/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11879194
Where do you buy them?

>>11879200
I used to get mine from the Azn market, now I grow them.

>>11879194
This reminds me of a guy in my town that always brings his dates to the the bar next to my restaurant. He grows datil peppers and always brings samples with him. I have heard this multiple times no joke, “would you like to try a pepper? ;)”. Problem is datil peppers are on par with habanero and they give people the shits. I’d feel bad if he didn’t keep doing it.

>>11879215
Mine got fucked by aphids this year.

>>11879200
Easy as fug to grow. I can buy a 1/4 pound for like $1 at the grocery store.

>>11879194
No wonder ck has shit taste for food. Y'all burned your tastebuds away eating spicy.

Capsicum chinense are the only peppers with flavor. Everything else is just heat, and can be substituted with any other chili or capsaicin extracts.

Dang that sucks.
How do you usually get your seeds to germinate?
I've been meaning to start growing my own.

>>11879249
that sucks.

>>11879317
I put a few seeds on a paper towel, fold it in half and moisten it with water, then stick it in a plastic bag until they germinate. It can take anywhere from just a couple days to a month depending on the kind of pepper you have.

Thanks anon :^)

>>11879422
Pic from about 20 minutes ago! These are most of the peppers I'm growing this year. They have a range of sizes despite all being started at the same time.

>>11879471
Very nice anon. Merilard here, isn't it still a bit early to be starting your seedlings, though? Unless you plan on keeping them indoors for another month it's still reaching freezing temperatures biweekly even down here in the South.

>>11879194
>I bring a few with me when I go out to eat
that sounds stupid but now that i think about it, putting a few on some twine and tying it to my backpack might look pretty cool

>>11879480
I've got plenty of room to keep or take them indoors as needed. And I am in south Texas.

>>11879486
#uniquesnowflake

>>11879270
>Capsicum chinense are the only peppers with flavor.
Capsicum baccatum peppers have distinctive flavor

>>11879194
I know it's you wiens

>>11879487
Here's some seeds I started germinating 4 days ago. It's just a damp paper towel inside a plastic bag. You can see that the one in the upper right corner is starting to grow a small root. The one on the middle left is too, though that's not so easy to see in this pic. In another day or two I'll transfer them into the jiffy trays I posted above. I keep them in the jiffy trays until they grow 4 proper leaves, then move them to bigger pots.

>>11879194
all the thai chilis I've had have been extremely spicy. habanero is too spicy for most people, and thai chilis are a good deal more spicy than those

>>11879553
Most Thai chilis are around 50k SHU. The "rat shit chili" (named for their small size) is around 150k SHU. That's about the same as a standard habanero. They can often seem hotter because in thai cooking they bash them up with a mortar & pestle and that releases a lot more of the capsaicin from the chilis.

>>11879564
Are you talking about bird's eye chilis (piri piri)?

>>11879583
I think the names can easily get confused.
Piri Piri is an African cultivar, that's not the same thing. But I've heard them called Bird's Eyes before too. I've also heard them (incorrectly) called "sky pointing chili". There is a "sky pointing chili" aka "facing heaven chili" (or in thai: prik chee fah) but that is not the same thing.

the one I'm talking about the thais call phrik kee noo, which literally means "rat dropping chili".

>>11879592
forgot pic

>>11879480
Not him, but in the northern US, you need to start super hots really early and basically let them reach maturity inside since the fruit takes forever to mature

>>11880036
I started some Naga Morich seeds on Jan 13 and they still haven't germinated yet.

>>11879270
uhm sweetie

>>>/out/homegrowmen

For all you would-be gardners out there.

>>11879270
You should try green chile. It has a very nice flavor whether it is hot or not.

>>11879471
Got a recipe for this?

>>11879508
Based baccatum poster. I'm growing a Crystal at the moment but I have seeds for about 4-5 other varieties of baccatum

My grandma used to actually carry jalapeños in her purse for when she and my grandpa would take me out to eat when they’d babysit me. It was usually just Burger King or mccdonalds since I liked the play places. Thanks for reminding me of good memories.

oh look another produce thread :/

>>11879194
These guys are great, they grow so many fruit per plant that I always grow way more than I need and have a freezer full of them.

>>11881410
Yeah, just read the thread.
I got chili seeds and germinated them in a ziploc bag like shown in >>11879538

when the roots come out I stick them in a tray of jiffy pots full of potting soil like you see in that pic.

>>11881403
>>green chili
which one? That's an incredibly vague term.

>>11879486
It definitely would look cool

>>11882157
Yeah, the nice thing about peppers is that they can be preserved in so many different ways. They freeze very well. They're great pickled, made into sauces and jams, fermented, and dried. Of course dried ones can also be ground into flakes or powder.

And even that has tons of uses. I use last year's or surplus pepper powder in my garden to keep wild animals away. I use a lot of organic fertilizers which attract animals. They don't deliberately harm the plants, but they can cause a lot of damage digging around trying to get at what they smell in the soil around the roots. Adding hot chili powder to your compost, manure, blood meal, fish fertilizer, etc keeps the critters out, and it's a slow-release organic fertilizer in and out of itself. If you have surplus or rejected whole chilis you can toss them straight into your compost pile. I've also noticed that having chili plants around in your garden tens to keep other animals away. I have had zero incidents with rabbits and squirrels eating my tomatoes since I started planting hot chilis among the tomato plants.

>>11881728
Based