/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18323488
I heckin love the pepperinos

i grow chillis but i don't understand why people want to grow super hot varieties
they're way less useful for cooking, or making a palatable fermented hotsauce, you can't use much, and you can't even fucking touch them

Here we go boys. This is the very tip of the pepper. The least spicy portion.

>>18323496
They're pretty. Some people just love the heat on them as well.

A little underwhelmed by the small bites I've been taking. It's very very spicy. I think as I work my way up the pepper I'll experience the true heat.

Taste was reasonably nice a little sweet and maybe some floral notes as well. Superhots all seem to have this sort of soapy, angry flavor that I attribute to the capsaicin.

Check put the cool structure of it.

>>18323547
The bites get bigger. Really tasty pepper. Went straight from no spice to mouth numbing spicy. Very nice, but a little underwhelmed so far.

>>18323561
This large bite tasted quite fruity and a little bitter. Although this was the biggest bite it was the least spicy so far. Strange...

>>18323580
My stomach is starting to light on fire, so I will have one more bite. This is from the very top of the pepper, the spiciest part.

>>18323492
Feel free to use this pepper as your new pepper face, kind sir.

I thought they had a weird apple/mango flavor that was very unique. OP is about due to start hallucinating and going into a laughing fit from the pain.

>>18323580
Thanks for posting these. I would really like to grow peppers but live in an apartment that has nearly zero natural lighting. Is it possible to do these indoors without spending tons of money on some lighting and indoor hydroponic growing system?

That last bite was the hottest bite of pepper I've had by far. Not on my tongue but in the back of my mouth. Drooling, snot, and tears. No hallucinations unfortunately, but I do feel nice.

>>18323597
Yes that's it kind of a bitter soapy apple/mango.

>>18323492
Another face of pain for you.

>>18323603
If electricity is cheap or included you could get away with a small light and some good soil. I grew mine in a 30 gallon pot, so it's nearly 5 feet tall now. A 2.5-4 gallon pot should grow a 2-3 foot tall plant that will get you a reasonable amount of peppers.

Peppers like shade in the afternoon, and hot temperature. Superhots are usually pickier than less spicy varieties.

>>18323615
Mine were incredibly sweet and didn't have the usual bitterness, but I had to bring them inside and was picking them in november.

I hope you chewed thoroughly. also ghosts taste much better than reapers imo

>>18323656
I've got all mine in my greenhouse that doesn't get below 35-40ish all year. It has been insanely hot the past few weeks, so maybe temperature has something to do with the sweetness. Were they equally as spicy?


>>18323662
Every bite, rolled it around my mouth, and all. My stomach is burning now. Chugging water made the pain tolerable.

>>18323732
Scotch bonnets, chocolate hab, and serrano? Looks delicious. I am looking forward to my pink scotch bonnets to ripen. I love their shape so much.

Satan wants you

Small update. The pain has mostly subsided in my stomach. I still have a burnt feeling that is uncomfortable kind of like heartburn, but not as acidic feeling.

>>18323802
Is that the name of a hot sauce or something?

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>>18323488
>What peppers have you grown this year?
I tried to grow chocolate habanero and fatalii this year... but both plants died and it was too late in the year to plant some more.
Will try again next year but maybe start them a bit earlier just incase I fuck up again.

>>18324664
Unlucky.
>both plants
Did you buy them in pots?
>tfw a whole pallet of seeds died off

>>18323678
Mine were extremely spicy but more tolerable than I expected. Yours may not be fully ripe, they turn this disturbing deep cadmium/dog dick red when fully ripe. You will wake up shitting your guts out at 3am.

I'm curious how these do mixed in with other plants in a garden.
Do they help keep pests and insect away?

>>18324731
Seemed to protect my garden from rabbits and deer this year.

>>18324731
Mine ended up covered in spiders and ladybugs, which took care of a lot of pests.

I grew cayennes (my favorite), giant Marconi, jalapeños, habaneros, ghosts, reapers, some little Thai chilis. I'm fermenting the cayennes now.

>>18323488
I had a burger with carolina reaper sauce once and for 2 days I experienced intense burning sensations when peeing and shitting. Nevertheless, the taste was good

>>18324749
I have a dozen cayenne plants well on their way. Hopefully going to harvest in two or three weeks. I like to oven dry them on low, crack em up and throw em in a bag. Use it to spice up dishes all year long. No vinegar so won't fuck up milk or cream based dishes.

Well... For all following along on my carolina reaper review I've concluded that I'm not going to be eating them straight anymore. As I suspected my tastebuds are actually blown out. I've got that fuzzy tongue feeling and my coffee tastes weird this morning. Worth trying once, but the rest will be enjoyed in hot sauces and cooking. Had some wild dreams last night too.

>>18325091
I've got tons of cayennes air drying right now as well. Have you ever tried air drying? I'm interested if there is any quality difference between heat dried vs. Air dried.


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>>18324706
>Did you buy them in pots?
Nahh I bought everything separately.
They died after I moved them from the propagator and planted them in the bigger pots... I think I did them too early.

>>18323488
Carolina's aren't funny so hot. I mean, if you can take the heat, great, but does it really improve your food at that point?

>>18325176
As someone who really likes hot food what you are describing is almost the dragon I chase. My reapers are slow this year and it's been agony waiting for them to ripen. I typically just grow them myself so it's once a year kind of thing to have them. The first couple I eat will completely blow my socks off but after that it gets less and less.

>>18325486
Unlucky.
>>18325524
My man, your plants are getting ate.

>>18325524
I love the mouth numbing, endorphin heat from very hot peppers, but straight reapers were too much. I felt like shit the whole day after eating roughly 75% of one pepper. Maybe with more food in my stomach it wouldn't have been so bad, but my mouth,esophagus, and stomach all feel like they were actually burnt, which is not really fun imo.

>What peppers have you grown this year?
I tried to get a hab plant going, but when I left it to get some sun while I was at work a sudden thunderstorm hit, and it didn't make it.

>>18327194
Deer ate mine to the ground the first time I grew them. They came back in full but I was picking them in november.

>>18323488
A mole FUCKED me and took about half of my pepper plants and some tomatoes before I finally killed him. Included were a couple I really wanted to try- fire cracker and red cherry peppers. Are these any good, or did I not miss out on much?

The fresnos were spared at least, those are my favorites. Also have some good looking habaneros, Hungarian hot wax and pasillas.

I grew "Hot Lemon" or whatever they're called. Not too spicy and it grew like weeds. Had so many chilis from just one plant that I didn't plant new ones this year. I'll probably try to grow a few kinds next year.
Summer is too short for most of the superhots though.

>>18323488
>Going to review this carolina reaper I grew. First one I've ever grown. Having it with my curry and rice pretty soon.

LOL RIP OP. Seriously though you want to just cut off 1-2 mm of the bottom of the pepper and use it in the curry. Anything more will give you the shits. In the future bc you have to use so little at a time w carolina reapers you should dry them.

>What peppers have you grown this year?

Big Jim (Univ. of New Mexico Pepper Institute cultivar), Common sweet Hungarian Peppers, Serrano Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers.

>What new peppers have you tried recently?

Last year I also grew "Mexican Hat Peppers" which did grow to look exactly like a sombrero. Also "To heaven" peppers which were the chinese sichuan ones that grow vertically.
I grow about 12 pepper plants a year in zone 5.

also this year: boston bush cucs, Mint, Parsley, Thyme, Leeks, Chives, and 2 dozen tomato plants.

>>18329615
He ate the whole thing

>>18323596
Looks like a orange butthole. Speaking of which, cram one for science

>>18329815
No.

>>18329847
SMASHED AND NUGGED

>>18326245
A little bit, but it's not enough to bother them too much. The big worry this year was pepper beetles that fucked me bad last season, but these have been protected.

>>18327182
Yeah empty stomach is bad news especially for a first time. I sometimes get a little of that with the first one, otherwise not really. The bad part is shitting the next day but it's still worth it. And crazy how quickly tolerance builds. I made a small soup last night with three scotch bonnets and a handful of tabasco peppers, the first few sips were so hot I thought I might not be able to finish it but by the end I was slurping it down with zero trouble and loving every bit. Morning was rough though lol.

>>18329541
>fire cracker
standard hot pepper

>and red cherry peppers
one of my absolute faves, especially the sweet cherry ones. an italian favorite pretty uncommon in the states.

>>18329921
Damn, I’ll have to try those again next year. Maybe bury in some chicken wire this winter on account of these GODDAMNED MOTHERFUCKING MOLES. At least I have a few other varieties to play around with fermenting and pickling.

Im growing jalapenos, scotch Bonnet, lemon drops and aji huanacos. First time my plants dont get attacked by fucking animals this year

Uh, yeah I grow some peppers.

First scotch bonnet pinks almost ripe!

>>18332205
And the first of these really nice looking hobalokia yellows are also almost ripe.

It's always such a joy to inspect all my peppers in the morning to see their progress!

>>18323488
I fermanted some HOT SAUCE! And I've just tried the first batch. It's tasty but pretty damn hot. around 50:50 Ajit Yellows x Orange Habeneros

I have some that's pure Habenero I haven't blended yet... that's going to be something

>>18332355
The Caribbean style sauces bring a lot more flavor at the expense of a little heat. The batch I made with reaper paired really well with the mango and whatever the fuck a chayote is. A little honey turned it into something amazing. I also did one with berries and spices that make a good pancake syrup. Making labels was fun.

Cayenne harvest from today. Many more still ripening. Stringing them all up to dry.

My girlfriend planted habaneros, jalapeños, cayennes and anaheims this year. She made some Pico with 2 small habaneros and I thought my tongue was on fire. Tasty stuff, though.

>>18323488
not sure, but i also grew bell and Tabasco.
im planting some habanero

>>18334052
They look pretty similar to jalapenos. Have you eaten one yet?

>>18323488
Whenever I cook with fresh chilis there's no spice. I made a chili the other day and it was mild as hell. I used 60g of fresh chilis in that chili and could taste nothing. They're hot enough raw but once cooked they lose their spice. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

>>18331402
nice, how easy are these to grow? I tried growing melons and beets and they grew a little bit then died. do I have to go full garden mode to grow peppers, or will your average soil and watering work?

>>18335567
what chilis are you using? jalapenos greatly vary in spice.

>>18335575
Most peppers are fairly easy to grow, but they do best with a decent bit of balanced fertilization. They're sensitive to overwatering and need afternoon shade.

>>18335582
I am growing jalapenos. I'm just confused because they're spicy raw but it completely denatures when I cook them. Is it a bad crop? Idk what particular variety of jalapeno they are, it was one of those live herb pots from a supermarket.

>>18335609
it's the proper balance of nutrients in the soil thing that throws me off. Watering too is something I don't know how to determine.

>>18335614
well when you cook it I know that a lot of capsaicin is released in the air, so that's probably why they seem a bit dull. But they should still be a bit spicy. Maybe it is just a bad yield. I've gotten pretty spicy japaenos from the markets before, and I've gotten some that taste like a bellpepper with a very light noticable heat to them.

>>18335615
Start with good organic potting soil in 5-7 gallon pots. Add a nice handful of organic 4-4-4 fertilizer every month or so.

I wait until the leaves start to droop a little bit before watering and then thoroughly water the plant. The leaves go from the stiffness of printer paper to tissue paper when they need watering.

>>18335617
Cheers anon

>>18335316
no, i think they might be unripe hungarian wax

>>18335621
I never knew about this 4-4-4 thing. I'll try it this time around. Thanks.

>>18335645
It's the nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium balance of a fertilizer. They are the main nutrients plants need. Organic fertilizer thst uses a bunch of different things to make their blend will also have a bunch of other good micronutrients n shiet for your plants.

The best ones will have a good blend of quick and slow release components.

>>18335575
Peppers are easier than almost anything else I grow. Beets will only do well in loamy soil and only work during spring and fall. Fish emulsion and epsom salt are only two fertilizers I use to “organically” grow. If your soil sucks you can use grow bags and mix your own soil with things like compost, coconut coir, top soil, sand, micronutrients, vermiculite in it.

Pruning peppers is key and there is a definite art to it. Peppers are perennials in warmer region and their stems become like bark. Shaping your pepper plant is key to how many fruits you can harvest. Pinching flowers and choosing what branches to keep can help you a lot. Bon-chi (bonsai but for chiles) is the art-form of this.

This is my hottest one this year : a mustard moruga. Mustard colored fruits don’t look as cool when they’re ripe. I didn’t have any more room so I threw this one in the shade and it’s doing just fine

>>18323488
what about chili burn? don't you have to wear gloves to handle these?

>>18335663
I'm most likely going to be using stuff you'd find at home improvement stores. As much as I'd like to do the whole compost bin thing, I live in a city and I heard that they create a lot of stink and I feel one of the neighbors might complain about it.

>>18335664
Yea, I don't know enough about gardening to understand how to make my soils to this level. I know about compost bins and I've seen some videos and read some blogs about them and they don't seem too complicated. But it's the whole finding ratios and what certain things provide the soils with nutrients for that completely throws me off. It's probably not as complicated as it seems but it just sounds like it. I'd probably get the hang of it quickly if I could see someone do it irl.

>>18335675
I held it mainly by the stem, and never touched the pepper with my hands after I cut it. Out of curiosity I licked the outside of the pepper and it wasn't hot at all.

I think the risk is that you may break the skin on the pepper when handling them and that will spice your hands up.

These guys all got giant. I installed them in a city space obviously. my seedlings are yellowed out from growing inside with no humidity, not enough light, and they had outgrown their containers.

>>18335689
nice I'm gonna start going these and eating them whole

>>18335681
No need to make your own compost. You should be able to find this or something close to it at your hardware store. If you buy organic potting soil you don't have to think about any of that mixing stuff.

They may even have the fish manure like other anon mentioned, which is excellent for peppers.

>>18335700
yea I was looking online and I can get a 4-4-4 mixture for like 10 bucks. I'll give it another test and if I get good results, I'll venture into different vegetables.

>>18335664
>bonchi
Never knew about this, but it's something I feel I must try now. Thanks.

>>18335704
Good luck! You may want to start with sprouted peppers from a nursery. They can be a little tricky to germinate. They need 90f soil to sprout.

>>18335714
Thanks. Can't I just germinate them with the old wet paper in a plastic bag routine?

>>18335714
>They need 90f soil to sprout.
damn! I wanted to grow some varieties that I get from some guy at a farmers market.

>>18335719
>>18335722
You can try by placing them on top of your fridge, but a heat mat is necessary if you're trying to start them indoors to get a head start on the season.

The paper towel thing works fine, but itbstill needs to be warm.

>>18335729
yea I've germinated seeds in the past, I can get at least that far lol. It's the keeping them alive in the soil after that that I struggle with. I recall once planting a random watermelon seed in my backyard. No soil or anything and it sprouted and grew pretty huge, but the damn gardener pulled it out, probably thinking it was a weed or something.

>>18335664
>Bon-chi (bonsai but for chiles) is the art-form of this.
i'm planning growing tabasco peppers for edible landscaping, supposedly they pepper all year around where i live

Pepper haul for today. Plus abput 1 cup of chiltepins. Very excited to try that yellow pepper.


>>18335737
Lots of factors could have made your plants die. Overwatering is a common one.

>>18335923
it could've been the water. I recall the last time I tried, the small leafs that were growing from my melon sprout started getting yellow spots on them. I read it might've been due to bugs so I sprayed some concoction I found online (all natural) which probably killed the plant. It was a mix of cinnamon, soap and something else iirc.

>>18335991
I lightly sprayed the concoction on the plant, I didn't pour it in the soil, but that was probably a mistake to do regardless. But ultimately I was trying to grow a melon variety that was a hybrid of sorts, and I believe I read somewhere that trying to grow certain hybrid fruit from their seed rarely gets anywhere.

This guy is really starting to pop off with like 40 buds forming but first frost is gonna hit in like 4-5 weeks. I hope there's enough time. I plan to trim it down for over-wintering and try to keep it goin for a multiple years.

>>18336027
>first frost is gonna hit in like 4-5 weeks
lucky, it doesn't cool off around me until January

>>18336027
Since you only have five weeks you gotta prune. Not enough strength in that plant to ripen all the fruits before frost. I’d cut all the lower branches.

Habolokia yellow tasted.

Very spicy. Similar but less pronounced flavor than the reaper. Not as bitter or angry tasting. Pretty good. I think next time I will give the pepper a few days after turning completely yellow.

>>18337056
this! cut the suckers

>>18335614

some of the varietys are a lot softer with spice than the others. if youre used to the spicy ones then go to another variant they will probably taste bland. you could repot it with fresh soil so you can see if its a health issue too.

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