My knowledge of chillies is patchy at best. I grow them every year and scatter them on pizzas or in my spicy tomato soup, and lately we’ve started making our own chilli at home, but I’ve never been certain what colour is best.
We pick them when they’re green because that’s generally when we need them, but the last few we have on our plants in the greenhouse now are starting to turn red. This is exciting indeed, but the question is: are these hotter than the green ones, cooler, or no different at all?
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Red chillis are 2-3 times hotter than green, also the smaller the chilli the hotter it is. I’ll agree that the smaller they are, the hotter they are from experience.
I’ve done some reading & a lot of talking about chilli peppers over the years. I reckon that its variety of chilli not the size that makes them hotter although some of the smaller ones are extremely hot. Scotch Bonnet is one of the more firey ones & is larger than the average chilli. Some of my friends reckon that green & red chilli’s are the same when it comes to heat but have different flavours. Red been sweeter than the green. Last week i planted this years chilli seeds. I’ve managed to get some Habenero hot choclate chilli seeds they are rated 9 out of 10 for intensity. Can’t wait for them to grow.