Given that it's a college town I wonder if there might be another way for you to explore this without going "all in" first up. Any chance it would be an option to get like a mobile food van you could take to events (football games, markets, whatever) and use to deploy 4 or 5 dishes. I'm thinking...
I grew it last year. It's worth growing as a pure ornamental so pods' flavour is a bonus, which is good as I didn't think the flavour up too much. The variety also has a pretty interesting history detailed here: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Grow-Cook-Fish-Peppers.aspx which...
lemon drop might be a good hot to go with. Ever since I first saw it I've thought it'd be a great plant to mass market to the sort of people who just want a single pot plant to grow some hot peppers.
It may not work in your jurisdiction but this show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwdtXv5AjJs&list=SL
has a really good version of this dish at 10 minutes in.
Thought I'd start a grow-thread for the coming year. Here's the definites on the growlist for next year with sources:
Annum
Guatemalan Chiltepe (swap)
Menorcan Pequin (swap)
McMahons Texas Bird Pepper (Nicky's Nursery)
Numex Bailey Piquin (Nicky's Nursery)
Joe's Long Cayenne (Nicky's Nursery)...
Thanks! I'm already pondering ideas for next time; different citrus juices, different bases, garlic, ginger etc. I can see how this saucemaking could get addictive. I really want to make a singaporean "hainanese chicken rice" chilli sauce (people who've been to Sg will know exactly what I mean)...
Warwick's a pretty decent university sp I doubt they're in on any chicanery. More likely they've simply run a test as they've been told to run it. My understanding of scoville is you can get very different readings depending on how/what you test (size of pepper, placenta, whole pod etc). Maybe...
So this past year was my first growing Chillis properly and having lurked here for a while I thought by way of introduction I'd make my first post one that showed off the year's results in produce form. First up here's a couple of random harvest shots to show the primary ingredients:
I...