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gazwood wrote:Certainly is a scotch bonnet! Love them in my curries. Always better with the seeds left in too! :smile:

I was getting fed up with the crap chilli peppers the supermarket sold as they have little heat or flavour so I popped down to a Surinaamse shop today and got fresh chillis and some dried chillis. I might use coconut milk or something first time I cook with these though!

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They are pretty hot, but if you like you're food like that then you'll love the scotch bonnet. Although I try and only have 1 cut off per mouthful :lol:

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gazwood wrote:They are pretty hot, but if you like you're food like that then you'll love the scotch bonnet. Although I try and only have 1 cut off per mouthful :lol:

One cut off?

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As in the whole chilli gets cut up and added to the dish. Then when being consumed I try to limit each mouthful of that dish to only containing 1 piece of cut up chilli. Does that make sense? :? :lol:

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gazwood wrote:As in the whole chilli gets cut up and added to the dish. Then when being consumed I try to limit each mouthful of that dish to only containing 1 piece of cut up chilli. Does that make sense? :? :lol:

yes it does now.
I presume they are finely chopped?

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Danny Zuko wrote:I got chillis. They're multiplying.
Indeed.

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I got 3 chili plants at about a pound each as they were reduced.

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Surprised wrote:
jeffmcgow wrote:It looks like the scotch bonnets I'm growing although mine are still green.

They are quite hot I hear
Hot indeed! We have a bottle of West Indian hot pepper sauce in the cupboard and the good old scotch bonnet is there on the ingredients label.

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Surprised wrote:
gazwood wrote:As in the whole chilli gets cut up and added to the dish. Then when being consumed I try to limit each mouthful of that dish to only containing 1 piece of cut up chilli. Does that make sense? :? :lol:

yes it does now.
I presume they are finely chopped?
Personally I don't finely chop them, I have them slightly smaller than the size of a finger nail

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bunch of wusses :lol:
Scotch bonnets aren't hot!
now, I have my first ripe Butch-T .....that's hot!

Scoville scale:
Scotch bonnet typically 150-325k
Butch-T - 1.4 million :shock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_S ... h_T_pepper" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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One chopped Scotch bonnet and one chopped madame Jeanette and I couldn't sense even the tiniest hint of heat.

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Lots left so chucked in 2 more Scotch Bonnets and it turned a zero heat chilli into one with a mild heat. Might put another one in to make 5 in total. That said a friend who tried some was sweating and said it was very hot.

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A typical evening at kizkiz's.


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Lol ross

This is my typical chilli
5 jalapenos and 5/6 super hots various, depending what I grab hold of.
Bearing in mind that's 2kg of meat in there, and it's a pretty decent heat
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Similar sized pot that I use so maybe the two chillis was never going to be enough

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Surprised wrote:Similar sized pot that I use so maybe the two chillis was never going to be enough
Nowhere near enough
this is the recipe I use. It gets a good most of the day simmer before eating

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/wazzu-tail ... etail.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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kizkiz wrote:
Surprised wrote:Similar sized pot that I use so maybe the two chillis was never going to be enough
Nowhere near enough
this is the recipe I use. It gets a good most of the day simmer before eating

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/wazzu-tail ... etail.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I added more chillis so in the end had 1 Madame Jeannette and 4 Scotch Bonnets. It was hot but only moderately so

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That would be because you are using pretty mild chillis
Try something a bit stronger and you'll taste the difference....or add far more bonnets :lol:

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Like a lot a people I have had a really good crop of chillis. This is only my second season and, as last year was a disaster, this is my first where I've had the problem of how to store the glut.

Now I know that drying is a common method but I thought I'd try my own: shredding them in a blender, sticking them in a big jar and covering with olive oil. It works for lime pickle so why not chillis?

I left it all for about a week and then gave it a try. Even though I'd grown hot varieties the chillis came out much less fiery than expected, but the oil.... How can I best describe it? Well remember the scene in Alien where they cut into the baby one and its blood cut through several levels of the ship? It's hotter than that :shock: And as time passes the oil is getting hotter.

Then I twigged where I'd gone wrong and that storage under oil isn't mentioned anywhere: capsaicin is soluble in fats/oils :oops: Hence why a lassi or glass of milk cools your mouth after a hot curry rather than a glass of beer.

Still, the shredded chillis are very enjoyable and I can always use the oil for destroying alien spaceships :)

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lmao :lol:
I just freeze mine whole. They are perfect straight from the freezer if cooking with them

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I have pickled my excess in the past and put on sandwiches.

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Thank you kizkiz and ctibbits, those methods sound much more sensible. Can't believe the cycle starts again in a couple of months. I'm going to be more adventurous next season and hopefully this time next year I'll be visited by the Bhut Jolokia of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.

Merry Christmas all and have a very productive chilli growing 2014.

PS @ctibbits when you say "put on sandwiches" you mean as an accompaniment, right? and not just a chilli butty :shock:

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jeffmcgow wrote:Thank you kizkiz and ctibbits, those methods sound much more sensible. Can't believe the cycle starts again in a couple of months. I'm going to be more adventurous next season and hopefully this time next year I'll be visited by the Bhut Jolokia of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.

Merry Christmas all and have a very productive chilli growing 2014.

PS @ctibbits when you say "put on sandwiches" you mean as an accompaniment, right? and not just a chilli butty :shock:
:lol: Yes of course! However I have found that peanut butter and pickled jalapeños is a great hangover cure!

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Did pickled chillies last year - really good, will be doing the same again with my greenhouse-full of chillies very soon. :lol:

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Bought some hot sauces in Mexico a few weeks back. Unfortunately I'd forgotten that I only had hand luggage so had to leave them behind.

Just been reunited with them :D

Unfortunately the reunion is in the Netherlands and I've still only got hand luggage, so still can't get them home. At least they're getting closer though...

They'd better be good after all this. Habanero mainly (did buy some Cholula and Jalapeno at the airport to replace them, but they're fairly mild.)

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The sauces have landed. Picked them up in Belgium this week.
Hot, but the habanero has a really nice taste to it

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Doing some this year. Not sure what they are though yet. They're from a mixed bunch of seeds. Six plants are doing well. Some starting to fruit. All I know is that I've eaten them before.

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Third season for my Ring of Fire chilli plants - really easy to look after as I just sit them in the conservatory and give them the occasional drink but a plentiful harvest from just a few seeds.

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Saw these easy grow pre-planted pod things in the shops a couple of months back so bought 2 * hot pepper and 2* sweet pepper.

You are supposed to weed out the smaller seedlings and just grow the best in each pod/pot but with a bit of transplanting I now have 11 plants. Pots must be about 4" (seedlings about same ht at mo). Will this be enough as they grow?

No idea if they will fruit but a harmless bit of fun experimentation. I'm not a veg grower normally but something different from my 100s of young flower plants in my shed.

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