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How Hot is Your Favorite Chili?

Goodpasture

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LINK

..........a complete list of hot (chile) peppers and their Scoville Heat Units. Due to variations in growing conditions, soil and weather, hot peppers tend to vary between the lower and upper levels listed, but can go beyond them.

Once you get up around 10,000SU I am at my limit........Probably my favorites are Anaheim's..............
 

Ranchy

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We always get Sandia, but I think they're hotter than your scale says they are.........at least the ones we get. Ours usually come from Las Cruces (Baca Chile Products, which is owned by hubby's SIL's family) or Hatch.......land of hot chiles! :D
 

Goodpasture

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I have a friend who sends me a sack of Hatch Chili's every year. He will go ahead and roast them, bag them in gallon bags, freeze and pack them in dry ice, and over night them to me. He also keeps me in stock with pinon nuts and pinon flavored coffee. Although I usually drink a French roast, there are times when the pinon coffee hits the spot. And we make a pinon pesto that is to die for......
 

Jassy

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I can't tell ya the heat index of my brothers chili, but he grows all these weird peppers himself, and when he makes a batch of chili I can feel the heat from it clear up here in Nebraska! (he's in texas)...He jokes and says he uses his wife's fluffy bisquits to mop up the sweat on his brow! To hot for me! :p
 

Julie

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Big Jim's are the favorites here -- and heat is relative with chiles and growers...some years hot is REALLY REALLY hot and some some years mild is hot :) --

I like to have some of each on hand.... to mix as needed for different dishes or use a mild chile when cooking for a less seasoned chile eating crowd.
 

jigs

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Ranchy said:
We always get Sandia, but I think they're hotter than your scale says they are.........at least the ones we get. Ours usually come from Las Cruces (Baca Chile Products, which is owned by hubby's SIL's family) or Hatch.......land of hot chiles! :D

Ranchy, that is not the Topliff family by chance?? he is big in Las Cruces with those peppers, and we farm thier land up here!
 

Fast Eddie

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I Can handle heat up to a jelopino, but my belly lets me know that is a very bad idea, so, after some pepcid ac i am ready for a few bowls.
 

meat_fire

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I Can handle heat up to a jelopino, but my belly lets me know that is a very bad idea, so, after some pepcid ac i am ready for a few bowls.

So Fast why did you call down the other night and order Wonton soup. I know Craig called but he said you put him up to it :lol: :lol:
 

Ranchy

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jigs, nope, she's part of the Baca family......hence Baca Chile Products.

Never heard of the Topliff family, but then, I don't know many folks down in that country.

Another thing that the Las Cruces-Hatch-T or C area is big for, is onions.........they grow some gargantuans down there. :shock: :lol: :lol:
 

Goodpasture

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My biggest problem with the canned Baca Chili's is they are steamed and not roasted...or at least they used to be. And while they have the best green chili, I think the best red comes from Chimayo.

I recall a guy down in Hagerman who lived across from a chili field. He said those were the prettest red chili's he had ever seen.......bright sparkling brilliant red......He said he ust couldn't take it.....so one night he went over and picked a dozen. Dried them, ground them, made red chili out of them......and they were the worst tasting chili's he had ever had. He said the flavor of the ground chili was a little worse than sawdust. He saw a fella in a truck over there one day getting ready to pick them, so he wet over and asked the guy about them. Seems they were owned by Revlon and that particular chili had been developed to produce a bright red pigment, for their lipstick.
 

Fast Eddie

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Goodpasture said:
My biggest problem with the canned Baca Chili's is they are steamed and not roasted...or at least they used to be. And while they have the best green chili, I think the best red comes from Chimayo.

I recall a guy down in Hagerman who lived across from a chili field. He said those were the prettest red chili's he had ever seen.......bright sparkling brilliant red......He said he ust couldn't take it.....so one night he went over and picked a dozen. Dried them, ground them, made red chili out of them......and they were the worst tasting chili's he had ever had. He said the flavor of the ground chili was a little worse than sawdust. He saw a fella in a truck over there one day getting ready to pick them, so he wet over and asked the guy about them. Seems they were owned by Revlon and that particular chili had been developed to produce a bright red pigment, for their lipstick.

Kinda gives new meanin to the sayin HOT LIPS, :D :D
 

Ranchy

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Never tried their canned chiles, we always get the roasted frozen ones, SIL brings them up for us, even! But at $37 a box this year, we may have to find a new source for our little addiction...... :shock:

Funny story, though, Goodpasture! Guess the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence (or the chiles better across the road?) :lol: :lol: :lol:

ROFLMAO @ Fast Eddie......... :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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