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[unicornduke]

 I have never regretted trusting the internet more than when I bit into a pepper earlier, that the internet called mild. 

It was not mild. 

Well.

It was probably hotter than a jalapeno. Which I would consider a mild pepper, but it was hotter. 

anyway. 

I ate a cucumber in the middle of a field in the hopes it would help and it did. 

Comments

[graydon]

Good thing you didn't have a pepper monoculture!

Best I understand it, you can never trust peppers because they cross pollinate with other peppers really easily, and even if you plant nothing but salad peppers you can get a nuclear one because the seeds came from the outermost row or the wind blew something in from five fields over.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I got them in a seed exchange with someone, who probably got them from Baker Creek Seed and all the reviews there say that they are hot when they shouldn't be. I can't say I'm impressed with Baker Creek anymore. I'll pick some up from a different seed company (who does quality control).

There's also the thing where peppers will be hotter if they are grown in certain conditions and this year, hot, dry spells are great for hotter peppers.

I'm going to take a risk with my seed saving this year and save from a bunch of my peppers. They may have crossed but who care, I just won't send them out in exchanges and I'll find out next year.

[redstapler]

A coworker brought in a few of something he called a "snacking pepper."

I'm pretty good with heat, so I took a big ol' chomp of one.

I don't know what he snacks on, but that was...way hotter than I expected. It wasn't bad, it's just not something I'd toss back like popcorn.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I don't know if people who eat hot peppers regularly grasp that things are hot. Plus I think those people eat spicy foods when they're younger and get used to it then. I only just started eating seasoned food in the past 8 years or so. My mom doesn't use salt when she makes food.