If they subbed in a jalapeño in place of like a poblano for me and didn’t specify it, I would be sooo pissed. Jalapeños make me really sick to my stomach.
carbonatedkaitlyn
If you cut out the veins and remove all the seeds it’s often less spicy. I frequently do this with any peppers HF sends because I don’t want to risk it.
MinkieTheCat
I’ve started wearing latex gloves now when I cut the peppers. Too many times, later that night when I take a shower, my hands are just burning so bad that I have to sleep with a damp washcloth nearby.
Gloomy-Net4531
The same thing happened to me. I touched my eye afterwards and my eye was so irritated. My mouth was on fire for a while. We were able to eat this meal, but the after effects of it was bad.
cHorse1981
Your family must have the absolutely lowest spice tolerance ever.
badradley
Man, I grew some shit poblano peppers in my garden this year. I ate the pepper that I got the seeds from— it was great. But the ones i grew were spicy! Same with my bell peppers. Idk what they cross-pollinated with, or maybe my soil was messed up…. but they were both awful.
As a fellow spicy-pepper hater, i get it ruining a dish 🙁
kirmichelle
This has happened to me! Every now and then we’d get a long green pepper sent straight from hell. Made the mistake of rubbing my eye after chopping it and thought I was gonna go blind.
Everyone else saying you must not have a high spice tolerance has not experienced this pepper hell roulette. 90% of the time the long green peppers are pretty mild.
SgtPeter1
People *thinking* they like spicy, complaining when it’s spicy, lmao!
SatoOppai
Peppers are funny like that. I eat a lot of jalapeños, for example, and some are nose-running spicy while some are mild. I wouldn’t be surprised if other peppers were like that.
Adorable-Speed-7277
I made this dish and ours wasn’t hot or spicy at all, but I do understand that some peppers are hotter than others. This was so unspicy that I ate leftovers very early in the morning for breakfast. Just take out the veins and the seeds.
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Honestly some peppers are just hotter than other peppers of the same type. Just kinda how a lot of peppers work I think
Your comment made me laugh LOL
Seems dramatic
[https://www.reddit.com/r/hellofresh/comments/1pfb3uu/hello_fresh_substituted_jalapenos_for_long_green/](https://www.reddit.com/r/hellofresh/comments/1pfb3uu/hello_fresh_substituted_jalapenos_for_long_green/)
Seems like it is happening to others.
If they subbed in a jalapeño in place of like a poblano for me and didn’t specify it, I would be sooo pissed. Jalapeños make me really sick to my stomach.
If you cut out the veins and remove all the seeds it’s often less spicy. I frequently do this with any peppers HF sends because I don’t want to risk it.
I’ve started wearing latex gloves now when I cut the peppers. Too many times, later that night when I take a shower, my hands are just burning so bad that I have to sleep with a damp washcloth nearby.
The same thing happened to me. I touched my eye afterwards and my eye was so irritated. My mouth was on fire for a while. We were able to eat this meal, but the after effects of it was bad.
Your family must have the absolutely lowest spice tolerance ever.
Man, I grew some shit poblano peppers in my garden this year. I ate the pepper that I got the seeds from— it was great. But the ones i grew were spicy! Same with my bell peppers. Idk what they cross-pollinated with, or maybe my soil was messed up…. but they were both awful.
As a fellow spicy-pepper hater, i get it ruining a dish 🙁
This has happened to me! Every now and then we’d get a long green pepper sent straight from hell. Made the mistake of rubbing my eye after chopping it and thought I was gonna go blind.
Everyone else saying you must not have a high spice tolerance has not experienced this pepper hell roulette. 90% of the time the long green peppers are pretty mild.
People *thinking* they like spicy, complaining when it’s spicy, lmao!
Peppers are funny like that. I eat a lot of jalapeños, for example, and some are nose-running spicy while some are mild. I wouldn’t be surprised if other peppers were like that.
I made this dish and ours wasn’t hot or spicy at all, but I do understand that some peppers are hotter than others. This was so unspicy that I ate leftovers very early in the morning for breakfast. Just take out the veins and the seeds.
Never trust the long green peppers they send