flavor and heat guide

[rickster]

is there any where on the t.h.p. that has a basic guide for hot peppers? some thing like what does a chocolate hab. taste like, heat level.
what flavor is 7 pot, heat level? get the idea. i know that there is way to many peppers to list them all, but a basic guide would be cool. i mean hot.

 

[BigB]

there's a few people who do reviews here, not sure if there's a specific thread regarding flavor and heat

 

[SmokenFire]

is there any where on the t.h.p. that has a basic guide for hot peppers? some thing like what does a chocolate hab. taste like, heat level.
what flavor is 7 pot, heat level? get the idea. i know that there is way to many peppers to list them all, but a basic guide would be cool. i mean hot.

Search juanitos - I know he's got a pepper database project going.  

 

[juanitos]

there isn't a basic guide that tells everything because peppers can vary heat levels depending on person. and taste is subject to growing conditions, method, fresh vs dried, your palette, etc.
 
you can just start watching nigel carter and bill moore on youtube (a couple hundred hours of content).
 
you can view this at a glance, click on the variety name to see if anyone has left reviews yet(not many on their yet). http://pepperdatabase.org/wiki/Special:CargoTables/Variety

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

is there any where on the t.h.p. that has a basic guide for hot peppers? some thing like what does a chocolate hab. taste like, heat level.
what flavor is 7 pot, heat level? get the idea. i know that there is way to many peppers to list them all, but a basic guide would be cool. i mean hot.

I think both taste and interpretation of heat level is subjective (possibly due to various capsaicinoid concentrations differing from variety to variety)
 
for example I have a friend that eats fresh Ghost peppers,and the occasional Scorpion pepper,(he really prefers the Bhuts) however he Cannot handle a roasted Manzano or Rocoto pepper, 1 bite and he's all lit up like it's his first hot pepper 
 
it's actually kind of amusing, because he assumed all would be fine based on his Chinense tolerance