to all chilli seed a holics

[Elfeda]

All chilli lovers and chilli seedholics

seems me getting the bug slowly

but have a query

we get fresh dry red chilli powder , and preserved fresh ripened chilli paste as well. It comes very cheap to buy from farmers.

So I feel we may not really need to grow hot chilli types , and just choose the medium to mild, so I can use many chilli's with the dish which adds heat and also flavour.

so other than heat, is there any other factors to grow very hot chilli's, have you ever tried using the whole chilli(without chopping) into stews and how does it taste?

[Nicos]

I've put them in whole but you really do need to get them out again before serving as the mush tends to hide itself amongst the rest of the plate of food- and you really don't want to blow someone else's head off!!!

Easier than chopping and ending up with chillied fingers which always seem to get stuck into and ear/eye etc later on in the day

[BUFFS]

if you bite into a whole hot chilli I will be able to hear your cries from here,or nearly so...

[Elfeda]

I usually add whole chilli's if they are hot type, so that curry/fry is milder for my baby, but I want rest of us to treat them as veg and eat. surprisingly the chilli is get cooked in the juices of other veg and spices, taste milder and yum

not sure the very hot types can fit into my curries like this, moreover me never deseed any chilli. chilli looses identity with deseeding

[skeggijon]

I agree. I never deseed chillies

[Scarlet]

so other than heat, is there any other factors to grow very hot chilli's?

Just for fun? my family won't eat much spice so there isn't any need to grow super hot chillies here but I love to grow them. I love the look of the plants, same as growing flowers for me but I use them for making gifts, oils, vinegars and jellies etc which are greatly received. Last year I had a huge surplus and I used them for decorations on Christmas wreaths.

[skeggijon]

I love chillies, not just for heat, although I do have a bit of an addiction to heat. I love coriander too, but somehow just can't grow it

[Ryleh]

Personally I prefer to chop them up and disperse them as much as possible in whatever I'm cooking. I like every bite to include some chilli pepper.

Saying that though my other half is a bit of a light weight when it comes to anything hot or spicy

[Lisasbolt]

I love butternut and chilli soup, i´m the only one who likes it so i can put as much chilli in as i want and i just put them in whole then blitze with the blender. But for chilli and curries i chop and de seed. OH does´t like it hot.

[Scarlet]

Another one here that loves butternut and chilli soup, the OH hates it!

[Elfeda]

aah, I should wait for aother 15moths to make butterut chilli soup (few mins back ordered butter bush seeds from T&M )..instead i have better mention the pumkin stews which also compliment the chillis..succulent taste of chillis cooked in rubarb/tamarind and pumpkin/squash juices..

[Elfeda]

Saying that though my other half is a bit of a light weight when it comes to anything hot or spicy

add extra limejuice to his bowl

[SusieG]

Elfeda, your pumpkin/chilli idea sounds yummy! I love the butternut squas/chilli soup - bring on the heatwave!!!
I occasionally de-seed and chop, but more often use the lovely things whole. Gives a gorgeous flavour to the dish, with the added bonus of chomping into a lush chilli in any given forkful !!
So guess it's all down to personal preference / tolerance of hot, spicy foods, more is better for me, even got family converted!!!

[Elfeda]

europian food is not spicy, so chilli does not find many uses around here..leave alone seeds from deseeded chilli... chilli improves apetite with rice based food, probably make us to eat chilli on regular basis ..pgrown musturd greens this year and it is so spicy, so wasted all instead

[jacob]

The hab types taste nicer, there's an earthy richness there as well as the heat.

I've never deseeded.