HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to food@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoApparently there's been a Big Ag conspiracy to make Jalapeno peppers less spicy and it's workingwww.dmagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1129cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlinehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanscooking@mander.xyzhotpeppers@discuss.tchncs.defood@hexbear.nethumanities@beehaw.org
arrow-up1129external-linkApparently there's been a Big Ag conspiracy to make Jalapeno peppers less spicy and it's workingwww.dmagazine.comHarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to food@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square69fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlinehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanscooking@mander.xyzhotpeppers@discuss.tchncs.defood@hexbear.nethumanities@beehaw.org
minus-squarebeef_curds [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·10 months agoJust eat bell peppers or anaheims or something and leave my jalapenos alone. I legit don’t get the point when there’s so many pepper varieties.
minus-squareYearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·10 months agoIts not so people who can’t handle spice can eat more, it’s so that companies making industrial quantities of salsa, etc. can get a more consistent spice level but the same jalapeno flavor by using a mild pepper and adding capsaicin as needed Which isn’t to say its good or normal, shit sucks
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoThen just use bell peppers and add more capsaicin
minus-squarenat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·10 months agoBell peppers don’t really taste like jalapenos, they lack any of the grassy jalapeno flavor
minus-squareOwl [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·10 months agothen use bell peppers and grass
minus-squarePoison_Ivy [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 months agoWhite people do anything to avoid adding spice
minus-squareDessa [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoWhy use bell peppers? Use bells and peppercorns
minus-squareYearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·10 months agobut then they cant legally tell people it has jalapeno in it, nor do they probably taste the same. Could probably get it pretty close though I admit
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 months agoJust put one piece in
minus-squareHestia [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoOne piece?
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoswindled consumers when they realize they finally found the one piece in their adulterated salsa
minus-squareNephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agocapsaicin extracts have a hideous chemical flavor, it’s better to just use peppers at the level you want
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoDamn!
minus-squarepudcollar@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoJalapenos have a specific flavor and they’re prolific bearers of fruit, maybe that’s part of it
Just eat bell peppers or anaheims or something and leave my jalapenos alone.
I legit don’t get the point when there’s so many pepper varieties.
Its not so people who can’t handle spice can eat more, it’s so that companies making industrial quantities of salsa, etc. can get a more consistent spice level but the same jalapeno flavor by using a mild pepper and adding capsaicin as needed
Which isn’t to say its good or normal, shit sucks
Then just use bell peppers and add more capsaicin
Bell peppers don’t really taste like jalapenos, they lack any of the grassy jalapeno flavor
then use bell peppers and grass
White people do anything to avoid adding spice
Why use bell peppers? Use bells and peppercorns
but then they cant legally tell people it has jalapeno in it, nor do they probably taste the same. Could probably get it pretty close though I admit
Just put one piece in
One piece?
swindled consumers when they realize they finally found the one piece in their adulterated salsa
capsaicin extracts have a hideous chemical flavor, it’s better to just use peppers at the level you want
Damn!
Jalapenos have a specific flavor and they’re prolific bearers of fruit, maybe that’s part of it