What are your Most Preferred/Eaten Hot Peppers (Poll)

[toobfreak]

Lets try this again, last one didn't include the poll! Include any others not on the list.
Do you eat them for the flavor or just for the heat?

Frankly, while I like the heat, I really enjoy them most for the flavor!

 

[jbrownson0831]

Lets try this again, last one didn't include the poll! Include any others not on the list.
Do you eat them for the flavor or just for the heat?

Frankly, while I like the heat, I really enjoy them most for the flavor!

I live close to Pucker Butt, the inventor of the reaper. I like to make beef jerky with the ghost and reaper peppers to heaat it up.

 

[rightwinger]

Lets try this again, last one didn't include the poll! Include any others not on the list.
Do you eat them for the flavor or just for the heat?

Frankly, while I like the heat, I really enjoy them most for the flavor!

I like when the heat compliments what you are eating rather than overpower it.

To some people it seems to be a contest……look how hot a pepper I can eat

 

[toobfreak]

I live close to Pucker Butt, the inventor of the reaper. I like to make beef jerky with the ghost and reaper peppers to heaat it up.

Ouch. A buddy of mine used to farm his whole back yard full of Ghost peppers (including the chocolate ghost) and those are some HOT peppers! I frankly like a certain amount of heat in my food but also want a certain amount of pepper meat for the crunch as well, so usually find Serranos and Pequins about the hottest I need. You simply add more if you need more heat! I used to have about 30 or so Pequin pepper bushes I grew from seed but boy was it a task picking all those individual tiny peppers!

 

[TNHarley]

I like hot peppers in dishes as long as the heat doesnt ruin it.
I dont really have a preference, it just depends on what I am making.

 

[Unkotare]

Shishito peppers are fun because for the most part they are not hot at all, but once every dozen or so a really hot one is produced. It's like a game of suspense.

 

[toobfreak]

I like hot peppers in dishes as long as the heat doesnt ruin it.
I dont really have a preference, it just depends on what I am making.

Well, capsaicin is capsaicin, so the difference between peppers is in the flavor. You can get just as hot as a ghost pepper or bhut jolakia by simply adding more mild pepper! I used to challenge myself to eat super hot when I was younger but I find that hotter is not always better and I want to balance the flavor of the pepper as appropriate to the flavor of the dish! Not overwhelm it. And I seldom need super hot peppers to do that. A pepper in the 1000 to 40,000 scovil units can easily fit that role.

That said, I find I like some hot pepper or hot sauce in almost everything I eat. I even put pepper flakes and hot sauce on my cottage cheese when I eat it with mixed fruit. Yum.

 

[Oddball]

Back in the day in Steamboat, I used to make a habanero & tomatillo paste for hot wings....

Put them in the robot coupe processor with some Frank's to puree them, add some garlic and balsamic vinegar, then reduce a few beers into the mix on slow simmer....Made the whole condo smell great.

Just a level teaspoon in 1/3 cup of Frank's made some flaming hot wings that also had a great unique flavor.

 

[TNHarley]

I even put pepper flakes and hot sauce on my cottage cheese when I eat it with mixed fruit. Yum.

You are a savage!

 

[toobfreak]

Back in the day in Steamboat, I used to make a habanero & tomatillo paste for hot wings....

The guy I knew who used to grow his own ghost peppers used to import a great thick habanero sauce from some Caribbean island. I still have one of the empty bottles. I used to mix it roughly 50/50 with a mango/coconut sauce I buy, and the combination was wonderful giving a very hot sauce that was also sweet, citrusy and fruity--- it went well with so many things.

 

[Oddball]

Also make an award-winning green chili, that has five peppers in it.

Cayenne, yellow banana, jalapeno, Anaheim, and a couple habaneros for flavor.

Spicy, yet not overbearing....Think we're having some tonight.

 

[marvin martian]

Lets try this again, last one didn't include the poll! Include any others not on the list.
Do you eat them for the flavor or just for the heat?

Frankly, while I like the heat, I really enjoy them most for the flavor!

Mostly for cooking and pickling.

This is very popular around here: https://www.thekitchn.com/cowboy-candy-recipe-23667336

 

[toobfreak]

Also make an award-winning green chili, that has five peppers in it.
Cayenne, yellow banana, jalapeno, Anaheim, and a couple habaneros for flavor.
Spicy, yet not overbearing....Think we're having some tonight.

Sounds wonderful. I love bananas for their flavor and they are great stuffed with meat. Like you say, go for the flavor then add some habanero or other real hot pepper just for more heat if you need more heat. A Mexican lady brought me back a few pequins from Mexico and it was instant love. Before Covid, I was buying jars of them pickled from South America but the price of them shot up to like $20-$30 a small jar which is just ridiculous, so I stopped buying them, but the pequin is another useful pepper which is both decorative, colorful and very hot and tasty. I used to eat them as a snack with Wheat Thins and Swiss cheese.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Sounds wonder. I love bananas for their flavor and they are great stuffed with meat. Like you say, go for the flavor then add some habanero or other real hot pepper just for more heat if you need more heat. A Mexican lady brought me back a few pequins from Mexico and it was instant love. Before Covid, I was buying jars of them pickled from South America but the price of them shot up to like $20-$30 a small jar which is just ridiculous, so I stopped buying them, but the pequin is another useful pepper which is both decorative, colorful and very hot and tasty. I used to eat them as a snack with Wheat Thins and Swiss cheese.

You know another really flavorful and hot pepper you can substitute for the habanero is the scotch bonnet. I really like those.

 

[Unkotare]

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[toobfreak]

You know another really flavorful and hot pepper you can substitute for the habanero is the scotch bonnet. I really like those.

Yes, there are many peppers but I've tried to keep my polling list to ones you actually commonly find in stores. Years ago I acquired a reputation for my hot pepper prowess at work so one day a guy brought in a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce which he had to sign a release form for to buy saying that he could not dilute it. He said that if he just added a few shakes of it to a big pot of food, it was still searing hot!

So he brought a bottle in, I shook out a glob of the stuff onto the end of each of my fingers and licked it all off straight with no reaction. I'll never forget the look of shock on his face. Another guy at work wanted to bet me he could out eat me on hot peppers but when he saw that, he refused and dropped the bet.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, there are many peppers but I've tried to keep my polling list to ones you actually commonly find in stores. Years ago I acquired a reputation for my hot pepper prowess at work so one day a guy brought in a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce which he had to sign a release form for to buy saying that he could not dilute it. He said that if he just added a few shakes of it to a big pot of food, it was still searing hot!

So he brought a bottle in, I shook out a glob of the stuff onto the end of each of my fingers and licked it all off straight with no reaction. I'll never forget the look of shock on his face. Another guy at work wanted to bet me he could out eat me on hot peppers but when he saw that, he refused and dropped the bet.

I'm sure you threw some salt on it first.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Yes, there are many peppers but I've tried to keep my polling list to ones you actually commonly find in stores. Years ago I acquired a reputation for my hot pepper prowess at work so one day a guy brought in a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce which he had to sign a release form for to buy saying that he could not dilute it. He said that if he just added a few shakes of it to a big pot of food, it was still searing hot!

So he brought a bottle in, I shook out a glob of the stuff onto the end of each of my fingers and licked it all off straight with no reaction. I'll never forget the look of shock on his face. Another guy at work wanted to bet me he could out eat me on hot peppers but when he saw that, he refused and dropped the bet.

I am familiar with Dave's Insanity, still use it at times in chili.