How Hot IS That Pepper?: Nice Article

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By cycadjungle
September 18, 2014

How do you know whether pepper is seriously hot or not if you don't know what it is just by looking at it? Here is a tutorial for people who have never seen these peppers and don't know their names. Also a little bit about how they vary in heat.

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Name: Vickie Elberfeld, Indiana, USA (Zone 6b) blue23rose Sep 18, 2014 4:41 AM CST
I enjoyed reading this article and it was put together nicely. I love heat in my food, but I can't imagine eating these hot peppers! I didn't know that bumpier means hotter. Thanks for the information. Vickie May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown \| Quote \| Post #701472 (1)

Name: Treehugger Hanover Twp, PA (Zone 6a) treehugger Sep 18, 2014 7:55 AM CST
Yes, great info. \| Quote \| Post #701538 (2)

Name: Sandy B. Ford River, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a) Weedwhacker Sep 18, 2014 1:43 PM CST
Good article, Tom! I know jalapenos aren't the super-hots that you favor, but do you know if the "corking" they develop on their skin has any relation to how hot the individual peppers are? The ones I grow seem to have a LOT of variation in the amount of heat, even from the same plant -- from really mild to YIKES! (especially when I'm not expecting it to be that hot... ) “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer / Cubits.org - A Universe of Communities[/I] / Share your recipes: Favorite Recipes A-Z cubit C/F temp conversion / NGA Member Map \| Quote \| Post #701745 (3)

Name: Gordon Brooklyn , New York GordonHawk Sep 18, 2014 8:53 PM CST
yes... nice article... I have dozens of the Carolina Reapers going now... all with masses of peppers...wish I knew someone near by to share them with...I already have more hot sauce than I could ever use... I might try making some pepper spray out of them... they are frightfully hot as you know.. a great producer.. and a strong grower...mine get dried out to the point of wilting... then after a watering they stand tall ... filled out again.. as if nothing had happened...great article on the rough bumpy textures of their skins being a heat guage... although with the reapers... if one was 1/2 as hot as another ... you couldn't tell the difference (1) \| Quote \| Post #702052 (4)

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