I grew incredible scotch bonnet peppers, now what?

[gunslingor]

They are starting to turn orange, 3 plants, maybe 75 peppers.

I like spice, habanero is good, but scotch bonnet is intimidating. I don't know what to do with these. What can I cook, how can I control the heat? I guess I have the same question for my habaneros. Is drying or preserving a good idea? What's your go to recipes?

My beuna muluta, jalapenos, Thai chilis and sweat peppers all have a place in many dishes in my kitchen, some are drying and 3 jars of pickled jalapenos... I'm not finding the same versatility of options for habanero and scotch bonnet. I'm not worried about controlling the heat till I start getting past habanero... even then when cooking its not an issue... but growing, they are all ripening at once!

 

[YumYum]

Hehe. If you dont know what to do with habanero peppers, then maybe you should have grown some other kind of pepper. Those jokers will let you know your hind end has taste buds. I know they aren't the hottest peppers but I only grew those one time.

 

[pepper]

If I had those scotch bonnet peppers I would make hot sauce! You can buy nice looking hot sauce bottles on Amazon then print off your own labels with a fancy hot sauce name for it and give some out to family and friends at Christmas or whatever. It's a lot of fun to make and you can add different kinds of peppers for different flavors. If you have a smoker or know someone who does smoke some of those habanero peppers to add. You can dial down the heat by adding sweet peppers to the mix.

Another more boring less fun thing to do is dry them out so they last a lot longer in the shelf and use them in stews and stuff like that. Just add whatever amount of dried pepper that works for you.

 

[oneeye]

Can you post photos?

 

[Ruderunner]

Give them to people you don't like.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

It's a lot of fun to make and you can add different kinds of peppers for different flavors.

Just don't put your hands anywhere near your face and eyes whilst doing it. Take it from me, casually wiping your eye after chopping a chili is not nice.

 

[pepper]

Just don't put your hands anywhere near your face and eyes whilst doing it. Take it from me, casually wiping your eye after chopping a chili is not nice.

Lol yes I've made that mistake a few times. Anything hotter than jalapenos I would wear those plastic food gloves because it's impossible for me to not touch my face when I tell myself not to touch my face lol.

 

[oneeye]

I have a new large puppy that wants to chew on the window seal, so I sprayed a tiny bit of pepper spray on the edge, and it worked like a charm. One bite is all it took and not a problem anymore.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have a new large puppy that wants to chew on the window seal, so I sprayed a tiny bit of pepper spray on the edge, and it worked like a charm. One bite is all it took and not a problem anymore.

Dogs are smart, I had a friend who taught his dog to catch rabbits and soft mouth them when he brought them back. "How did you do that?" "I trained her with a rabbit skin filled with gorse, she only bit it once."

 

[Ruderunner]

Just don't put your hands anywhere near your face and eyes whilst doing it. Take it from me, casually wiping your eye after chopping a chili is not nice.

There's other things you don't want to touch.

 

[Ruderunner]

I have a new large puppy that wants to chew on the window seal, so I sprayed a tiny bit of pepper spray on the edge, and it worked like a charm. One bite is all it took and not a problem anymore.

My dogs don't mind the heat but they don't like the smell of vinegar.

 

[gunslingor]

Here are some pics of peppers... technically this should be considered plant porn.

Stuff I can eat fine

These were much hotter than any jalapeno I had before, I sweated, my hand and balls burned from the capsaicin. I just got back from living in france for 2 years, they hate spice... think 2 years without may have lowered my tolerance.

Plant porn, pepper style

Arroz con pollo in a sexy red dress

Pepper Hot, Goronong habanero - she's available at baker creek, 9.95 per minute.

Not sure if I wait for red or yellow.

Two at once!

Intimidating s&m mistress wearing a scotch bonnet... hot sauce is probably the way to go, some dried.

The girl of many colors, beuna mulata

Thai lady, highly fertile and productive.

 

[Ruderunner]

I don't want to know why your balls were burning.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Here I thought I was the only real hot pepper eater and grower. Habinero, poblano, Thai chile, hot banana, pequin, serrano and jalapeño. 45 hot pepper plants total and they are all loaded. Plan to harvest today and it's going to be a lot.

@gunslingor
Beautiful pepper plants!

MOD

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

There's other things you don't want to touch.

Watch out what you scratch.

MOD