jalapeños are really good even without heat. It’s just a good pepper. I don’t see any issue.
Hotness aside, I actually prefer the taste of pretty much any pepper over jalapeños.
I have a story about heat and flavor. Often the flavor and heat ARE intertwined, if you “cool” the pepper you mute the flavor.
So I make lentil salad sometimes, it’s one of those dishes so much better than it should be - cooked al dente lentils, jalapeno, onion, carrot in a dressing of olive oil, mustard, lemon. My little kids loved it but would whine that it was too spicy. So my older daughter graciously de-seeded and took out the ribs of the jalapenos when helping make it one time and
They whined because it didn’t taste as good. The flavor was contained in the spicier part of the pepper.
Not everything should be spicy but it’s good to have a tolerance because some flavors are in those spicy foods that simply aren’t in the mild versions.
What’s the point of jalapeños if they’re not hot?
They actually have really great flavor underneath the heat. I did a beer infusion years ago with jalapeño and IPA that wasn’t spicy at all but had a delicious peppery taste.
In my experience the spicier jalapenos are also the tastier ones so I have a hard time imagining how this works.
I mean, I also probably wouldn’t eat the spicy stuff if I didn’t love the flavor - I’m not suffering just for bragging rights! So I’d definitely be down for trying something like the coolapenos here, just would be going into it with some skepticism that it’s anything more than a mild pepper with the mild flavor they produce.
I didn’t know I liked jalapenos until recently and someone brought me a burger with them.
Holy shit I wish I could handle that heat regularly.
Oh yeah my favorite is a plain cheeseburger with fresh sliced jalapenos. So yummy.
Yeah that’s what I had and it was GLORIOUS!
You can! You just have to train your body to accept it by regularly eating spicy things.
Good for you for reevaluating your tastes. I try things I think I dislike every few years to see if I still dislike them. Sometimes it turns out my tastes have changed and they’re great!
i love sweet red peppers. greens are too bitter though. jalapenos shouldnt be defired either. thats what makes them tolerable
Yeah, people should only eat the things I like to eat
I didn’t say anything about what people other than me can, should or would eat.
No worries, just making a joke and not saying it’s a reflection on your character.
When I see “I’m white but not white enough to eat this” I interpret that to be saying some people are unreasonable in their aversion to spice. What did you mean?
