The article is about superhot peppers like Carolina Reaper, Ghost Peppers, etc. It's not about jalapenos. Have you ever ate a Carolina Reaper? Carolina reaper is around 400 times hotter than a jalapeno. Most people can not eat them. If you have not, you should try it.

I grew Habaneros this year and people told me they were too hot. I've grown Carolina Reapers, Ghost Peppers, Trinidad Scorpion previously.

Also want to point out that article titles are not written by the article writer. Article titles are written by the newspaper editor and are sometimes not accurate to the content of the article.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

We gotta real Peter Piper over here, defending the NAtOlantikkk, and deflecting criticism of HONKIES.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I absolutely love ghosts! They're so sweet and fruity, great with pineapple or lime, and I've only made myself sick on them twice!

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

I love the smoky flavor they add

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ghost peppers whip ass. Habaneros often taste kinda bad, and the one time I had a Trinidad I was already spiced up and that gave me my first spice high, so I dont really remember what it tasted like.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I like habs and scorpions too, but they're definitely a different flavor profile. They're more suited towards smokey, high-fat, high-salt content foods. They're heavy.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had a housemate a couple years back who turned me on to ghost pepper-based hot sauces. They're great! If you wanna make something hotter without fucking up the flavor it's hard to beat two or three drops of ghost pepper sauce.

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Conversely, if you love vinnegar, dousing a small portion of mediocre food in an entire bottle of tabasco is golden ^^

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

How I felt about Frank's and Sriracha for years.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hell yeah, how easy was it to grow habaneros? I really like Scotch Bonnets and by my logic they look kind of similar so maybe if habaneros are easy to grow I could try growing Scotch Bonnets.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

in my experience it's easy to grow anything, the plants do all the work

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

think-about-it

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bought the plants at a local Plant Nursery and grew them with the rest of my annual vegetable garden. I put the plants in the ground and then did the usually garden maintenance, watering, occasional weeding, etc. If you buy the plant at a nursery, you can ask them for advice.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Oh nice, so it sounds like it at least didn't require special care. I think I'll grab some from a nursery, thanks for the advice!

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My peppers were so easy this year, and I got quite a few. A lot of my tomatoes got blight, though, which is a bummer :/
growing plants is pretty straight forward though, just give them a ton of sunlight and water every few days (if they’re outside)!

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've only done herbs and they are very easy. I hear peppers are also pretty easy, just haven't grown them before!

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did anaheim, cayenne, and habanero this year, and they all did really well; I'm having to learn how to dry them properly. I'm in zone 7b, and I was worried a little bit about the heat for a few weeks, but I just made sure to water them a little more often. I hope whatever you choose to grow you do well!

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Nice! And thank you!

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

Carolina reaper is old news chum, they have pepper x now. That’s like 2-3x as hot as a reaper

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I grew some spicy cajun bell peppers this year and they're as spicy as jalapenos, they aight

I'm never growing them again though, they're so fucking small, i hate processing them. Literally the size of a habanero

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

"Have potato chips become too ethnic?"

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

emoji pls

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i'm like 99.99% sure that this isn't Chef John but the last 0.01% is the fact that i can hear this gif in his voice

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

I'm 99% sure its Nigel Ng and his Uncle Roger character. On one hand, the accent he does makes me quite uncomfortable, but on the other hand, his reviews of Jamie Oliver were really funny when he began posting them.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"oof those steamed carrots gave me heartburn"

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was told people in the upper Midwest thought ketchup was spicy. Perhaps the boomers. Everything here is hot chip.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

"Ketchup too spicy" is an expression like saying "vanilla ice cream too hot". "Black pepper too spicy" is very real. And its not just boomers its mostly anyone with Swedish ancestry.

Miracle Whip is also too is too zesty for them. So you can say "mayo too spicy".

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You joke but when I was a line cook I once had a dish sent back for being too spicy, and yes it was just black pepper.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Sorry I miss placed my quotes. I wasn't joking about black pepper. I meant to say "black pepper too spicy" is very real.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

honestly you gotta feel bad for someone like that, imagine how incredibly bland their food experience was as a kid

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was once told I use too many spices when I added more than three, the first two were salt and pepper.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Look up the origin of "deviled eggs" (paprika considered spicy lmao)

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The word “devil” as applied to food first appears in 1786, when it was used to describe a “(highly seasoned) fried or boiled dish”

hm okay spicy i see

The eggs are boiled, cooled, shelled, and then sliced in half. The yolk is then removed and mixed with other ingredients, such as mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, pickle relish, and other spices and herbs. It is then blended into a smooth paste which is used to fill the hollowed-out egg whites. They are generally served cold and are often dusted with paprika.

i-cant

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Maybe back then they only had "spicy" mustard? Even still when I looked that up one day just out of curiosity I found that definition and found it very very funny.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Pickle, vinegar, and mustard could definitely combine for an extremely powerful flavor profile if they were the right kind. "Other spices and herbs" is doing a lot of lifting here too.

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I was in college, my mother (from MA) visited and asked where I got "the spicy ketchup". It was Heinz. Just plain Heinz.

Now I live in a place where "spicy" means "Frank's", but we have some Thai places that don't fuck around with their spice, and I've gotten food with multiple people over the years who couldn't eat the zero-star spicy level after ordering it. These are the same kind of people who don't go to Thai restaurants because they "wouldn't know what to order".

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

I ate at a Thai place about an hour south of Minneapolis. Kind of the middle of nowhere. When they say "what spice level?" I always ask "what does 5 mean?" And this particular guy said "the chef thinks he still lives in Thailand"

It was excellent at 4. I did sweat through my shirt though.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

One time I went to a restaurant with a bunch of friends. One of my friends had baby potatoes with herbs and oil. He said they were too spicy

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Got a chicken sandwich at a brewery the other day and they confirmed with me twice "you know it's spicy right?"

When it comes out, it was two chicken tenders with lettuce and a dab of Texas Pete....

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

:mex-sicko:

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haven't heard from the Kush in a while

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah until this exact meme I didn't realize the fail sons weren't involved in this administration.

[–] Mog_Pharou@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

I ordered pad thai yesterday and the waiter asked me how spicy on a scale of 1-5 and I said "Gimme a white boy 2" and he laughed and then he went in the back to tell his boss and he laughed too. You know what I totally could have handled a 3 but it was delicious

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Crackers reporting on food:

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

What are we, fucking Asian?

[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Cracker after eating adequately seasoned food for the first time:

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Spiciness is bourgeois decadence.

[–] Zaxo23@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Everything should be spicy.

pepper grower (me)