Backyard Aquaponics
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Nocky, to be honest I've never even thought of using them for the smoke source. I like the idea though. I'll try and do it soon as I have plenty of chillies around the place and you can always get big bags of dried ones from any asian store for just a few bucks.

To date I've always only thought of smoking the chilli, as in making my own chipotles. I use a smoker exactly the same as the one pictured below.

Nice toy CD, I have heaps of chillies left over from last years great harvest, thought it might be a stupid question, but will be interesting to see the results, haven't actually smelt a smoking chilli, I doubt you would get the hot taste though

Yeah, the heat transfer is the part I'm curious about as well.

Capsaicin, the source of chilli heat, is extremely stable in hot and cold environments and over time say it may actually transfer.

When cooking with a heap of chili, inhaling the steam is very offensive. I would suggest that smoke from burning chillies may contain a gentler heat content, but I should expect heat to be transferred.
heat as in chili heat I mean, it sucks that we don't have a different word for it.

Yeah, it definitely carries in the smoke. The ancient Mayans used to punish a wayward child by holding his head over chillies burning on a fire. Pretty rough but it probably worked.

I'm intrigued now, will have to by something from Coles and smoke it with chilli (maybe should by something from the strange looking Hippy dude down the street and smoke that first)
Nigel you must be about as busy as me
Kuda Melb trip seems to be off til September now, same month as Trout fishing weekend at Donnelly Lakes, September will be a good month

Coles ??? Why ?

Every country town has a butcher, even Narrogin. I saw it there last year when I was walking around town on a Sunday morning trying to find something to eat. Turned out the baker near the pub was it. There's something special about a chilli pie and iced coffee at 7am on freezing cold Sunday.

Busy is right - 2 Chilliettes (just hitting teenagerhood), Mrs Chilli, ChilliDog, the renovation and a day job - gotta try and squeeze my own interests in there as well somewhere.

yeh nigel we have a bucher, 2 in fact but they don't sell fish, and meat at $33 a kg, will wait for my powerball nah the baker is separate but next door, they do the best chili pies as well

Ooopps that wasn't very AP of me was it - I was thinking pork shoulder or something like that.

Got some mackerel which probably isn't a AP produce either, but have about 50 dry Habanero chillies and the experiment will begin tomorrow arvo , a mate reckons the chilli heat (your right kuda, is a drama that word in this context) will go through the fish,
so how many chillies would last about 15 minutes on the heat beads?
should I soak the chillis in water first?
Should I try a Chilli & Jarrah Mix.................Nah go all out
Does this mean I will be a Pioneer? or just plain stupid
Will post the results on Sunday, probably be like Johnny Cash in the morning "Burning Ring of Fire"
My secret recipe and instructions may remain just that.........secret

If you find those Chilli's don't give enough heat (spice) , let me know , I have some Thai chilli's that I onced used as very effective paint stripper:)

Chappo they are 100,000-250,000 on the Scoville scale so they should be fine, grew some thai chillis and ate them with my beer

Not these ones:) First time I tried I actually got blisters on the inside of my mouth ,, AHHHHHHHH

Well have half chickened out of the full blown chilli thing, bit of investigating have decided may be too hot, but I am going to do some fish full blown chilli, and some Jarrah Chilli mix and some just Jarrah to compare, stay tuned

Well trial has been done. results can be viewed here viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5918