Re: [CH] Guero- Means hot!?
Dave Drum (xrated@famvid.com)
Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:07:29 -0500
Michelle DeWitt wrote:
> I picked the first pepper of the season today from a plant I have in a
> surrogate garden. I believe it to be a Hungarian Wax (Guero?). It looked
> very harmless and I took a very big bite and about died!
> It was as hot as any Habanero I have ever eaten and it still burned,
> half an hour later.
> Isn't a Hungarian Wax supposed to be the heat factor of a Jalapeno?
> Maybe I've just gotten too used to the wimpy Jalapenos on the market.
A couple years ago I bought some plants advertised as banananana peppers
and some others tagged as Hungarian Wax... Both were listed as "mild"
and the peppers produced were fairly close in appearance... with the
banananas being a bit longer and slimmer. The Wax peppers looked more
like they were trying to develop lobes. Both ripened from pale green
through yellow to an orange-red.
I served some of the banannana peppers in a salad one night. Mine
portion was fairly mild - just a minor bite and nice flavour. My dinner
guest accused me of trying to "light my ass up!" So, I pooh-poohed that
and said "They're only wimpy little bananana peppers. "
"Here" she said, guiding a fork with a pepper chunk on it to my mouth,
"You try what I got." My throat slammed shut and I had a job to catch my
breath for about 5 minutes. Jeeziz, that was spicy.
I talked her into trying one of the peppers from my salad. She
pronounced it pretty mild and quite tasty.
Both peppers were picked at the same time from the same plant. Go
figger. I wound up using most of the peppers for pickling (ala
pepperoncini) which worked well and from time to time would give one a
surprise.
ENJOY!!!
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