[HN Gopher] Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pe... ___________________________________________________________________ Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (2016) Author : Petiver Score : 17 points Date : 2021-05-20 03:05 UTC (19 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | NelsonMinar wrote: | After reading this article a few years ago I mail ordered some | Long Pepper to try at home. I love black pepper's flavor and am | always looking for better kinds of pepper; the idea there's a | related spice that's "better" was exciting to me. | | No such luck. The flavor was nice but definitely milder than high | quality black peppercorns. And not appreciably different. I mean | maybe I got unlucky and got a stale batch or something, but I | wasn't impressed. An added drawback is long pepper has a lot more | plant material; the interior of each pepper is pretty fibrous and | flavorless. Works OK with a spice grinder but not great. I ended | up not using very much of it before turning most of it into | extract. Eventually I threw it out. | | If that doesn't dissuade you, you can order more long pepper than | you're likely to use for about $11 from an online store in | Chicago: https://www.thespicehouse.com/products/long-pepper | cromka wrote: | > I love black pepper's flavor and am always looking for better | kinds of pepper; | | If you haven't yet, I'd recommend trying fresh green | peppercorn, which is actually same species as what we commonly | know as black peppercorn - except unripe. I had a great | pleasure in trying multiple dishes incorporating it when I | traveled to Vietnamese Phu Quoc island, where they also grow it | in abundance. It's astonishing how differently it tastes, | especially considering you actually get to consume whole | grains, thanks to their milder spiciness. Much recommended. | thenewwazoo wrote: | Have you tried grains of paradise? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-20 23:01 UTC)