So I went to the local No Frills (a huge chain discount Canadian grocer) to pick up crackers and cream cheese to go with the pineapple/ scotch bonnet jam I was bringing to a party last Saturday.
As usual I swung by the peppers to see if there was anything interesting -- usually they stock green japs, skinny green chilis, and red scotch bonnets that always look terrible -- usually only one or two are worth buying in the box. WELL! To my surprise look what I found:
There are Scotch bonnets, 3 colours of Bhuts, Red 7s, Trin Scorps, Butch Ts, and Dorset Naga (? have not heard of the dorsets) I bought a few to taste test because I have never so much as SEEN a superhot let alone tasted:
The next day I went back and bought every last pepper that was still fresh. Cost me $5 for the lot:
The yellows will add enough to my home crop of bonnets for a mash in one of the 1.9L jars. The reds will get their own jar, all mixed together. No idea what to do with the Choc Bhuts yet.
I taste tested a dime-sized piece of each that had a small amount of placenta. Flavour-wise of the supers I loved the bhuts, all three were very tasty. I found the regular scorpions to be the hottest by far. I Found the flavour of the Butch Ts to be bitter and chemically and ended up tossing all but the 3 nicest. I was really interesting and fun to taste them one after the other, for good measure I had a piece of two types of bonnet (which both had very different profiles as well!) and my red and orange habs. It was AWESOME.
As usual I swung by the peppers to see if there was anything interesting -- usually they stock green japs, skinny green chilis, and red scotch bonnets that always look terrible -- usually only one or two are worth buying in the box. WELL! To my surprise look what I found:
There are Scotch bonnets, 3 colours of Bhuts, Red 7s, Trin Scorps, Butch Ts, and Dorset Naga (? have not heard of the dorsets) I bought a few to taste test because I have never so much as SEEN a superhot let alone tasted:
The next day I went back and bought every last pepper that was still fresh. Cost me $5 for the lot:
The yellows will add enough to my home crop of bonnets for a mash in one of the 1.9L jars. The reds will get their own jar, all mixed together. No idea what to do with the Choc Bhuts yet.
I taste tested a dime-sized piece of each that had a small amount of placenta. Flavour-wise of the supers I loved the bhuts, all three were very tasty. I found the regular scorpions to be the hottest by far. I Found the flavour of the Butch Ts to be bitter and chemically and ended up tossing all but the 3 nicest. I was really interesting and fun to taste them one after the other, for good measure I had a piece of two types of bonnet (which both had very different profiles as well!) and my red and orange habs. It was AWESOME.