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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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:
Grown in Europe:
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:
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.
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.
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 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...
