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That's okay, I laugh about it now too.
I haven't made pepper oil myself, but there is a guy at the local farmers market who is a serious pepper head. Sells pepper oil and pepper vinegar plus all sorts of fresh, dried, and even young plants you can take home and continue on your own.
W∴ Balboos wrote: sadists can rub it into their skin (actually used to relieve joint pain).
Speaking of funny stories, I've got reasonably oily skin and capsicum is fat soluble. I thought I was smart and wore two pairs of gloves while cutting and deseeding several pounds each of reapers, habaneros, serranos, and other less painful types. Well turns out those gloves are slightly permeable and that much capsicum feels like the sun was teleported into your bones for a few days and nothing will help the pain.
To be completely fair, my joints felt great! 
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RJOberg wrote: Speaking of funny storie
This is funny, at least in hind-sight. Maybe when it happened, too.
Years ago, my first-time real crop of habanero and I was chopping them (bare-handed, knowing the consequences). Well - when through, I washed my hands twice, directly with dish-washing liquid. Still, not long after, whilst eating a slice of pizza, as I ate down toward the holding end it got got hotter and hotter until quite serious. Clearly, although the heat long since subsided my fingers was still quite full the oil.
Then, shortly after the pizza, I went to the bathroom, and without thinking, well . . . a few seconds after I started I realized I was holding with . . . well . . . now it was just a matter of time.
Damn - essentially I left 'finger prints" - and a lot of very fidgety discomfort.
But, it is funny to think about.
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Sorry for laughing at your discomfort! The only thing which even remotely helped was soaking my hands in cold half & half. I'm not sure if it was actually did anything or if it was so cold that it made everything numb.
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RJOberg wrote: orry for laughing at your discomfort!
Like it or not, it's really funny. Even for that first moment when I realized what a uniquely stupid thing I had done and new it was only a matter of time.
Soaking in half-and-half would doubtless have inspired some serious questions I'd not want to answer
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Questions like "Oh, is that how guys reload those things?" 
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RJOberg wrote: Habanadas on the other hand took much longer than their spicy relative to grow. They have the same flavor as a habanero but a scoville rating of 0.
Now there's one I might eat.
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An amazingly delicious (not hot) eating pepper: Giant Aconcagua[^]
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I love habaneros. I like to pick them when they are still green and don't have their full heat yet. The flavor really comes through then and people who don't like the heat can still appreciate them.
I used to live in the Fresno, CA area and the growing season was very early there compared to where I used to live. The peppers would start being ripe in late June to early July often. We moved about three hundred miles north and the growing season is more typical here. People get ripe peppers in mid-August here, several weeks later than in Fresno.
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I'm in Growing Zone 7B; Fresno's in 9B - what's you current zone? It seems to vary a lot as you move from the coast toward the mountains.
My growing zone, itself, is way out of line for my latitude[^]: A gift from being by the ocean.
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It appears we are in 9A now but I'm not sure. It could also be 9B. We live very near Lake Shasta now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Me:
Average First Frost: November 11 - 20
Average Last Frost: April 1 - 10
Koppen-Geiger Climate Zone:
Cfa - Humid Subtropical Climate
Ecoregion: 84c - Barrier Islands - Coastal Marshes
Thee:
Average First Frost: December 11 - 20
Average Last Frost: February 21 - 28
Koppen-Geiger Climate Zone:
Csa - Hot-Summer Mediterranean Climate
Ecoregion:
Enjoy those extra 9-10 weeks! Almost enough for a second crop of many things.
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Hot-Summer Mediterranean Climate is accurate. There are lots of olive and almond orchards around the area. Also a few vineyards that grow hot weather grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. This climate extends into Southern Oregon up to about where the mountains start.
Last winter we had about a foot of snow which is more than there has been in over fifty years here. That followed one of the most severe fire seasons in history here. The weather has been all over the spectrum lately.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Mmmm... habaneros!
he said with with a Simpsonesque drool
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I haven't figured out exactly what I'd do with them
I highly recommend dried California Reaper in tomato soup, if treated with respect. All you need is a strip off the main fruit that is about 1cm long, chop it carefully and throw it into a big pot, lightly saute with some ginger, garlic, onions, toss in a few tins of tomatoes and let all that bubble away for about an hour before blending it all. It's an angry, smokey flavour, that's just delicious and really livens up anything tomato-based. Just be careful with it or it really will burn your mouth off.
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From the sound of this is implies the reapers add a smoky taste to the soup. That could well justify the effort of growing them. Otherwise - why not a habanero? Actually, with all the sweetness from the tomatoes, cooked onions and garlic, even regular chilies ??
The reason for growing the habanero is (potentially) similar in that it adds more than just heat.
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I absolutely adore habaneros, and use them liberally for the same purpose. I was addressing your specific lack of experience with the "super-chillies"... As in, this was something that I tried using reapers, which genuinely worked as a dish. Yes, habaneros work well in this. But the dried Reaper just transmogrifies it into something really special. I have also tried blending habaneroes for sweetness, and balancing that with the terrifying strength and flavour of the Reaper. It takes a few goes to get that right, but it's worth it.
Plus, if you're serving it to people, you get to call it "Reaper Soup" which sounds elephanting bad-ass. Or "Reaper Stew", if you're doing a sauce. I find that stewing rough cuts of meat in a Reaper and tomato sauce, the kind of not-too-fussy butchering job with some fatty bits, bones and even some tendons still in, makes for a fantastic taste and fun to eat. It also adds to the dramatic effect for your guests, particularly if they're not used to a rustic style of cooking where you get bone-in stews all the time. Good for Hallowe'en parties and the like, served in a giant bowl and accompanied by crusty bread and full-bodied red wine. You get the idea.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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...that's a gift that is really hard to beat!
Ba-tish!
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Johnny J. wrote: Ba-tish!
You gave him the cymbals as well, I see.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A drum or a trumpet is indeed a nice present for other people's children. Especially if you do not want them to talk to you ever again.
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Playdough and crayons are also good presents for small children... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Johnny J. wrote: Playdough and crayons Sharpies are also good presents for small children.
FTFY!
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Only if you don't have pets... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Or better: you don't have kids! 
Or perhaps ...[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Electric guitar, in my case. The kid's daddy was delighted and went off to get his guitar as well.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I see how you snared us!
/ravi
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