Topic: My lips are on fire

[Squash64]

I've just cut open a cayenne chilli and scraped the seeds out before adding it to the meal I'm cooking for my husband.

Just cutting it up made me cough like crazy.

Then I must have touched my lips without thinking and they are now on fire.

I don't think cayenne is the hottest chilli by any means so heaven help me when some of the others I'm growing are ready to pick.

[Hector]

Not wanting to state the obvious but watch your eyes ...I wear gloves when cutting up chilis.

[Squash64]

Not wanting to state the obvious but watch your eyes ...I wear gloves when cutting up chilis.

Good tip, thanks.
I think I'll wear a face mask too next time!

[Deb P]

I like cayenne, it is reliably hot and although well known, I think it has a lovely 'slow burn' that I find useful for most dishes. I've grown a lot of fancy chillies, but keep going back to cayenne....that and 'ring of fire' if you like a hotter chillie.

[Squash64]

Deb, I didn't realise that cayenne would be so hot.  I'm not crazy about the chilli flavour in food but grow them because others in my family love them. I'm also growing Jalapeno, Hot Patio Sizzle (wilko)Ciliegi Piccante (bought seeds in Italy) and Scotch Bonnet.  I know the SB will be hot and I've been warned by West Indian friends not to cut them up but leave them whole and remove before eating the food.

[Deb P]

Scotch Bonnets can be lethal! :o Agree best not to cut them up at all.

I tried the Dorset Naga the other year as OH was moaning that the chillies I grew weren't hot enough ::)........it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but still too hot for me, I like to taste food!

I've gone right off Jalapenos and Habeneros, they have quite distinct tastes which I'm not so keen on.

[Squash64]

One of the Bangladeshi women on our site has given me some tiny seedlings to see if they grow any better for me than they do for her. She says they are very hot but I think it's a bit late in the year for them to do any good now.  I laughed when she brought them over because they are about 2 inches tall but she'd planted them in pots the size of buckets!

[shirlton]

I don't eat them myself only dried stuff for the curries. The first time we went to Tunisia. Tony picked one off a dish of show veg and took a bite. He ain't never done it again ;D

[saddad]

My habaneros are in flower and the Bhat Jalokia will be next week... that's definitely not fit for human consumption... (Deb does Andy want a couple!!) The ring of fire are doing really well in the bottom greenhouse and even some Cayenne/Jalapenos outside on the schools plot, despite the miserable weather.  :)

[Sparkly]

Glad the bhut jolokia are doing okay for you Saddad. Ours are budding up now. Some of our chillies have been a bit slow this year, but lots of flowers now. At our bbq on sat one of the lads ate 2 'ring of fires' whole!!! I told him not to!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[saddad]

Some people just don't listen...  ::)

[Deb P]

Andy says he is up for the challenge........personally I think he's mad! ;D

[saddad]

I'm inclined to agree with you...  :-X

[1066]

My cayene have started to redden up, so looking forward to trying them. The ones I'm waiting for but have been slow to start are the Thai hot chillies I'm hoping they will be like the ones I normally buy  :-\

[lushy86]

I always use a knife and fork to cut chillies as I have set various bits on fire over the years!  ;D

Lushy x