Which Is The BEST Cayenne Pepper? Comparing 7 Different Varieties - Pepper Geek
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In this video, we're comparing 7 different cayenne pepper varieties. We took your suggestions and grew out some of the most recommended cayenne peppers. So, we'll show you the plants, mention any pros or cons we noticed, and then give each a taste test!
In the end, we agreed on a favorite, but it was a close call. I hope you enjoy the video, and if you have any recommendations for future comparisons, leave a comment!
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00:00 Intro
00:46 Cayennetta
02:14 Red ember
03:42 Red flame
05:42 Joe's long cayenne
07:58 Large red thick
09:08 Ring of fire
11:23 Buena mulata
12:28 The winner?
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I’d love to see one of these with the different types of habaneros. Seven habaneros in a row might be a bit much, though.
Haha, yeah habaneros would be fun though..might take us 2-3 hours to film for cool down periods but would be worth it
I was thinking the same as this, the Hot Paper Lantern would be interesting to try along with the chocolate, limon and orange (my favourite) Habeneros
Maybe the best way to get a general flavor of each pepper variety is to blend several of each type separately them into uniform pastes then popsicle stick lick...🌶
No, no the world needs to know this info...secondhand lol.
I have two orange Habs this season. One, the fruit comes to a point. the other has a button end. Is that normal?
Great video! Enjoyed your full take on each variety
I love the Aji you have behind you. This is my plants third year and it's been a lot less productive than last year (produced over 1k last year) hoping the seabird "tea" I'm going to make will help
This is my first year growing cayenne.. I got a ton of them.. plan to dehydrate and make powder. But I also got a yellow pod I thought was just a yellow variety of cayenne. Very pretty pods.
I grew a variety called "Super Cayenne II" this year, bought them as seedlings. They produced HUGE pods that look a lot like the "Large red thick" variety you tested at 7:58.
I have a cpl 2yr old dragon cayenne plants growing and love them, will definitely try cayennette next year
We grow “Chili De Cayenne” every year. We got our seeds from Poland but it seems like you can find these online. We save a ton of seeds each year. Very pretty peppers with a ton of heat.
Thank you for doing this grow and comparison. Much appreciated.
excellent show. Thank you for sharing memories of your childhood. You turned out good.
You guys are so great together! Love the taste tests!
Thank you 😋
My favorite pepper overall. I really appreciate your analyzing 7 different types. Your channel is definitely one of my favorites! Literally watched all your videos on my t.v. This is the first time on my IPad. Can’t wait to start my garden. We just moved to 33 acres and I plan on growing at least 1/2 acre of peppers. Your videos really help.
I have been growing the Mulata for awhile now and I LOVE that pepper!! Fresh with a black pepper taste! My indoor Mulata is 2 years old now and is great to pull one off and slice up over a pizza!
loved that review! Thank so much! Looking forward to the jalapeno review...happy weekend!
Thanks - have a great weekend!
Thank you for your sacrifice. We'll be growing cayenetta's next year!
I would love to see a bloopers reel from you guys. Thanks for all you do. I grow a good variety of peppers. I love the heat my lady does not and she stands beside me to taste each one. Throughout the growing process. Green / Yellow (orange) / Red etc..
Thanks, we're happy to be here :). We recently released _sort of_ a blooper reel, looking back over the last 3 years of Pepper Geek: ruclips.net/video/l7SeMhqbZW8/видео.html
Great Video…. I grew the Large Thick Red, not my favorite either, but I had a very high yield, plant was very thick and strong, but the peppers were so large the ends laid on the ground and had some end riot. Gave half away and dried the rest for powder. Next year I’ll try the Cayennetta, Thanks for the great info….
We grow a small birdseye pepper. Wife is from Indonesia and it is a staple about and inch and a half she eats them right out of the garden . and then we make sambal a past made of tomatoes , peppers , same . shallots and garlic. There is a fresh and a cooked . They look like your ring of fire but smaller. thin skin and lots of seeds. Some call them Thai chilies 50,000-100,000 range
Birds Eye is the best! Just the right heat and lots of flavor.
@Cloneufc
I grew up eating those 🐦-🌶 🌶 🌶
John Parker,
I grew up eating those 🐦-🌶🌶 🌶
Hello, thanks guys for the great video 😊. I like to fire roast my cayenne before i make hot sauce and its awesome. I was going to suggest to char the peppers so it brings out the sugars, caramelizes, and lessen heat. Have fun making more videos 😊
One of the best cayenne I've found so far in the Thunder Mountain Longhorn. They grow a pepper about a foot long, dry easily and make a great powder.
Year 2 for me growing peppers (thanks mostly to this channel!) and this video was very educational! I grew the Buena Mulata this year and found it a bit more hot than your assessment and look forward to powdering the last of my crop this year. Maybe I’m still early in the process of calibrating my taste for fresh peppers. :)
Great to hear - and thanks! Yep, most people don't just eat plain old hot peppers as a snack 😅
Always excited to see a new video from you two :D!
I'm a big fan of the Cayennetta myself!
Greetings from Sweden ^^
Thanks! Cheers 🇸🇪
Great job. Really enjoyed it. Thanks a lot!
Thank you :)
i got some Hell fire weeds and Ring of fires to make my own hot wing sauces, the Ring of fires are growing like weeds, I tasted a few green ones last week, they were hot, today I was feeling off and had one in the garden, and ended up throwing up lol, all that morning coffee lol, feel great now! cant wait to make the fermented sauces, powders and crushed chili flakes, i have about 18 plants total of the two. thanks for the other videos on how to make them and this one as well, it was why i added the Ring of Fire to my first garden. i do have 20 hot banana pepper plants as well as Hungarian hot wax peppers for pickling, its going to be a great summer and fall, everything is growing nicely
Good to see the team videos again. 👍
How about a comparison to find the best pepper to stuff - size, flavor and how they hold up when cooked, plant production, disease resistance. Love your channel!
Thanks for the idea! Yep stuffed peppers are probably one of the most popular dish categories that use peppers. We'll keep it in mind!
I love Datil Peppers, they are great for salsa's, I also grow heatless habaneros, love them as well great flavor
Thank you guys I love your video ❤
Glad to see Joe's Long get a solid rating. They have been my favorite for many years. Great job powering through the taste test!
Whats the best tasting purple cayenne and best tasting pepper overall that you find (hot or not)?
my cayenne pepper plant is huge this year... So big when it started falling over, it was double the height of my other peppers in the same garden bed, I had to use an old broomstick to tie it up. As I couldn't find a garden stake tall enough.
Nice video gang, appreciate the effort!
I would love to see you grow golden cayenne and taste it, its has this golden colour and a good heat to it. Love your channel, keep it up!
Thank you! We have some seeds for the golden and orange cayennes, so hopefully we'll get to try them next year!
Like your comments on the different varieties as a farmer to make choices for planting
Just one request: did you guys test Habanero pepper varieties yet? Would like to know your comments. Thx for tour effort.
ooooo i have planted some cayenne peppers this year! i can wait to have them. i plan to powerder a lot of them yum yum yum
Great comparison video. You guys put out some great quality content. An unrelated question if you don't mind. What variety is that you have growing in the background? Beautiful plant!
Thanks, it really is a beauty. It is quintisho. A C. chinense variety from Bolivia
My favorite cayenne so far have been Long Thins(barring eating all the seeds, then they're a horrible ratio of seed to meat) they're very sweet, vaguely fruity, and have a good spice level. They'll be my very first hot sauce, and some day when im comfortable with it my first fermented hot sauce.
I grew the Sugar Rush Stripey Pepper this year and the first one I picked tasted soapy. I have harvested a few more since then and they taste great. You should try some more peppers from that plant and see if maybe they taste better.
yep, we're getting more ripe pods now so we'll definitely be eating more!
Thanks for sharing !😀
you guys are the best.. maybe do serrenos too when you do jalapeños?
I loved the ring of fire. I can’t eat a raw hot pepper like you two so so kudos!
Great idea. Please give us more taste comparisons.
Will do! Jalapeños are next (very soon)
Is that a Charapon Amarillo plant in the background? Such a beauty I have one too.
The cracks and splits means the peppers are growing faster than the pods can handle. They are basically stretch marks.
Did y'all ever grow / review Gochu or any other Korean peppers that are used for Gochugaru ( aka Korean Pepper Flakes ) ?
I have been growing some F1 dragon cayennes I got seeds from at my local lowes and I have read that it is a cross between a Thai and a cayenne pepper.
Would love to know how this compares to the standard heirloom of the long slim cayenne. I prefer to grow heirloom/open-pollinated varieties rather than hybrids, so it would be really good to have some sort of control pepper to compare them to. Loved the video!
I can’t wait to grow my hot peppers! Just bought a tent and grow light. I’m going to try habanero, jalapeño, and cayenne.
I want to do a lot of mash fermented hot sauces next year so the name of the game is yield, definitely gonna try both the Cayennetta and the Ring of fire, maybe mix the two to bump up the heat.
Would like to see your opinion of the dragon cayenne
I think a great experiment for next year would be trying out different C. frutescens cultivars as they seem pretty uncommon and unknown to most growers. additionally Piri Piri is becoming more popular as a seasoning and being able to grow your own would help my pocketbook a ton.
Hm interesting idea - we do have the Tabasco plant this year. We'll probably use them to make a fermented sauce, so if that is good maybe we'll do more frutescens next season. Thanks!
Thank you, video very helpfulI live in the UK and we get a variety which is similar to the ones 3-5 depending on the season. The problem I have it that they shed the skin while cooking and tend to spoil a dish. Is this normal for these chillies to have a tough skin and not easy to chop them small? Any advice or solution would be very welcome. Thanks
I grow a true cayenne and they produce great, better in containers, which is odd but there you go. I've also tried the dragon cayenne, also good.
i had no idea there were different kinds of cayenne pepper lmao. def gonna look into getting those big ones. ever since my ibs i stopped eating chilis and i loved eating them i would eat 3-4 thai chilis with a meal, now i dumbed down to cayenne, theyre little tricksters there hot initially then go away and dont really linger much.
My neighbor put out a box of peppers last fall, "free help your self" so I grabbed an assortment + froze them. I've saved the seeds as I used them over this past year. This spring I sprinkled the seeds in 2 pots, not knowing if any would sprout. I got about 30 plants in both pots. Didn't thin them and just let them all grow. I think there's Jalapeno, cayenne, maybe ghost, and several others. I've got a ton of peppers though. I don't think there's such a thing as overcrowding them, they're prolific!
Did you get decent germination off seeds from peppers that were frozen without drying first? I have had no success in germinating frozen seeds, but I have primarily tried that test on the c. baccatum species where I had frozen them fresh and whole. I had also wondered if the freezer temperature also made a difference.
@@davidniemi6553 I didn't do anything special. I can't tell you the germination rate. As I took them out of freezer I put seeds into a plastic container, no lid, so they dried. The last video I uploaded shows what came out of my experiment. They're doing great! and i've got all different kinds in each planter.
@@badassmother1426 Thanks for the additional info. The theory I was going by is that it is helpful to dry the seeds (directly or indirectly) before freezing. It's possibly seeds of a cayenne-style pepper dry out more easily due to the long narrow shape, so perhaps that is still the difference. (I wouldn't expect drying out after thawing would make any difference.) Meanwhile I get excellent germination from seeds I dried (without freezing), better than seeds I buy.
@@davidniemi6553 The most surprising thing here, I just dug up clay soil from the yard, mixed it with whatever was on the ground, leaves, pine needles, no potting soil or anything from a bag. I'm extreme low budget gardener here. I do use Miracle grow every 2 weeks, if I can remember.
There are no bad Cayennes, they are all great.
Try the golden cayenne and woyld love to see the insides of the peppers
Idk the type I have. It's indoors and is supported but has a huge canapy. It just keeps putting out more as I pick the ripe ones months on end. It's in a 5 gallon bucket. I have several hundred hanging drying from. The one pla t purchased as a bonnie plant from home depot may 2022.
Great content as always! Although I will admit I was a little disappointed that you didn’t rank all of the peppers. Maybe with your jalapeño rating video you could rank them all first to last, not just the best 2. Just a suggestion. Keep up the great work.
Ok we’ll probably do something like that, or at least rate our favorites independent of each other
Please try Portugal Hot, I'd be interest to see how it compares to these, thanks!
I use Long Red Thick for fermenting for hot sauce. It seems juicier.
Nice video, how we regocnized cayyne peper while many peper in red color. Pls explain
Hi from the UK, growing peppers for the first time this year including Cayennetta, as there’s so many how should I store them, thanks for all you do.
One of my favorites is to just make a nice cayenne powder. It drastically reduces the size, and stores indefinitely. You can also freeze them while for cooking “fresh” throughout the year. Or, ferment them to make cayenne hot sauce!
So excited that I found your guys channel!! Where do you typically buy your seeds from?
We buy from all over the place, here is an article that rounds up some of our faves: peppergeek.com/buy-pepper-seeds-online
@@PepperGeek thank you for the reply!
My suggestion would be: yellow habanero vs Madame jeanette vs yellow Scots bonnet vs yellow fatalli vs lemon habanero, here you are more focusing on the flavour profile and the shape of the chilli pepper.
Was waiting for this video after mentioning it before, I grew 'Ring of Fire' this year though I thoroughly enjoyed - definitely a wee bit spicier. I had "Joe's Long" earmarked for next year but considering the "Cayenetta" now too. Appreciated!
PS: I really want to do a decent Cayenne/Jimmy Nardello cross - super long, more sweetness, less heat - but still with a kick!
Do you say jimmy n is the tastiest pepper?
You should try sweet habaneros/chinensis. I have been interested in growing these as an experienced gardener/professional cook. However, I've been overwhelmed by the sheer number of varieties as a very novice pepper enthusiast. Varieties I would be interested in seeing you two review would be dulce #2, habanada, trinidad perfume, sweet bonnet, numex suave red, and aji jobito.
Yep, those are interesting varieties. We have 2 growing this year, including aji dulce and vincentes sweet habanero. So far my favorite was the habanada.
I'm a stuff bell peppers fan.I eat them 5 times a week all season
I'm watching and hoping to get some variety of sweet bells.last few years had troubles with tags and after 16 types known we are happier when we get thick dark green bell believe the red knight and early summer.
But regardless last season I had a plant that had the favor we would almost stop in motion as we) loved it so much and thick walled and darker green but lost its I D tag
Thanks for your team work 👍 as you teaching me
Glad to see I'm not the only one with BER issues on Buena Mulata! It must be very susceptible to it. I feel it tastes like a serrano, personally. Great comparison video!
I can't wait for the bell pepper comparison!
very informative, I did not know Red Flame is a cayenne, thanks.
I grew two varieties of Cayennes this year: Carnivale Cayenne, which has mostly purple leaves and the peppers are purple until they ripen, which they turn mostly orange to red. The shape of them more look like jalapenos than cayennes. I've been mostly using them for drying. They soften up real fast once they ripen. Not a huge fan of them. The other one I grew is an heirloom and was one of the ones you tried, ring of fire. I've been very happy with these. They have been producing several peppers off just one plant every week. The plant is well over 3 feet tall and branched out well, and the heat is good. I've made fermented hot sauce, fire roasted hot sauce, and dried lots of them as well, all have turned out well. I will grow these again next year but I think I'll skip the carnivale cayennes next year.
whats the tastiest purple cayenne?
If you want to assess pepper flavor without being distracted by the heat, try this trick: Eat the pepper piece with a small pinch of MSG (monosodium glutamate). The MSG will almost completely suppress the heat while enhancing the fruity flavor of the pepper. I learned this trick years ago from a retired German butcher who couldn't handle the habanero hot sauce I made until he added some MSG to it. It really works!
Sounds deadly
Awesome video I just subbed had a question. What is that beautiful pepper plant to the left of you that has the orange peppers on it?
That is called "quintisho" - Capsicum chinense variety similar to aji charapita, but larger fruits. Amazing, strong plants with perfect branching structure. Highly recommend!
@@PepperGeek where did you get the seeds for that pepper? Thanks so much
I totally understand that "soapy" taste. I get that with most habaneros. Enjoyed the video and will be trying 2 of those varieties next year for sure. Cayennes are my favorite peppers for so many reasons. Keep up the great work it is appreciated
I wonder if the soapy vs. floral reaction is like the compounds in cilantro, to some it tastes like soap.
Yep it was just the ring of fire - and it’s funny Crystalyn loved the flavor! Thanks for watching
Yes! I have the gene that ruins cilantro for me.
So glad to see this! I’m in my second year of trying to make large batches of my own hotter “Frank’ Red Hot” sauce.
I grew Ring of Fire and Large Thick this year. The Large Thick we’re definitely hard to time right and get off the plants before they softened and split but the Ring of Fire were prolific and easier to nab.
Based on this video, I think next year’s crop will be Ring of Fire and Cayenneta. Thanks so much for the research!
Nice! That is what we are doing with the majority of the pods this year. A huge batch is fermenting away now for hot sauce 😋
Honestly my favorite cayenne varient is a cowhorn. It both gets big and hearty in size but has a great flavor as well.
Haha awesome video. The "you fancy!" made me giggle 😅And the "yeaaaaeuuaahiiittssuuhyeeaa", were you channelling your inner Brad from Bon Appetit? 😄
Haha, something like that! What an icon he is.
What's the difference from picking the Red Cayenne Peppers when green, letting them dry out and turn red, versus waiting for them to turn red on the plant, then picking them?
I was absolutely obsessed with Cayenne peppers last year and yet didn’t grow any this year. 🤦🏽♀️ Gotta grow more.
I’m glad we have so many, we’re fermenting a huge batch now to make homemade Louisiana hot sauce!
Definitely going to try Long Joe´s next year even though I only grow sweet peppers. I´m should probably stock up on some milk though :)
My Long Joe's plant grew 1m60 tall and completely took over my pepper patch, so be sure to provide enough space.
@@grublord6565 Thanks for the heads up even though such height is quite surprising since in most sources they mention up to 3ft/1m.
What do you think of the cayenne long. That's one that grows well for me
New to the pepper growing world. But you 2 should included the boring original verison of cayenne as a base to compare to the rest aswell. Love the video.
Exactly
Looking to order seeds for next growing season. Do you have a list of best websites for the super hots?
We normally use Thai pepper at home.
What’s you take on them and what’s their scale compare to the one in video.
I love Thai peppers, they have a much more smoky flavor that is GREAT with basically anything Asian (Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc. dishes). They have a nice, quick zap of heat and not too much long term spice.
This is my first year growing hot peppers and the only cayenne I grew was the Red rocket. I think they’re good, but I have nothing to compare them to…
I actually fermented them whole and today I ground them into a paste with some garlic and I must say, the sauce is amazing.
I might try Cayennetta next year! :)
Nice! Yep our Louisiana style sauce ferment is coming along nicely - our kitchen smells amazing
Do you know anything about pepper stems turning purple/ having purple streaks on it?
Great video - although I'm a bit sad that you think so little of the Buena Mulata. Must have been a bad BM, haha.. You should do the same with Jalapenos
Jalapeños are next, filming today :)
I always grow super cayenne II
Hot hot hot.
Can't wait to try those cayennettas
Maybe prepare a fermentation comparison series for filming this winter?
There will be fermentation for sure! Most of these are in a big ferment now, and we'll get a few more batches going soon
Try what I'm growing: Apocalypse Scorpion, Red and Purple Carolina Reapers, Yellow Scotch Bonnet, Dragons Breath, or Hungarian Hot Wax (fully matured only!).. I also have a ton of cayenne and some Zulu and some mystery-peppers, and some Red and Yellow Biquinhos... working on a hot sauce garden for a friend.
I was advised to place about 21 inches as to survive the winds better.
Perhaps they taste different after the apple?
Dying to try longhorns I'm going to try to do seeds next to season do you know anything about them
try whole fat plain greek yogurt to cleanse the palette. also very good for preventing stomach aches if you eat something REALLY spicy. I ate an entire habaniro, minus the tip (we only had one, and someone else wanted to try a little), and eating greek yogurt for the two following meals totally got rid of any pain. Didn't even have spicy poop :)
I'm the new guy. I Love You Two ❤Wow I'm Home these videos are beautiful. Great Job. Thank You.🌶🌶🌶🌶
I've got tags much as comes on fruit trees and 11 different bells and a long horn sweet some tags remain the season but most went into the wind.
My homemade tags from Bleach containers held up best
QUESTION. ..do you tag yours?
I wonder if the "Ring of fire" pepper has aldehydes in it. Those aldehydes are what caused Cilantro to have a soapy taste to some people.
so ive been following you for awhile now, my cayennes are about 10 inches tall but flowering, should i leave the flowers? or Snip em off? I wanna get this up to an 18-24 inch tall plant.. all three, circle of fire Cayenne.
Can you guys try different types of Carolina reaper next`?
Thanks for taking the heat for us 😁
The last pepper can you try them when they are yellow or purple? How are their individual taste?
Have you tried bhut jolokia (ghost pepper)? Looks like a lantern. Its over 1 mil scoville heat units.
Ring of fire…. Or golden cayenne….. love your videos guys…. Next year I’m going to grow a lot of cayenne for hot sauce for sure….
We actually have seeds for golden, so we’ll maybe grow that next year!