Bit of a pepper shock!!

[thesunflowergal]

I have just chopped up our first pepper, for the kids and I as part of dinner

However I tried a piece and its just like a chilli , ie it burnt my mouth massively. Thank goodness that I tried it before the girls. I thought that they where sweet peppers, can anyone tell me what they are please? They look like a normal green pepper.

Thanks Nikki

[Millymollymandy]

Did you grow it from seed or buy a young plant - in which case don't you have the seed packet or the label?

I had the opposite of that one year - bought a chilli plant only to find it had no heat whatsoever and was just a boring chilli shaped pepper plant. The rotten supermarkets sell them too but I now know not to buy them (the supermarkets label them chillies though ).

[thesunflowergal]

I bought 6 of them as young plants, and they are meant to be sweet peppers but they are not. Asked hubby what he thought, and he said that he had never seen such a large chilli and he has been a chef for 19 years. I am hoping that they are not all the same otherwise they will be wasted

[Urban Ayisha]

they could be padrón peppers, sometimes you get a hot one, sometimes you don't! if you don't eat a lot of chillies then the hot ones will seem hot to you, whereas its nothing to a chilli addict such as myself! hehe. good luck!

[MKG]

I can't help with the identification, but I know it can happen. I once merrily chomped into the green pepper rings on top of the salad in a restaurant in Budapest (ahhhh - shocking name-dropping!!!) and had a real Popeye moment. Steam from ears, redness rising from the neck, steam hammers in the throat, you name it.

Whatever they were, I think you've got some of those.

Mike

[DeneciePie]

Well at least the labeled "bell pepper" I got is undeniably a cayenne! I was feeling abused until I realized I could have gotten a near imposter! It still would have been nice to have ONE non-hot pepper. I got a packet of mixed hot pepper seeds and six out of eight plants are cayennes. This will teach me to be indecisive. I'll never buy mixed seeds again!


DeneciePie of the flaming mouth

[Peggy Sue]

Mind you even seed packets get it wrong, my allotment neighbour bought some pumpkin seeds and grew artichokes