[CH] What's that Pepper?
Dave Anderson (Chilehead@tough-love.com)
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:27:01 -0700
> At each hotluck there is usually a standout dish that blows everyone away, this
> time was also the case, but with a twist... In Chip's extensive chile garden
> was an unassuming little plant with small, upright little chiles about the size
> and shape of corn kernals. When bitten they had a lemony citrus like flavor
> which was pleasant but unassuming. Thoughts would then go elswhere and you
> almost forgot you had eaten the tiny little thing (Quote: "They certainly don't
> look dangerous..."), but a minute to 90 seconds later heat would begin to
> assert itself and would continue to do so for like 5 minutes. It was the most
> delayed reaction burn I had ever expeienced and approached the intensity of a
> hab. This would go on for nearly 10 minutes, and at the peak could only be
> tolerated with an ice cube in the mouth! Two of these eaten about 5 minutes
> apart even had Chile King Doug on the mat! At one point we had Chip, Doug, my
> bro Rich and Andy B. eat them in unison. Talk about a ring of fire! Chip was
> red as a fire engine and cursing Doug for talking him into it... With all of
> this, we could not even figure out what the little @#$%&$ were! If anyone
> wants to try to identify them I have a picture of them at:
>
> http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/tinyblast.jpg
DeWitt and Bosland's Peppers of the world has a C. Chinense
called Yellow Birds Eye or Brazilian Bird Pepper which looks like
it. The comments say: "Extremely hot; characteristic fruity C.
Chinense aroma. Probably a wild form." They don't all look like
Habaneros:-)
Dave Anderson
Tough Love Chile Co.
Http://www.tough-love.com