Yup. Time to start some tomato and pepper seeds too.🙂 Although the delicious sweet heirloom tomatoes are a must, I think I will not need to plant any Bhute Jolokia (ghost) peppers this year as this one (see pic) still looks quite healthy. It is still in winter dormancy mode where the metabolism is very slow and it does not make fruits, but it will be 4 years old this year and when the days get longer and the weather gets warmer it will grow more of those uniquely super hot peppers this year than I or any of my neighbors can take.
😎😛 I still have most of a can of roasted crushed ghost pepper from last year. It is quite potent and a little sprinkle goes a long way.😀 For now, i'm bracing for the cold snap here in K-town, it is fixing to get real ugly outside.
Got to go collect some kindling for my fireplace......
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Thanks for reminding me to bring my cabbage and broccoli sets in.
I have a bag of Habs that I dried and they turned into "Puff Balls".
Smash one in a zip-loc bag and all you get is powder. HOT "DEATH" powder.
A friend purchased some "Carolina Reaper" seeds and offered me a couple of sets if they sprout.
I just don't know what to do with them if they take off.
Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper® - World's Hottest Pepper | PuckerButt Pepper Company
I really wish someone would hybridize a Hab with much lower schoville rating for better flavour with less heat.
I have a bag of Habs that I dried and they turned into "Puff Balls".
Smash one in a zip-loc bag and all you get is powder. HOT "DEATH" powder.
A friend purchased some "Carolina Reaper" seeds and offered me a couple of sets if they sprout.
I just don't know what to do with them if they take off.
Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper® - World's Hottest Pepper | PuckerButt Pepper Company
I really wish someone would hybridize a Hab with much lower schoville rating for better flavour with less heat.
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If you think you have enough hair on your *** to just eat one of those or the ghost chilli straight up, then I say go ahead. As for me, I prefer to use them in cooking rather than subject myself to such direct misery. (and indirect misery hours later on the crapper)
😀 I grow em, but I'm not about to just eat one. I will leave that to the drunk guy who gets dared.
Sure might sober em up just a bit😀
Those sauces are too extreme. Do not heat them or those type of raw peppers up to where they smoke😱, if you do you will have to vent the room. Learned that the hard way.......with tears. The best way to use those things is to low heat slow roast or dehydrate and crush them up in an old coffee grinder or something and use as hot crushed red pepper so as you can parcel it out reasonably into a meal.
Also if you happen to have fresh ones then you can spice up ground meat by cooking the whole peppers, (I use 5 ghost chilli into 2-3lb fatty burger meat) cooking in the fat, and then draining the fat, rinse with hot water to wash the residual grease off and the meat will retain a ghostly back heat.😉 Capsicum is nonpolar so in dissolves into fat. My theory is that heat perpetuates a small percentage to bind to the proteins in the meat so as initially it is not hot at all......but slowly builds.😛 Use the ground meat in chilli or faitas or tacos ect. I find the effect to be unique when used in this way.
If you think you have enough hair on your *** to just eat one of those or the ghost chilli straight up, then I say go ahead. As for me, I prefer to use them in cooking rather than subject myself to such direct misery. (and indirect misery hours later on the crapper)
😀 I grow em, but I'm not about to just eat one. I will leave that to the drunk guy who gets dared. Sure might sober em up just a bit😀 Those sauces are too extreme. Do not heat them or those type of raw peppers up to where they smoke😱, if you do you will have to vent the room. Learned that the hard way.......with tears. The best way to use those things is to low heat slow roast or dehydrate and crush them up in an old coffee grinder or something and use as hot crushed red pepper so as you can parcel it out reasonably into a meal.
Also if you happen to have fresh ones then you can spice up ground meat by cooking the whole peppers, (I use 5 ghost chilli into 2-3lb fatty burger meat) cooking in the fat, and then draining the fat, rinse with hot water to wash the residual grease off and the meat will retain a ghostly back heat.😉 Capsicum is nonpolar so in dissolves into fat. My theory is that heat perpetuates a small percentage to bind to the proteins in the meat so as initially it is not hot at all......but slowly builds.😛 Use the ground meat in chilli or faitas or tacos ect. I find the effect to be unique when used in this way.
Begs for the question which is the more painful : getting paid handsomely for filming yourself eating something you can't handle, or watching the video of the two gits.
(a true artist has to suffer of course)
(a true artist has to suffer of course)
I smoke the peppers outside on a Habachi. I wear gloves while working with hot peppers.
I had a quarter teaspoon of the sauce on a steak biscuit for breakfast.
It Brightens up the day.
I had a quarter teaspoon of the sauce on a steak biscuit for breakfast.
It Brightens up the day.
Today is the worse weather day yet. It rained all day yesterday causing some major flooding, and raising the creek behind our new house TWO FEET. It looked like class 2 rapids, with lawn furniture, small trees, and lots of junk moving downstream at about 15 MPH. As I was coming back into town last night the rain turned to snow.
This morning we had about 8 inches of the white stuff, and it is still coming down. I watched the woman across the street dig out her Jetta and drive away as if there was no problem, so I decided to dig out Sherri's Jeep. I know my Honda wouldn't go through this stuff.
It took me about half an hour to dig my way down the driveway to the Jeep due to the ice under, and mixed in with the snow. I discovered about half an inch of ice on the Jeep and on the windshield. While trying to scrape this, I watched a 4WD pickup truck spin a 270 while trying to make the right hand turn at the end of the street. I abandoned my attempt to leave the house....and plan to stay home today.
The Weather Channel predicts -12F overnight.
This morning we had about 8 inches of the white stuff, and it is still coming down. I watched the woman across the street dig out her Jetta and drive away as if there was no problem, so I decided to dig out Sherri's Jeep. I know my Honda wouldn't go through this stuff.
It took me about half an hour to dig my way down the driveway to the Jeep due to the ice under, and mixed in with the snow. I discovered about half an inch of ice on the Jeep and on the windshield. While trying to scrape this, I watched a 4WD pickup truck spin a 270 while trying to make the right hand turn at the end of the street. I abandoned my attempt to leave the house....and plan to stay home today.
The Weather Channel predicts -12F overnight.
George, there is some comfort ni knowing this will all end soon. Last winter was also a long and cold but we were rewarded with one of the nicest summers I can remember. Hope for the same this year. My sister has a place along the Cacapon river not too far from Berkeley Springs...Anywhere near you?
Evan
Evan
Looks like this one is going north of me so unfortunately George got my share and his.
Predictions are calling for a possible "Winter Mix" from 1pm to 4pm today. "Winter Mix" means it could be rain, sleet, snow, hail, or anything else. They have no clue.
Predictions are calling for a possible "Winter Mix" from 1pm to 4pm today. "Winter Mix" means it could be rain, sleet, snow, hail, or anything else. They have no clue.
We are in the north west panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio River near Wheeling.
Yesterday, it meant "all of the above."
My g/f went seed shopping today, prediction for coming sunday here is in the low 60s.
(we had 360 degrees around the house paved with abbey stone replicas some years ago, now the ho-hoe wants to grow herbs. before you know it, I'll be having spacecake and snorting coke again, in ecological DIH socks and sandals)
your a couple hundred miles west of them. Their place is about 40 min on gravel outside of town....they close the house in the fall and hope for the best when they can return in the spring.
jacco - perhaps she had other herbs / greens in mind- you know, kale, arugula, asparagus, broccoli, capers, etc - some of which you can definitely get too much of
but this is not the food thread
but this is not the food thread
A fascinating book discussed in the WSJ a few months ago -- "Tambora" -- it's eruption caused "the year without summer" -- 1816.
I've never so many tractor-trailer accidents on I-80. Counted 6 in PA on the drive to Ohio. On the drive back a TT jackknifed just west of the Delaware Water Gap -- traffic was backed up west of 476, 30 miles to the west.
I've never so many tractor-trailer accidents on I-80. Counted 6 in PA on the drive to Ohio. On the drive back a TT jackknifed just west of the Delaware Water Gap -- traffic was backed up west of 476, 30 miles to the west.
Nope, but in the freezing season, the counter reads zero for Bhagwan front door viral attacks.
A single ray of sunshine on the verge of spring, and there's a hippie ambush staged on every corner.
