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Celeste

Celeste

I guess I will try asking this here.

I used to cook a lot of Indian recipes, and I would get my ingredients from an Indian/Pakistani market that had very few labels in English.

I used to get some fresh chilies there, they were green and small, the largest no larger than the first digit of my thumb. I never used more than three of these in a dish to feed twelve- and the ex preferred it when I only used one.

Is there any way to figure out what variety of pepper I was getting?

If the store still exists and I go back and find them again, will the owners local name for it (whatever it is in his language) help me at all?

Hmm, I guess I could get one and just plant the seeds and grow them- maybe then some here could identify?

whaddya think?
 
You could start by looking through the following website's photos:

http://www.thechileman.org/

This is a link to most of the database photos at chileman:

http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=Any&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any&submit=Search

Or if you can get a pod and post a pic, it may help others more knowledgeable than I to identify it.

Hope this helps

RS


**EDIT

If you use the search elements to the left of the reading pane, you can look at chilli's by origin, which may help to narrow the results.
 
ring sting said:
You could start by looking through the following website's photos:

http://www.thechileman.org/

This is a link to most of the database photos at chileman:

http://www.thechileman.org/results.php?chile=1&find=Any&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any&submit=Search

Or if you can get a pod and post a pic, it may help others more knowledgeable than I to identify it.

Hope this helps

RS



**EDIT

If you use the search elements to the left of the reading pane, you can look at chilli's by origin, which may help to narrow the results.
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Wow, okay, this kind of blows my mind. I am going to have to do some studying. And go see if that store is still there and if they have chilis at the moment. I should be in that neighborhood in a couple of weeks.....
I'll post when I have something to show.
 
HONESTLY........

It doesn't matter.

You love peppers.

Grow a good variety, small ones if you like, and you will be in heaven...

Except....that small ones are a pain in the ASS to pick.;)

There will be 40 or so ripe adding up to 1/2 cup of pods.;)
 
I'll find them. Thats good advice, cheezydemon. :P

In my urban neighborhood people grow stuff for pretty that this country girl thinks are food- ornamental cabbage, and ornamental peppers-what're those? They are very short plants and have a lot of long skinny pods that grow straight up and mature to a bright screaming red. Are they not good to eat, or are city folk just silly?
 
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