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It’s coming to the end of the growing season here in Fuerteventura, although having said that many of the plants such as the Bhut Jolokias, Thai Demons and Dhani’s (my Indian curry favourite) are still flowering and fruiting. My Scotch Bonnets and Habaneros though are starting to look tired and...

I'm looking to buy some good quality grinders to mill down my sun dried chilli blends. Once my chillies are dried I blitz then down for storage. I would like to find a good grinder (such as a pepper mill) that would me get a really fine grind. My plan is to load the grinders with various blends...

Hi all   I'm looking for a bit of advice regarding my first attempt at making a ferment. I have an airlock on order (in the post because hard to get on this island) I have a tonne of hot red habs so I'm looking for some advice on a recipe, contents for a hab ferment. I've read the 101 so I've...

I mentioned in a post a while back that I have a crop of white bhut jolokia all starting to bear lots of chillies. I noticed that some of the pods were more smoother fleshed and some were more dimpled, even more confusing one of the plants has now started to produce pods that are, well not quite...

Well it looks like the white bhut jolokia seeds I brought this year must have been from a super steroid enhanced batch as I've go around a 95% success rate. So the net result is that I will soon have a lot of chillies for sauce, drying and grinding. I've never tasted the fruit of WBJ so I'm a...

Hi   I have some white bhut jolkias which are fruting very nicely and I think I'm in for a a bumper crop. Does anyone have any hot sauce recipes for the WBJ? I don't really want to mix up the chillies I'd rather use just the WBJ so that I can experience the taste of the chilli as these are...

Hi guys   I've been searching through the forums for sweet chilli ideas and from what I can see chilli jam is not talked about much here. I've been making chilli jam for years. Has anyone here used chillies in sweet preserves? In the UK where I originate we call sweet preserves Jam or Marmalade...

Hi    I've been looking around at some suaces and some of the labels I've seen are looking very professional. At the moment we do ours with A4 sheets of adhesive labels and MS Word.  Does anyone here use specealist software or hardware to create quality looking lables. We make a few sauces for...

Hi I have a cool little ornamental chilli and I'm wondering if anyone has come across this variety. I sent some seeds out in a seed swop and I'd really like to let my fellow chilli lover know the name of it. I've put a few pics on my blog.   http://fuertefire.com/ornamental-chilli-plant/  ...

Hi    I've been making chilli infused olives and while I was making my batch for the weekend BBQ I wondered it it's something you guys are using too. I live on a small island in the Atlantic just off North Africa, we don't get out much  :surprised:

I think I've stumbled upon on of the prettiest looking peppers I've seen in a long time, what do you think?   http://fuertefire.com/local-pepper/

Has anyone come across a good method of vacum packing dried chillies that does not require expensive factory equipmement? 

Hi   I have a really nice plant in my garden that produces great chillies for our kitchen, however I'm not totaly sure as to whether it's a Thai or an Indian variety. I've put a bunch of photos on my blog page. I'm hoping someone here can help me solve the mystery...

Hi would anyone here be able to help me identify this pepper. All of my chillies are labelled by this one has got me stumped. I'm thinking it a rogue seed that came with some of my recent seed purchases.     Pics   BTW is there a method of adding pics into the text area??? sorry for the density...