cheezydemon said:
So..........*winces, afraid of starting another argument*...is that actually Bhut...er....chipotles?As opposed to naga?
Ha, no chip on my shoulder man. Like most people, I defend my opinion. I may do so with more zeal than most.
Here's my viewpoint on the Naga names; so many people around the world call the Naga so many names and so many disagree with each other on what strain of the naga is where and what to call it, that I have NO idea what the people in India on Jailhouse Road call a Bhut Jolokia or anything else. The scientists in India have done extensive research on what is their National crop, and I'm sure there must be an absolute somehow on the various offspring of the species, but I sure don't know it. I buy and use the peppers of the world to enjoy their heat, spice and flavor in the foods I cook. I don't really care what anyone wants to name them.
It sure would be helpful if an absolute standard could be applied Internationally so that everyone would call the same peppers the same name. As far as I know, that hasn't happened yet though.
I believe that everything that Frontal Agritech sells is listed as products of the "Bhut Jolokia". However, on their webpage, they list the Bhut Jolokia also: "We are cultivating Bhut jolokia (also known as Bhut jolokia, naga jolokia or Raja mirchi) in our farms."
I believe it was AJ once who listed what he considered the various peppers that he considered related, but separate strains of the same type of pepper. If I remember correctly, he said that the Bhut Jolokia and the Naga Jolokia were not the same thing.
That's kind of my beef. So many people call peppers by so many names. Some claim geographic reasoning to the names and even characteristics that identify each strain of pepper within types. Again, (if I remember correctly), AJ pointed out many characteristics of the various naga offspring that has pod numbers, pod types and lengths and a few other characteristics that are his way of identifying what strain of the pepper type he was dealing with. I believe he grows several of the types.
Here's where I start getting confused. A major pepper growing company in India calls their pepper both Bhut Jolokia and Naga Jolokia interchangeably. How can anyone claim that they aren't? What evidence can be provided that make an absolute of the two names being two different peppers?
No rant intended, but the pepper listed as "
Naga Jolokia, also known as
Bhut Jolokia,
Dorset Naga,
Ghost Chile,
Ghost Pepper,
Naga Morich" on wiki is confusing the entire world with all of it's names, but then other people swear that they are NOT the same exact pepper and have different identifying characteristics.
Tell me the proper names and then tell me who accepts what you say they are.
Hell man, I have no idea. I just like to eat em.
