Pepper ID...

Delta · Jul 5, 2014

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I got the Bhut and Scorpion on the left and I believe those are more Bhut J's on the right however the yellow and red peppers in the middle, I have no idea. They are 5 - 6" and sweet down to the last third where they open up with a little heat. There is an international foods market near here which has a lot of peppers, mislabeled but inexpensive. I often buys these (sold as long hot) but never knew what they were.

These are sold in mixed packs and simply labeled "spicy peppers". Lol

magicpepper · Jul 6, 2014

it is sad that people grow and sell these peppers and label them simply as spicy peppers not knowing their real names, what would happen if little old granny bought those spicy pepper and cooked with a hand full of bhuts, or scorpions and had no idea she was cooking with super hots. talk about a rude awakening!

anyway it is a nice bunch of pods

edit: was there a company name on the package, like saying where the peppers came from or who grew them?

TexasHotPeppers · Jul 6, 2014

I believe the long yellow and reds are varieties of cayenne. Last year one of the markets in my local area sold similar looking peppers wit h a sign that just said "mixed cayenne". They offered red, orange, and yellow. Your yellow example looks exactly like a few I bought last year

onefowl1 · Jul 6, 2014

magicpepper said:
it is sad that people grow and sell these peppers and label them simply as spicy peppers not knowing their real names, what would happen if little old granny bought those spicy pepper and cooked with a hand full of bhuts, or scorpions and had no idea she was cooking with super hots. talk about a rude awakening!

anyway it is a nice bunch of pods

edit: was there a company name on the package, like saying where the peppers came from or who grew them?

Trust me little grandma would know somethimg was not right before cooking them like as soon as she sliced them up to cook with. Nose hairs a curling first real clue with the second being if she was handling the cut peppers bare handed and then rubbing/touching just about any other part of her body.

Delta · Jul 6, 2014

I wondered if they were a sort of Cayenne but there is a fruity hint that is not typical of Cayennes. I could be mistaken.

As for the supers, there were two different packages, one was clearly marked as being a product of Canada and had the appropriate Scoville units warning and of course pepper id (Trinidad Scorpion) however, the other was simply marked "spicy peppers" and was full of small Bhuts as well as some Scorpions. Rude awakening indeed.

Celtic67 · Jul 6, 2014

Yellow one looks like the dutch chillies we get in supermarkets here.

willard3 · Jul 6, 2014

There is a section specifically for Pepper ID, named, oddly, "Pepper ID"

This should be posted there.

Delta · Jul 6, 2014

Of course I intended to post in "Pepper ID". I clicked on "Growing" out of habit. I apologize.