webmaster wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:51 pm
Looks yummy, Gary! I love Jalapenos too but can't eat them anymore.
I experimented with jalapenos I grew and compare them to the chart that claims they are about 2500. Green jalapeno with seeds are the hottest so they are probably 2500. Red jalapeno with seeds about 1500. Green jalapeno with no seeds about 1000. Red jalapeno with no seeds about 750. There is probably a scientific way to test peppers, I tasted them to see how hot they are so I am guess according to how hot they taste to me. I learned the round tip end is not very hot but 1" from the tip is full hotness. When green jalapenos get those tiny brown lines on the sides that look a bit like tiny cracks peppers are at best flavor & maximum hotness. Leave green jalapenos on the plants it takes a minimum of 1 month for them to turn red color. Pull green peppers from the plants they often turn red in 2 weeks & sometimes 3 weeks.
I sliced green jalapenos about 1/8" thick slices put them in pint jars, some with seeds & some with no seeds then filled jars full with vinegar. Vinegar soaks up about 50% of the heat in 2 weeks. The hot vinegar is good on food and the reduced hotness of the peppers are good on, pizza, sandwich, & other things.
I did the same thing with Red color pepper put them in pint jars full of vinegar.
I did the same thing with 50/50 red/green sliced jalapenos in jars of vinegar. I have an assortment of heat ranges. Red taste a bit different than green and a 50/50 mix has both flavors the blend has a good flavor.
I mixed tabasco peppers with jalapenos & habaneros mixed with jalapenos & a mixture of all 3 peppers in pint jars. I was expecting the habaneros to be so hot they would over power the other peppers but the flavor blend turned out to be the best of all the mixed peppers I tested. Tabascos are green & yellow. Habaneros are, green, orange, yellow, colors.
I put a mixed jars of all 4 peppers & all colors in the food processor and made pepper relish, wow this is good. It is a bit hot so I have to be stingy with it but flavor is amazing.
Tabasco has the best flavor of all these peppers I made 1 jar that was 1/3 tabasco with all the other peppers & colors with no seeds in the same jar of vinegar. I like this best I should have made more than 1 jar.
I lady from Thailand came over I gave her about 90% of my peppers. She said she has several type of sauce she makes, she will bring me some, but not heard from her yet. She is probably staying home until its save to go out.
Next year I make taco sauce with tabasco peppers.
I have seeds that cross pollinated, I had 1 plant this summer that was shaped like large size jalapenos but taste more like green bell peppers. I also had sweet bell peppers shaped like roma tomatoes that were not hot. I had 7" long Mexican chilies that were 1/2 long with round ends like jalapenos. Next garden season I trash my cross breed seeds and buy new plants.