end that matters. Bidet scale, I like that! That's such a delicate way to word something that's anything butt delicate! Habs digest, cayennes and Japs do not. There are a lot of ways I sort my peppers, butt that's not one I used. Do you really find habs more digestible or are you pulling my leg? Penelope, or the toilet paper... |
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"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
... 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 ! ! ! |
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"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
... 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 ! ! ! |
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