Street Kitchen Peppers

Peter S

Peter S

Walmart has a line of meal kits called 'Street Kitchen'. One of the spice packets in the Kung Pao kit was just two dried pods and seeds. I think these are Chinese Red Pepper, or Tien Tsin? Anyway, I did a germ test, and got tap roots on a few. I put them in my Aerogarden at work and they sprouted. I'll probably only keep the best looking one after they put out a few true leaves.
 
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Here's an update on my Street Kitchen's. I need to move the smaller one to something else soon, before it's too late. Only want to keep one in the Aerogarden so it'll have max resources available.
 
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Wild experiment.... i'm a little surprise they germinated!  I'm curious to see how this plays out.
 
For what it's worth, those dried pods look like the cheap chiles I get at the local "Asian" market; I could never decide if they were Tien Tsins or Japones.  Pretty much, looking at the Scoville ranges, I don't think the ones I buy are hot enough to be Tien Tsins.  Both look really similar; probably a lot of chiles of that shape and color will look alike when dry.  How hot were the ones from the Street Kitchen kit?
 
Bicycle808 said:
Wild experiment.... i'm a little surprise they germinated!  I'm curious to see how this plays out.
 
For what it's worth, those dried pods look like the cheap chiles I get at the local "Asian" market; I could never decide if they were Tien Tsins or Japones.  Pretty much, looking at the Scoville ranges, I don't think the ones I buy are hot enough to be Tien Tsins.  Both look really similar; probably a lot of chiles of that shape and color will look alike when dry.  How hot were the ones from the Street Kitchen kit?
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I ate one of the dried pods whole. It was a bit spicy. The heat seemed somewhere between Cayenne and Thai. I haven't (knowingly) had either Tien Tsins or Japones before to compare.
 
Peter S said:
I ate one of the dried pods whole. It was a bit spicy. The heat seemed somewhere between Cayenne and Thai. I haven't (knowingly) had either Tien Tsins or Japones before to compare.
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FWIW, that'd put'm right in Tien Tsin territory.  Japones are maybe a touch hotter than Serranos, but totally different flavor.
 
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