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chinense Supermarket Bhuts

Spicegeist

Spicegeist

I've seen these in other posts, but now packaged Bhuts are making it to my local super market, about 8 peppers for $6.99.
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These are also new to the store:
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i have the melissa brand dried ghost peppers, when the package was opened you could tell they were heavily smoked. those red habs look a lot like bonnets. and not the good quality bonnets but the mass produced ones.
 
Yeah, but I guess it's an improvement over just having orange habs. The Bhuts are fresh and look fine, but $7 is just silly...

Grown in Europe:
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On rare occasion I can find some unripe habaneros at our local grocers but Nobody will carry reds or buhts.
 
Spicegeist said:
Yeah, but I guess it's an improvement over just having orange habs. The Bhuts are fresh and look fine, but $7 is just silly...

Grown in Europe:
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The $7 is probably because of the import from Holland, can't imagine they couldn't find a cheaper source just in the US?
 
We import Bell Peppers from Holland, so maybe it's just a matter of throwing them in with the other peppers? Trade route and marketing channels already being established...
 
yeah i saw those in kroger in maricopa az about 2 months ago.. the grocer said he doesn't sell too many. at that price is it any wonder?
 
I noticed last week we had Ghost peppers at a local store they were like 5 bucks but didn't look all that fresh, i check again to see if there from the same place sometime this week.
 
I had bought Mellisas dried Bhuts last year and they were crazy hot---one tiny piece like the size of a couple pin heads lite up my mouth real good. They were $5 oz and had about 7-8 bhuts in the bag.

I put them in olive oil and the oil was exceptional in taste---smooth and not bitting with a nutty-smoky flavor----really excellent. I put some in water and I was able to cook with them and they came back real well.

Plus I saved the seeds and planted them but the seeds produced a wild type pepper---so they must have been hybridized.

All that said Mellisas brand seems to me a decent pepper---maybe not what we can raise but acceptable in a pinch. A buck a pepper is what I sell my Bhuts at farmer markets up here in Wisconsin so the price is high but not over the top.
 
Spicegeist said:
We import Bell Peppers from Holland, so maybe it's just a matter of throwing them in with the other peppers? Trade route and marketing channels already being established...
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Didn't know that but then it makes more sense yes. We can order online from one of the biggest growers here in Holland, 1kg (±2,2lbs) costs us $15, shipping not included. Jalapeno's are only $7 a kg.
 
I think importing peppers across the Atlantic is crazy but dosent suprize me curious to why Balac got wild lookin peppers from the seeds i uderstand hybrids and there advantages, but on bhuts? do you have any pics of the wild peppers would like to see em,,
 
pepperhog said:
I think importing peppers across the Atlantic is crazy but dosent suprize me curious to why Balac got wild lookin peppers from the seeds i uderstand hybrids and there advantages, but on bhuts? do you have any pics of the wild peppers would like to see em,,
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I think The Netherlands just has it all set up already and the produce a lot of sweet peppers which we consume in the US. Well if you have a few extra hundred thousand dollars and have a buddy in the cargo business... should be doable...
 
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