Peppers Are Hotter Than They Appear

[Corona688]

http://burningsmell.org/images/rainbowchillies.jpg I got a plant like this because it looked cool, and it produces something edible; a plant that never takes down it's christmas lights. It is a Bolivian Rainbow chili pepper plant. The peppers start purple, then turn yellow, then deepen to red. Being a "decorative" plant, I figured they couldn't be particularly hot, or particularly tasty, but a hypothesis unexplored is a hypothesis denied, so I tried one.

It did not have an immediate effect, so I managed to consume 3/4 of a small yet tasty red fruit before I was reduced to a gibbering vegetable. 4 glasses of water, several pieces of bread and a full bag of chips later, I recovered enough to check my facts; sure enough, these unassuming peppers are considerably hotter than jalapenos, and keep that hotness in a smaller pepper. Consider yourself warned!

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

If your mouth is burning, drink milk.

[pescifish]

:yup: Milk or ice cream.

A friend of mine had a plant like that for the good looks. It is very pretty! And they let me take a short harvest of the peppers home to eat. I ate them fresh and found them a bit dry and were just spicy tasty to start -- but as you say, they had a terrific kick at the end!
:jalapeno: :pepper: :chilipepper: :pepper: :jalapeno:

[Plant Woman]

What a beautiful plant! Hot salsa anyone?

[livius drusus]

Can you eat them before they turn red? Think of how pretty a salsa would be if you could.


P.S. - I love that you used the float code, Corona688. :thumbup:

[Leesifer]

I definitely want one of those plants, it's gorgeous - I have the perfect spot for it. :yup:

:woohoo: I've found a website where I can order the seeds. £1.45 for 20.

Here's a bit of blurb from the site:

"The Vida Verde Seed Collection is a private collection of vegetable varieties selected for earliness and productivity, and also for flavour and cooking qualities. Many are old hierlooms, and all are non-hybrid, so seed can be saved for future years using the instructions supplied, thus helping preserve these special varieties. "

[Legs]

Let us know how they feel when they come out the other end :dump:

[Dingfod]

When I was a tyke, an older neighbor kid convinced me and my sister to take a bite of a pretty ornamental pepper. If I recall the size, color and shape correctly, it was a habanero pepper. We were in a bad way, cured by ample crackers, milk and sucking on a wet washrag.

[Corona688]

Can you eat them before they turn red? Think of how pretty a salsa would be if you could. Yes, like lots of peppers they can be eaten at any ripeness, hence nearly any color. These ones are mature enough to eat when they're purple. I don't know how hot they'd be though.P.S. - I love that you used the float code, Corona688. :thumbup: I love that this place HAS a float code. Without it I'd probably need to join the HTML group and use tables.

[Corona688]

When I was a tyke, an older neighbor kid convinced me and my sister to take a bite of a pretty ornamental pepper. If I recall the size, color and shape correctly, it was a habanero pepper. We were in a bad way, cured by ample crackers, milk and sucking on a wet washrag. Habanero? Good grief. My peppers are about 100,000 scoville units, max. A habanero is at LEAST 150,000, and could be over 300,000. That kid must have been a sadist.

[Corona688]

I definitely want one of those plants, it's gorgeous - I have the perfect spot for it. :yup:

:woohoo: I've found a website where I can order the seeds. £1.45 for 20. Once it gets going you'll have more peppers than you know what to do with. :yup: The picture is not an exaggeration in any way, they really do grow that many fruits, and more. They don't appear to have any particular 'season' if kept indoors, afaik.

[Dingfod]

When I was a tyke, an older neighbor kid convinced me and my sister to take a bite of a pretty ornamental pepper. If I recall the size, color and shape correctly, it was a habanero pepper. We were in a bad way, cured by ample crackers, milk and sucking on a wet washrag. Habanero? Good grief. My peppers are about 100,000 scoville units, max. A habanero is at LEAST 150,000, and could be over 300,000. That kid must have been a sadist.He did laugh.

[Megatron]

Hmm, I must be weird, but I don't really find Habaneros to be THAT insanely hot. Then again, when the chili is just right for me, no one else can eat it... *shrug*

[Corona688]

Hmm, I must be weird, but I don't really find Habaneros to be THAT insanely hot. I'm sure they're nice properly prepared and used as an accent or seasoning, but would you go take a bite out of one fresh off the plant?

[viscousmemories]

That plant is pretty. I had no idea you could grow hot peppers indoors.

[JoeP]

scoville units

mmm! :chilipepper: It's like geekspeak

[pescifish]

I'm sure they're nice properly prepared and used as an accent or seasoning, but would you go take a bite out of one fresh off the plant?I've eaten three whole habaneros in a period of 10 minutes. I am no longer invited to the Testosterone Driven macho chile pepper eating contests at work.

Habaneros are very very hot. But still edible. I hate the taste of that particular pepper though, so I don't eat them unless I'm going for the spiritual experience.