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[Pat-inCO]

Went over to my daughter's for dinner last night. Pulled pork, mashed potatoes,
baked beans and . . . ready for this(?) . . . sliced lengthwise jalapeño peppers
with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon. Quite good!

The interesting part was that my SIL had them made by some people he knows
that specialize in spicy food, and they made several with no seeds to keep the
spice level much lower. He and my daughter are not very good with spicy, so they
went for the non seed ones. - - - Yup, you guessed it, he got one of the full seed
versions. :D Then quickly grabbed a bunch of mashed potatoes to cool things
off. - - - His comment a bit later was that the first bite or two were not a problem,
just once the seeds were fully crushed they let you know they were there. :D

My bet is that next time he will have the non seed versions clearly marked. :lol:

 

[Fox Mike]

Actually the "hot" isn't in the seeds but the ribs and pith. The seeds come in contact with the rest and may be hot but in themselves the seeds have no heat. Look it up

 

[Poco Oso]

We used to do them on the grill like that. M-m-m, m- m-m good!

 

[Paul B]

Git milk. Milk of half & half or even heavy cream will kill the burn tight now. I heard about that years ago when I was a kid watching a Hopalong Cassidy movie on TV. Didn't pay much attention to it until about 30 years ago the kid that became one of my sons in law brought over so Christmas tamales straight from hell. No flavor, just ungodly burn. Somehow I remembered that milk thing from that old movie and sure as God made the world, it works.
Try it the next time you get nailed wit something a bit too hot for comfort.
Paul B.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Git milk. Milk of half & half or even heavy cream will kill the burn tight now.

Hi,

Never tried milk, but growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Mexican families, I heard many times that beer will wash down some of the oils that provide the "hot." It works, at least to a point.

Rick C

 

[coach]

I never tried milk, but a cold beer is my go to in case of excessive heat.

 

[Achigan]

We call them Armadillo Eggs. A staple at the Cloverdale bow shoot every year.

 

[Kevin]

Actually the "hot" isn't in the seeds but the ribs and pith. The seeds come in contact with the rest and my be hot but in themselves the seeds have no heat. Look it up

Yep, you are correct. I love jalapeños, but I carefully scrape them clean. Then dice them up fine and they are good with eggs or just anything.

 

[RoninPA]

Another good thing if your caught with a lot of HOT (spicy) in your mouth. Take a tablespoon of peanut butter and roll it around in your mouth and then discard. The oils in the PB will negate the oils from the hot item. This treatment was in Prevention magazine a number of years ago and it really does work.

Milk/cream also helps coat your throat and stomach but the WORST thing you can do, unless you are pulling a joke on some obnoxious jerk, is to drink cold water. Cold water will amplify the heat. My dad, when he was running a Allied Van Lines warehouse would always take a jalapeno or habanero in his lunch to eat with his sandwich. He would cut small pieces of it with eat bite of sandwich (no seeds or pith). A young smart ass would make fun of him eating the small pieces. Dad brought what he knew would be a HOT habanero and gave it to the guy to eat. Big shot took it in one bite and started chewing. About 5 seconds in, he was screaming about the heat. Dad told him to get drink lots of cold water. HE DID - and never again said a word to my dad about what dad ate for lunch :D

 

[WendyZXZ]

Also fun is if you do like me and also put in seranno peppers, a little bit hotter but not too extreme!

 

[Pat-inCO]

Also fun is if you do like me and also put in seranno peppers,
a little bit hotter but not too extreme!

DANG lady, why are you married? I'd love to chase after you. :wink:

:D . :D . :D

 

[WendyZXZ]

Also fun is if you do like me and also put in seranno peppers,
a little bit hotter but not too extreme!

DANG lady, why are you married? I'd love to chase after you. :wink:

:D . :D . :D

Thank You! Kenneth claims that is the best and smartest move he ever made in his life and admits he married, way, WAY Up! :)

 

[bogus bill]

I was a young yank from Wisconsin. Job took me to Texas. I hooked up with another foreman to do the area around Rosenberg. The guy was a big rogue and I didn't know it. He took me to a cathouse/cafe for lunch. At the time I didn't know it was what it was. We ordered lunch cooked by two bad azz looking Mexicans. I went to the rest room and had to walk through what looked like a converted warehouse. There were about four wild looking women there sitting on some old dirty sofa`s watching TV. I started to catch on. I went back, ordered the special of the day. One of the guys said try these. They are Mexican peanuts. I bit into them and I thought the world came to a end! It was like biting on a branding iron! There was a pop cooler by the door. I was fighting for air. I grabbed a couple of soda pops, ran out on the street and flushed out my mouth. Since then my wife taught me to use butter on hot food.
I went back in with blood in my eye looking for Poncho. He had hid or ran off. Then I recall throwing dice with the owner, double or nothing for the meal. Think I lost and had to pay double! To make matters worse later that day working on utility poles I got in a wasp nest and got stung a bunch. That was my first day in Texas.
A day or two later the other foreman told our guys to go home in the middle of the day, that he and me had to go meet some power company officials. Sounded plausible. He drove me to my dump at the hotel and told me to put on some clean cloths. That sounded plausible too. Turned out we drove to Bay City, about a hour away where he had a girl friend. It became apparent he took me along to drive him home as he knew he was going to get drunk! About half way back a truck passed me, fell back in speed looking across at me. It was his wife! I woke him up, told him and he just groaned when he seen it was his truck.
I drove him home, pushed him out and didn't see him for a few days and ran our crews by myself. That job had me working all over the U.S., about a average of one to three months at a new area. Not a job for a family man
like he was. As a single man you might get a girl friend and get notice to be in another state 2,000 miles away in three days! I did it from 1962 to 1965. I dont miss the job but it was a interesting life around it.

 

[Poco Oso]

Also fun is if you do like me and also put in seranno peppers,
a little bit hotter but not too extreme!

DANG lady, why are you married? I'd love to chase after you. :wink:

:D . :D . :D

Thank You! Kenneth claims that is the best and smartest move he ever made in his life and admits he married, way, WAY Up! :)

Sounds like Kenneth is a very wise man. Happy wife, happy life.

 

[Pat-inCO]

Look it up

Have you found a way to remove the seeds without removing the rest?

 

[6GUNSONLY]

We've had those at every family get together for as long as I can remember. But then, I married a New Mexico girl and hot n spicy is how we cook. If there's no dish on the supper menu with a little heat to it we think it's bland.

 

[Colonel Daddy]

Wife has a recipe where she uses sweet banana peppers, hot banana peppers and Jalapeños. splits them length-wise and stuffs them with mixture of fried and crumbled sausage and creme cheese. cooks them in the oven until the peppers are tender , takes them out and covers them with cheddar. All this on a cookie sheet and she knows which pepper is which. Something for everybody! A glass of ice tea and a variety of peppers makes a fine meal!!........perhaps Tequila for those with such a leaning.

 

[Flyfisher66048]

Got an apple corer to remove the stem, pith, and seeds. Fill with yummy stuff, rap in bacon, smokem up. They even sell little holder things that keep them upright.

 

[314Chevy]

I add dove breasts and bbq them. If you let them sit in the refridge for a day or 2 they get HOT.

 

[Ruger Packer]

Milk, cream, eggnog, ice cream, yogurt..... will all fix the burn. Ask me how I know.... 8)

 

[protoolman]

Any dairy product with fat will kill the burn or the oil in the peanut butter as previously stated. Water won't do a thing. I don't worry about that much anymore as I eat habanero, ghost pepper , Trinidad scorpion pepper and concentrated habanero extract daily on a variety of foods. It's a tolerance thing by the time you finish a bottle you need something hotter the next time. I put habanero extract in soup just to feel the burn on my lips when I'm done.

 

[SamV]

I am not sure how to phrase this. I do like a little heat sometimes with my food. But it is not always just the spicy hot intake that may be uncomfortable. Sometimes it is the um, exit path that heats up too. My wife has little sympathy for my complaints.