"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:05:22 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> So my question now is... What would make them lose their heat? I
>>> bought
>>> some, making sure to get the ugly ones with the brown, crack looking
>>> stuff
>>> on the outside. Intended to put three in my pico de gallo but they were
>>> so
>>> hot, I feared that would be overkill. Wound up putting maybe 2.5 in and
>>> very few of the seeds. No real recipe. Just threw it all together.
>>> Tomatoes, white pepper, green pepper (proportionally more than the
>>> white),
>>> lots of cilantro, little salt and pepper and the juice of three limes.
>>> The
>>> stuff was so bitey hot as I first stirred it together that I couldn't
>>> eat
>>> it! I let it sit for about an hour then retasted. No heat. No heat at
>>> all! What happened? I put a goodly portion on my black beans but they
>>> were
>>> seasoned only with salt so the end result was boring. Amd finishing it
>>> all
>>> tonight but stirred some Jalapeno Tabasco in with the beans. Perfect!
>>
>> Nothing makes them lose their heat once prepared. You're
>> hallucinating.
>
> Not hallucinating and I see that I made a typo. I put in green onion.
> Not pepper. I do know that heat as in oven/stove heat will bring out the
> heat in the peppers. My MIL warned me of this! I was making my espinaca
> con queso and it tasted fine to me when I first put in the peppers but
> after it had sat for a few minutes on the heat, aye Chihuahua! The males
> in my husband's family loved it though. They are heat seekers.
>
> Could it be that chilling could lessen the heat? Or could it have to do
> with the lime juice?


Did you leave it unattended? Could one of those heat seekers have added
more?


Robert