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Beginners Guide => Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs => Topic started by: shanew on April 09, 2011, 10:10 PM

Title: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: shanew on April 09, 2011, 10:10 PM

as per the title, picked this up in bali as it looked odd, just wondered what it is as google is not my friend on this occasion

Title: Re: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on April 09, 2011, 10:51 PM

Best I can find (http://www.btf-archives.com/archive200709/64549.html), Shanew.
** Phil.

Title: Re: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: Rabbits on April 09, 2011, 11:04 PM

Looks like long pepper

http://www.spiceworld.uk.com/product_info.php?products_id=1902 (http://www.spiceworld.uk.com/product_info.php?products_id=1902)

Title: Re: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on April 09, 2011, 11:14 PM

Well identified (http://ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf/2a9c4e44835b04ea85256a7200577a64/87a5de3ff7a9b84085256c1c006841dd/Body/M1?OpenElement), that man !

Title: Re: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: shanew on April 09, 2011, 11:26 PM

Thanks!!

Brought 2 bags back along with some other odd spices, local cardamons are an odd one too, the husk is very paperish and round, they smell and taste like regular cardamon but less pungent. Vanilla was a good buy at ?4 for a packet of 30.
I'll get some ground up to pop in my soup :)

Title: Re: Black Chilli - what is this?
Post by: coogan on April 10, 2011, 09:27 AM

Long pepper! Thank god for that I thought they were Armadillo toes!