The funny thing about South Asia is that they had like 200 unique spices already but they didn’t get capsaicin spices (peppers) until the portuguese brought it from the Americas via trade, and then South Asians immediately slurped it up and bred a ton of varieties as if the 200 wasn’t enough.
And they went max power too which is how we got Thai bird eye chillis lol.
It was high for the era, not anymore compared to current meme breeds though lol. Relatively though it still is quite strong. I’d probably say it’s the 2nd or 3rd hottest pepper used fresh and not dried for powder.
tbf Thais like to use bucketfulls of it which adds up compared to their western neighbors who use the slightly less potent early harvested green and in lower quantitities.
Also for some reason, a lot of sources erroneously put it super under Habenro peppers which I can tell you first hand is not true. They can easily hit 400k on the scoville scale, but there’s too many similar varieties which are much less potent but still get labelled as Thai chillies because of the shape.
I remember going to a Thai place recently opened, and told the server “literally, anything you can do to make it spicy, I want that. You have a 5 scale, I want a 10”. They told the cooks, cooks giggled, came out like 60/40 split on food and pepper, it was delicious.
I cannot eat spicy food because it makes my butt burn, but I don’t not believe this is true. I also know that the Asians have a smaller whole set of a lot, and it shows! That’s why I’m trying to find one to date right now, obviously.
The funny thing about South Asia is that they had like 200 unique spices already but they didn’t get capsaicin spices (peppers) until the portuguese brought it from the Americas via trade, and then South Asians immediately slurped it up and bred a ton of varieties as if the 200 wasn’t enough.
And they went max power too which is how we got Thai bird eye chillis lol.
Is Thai birds eye chili supposed to be spicy?
It was high for the era, not anymore compared to current meme breeds though lol. Relatively though it still is quite strong. I’d probably say it’s the 2nd or 3rd hottest pepper used fresh and not dried for powder.
tbf Thais like to use bucketfulls of it which adds up compared to their western neighbors who use the slightly less potent early harvested green and in lower quantitities.
Also for some reason, a lot of sources erroneously put it super under Habenro peppers which I can tell you first hand is not true. They can easily hit 400k on the scoville scale, but there’s too many similar varieties which are much less potent but still get labelled as Thai chillies because of the shape.
I remember going to a Thai place recently opened, and told the server “literally, anything you can do to make it spicy, I want that. You have a 5 scale, I want a 10”. They told the cooks, cooks giggled, came out like 60/40 split on food and pepper, it was delicious.
Lol their papaya salad is the same, just a mountain of peppers mixed in with raw papaya. Tasted awesome haha.
I don’t think any bird is supposed to be spicy naturally. Maybe check your mods.
Ah, danging. I had a load order issue.
I cannot eat spicy food because it makes my butt burn, but I don’t not believe this is true. I also know that the Asians have a smaller whole set of a lot, and it shows! That’s why I’m trying to find one to date right now, obviously.