I envy yall. I can never get any notes over the heat.
Interestingly, the particular smell and taste of a superhot comes form the oil - capsicum chinense.. I'm not a huge fan of it which is why I toast, roast, smoke, pickle, and ferment my superhots, so I can enjoy the heat without that weird flavor (it overpowers everything). If we could take the heat from a reaper and put it in a lemon drop pepper (yellow jalepeno) that would be tits
Correction: I was reminded shortly after this comment of a pepper I grew a couple years ago - Biquinho. A very fruity pepper with little heat, but it came with that floral chinense 'flavor'. So, not just superhots have it.
God, I've gotten so spoiled at this point that I can't eat a pizza, or burgers, without some grilled up Jalapenos. Even pickled will do in a pinch.
I feel ya. I'm at the point every 'za must have a couple diced Habs on it before it goes in the oven. Then I have a dust I make - chocolate Habs, scorpions, and msg, that I sprinkle on after the 'za is done.
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