My favorite jalepeno is called 'lemon spice.' Quite the best tasting chile, in my opinion. If I could get a super-hot to taste that good, all bets would be off. As it is, I typically only use super-hots to make other great tasting stuff, hot[ter]. I also find that majority of the floral notes or the signature chinense oil can be squashed if cooked with something acidic or fermented (dried of course for flake or powder)
squashed if cooked with something acidic
What would happen if you pickled one of these bad boys in a vat with heavy lemon/lime juice?
Could be interesting. I have cooked superhots in lemon juice before and added fresh cranberry, effectively making hot pink lemonade - thay was a fucking trip.
Oddly enough, I just made a jug of refrigerator dill pickels and I tossed in a handful of green habanero. Grabbed a few yesterday as a side to some brats, and the fuckers were super floral - first time that's happend outside of a savina habenero (superhot hab). Blew my mind.
Never thought of using cranberries! I know when people make that shit orange cranberry shit at thanksgiving it's like sadness in a dish. But with lemon and spicy? That could be really good.
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