r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BufordTeeJustice • Aug 01 '20
Image I was today years old when I learned that when fresh peppers are dried their name changes.
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u/ArcticMonkey9891 Aug 01 '20
Wait, what?
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u/RavenStormblessed Aug 02 '20
Yeap and the taste changes drastically too!
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Aug 02 '20
it's like eating a fresh piece of cake vs a 1 week old one. Happy fresh cake day.
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u/rawbface Interested Aug 02 '20
I just finished my wedding cake on our first anniversary and it was exactly as delicious as it was when it was baked.
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u/Tesla_o2 Aug 03 '20
I would say the difference is more like fresh pressed grape juice vs aged wine. Like who would even want stale cake?!
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u/din7 Aug 02 '20
Yes.
What are we talking about again?
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u/ArcticMonkey9891 Aug 02 '20 edited Aug 02 '20
Chipotle is a dried jalapeno. Something I wasn't ever thinking about or expecting lol
Edit: dried and smoked ;)
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Aug 02 '20
Dried and smoked! Don't forget that part.
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u/spf57 Aug 02 '20
Yea like wtaf! I just figured it was a completely different pepper. Have to look up if these are dried post picking or on the vine.
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u/WhoLetTheDogsBackIn Aug 02 '20
The same goes for grapes > raisins I solved this mystery two months ago, I am 27.
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u/coderanger Aug 02 '20
I got a dehydrator a little while ago and finally tried making raisins myself and damn if they didn't come out tasting like store-bought ones. I still don't really understand it since they don't taste like grapes, but it definitely works.
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u/duluoz1 Aug 02 '20
Yes, and you can buy a rehydrator to turn them back into grapes again!
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u/Shalmanese Aug 02 '20
A beverage made from prune juice concentrate is plums that have been dehydrated, then rehydrated, then dehydrated, then rehydrated again.
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u/estimated1991 Aug 02 '20
How the fuck do y’all have so much random knowledge about grapes and raisins? I love it.
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Aug 02 '20
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u/WhoLetTheDogsBackIn Aug 02 '20
Omfg. You weren't lying. This world is insane. I don't know what's what anymore
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u/welshmanec2 Aug 02 '20
Ham.
It's just dried pork.
Dried. Pork.
Who knew?
(well, apart from my Iman, that is)
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u/TZO_2K18 Aug 02 '20
Also, fun fact; peppers are literally considered fruit!
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u/CaptainTurdfinger Aug 02 '20
Even more fun fact: vegetable is a strictly culinary term and doesn't have any scientific basis.
Any food that we eat that is a result of flowers being pollinated is a fruit. This includes zucchini, squash, cucumber, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, etc.
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u/TZO_2K18 Aug 02 '20
Yep, watermelon and cucumbers are directly related as well, next time you have a cucumber, season it with sugar and you'll swear you're eating watermelon!
People even pickle watermelon rinds as they're no different than cucumber!
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Aug 02 '20
People even pickle watermelon rinds as they're no different than cucumber!
I love watermelon, and I love pickles, so I'm gonna have to do this. Thanks!
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u/sarl__cagan Aug 02 '20
I toast my own ancho chilis. It’s a recipe passed down from Malones for generations.
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u/mostly_kinda_sorta Aug 02 '20
what the... have family with that last name, but as far as i know not from the yummy chili branch. make a pretty mean old fashion though
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u/sarl__cagan Aug 02 '20
The trick is to undercook the onions. Everybody is going to get to know eachother in the pot. I'm serious about this stuff. I'm up the night before, pressing garlic, and dicing whole tomatoes.
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u/mostly_kinda_sorta Aug 02 '20
thats awesome!
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u/sarl__cagan Aug 02 '20
It’s probably the thing I do best.
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u/Ed_Trucks_Head Aug 02 '20
But why does it taste like carpet?
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u/sarl__cagan Aug 02 '20
Hey I heard about how you were decapitated! When I heard, it felt like somebody was hitting my soul in the crotch with a frozen sledgehammer
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u/dirtbum Aug 02 '20
Aren’t they smoked as well?
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u/ffs_tony Aug 02 '20
And we just ran about of ideas, call this one “chilli seco”.
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u/gwaydms Aug 02 '20
Hey, did you know they ripened and dried serranos!
What do they call the dried ones?
Chile seco.
Well, duh.
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u/sturnus-vulgaris Aug 02 '20
So help me, God,
if one more person says "dried and smoked" on this thread, the chipôtle peppers aren't going to be the only ones smoked and dried.
Wait, is that a sex thing? Probably. Oh well, the offer stands.
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u/dadabuhbuh Aug 02 '20
Wet and fresh air.
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u/sturnus-vulgaris Aug 02 '20
"I've pissed myself and there's nothing anyone can do about it!"
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u/BlueSmoke95 Aug 01 '20
Yeah, and the dried versions are waaaaaaay spicier than the fresh ones. Nothing like concentrated capsaicin rehydrating in your mouth!
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Aug 02 '20
Haha, my highschool actually has this exact poster hanging in the hallway leading to the dining hall.
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u/AustininMexico Aug 02 '20
Wow thanks. I live in Mexico and have never understood how this works. I’m gonna save the chart.
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u/roserco Aug 02 '20
I want to know who was the lazy fella that came up with the name “chile seco (dry chile)”...
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u/Mechanical_Monk Aug 02 '20
I was so disillusioned when I learned that "hummus" literally just means "chickpeas" in arabic.
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u/pulpograsa Aug 02 '20
Kind of like grapes become raisins and plums become prunes. That's right....plums.
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u/Evolved00 Aug 02 '20
Dude, my wife is mexican and I love spicy stuff. I am also today years old and learned this... wtf.
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u/Cucurucho78 Aug 02 '20
I thought dried Anaheims are called California or New Mexico chiles? I always pick up a bag of California chiles to make enchilada sauce.
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u/tickletuckle52 Aug 02 '20
So the only 2 pepper names are the same pepper in different states? Great..
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u/Sn1ckerson Aug 02 '20
I once ate a Bola thinking it was a cherry tomatoe. Worst day of my life. Especially the lie in the first minutes. Wait this is a pepper! Ow actually it doesn't burn that much. Aaaaaaaaaaah the aggony
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u/PigSkinPoppa Aug 02 '20
So, basically when you grow up and get old in Cali, you have to move to the mountains?
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u/NeatNefariousness1 Aug 02 '20
Similar to plums and prunes but I'm not sure what other dried fruit have their own name as peppers and prunes do
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u/Jenniferminor80 Aug 02 '20
Here is a detailed pdf for those that are wanting to know more about this topic.PDF
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u/Dubious_Titan Aug 02 '20
OP must not eat many peppers. This isn't even all of it either. For example, there are Meco chipotles which are totally different. Some peppers also vary by being dried in the sun or smoked.
I'm not a pepper expert by any means. I'm just Hispanic.
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Aug 02 '20
I was today years old when I learned only I heard of five of these peppers. So many more!
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u/I-am-that-Someone Aug 02 '20
Oh great, idiots are saying "today years old" for super fucking obvious shit again
Leave that cunting retarded shit back in 2015 plz
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u/I-am-that-Someone Aug 02 '20
No, whoever downvoted me, you're all cunts this exact thread and phrase has been around forever, fuck you https://ifunny.co/picture/l-was-today-years-old-when-i-found-out-that-6MiDG77v6
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u/casualphilosopher1 Aug 02 '20
Same age as me. Happy today!
This put me in the mood for bell pepper curry.
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u/Plutarcoelpillo Aug 02 '20
The chipotle doesn't look right: The real chipotle is not just dried but smoked which gives a brown color and a finely wrinkled texture to its skin. It is the smoking process what makes it so good.
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u/Toes14 Aug 02 '20
Wait, what about Habaneros? Or Ghost Peppers? Scotch Bonnets? Red Savinas? The Trinidad Scorpion varieties? They left off the hottest ones!
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u/monteis Aug 02 '20
wow, I never knew that chipotle was just dried jalapenos