Recent content by Norman

I’m new here - forgive me if I can’t tell when a reply to a post isn’t actually meant to be a response to a post. It’s an interesting question and I thought it could be an interesting discussion.

So your reply wasn’t intended as a response to the question then?

Thirty years of commercial production does not a culinary tradition make.

Interesting question. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any culinary traditions from the Caribbean that involve fermenting. Pickling in acid yes, but not fermenting.

Devils Tongue are a good habanero type. A little hotter and the flavor is different enough to keep things interesting. I’ll second on carboneros being fast. In 2021 they were my first to produce ripe pods. I didn’t find the flavor much to write home about - not bad but just not much of it - but...

Taste test?

Just to see what would happen, I puréed some dates in a 5% salt solution and put it in a Braggs unpasteurized cider vinegar bottle with about an inch of the bottom dregs left in it along with honey and a shit ton of red Nagas and brown Umoroks and put an airlock on it. Hopefully I’ll have a...

It being Franks level hot is suspicious too. I’m not a fan of face melters but how much actual scotch bonnet could be in it?

That company looks to be a really huge food producer. Such a mass operation might not be the best at expressing the nuance of a particular chile. You’re right - grow your own! Lacking that, Melinda’s scotch bonnet sauce is a good commonly available example

I grew caramel morugas in 21. Nice compact bushy plants and the fruit is really pretty but the taste was Dave’s Insanity Aftershave. They took forever to germinate and the seedlings were spindly and weak, but they took off growing by mid summer. Then the blooms took forever to set fruit but...

It would make more sense to me that the Indian and Caribbean super hots developed independently rather than a Caribbean pepper making it’s way to India, being developed into a ghost type, and then making its way back to the Caribbean and being developed into a scorpion type without leaving ghost...

Thanks! It also made me sound like I was advocating bear spray flavored soap.

Oops! Damn autocorrect added that “no” in there and made me look like (more of) an asshole. I meant that I really like that people aren’t picking the 2M+ weird hybrids. Could someone with editing power fix that post?

I like how most no peoples picks are long established varieties that have likely been selected for flavor and productivity for generations rather that 2M+ scoville crosses of crosses of crosses that taste like bear spray soap. Funky hybrids are fun but…. That said a new favorite of mine is the...

Naga Morich. Waves of different flavors and waves of different heats.