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dennishoddy

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I'm with you on that. Hatch Chiles on everything. They're a mixed bag of mild to pretty warm. I'll chop up a scotch bonnet or two when I jerk my chicken, but that's my Caribbean neighbors recipe. It's a rare treat and my limit on hot. I will order hot sauces once in a while, but after getting heat without flavor, I just gave up on trying new stuff. Louisiana Hot Sauce is good enough for me.

Last summer we spent a couple months in the RV at Antonito Colorado. The hatch chili harvest was in full swing. Every grocery store in the area has chili cookers in the parking lots. Buy a case of hatch peppers in the store for $12 and they put them in the cookers which are 36” to48” perforated pipes that rotate while a propane burner provides the heat to scorch the skins making them easy to peel.
Since we were headed home, we bought a case and had them prepped.
We are still eating on those things, after putting 5 each in a quart sized ziplock bag with some water in it and then freezing. Great peppers.
 

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Anymore I just stick with jalapenos. It pisses me off to get them and there's no heat at all which is getting pretty common. I can do habenero but just occasionally. I just don't want to deal with the next day's effect anymore, but getting that burn, sweat and nostril clearing is always a treat.
 

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We ate at Tarahumara's Mexican in Norman last night and I asked for their hottest salsa. Damn, that stuff was HOT. My stomach lining is still burning. I'm not looking forward to the end result.
 

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I was probably one of the first people to bring the Habanero(1990) to Oklahoma. Boy did I have fun with that pepper!!

Few years ago I grew REAL Carolina Reapers and had some friends come over to my house and try them. Both of the guys thought they were though and bit the pepper to the stem and chewed them up.

One ran outside...fell to his knees and threw up all over my back yard while screaming he was on fire. The other buddy...ran around in the kitchen and grabbed his ears yelling he couldnt hear and was losing his eye sight.

This scared my wife so much...SHE BANNED ME FROM GROWING ANY AND ALL HOT PEPPERS!!!!


Who knows....a certain someone may have a patch of ghost,skorpion, and Carolina peppers at his cousins farm in Meeker, Oklahoma..:blush:
 
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