Just damaged my taste buds

[Waz 4,274]

Just ate grilled cheese on toast with fresh chopped chillis, and my mouth now need a fire extinguisher, havent got one handy so kronenburg is doing its best.

 

Im sure these are the same chillis we grew and air dried from last year, ive eaten/cooked with plenty of them & never been to hot before, do they loose heat during dessication?

[biffo 0]

i think they do, but dont quote me on that. what variety are they?

 

also drink a glass of milk, it neutralizes the capsaicin far better than beer.

[Pops 19]

they shouldn't lose heat in drying. if mutliple varieties are grown near each other (at the farm where they were grown to produce the seed) you often get hotter peppers polinating milder ones. then when you buy seed for a mild pepper it turns out nice and warm.

ETA: what kind of pepers were they?

Edited October 5, 2008 by Pops

[Waz 4,274]

These are the same, but theyve been drying for a week.

 

[Pops 19]

for milder chilis try getting anaheims or poblanos. new mexico chilis are hit or miss on the heat but they have a great flavor. cream cheese and sour cream are good for killing the heat as well.

[Tiff 36]

Hungarian Wax Peppers are a really good, very prolific AVERAGE heat chili, similar to Anaheim and Poblanos I'd say. They are basically like a spicy green pepper, very meaty so I can use as a food as well as a spice. I planted 4 plants this year and have put up several quarts of them (1 in vineagar, the rest proper canned) and then roasted, peeled and froze a bunch, and STILL have dozens still on the plants. I personally like things hot, but Kye is a bit of a fairy when it comes to spicy food. He's WAY better now than he used to be (thank heck!), when I want something hot I'll hold out the seeds when I'm cooking, dish his up, then put the seeds in mine for the extra "me-approved" heat.

 

Some people say chilis get hotter when dried, but I think it's just that they are smaller/lighter so people use MORE, hence why they think they are hotter.