Frozen Chillis

[DGoulston]

Good Morning All

I just thought I would find out other peoples experience with Frozen Chilli's
This year I had such a bumper crop (well my first ever crop) of Chilli's (Cayenne); I ate loads, Froze Loads, and hung some to dry.


Now the ones I ate, yum yum, were nice and spicy and made your eyes water.
But the frozen ones are very very mild, is this normal? and what other ways are their to preserve them to keep the spice?

[SarzWix]

We've frozen ours whole before, and so far as I'm aware didn't affect the heat too much. I suppose you have to think that when you dry them, the oil/heat becomes more concentrated as the water content disappears, whereas freezing them doesn't do that. Also, the heat of the chillies can vary on the same plant depending on the conditions that prevailed when the fruit was forming. We've had ultra-mild to blow-your-head-off from the same plant. So it could be that your frozen batch came from a point when the plant was producing milder fruits?

[Dead Dogs]

Could be that you have become use to the heat.

[Nicos]

My chillies also taste the same as before they were frozen.
Strangely- yours LOOK perfect- whereas mine are all wrinkly cos I shoved them in a bag and froze them too slowly

[Nicos]

Now then...you've got me thinking.....


are you sure they are cayenne? They look too plump and stumpy compared to mine- which resemble these....




they DO look different to yours don't they????!

[DGoulston]

Now then...you've got me thinking.....


are you sure they are cayenne? They look too plump and stumpy compared to mine- which resemble these....




they DO look different to yours don't they????!

There are a lot of different species of Cayenne, the ones in your photo look like "Long John Cayenne", the ones I have are Sutton's Seeds Chilli 'Cayenne'

Maybe I did just get unlucky and freeze all the mild ones, as ones I am getting off the plant now, are nice and hot.

There have been a few frozen ones that are hot. so must have just been luck

[Nicos]

There are a lot of different species of Cayenne, the ones in your photo look like "Long John Cayenne", the ones I have are Sutton's Seeds Chilli 'Cayenne'

Ah- that would explain it then

*( I did hesitate to ask our 'chilli guru' if he'd mixed up his chillies!!!!!)

ps- I have several Cayenne hens- but none of them resemble any known chillies to mankind!

[Jamesy_uk]

Did I not read here somewhere before the chillies that ripen at the end of the season with reduced strength of sunlight aren't as hot as those that ripen in full summer sun?
Might be wrong here, but I had a similar experience with my Jalapeno's the ones we picked and ate as we went were much hotter than the ones that very slowly ripened at the end of their season.

[DGoulston]

HaHa I just jinx'ed my self.

Just had my lunch. a nice "Char-grilled Pork with Jasmin Rice" from a Vietnamese cafe in the city.
brought about 7 frozen ones (defrosted) for me and my colleague who enjoy them with lunch, had 2 of my chilli's and they were very very mile. so bit straight into the 3rd and my tongue is still on fire! haha that will teach me, so it must be just a case of when I picked them and such.

I have to say @Jamesy_uk, I did notice the chilli's getting milder, but I just thought I was getting used to them at the end of the season! haha.

D.

[The Large One]

freezing chillis should have no effect on the heat levels, some actually say it could intensify it

[The Large One]

@DGoulston Did your chillis start off a light green/yellowy colour then go red ...or green then red ?

they deffo don't look like any Cayenne i've seen

[DGoulston]

some Black then Green then Red.
some Green then Red

I have the packet still at home, so will check.

[Nicos]

There are a lot of different species of Cayenne, the ones in your photo look like "Long John Cayenne", the ones I have are Sutton's Seeds Chilli 'Cayenne'

Urmmm.... ( ....sometimes I just don't give up on a 'niggle')

Have you seen these????
Pepper Chilli F1 Cheyenne Seeds - Vegetable Seeds - Vegetables - Gardening - Suttons Seeds and Plants

Look VERY similar- and the spelling is also VERY similar???????


and these are more red- like yours...

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/V...htm?sku=159883

[perkin]

I always freeze my chillies and have a big mixed bag of them in the freezer that usually lasts us until the following years harvest starts. The OH doesn't now one chilli from another, so it's always a bit of a chilli roulette when he cooks as he'll just chop up and chuck in any number of different types. From experience, I have managed to teach him what a big fat scotch bonnet looks like and persuade him that half a one of these in anything is plenty!

[The Large One]

i dont think its cheyenne as i had some last year and they stay orange and have flat sides not a bullet shape lovely plant and gonna try some in hanging baskets this year

Apache are really quite small as well

i was thinking a ripe santa fe grande
but they start off a very pale yellow/greeny colour before turning
http://file1.npage.de/002789/98/bild...fruechte_3.jpg

Urmmm.... ( ....sometimes I just don't give up on a 'niggle')

Have you seen these????
Pepper Chilli F1 Cheyenne Seeds - Vegetable Seeds - Vegetables - Gardening - Suttons Seeds and Plants

Look VERY similar- and the spelling is also VERY similar???????


and these are more red- like yours...

Pepper Chilli F1 Apache Seeds - Vegetable Seeds - Vegetables - Gardening - Suttons Seeds and Plants