My dad got these hot peppers from his friend one day. But these peppers he got had a strange appearance to them. The sides of the pepper looked like it melted, which made the peppers look like penises (long, curved, with a head and foreskin). My questions to anyone whose into hot peppers:
What happened to these peppers that made them have this appearance?
Is this a specific kind of pepper, or a hybrid of 2 different peppers?
Is this pepper safe to eat?
…and remember, duct tape fixes all your problems, big and small.
I doubt this is the answer but there are plastic “vegetable molds” available to gardeners. You slip them over an immature fruit and it grows into it, conforming to the shape of the mold.
Those are called Peter Peppers and, yes, that’s what they are named for and, yes, they are a specific breed and, yes, they are safe to eat (provided your guests have a sense of humor).
where do I get some seeds? I hope they are called seeds. I have heard of animal husbandry but didn’t know it aplied to gardening. I thot that was horticulture. i have had some success in that which mite explain why i need the peppers.
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx
Ah, speaking of seeds…the hotness of any pepper is contained in that white pith & seeds in the pepper. Take those out & the pepper is literally quite mild. Surprise your friends by doing this beforehand before you eat them.
Not true, handy. The flesh of a pepper (the colored part) is only very slightly less hot than the insides.
To prove this to yourself, go ahead and remove all the pith and seeds from one fresh habanero pepper, until you’re left with just the yellow flesh. Then pop that sucker in your mouth and chew. Just be sure you have a glass of milk handy-- or a beer-- because it’s going to hurt, and water will not help.
Really, handy–a lot of heat is contained in the pith and seeds, but in really hot peppers there will be plenty left. Maybe not enough to faze a professional pepper eater (now there’s a job description!)but plenty for the likes of us mere mortals. I speak from experience.
Just for the record…after you have sliced those peppers, do not touch your penis! If you do, well, you’ll suddenly learn that you know how to break dance.
[[Ah, speaking of seeds…the hotness of any pepper is contained in that white pith & seeds in the pepper. Take those out & the pepper is literally quite mild. Surprise your friends by doing this beforehand before you eat them.]]
I defy you to do that with habanero or Scotch Bonnet peppers.
Damned if I can find it now, but I distinctly remember Unca Cecil addressing the question of rinsing the oils from hot peppers out of your mouth. He’d said the protein casein was the key ingredient in stripping the spices off the roof of your mouth, and my experience confirms it - burritos, hot wings, what have you - either a nice tall glass of milk or a triple-scoop vanilla ice-cream cone helps immensely once you reach the point of “OK, that was fun, ride’s over.”
