[Meme] What does your SO think of your hot pepper addiction?
[Meme] What does your SO think of your hot pepper addiction?
by renome
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5H17SH0W
My first harvest, ever. I’m so excited. Butlahs, habs, serranos, nagas, but Butlahs are really taking off. Dead pans me this gem this morning,” That’s great honey!! I can’t wait for them to be ready so we can feast!” I shot back, “Please papa, can I have some seconds of the Butlah?” You’ll see. Nah, she’s got me there, I grew a bunch of things we can’t eat, lol. Next year I’ll branch out. This season I just picked up gardening.
Michellemybelle1229
What a great question. LMAO 🤣 I have been married a long , long time and I have always loved my jalapenos. He has Crohn’s disease, which of course makes him anti pepper. When we first married, I, having grown up on Mexican food, hurt his tummy more than once. 😔 In my defense, I was young (19) and had zero experience with digestive issues at that point. Many arguments ensued but I literally CRAVED the hot stuff , especially becoming pregnant. I got great at segregating my peppers…separate pans, utensils, etc. Turns out though, when I was craving them so bad, I was also having a stroke that no one really noticed -because pregnant women are just weird 🙄- and I honestly believe those peppers kept me alive by opening the blood vessels and releasing pressure. I use them now to help with migraines…I get amazing relief! So, he has always hated the peppers. Fast forward (sort of. Lol) to now, I’m growing amazing peppers and he is actually trying various dishes. 🤯 It only took 36 years and a few major life events but he’s accepting now.
Primary-Breath-8523
Shed probably prefer i bought them instead of grow. Im at about 100 burning bush habs out of a 1 gallon pot and 100 jalapnos out of a 3 gallon pot. Im not allowed to put them in the ground lol
ACrazedRodent
When it’s September and I ask my wife why she wants us to go to Starbucks again:…
stuartroelke
We grow peppers together; no explanation necessary.
sam_neil
Whenever I am cooking anything with peppers she will sigh and ask “is this for food, or is this for violence?” 😂
toxicity69
I grow about 50 pepper plants in my back garden (and 12 tomatoes and a couple tomatillos), and it’s a mix of sweet hots (jalapeno, zebrange, sugar drop orange), hots (habaneros, scotch bonnets), and superhots (reapers, scorpions, ghosts, 7 pots, Primotalis, etc.). It’s about a 20/20/60 percentage split with sweet hots/hots/superhots, as I’m mainly in it for the crazy hot peppers to make my own pepper/hot sauces. The milder ones are great for baking into breads or recipes or snacking on, though (and can add some nice depth of flavor to sauces vs. straight superhots).
It’s all novelty and funny to her to watch me hurt myself (burns so good!), when I’m simply eating a fresh pod or adding hot sauce to my food (which is every day), but she is NOT a fan of the end of Summer/early Fall when I’m processing the harvest(s) at various stages. Some examples of the stuff that she isn’t a big fan of:
* making hot sauces in the kitchen basically gas bombs the entire downstairs, especially during the final sauce simmering (to stop fermentation and pasteurize) * dehydrating peppers in the garage for days-on-end has the same result as above, but it’s even stronger and lingers in the air more. I don’t mind it since I’m broken at this point, but she laments it due to our drink fridge being in the garage, so she can’t avoid it * apparently my lips are spicy a lot of the time after eating, so she gets capsaicin transfer if she wants smooches. Sometimes I’ll get the random “my lips are burning” reaction from her
All-in-all, my SO is supportive of my love of the hottest of superhots, but she definitely has had to come to peace with all that it brings. If I offer to share something that I’m eating, 90% of the time she refuses to even touch my food lol.
EnTellar
Honestly, my girlfriend doesn’t have a tolerance like me when it comes to spicy food so whenever I cook something I enjoy “violently spicy” I make an extra batch just for her with “normal” spice level.
When we moved into our current apartment beginning of this year I told her I would like to plant some peppers because we finally had a rather big south facing balcony now. She just told me to go for it as long as she could plant something herself.
She thinks it’s really nice to see me have a passion for something I enjoy. When I take care of my plants she asks questions from time to time about the kind of pepper, how spicy it is or even if it’s some kind of special cross.
She’s just not interested in building a tolerance to spice and going through the inevitable pain one will experience. At one point everyone of us tried something too hot for their tolerance.
TLDR: She let’s me do my thing and whenever I cook something spicy I just make an extra batch for her 😊
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My first harvest, ever. I’m so excited. Butlahs, habs, serranos, nagas, but Butlahs are really taking off. Dead pans me this gem this morning,” That’s great honey!! I can’t wait for them to be ready so we can feast!” I shot back, “Please papa, can I have some seconds of the Butlah?” You’ll see. Nah, she’s got me there, I grew a bunch of things we can’t eat, lol. Next year I’ll branch out. This season I just picked up gardening.
What a great question. LMAO 🤣 I have been married a long , long time and I have always loved my jalapenos. He has Crohn’s disease, which of course makes him anti pepper. When we first married, I, having grown up on Mexican food, hurt his tummy more than once. 😔 In my defense, I was young (19) and had zero experience with digestive issues at that point. Many arguments ensued but I literally CRAVED the hot stuff , especially becoming pregnant. I got great at segregating my peppers…separate pans, utensils, etc. Turns out though, when I was craving them so bad, I was also having a stroke that no one really noticed -because pregnant women are just weird 🙄- and I honestly believe those peppers kept me alive by opening the blood vessels and releasing pressure. I use them now to help with migraines…I get amazing relief! So, he has always hated the peppers. Fast forward (sort of. Lol) to now, I’m growing amazing peppers and he is actually trying various dishes. 🤯 It only took 36 years and a few major life events but he’s accepting now.
Shed probably prefer i bought them instead of grow. Im at about 100 burning bush habs out of a 1 gallon pot and 100 jalapnos out of a 3 gallon pot. Im not allowed to put them in the ground lol
When it’s September and I ask my wife why she wants us to go to Starbucks again:…
We grow peppers together; no explanation necessary.
Whenever I am cooking anything with peppers she will sigh and ask “is this for food, or is this for violence?” 😂
I grow about 50 pepper plants in my back garden (and 12 tomatoes and a couple tomatillos), and it’s a mix of sweet hots (jalapeno, zebrange, sugar drop orange), hots (habaneros, scotch bonnets), and superhots (reapers, scorpions, ghosts, 7 pots, Primotalis, etc.). It’s about a 20/20/60 percentage split with sweet hots/hots/superhots, as I’m mainly in it for the crazy hot peppers to make my own pepper/hot sauces. The milder ones are great for baking into breads or recipes or snacking on, though (and can add some nice depth of flavor to sauces vs. straight superhots).
It’s all novelty and funny to her to watch me hurt myself (burns so good!), when I’m simply eating a fresh pod or adding hot sauce to my food (which is every day), but she is NOT a fan of the end of Summer/early Fall when I’m processing the harvest(s) at various stages. Some examples of the stuff that she isn’t a big fan of:
* making hot sauces in the kitchen basically gas bombs the entire downstairs, especially during the final sauce simmering (to stop fermentation and pasteurize)
* dehydrating peppers in the garage for days-on-end has the same result as above, but it’s even stronger and lingers in the air more. I don’t mind it since I’m broken at this point, but she laments it due to our drink fridge being in the garage, so she can’t avoid it
* apparently my lips are spicy a lot of the time after eating, so she gets capsaicin transfer if she wants smooches. Sometimes I’ll get the random “my lips are burning” reaction from her
All-in-all, my SO is supportive of my love of the hottest of superhots, but she definitely has had to come to peace with all that it brings. If I offer to share something that I’m eating, 90% of the time she refuses to even touch my food lol.
Honestly, my girlfriend doesn’t have a tolerance like me when it comes to spicy food so whenever I cook something I enjoy “violently spicy” I make an extra batch just for her with “normal” spice level.
When we moved into our current apartment beginning of this year I told her I would like to plant some peppers because we finally had a rather big south facing balcony now. She just told me to go for it as long as she could plant something herself.
She thinks it’s really nice to see me have a passion for something I enjoy. When I take care of my plants she asks questions from time to time about the kind of pepper, how spicy it is or even if it’s some kind of special cross.
She’s just not interested in building a tolerance to spice and going through the inevitable pain one will experience. At one point everyone of us tried something too hot for their tolerance.
TLDR:
She let’s me do my thing and whenever I cook something spicy I just make an extra batch for her 😊
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