Urban Chilli Lovers Club

[mojo pixy]

I really like the Habanero Tabasco, a lot better than the regular stuff. It is a little hotter, which means I'm not tempted to douse the food in it .. but mainly it's made with extra sugar, sweet fruits (mango, banana, papaya), plus the habanero peppers, all mixed with 11.5% regular Tabasco, so it has a sweeter flavour. It's my go-to sauce tbh.

(yes I had it down to read the ingredients, call it a well-researched post )

full disclosure, i have another sauce also made with sweet fruits (including also pineapple, guava and passion fruit), which is 4 million SHU and which I use more sparingly. Though it is truly one of the most delicious chilli sauces I've ever had.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Sounds good. Someone gave me some chilli jam, but didn't have many uses for it. Poppadoms sounds good.

Need to get a shed load more for my fermented sauces as I think they are best with a few months ferment and I'm running low.

 

[klang]

Someone gave me some chilli jam, but didn't have many uses for it

I love jam and cheese (a bit of a German thing I guess), so those 4 jars won't last very long. Worth trying.

 

[8ball]

I am told that ALDI currently have some sausages with Carolina Reaper peppers in, and that they are rather feisty.

 

[a_chap]

Whilst you may be right about the Morissons stuff, i've realised that trying to have a reasonable coversation with you about chilli heat is like trying to have a willy waving contest with a porn star who stands in for horses

A little harsh and un-called-for you did after all ask me my opinion on the habanero Tabasco; I was simply stating my opinion.

Anyway....

After this morning's conversation I went to the supermarket to get a loaf of bread but I got side-tracked whilst there. So I was going to post a picture of what I bought there...



And, another pic I was going to post to show that even the Habanero Tabasco has *lots* of vinegar...

But, as you've been so mean to me, I'm not going post either picture

 

[Enviro]

Sorry a_chap, I thought you might take that slightly risqué comment wrong way. It was not intended to be offensive in any way and was meant more as an homage to your steel taste buds. I apologise for offense caused.

As someone who clearly has a lot of experience with hot stuff I was interested in your opinion on it and still am. My tongue-in-cheek comment was trying to put across that our tolerances are so different that we don't really have a similar frame of reference for these things.

I'm by no means a super-hot head, but can tolerate and enjoy quite hot stuff. The Mrs, on the other hand, would never even contemplate using the hab tabasco even though she can tolerate reasonably spicey stuff.

Who knows, I might end up having a similar appreciation for super hot chillies as you do after a few more years building up my tolerance ... I'm not sure though, you do make it sound as if you could live off super hot sauce alone, if you had to

 

[a_chap]

Sorry a_chap, I thought you might take that slightly risqué comment wrong way. It was not intended to be offensive in any way and was meant more as an homage to your steel taste buds...

-sigh-

You see, you still don't get it.

My taste buds are not steel! They are burned-out carbon husks.



Definitely not worth basing anyone's opinion on.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

My OH seems to think I've burnt my taste buds off...

 

[a_chap]

Seems like bottles of Habanero Tabasco are also leaky as fuck.

Barely ten minutes after opening it's already half empty

 

[a_chap]

The problem with Tabasco is that it comes in such teeny weeny bottles



Barely lasted 24 hours

 

[UnderOpenSky]

The problem with Tabasco is that it comes in such teeny weeny bottles

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Barely lasted 24 hours

I don't buy it for that reason. The Grace's one is good as its cheaper, so don't mind using loads of it.

Must try and make a vinger based chilli sauce so I can have huge bottles.

 

[a_chap]

Must try and make a vinger based chilli sauce so I can have huge bottles.

My chilli sauces are mostly chillies (obviously) with citrus fruit and wine/cider vinegar.

They are:

• quite hot
• lovely and tasty
• not terribly cheap to make
• really lovely and tasty
• really rather warm
• very tasty
• lovely (which I might have mentioned already)

The vinegar works really well with the fresh chillies and citrus. The wife worries there might be such a things as a vinegar coma and I'll be its first victim...

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Right. On that basis I need to get myself to a Chinese supermarket or Indian Grocer and stock up on cheap chilli's. Have cider vinger in stock.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Picked up this one today for a quid. Clearly it's not melt your eye balls hot, but has a nice flavour and is a great addition to the cupboard.

 

[a_chap]

Morrisons have come up with some surprisingly hot products recently. Look for their phaal chicken curry.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Morrisons have come up with some surprisingly hot products recently. Look for their phaal chicken curry.

Don't tend to buy premade curries, would be tempted, but the reviews were rather mixed on the The Secret Curry Club Facebook group...

 

[UnderOpenSky]

http://www.ladbible.com/news/food-s...venomuos-spider-bite-20190318?source=facebook

Although apparently it isn't that hot....

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Also found these at the back of the cupboard. Better then I remember and about the right heat level for breakfast.

 

[Ming]

Also found these at the back of the cupboard. Better then I remember and about the right heat level for breakfast.

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I saw that as ‘hot chicken flavour remain’ for a moment.

 

[friedaweed]

Bit late getting started this year but I've got 12 varieties going so far including some garden centre F1 additions. Had a bumper crop last summer in our little walled garden where the sun shines and the walls keep them warm so fingers crossed for another good year.

 

[a_chap]

Very impressive

If you need a volunteer taster....

 

[friedaweed]

Very impressive

If you need a volunteer taster....

I'll let you know when it's harvest time if you like mate. It's the best part of growing them, inflicting them on people you love

I've been having a roulette chilli sauce face off with the lad the last two weeks with the sauce we made from last years harvest. One bottle has got the reapers in.

I've just ordered the wife some plugs (Not something you hear every day) from this place as well which will complete our chilli garden for the year...

Chilli Plugs & Plants. Buy Big Early Plants for Crops that Ripen

 

[Supine]

Nice one friedaweed - just ordered some plugs too

 

[a_chap]

There ought to be an U75 chilli eating contest.

Not that I'd dare take part of course.....

 

[friedaweed]

Nice one friedaweed - just ordered some plugs too

I hope you got a couple of the chilli of the week plugs

 

[Supine]

Indeed

 

[friedaweed]

Hanging 'chilli' garden of Babylon installed today. All me own graft. . Should get 15 plants in there.

Just need to figure out where the other 30 can go now

Plenty of different strains in the garden centres this year. Picked up a couple I haven't grown before in B&Q today for £1.50 each and they're lovely well established plants.

 

[MrCurry]

I think I’m well behind some of the rest of you home growers, but for what it’s worth here are my finger chilli seedlings. I’ll give it my best shot, but have zero experience at growing from seed, so possibly unlikely I’ll end up with chillies at the end of this!

At what stage would you move these on into bigger pots by the way..?

 

[klang]

is it really too late in the year? I was gonna grow some but haven't even started yet....

 

[klang]

Bit late getting started this year but I've got 12 varieties going so far including some garden centre F1 additions. Had a bumper crop last summer in our little walled garden where the sun shines and the walls keep them warm so fingers crossed for another good year.

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do you salt and pepper your chillies whilst they grow?