Jalapeño less spicy now?
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Anonymous
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are Jalapeño less spicy now?
For the first time in months, I ate a Jalapeño that was spicy, are they less spicy now did I lose some taste buds? |
Anonymous
| Its very pepper to pepper dependent. Also, the ribs and seeds are the spicy part, so depending on how you cut it the same jalapeno could have a variety of spiciness. |
Anonymous
| I grow them in my garden and have found that the longer I leave them on the stem, the spicier they get. I don't know if it's true for commercial farming too but thought I'd share. |
Anonymous
| It depends how much of the oil/seed you got. |
Anonymous
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Weird, I just saw this article yesterday:
https://www.bhg.com/jalapenos-less-spicy-8605691 |
Anonymous
| Jalapeños are not spicy. If you want spicy, try a scotch bonnet, habanero or ghost pepper. |
Anonymous
| Are we the same person? I was going to ask this too! My jalapeños taste like bell peppers. |
Anonymous
| I had fajitas the other night comes with a whole jalapeño, tasted like a bell pepper and not spicy. Last year same place had to cut into small pieces and eat sparingly it was so hot |
Anonymous
Yeah— Texas A & M bred jalapenos to be bigger/faster growing and they bred the spiciness out of them |
Anonymous
| I do think modern varieties are less spicy, but the spiciness of any hot pepper can be dependent on the amount of moisture they received while they were growing. |
Anonymous
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I think it's pepper to pepper. I grew jalapeños last year in my garden and I think I was either victim of PepperGate or I accidentally bought lame plants. They were mild.
But, since then, I've had jalapeños at restaurants and such and they were as spicy as advertised. |