A fresh batch of them at this price point is good when it's more feisty and cheaper than the other ones.
Freeze, make sauce and save seeds for planting your own.
Fresh Habanero Chillies $20/kg @ Coles
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Thanks OP, I had this before, near went to hospital
have it some more
what doent kill u, make u stronger
These are for spicing up your love life.
Where do they go? Is a partner required?
Into the void.
PSA don’t put habanero chillies in your void
Arnt they really hot?!
Not really, medium spice but one of the nicer fruity flavours.
Coles do the Carolina Reapers in small punnets and those are indeed hot.
Carolina Reapers
havent seen those in a while, 80x hotter, out of this world.
How does it compare with demon red chillies? I really like demon red chillies. They are very hot
How does it compare with demon red chillies?
No idea sorry, but I had a whole one with some fried rice and at the end, the left side of my face felt a little numb. It also made my urine spicy…
Demon Reds average 40,000 Scoville. Habaneros vary from 100,000 to 400,000. Carolina Reapers can exceed 2,000,000 and average about 1,500,000. The reapers Coles sell are questionable, though, and don't have the look, shape or taste of normal reapers.
The hottest you can buy right now is (supposedly) Pepper X, by the same guy who first bred the Carolina Reaper. It's the first to exceed 3,000,000 (making it 80 times as hot as a Demon Red), but only its breeder has properly tested it.
Carolinas are ridiculously hot. A tiny amount in a big pot of anything makes the whole thing extremely hot. And this is coming from someone who can eat a habernero straight (only done it once or twice for a chilli eating competition and wouldn't recommend it).
Not if you freeze them.
technically the truth
They are hotter than birds eye chili so for most mere mortals, yes that are pretty hot
Agreed, from memory Habs are 500 units, whereas birds eyes are 100-300, so significantly hotter.
Reapers are inedible, it's really a chilli for the sake of competitions, or making pepper spray, there's no culinary value in it IMO. Habernero are the best tasting if you can take the heat
I'd have to disagree, reapers have an amazing flavour. I have a paste made of 80% pucker butt reapers and it adds so much flavour to dishes
@GilliGainz: There's a difference between fresh chillis and chili paste/sauce. I've had scorpion chili sauce and whilst hot, nothing crazy. Would I eat a raw scorpion chili, hell no
Perhaps one needs to meet Ghost Pepper aka Bhut Jolokia while there more hybrids with more potent FYI
Birdseyes world be hotter but agree it's more for the flavours.
Yep, the Israelis use them to make teargas.
Habanero's are weird.
Their seeds are really hot, hotter than the small red birds eye chillis for sure.
but if you take out the seeds theyre hardly hot at all and full of flavour.
1 large habanero with no seeds in a curry style dish for 4 people will be mild - medium
with seeds will be very hot.
@nutcracker007 save seeds for planting your own.
Don't do this. If the chilli has been imported this is how we get now seed transmitted viruses in Australia.
These are Australian grown apparently
any chance of special extension?
Is there any chance the seeds won't produce the same plant? Or even germinate at all? I remembered planting capsicum seeds from supermarket bought capsicum with no luck
If they're been frozen they probably won't germinate.
I've used seeds from supermarket capsicum successfully. I think the key is to dry them out for a while and not just take them straight from the vegetable to the soil. Dry them out on a plate for a week or so in the sun and then try planting them. Has worked for me so far!
chili seeds are hard to grow,
so if you get a 'heating mat' for your seed nursery,
then you might have better success.( Heating mat is like an 'electric blanket' for the seeds in the soil :-) )
if you grow them next to birds eyes you'll get weird long birds eyes
If it was a green capsicum they won't germinate.
There's a small chance they won't grow true to the parent, but it's unlikely in this case. These were likely grown from a stable variety. I've grown plants from bought habaneros. It's quite a bit more likely capsicums won't grow true to the parent since they may be hybrids. I'm growing out a few at the moment from capsicum varieties I know are hybrid. They're not fruiting yet but some of the plants are variegated.
The real issue is chilis need the right conditions to germinate (about 26 degrees is a good temperature for most of them).
A bit late to the party as a number of responses have been posted to this. However here's my firsthand - I have been sourcing Habaneros only from Coles (haven't seen good deal elsewhere). Coles sell locally grown produce. The best bang for buck was a few years back when Coles sold the whole chilies range for $12-$14/kg inclusive of Fatalii that also has a punch too. Sun drying the seeds is essential for success/results.
Convinced! thanks everyone, ordered the smallest quantity from Coles to collect the seeds :)
Love these and end up playing heaps at home.
Please wash your hands thoroughly before touching anywhere else on your body or someone else’s.
Especially ears, inner nose, and down "there"
hey mate whatever you play with at home, we cant help with that
Lol *planting.
Maybe plant and play. Need something new to spice up the lockdown fever
Waiting for someone to say they put these through as bananas on the self service checkout….
Onions are cheaper
Chillies are some of the easiest plants to grow from seed as long as you have a good sunny spot,
remove about 20 seeds and dry them on paper towel for a couple weeks, out of direct sun.
then plan seeds in a good quality potting mix or seed raising mix,
as we are coming into spring soon this is the best time
Got some last night, they are quite massive in size and great flavour!
Anyone know any good recipes for making this into a sauce?
My fav chilli.
Thanks for the heads up.