Talk:Jalapeño

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This article could use a section on growing these peppers. Here's a great photo for the section when it comes about (I love e'm, but I don't know diddly about growing them).

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Here's a page: http://www.guidesign.com/george/chilis.htm
Here's another: http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/vegetables/pepper.html
These pages are about growing peppers in general, not specifically jalapeños, but it's a start. 165.247.0.30 16:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
More pages:
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/containers.asp - about growing peppers in containers
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/peppers1.html - jalapeños take 70 days to harvest
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/profile_jalapeno.html - has a little bit of info
4.245.131.246 07:16, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/3378/habanero3.htm 4.245.185.152 23:00, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/ndx_gardening.asp - a bunch of articles on growing peppers. 4.245.158.124 15:31, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't think there's much of anything out there specifically about growing jalapeños - it's all about growing peppers in general. 4.245.224.49 17:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] 60 square kilometers of Mexico

That fact (60 sq. km. dedicated to growing jalapeños) didn't look quite right. I found http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/profile_jalapeno.html after a little searching, and it says:

In Mexico, commercial cultivation measures approximately 40,000 acres in three main agricultural zones: the Lower 
Palaloapan River Valley in the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca, northern Veracruz, and the area around Delicias, 
Chihuahua.

40,000 acres = 161.8749 km^2, which I rounded to 160. This still seems rather low.165.247.0.169 09:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

Folks, can someone put the pronunciation in Audio? Thank you.

I found an audio file at http://img.tfd.com/hm/prons/J0011550.wav and made a direct link in the article. 4.245.131.178 04:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

is the scoville rating correct? it is counterdicted in other article in wikipedia, if you could look into it i would be gratefull - a confused user

What article(s)? 4.245.149.140 10:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skin Burns

Though I know you need a reputable source to document the facts, I can say that I've burnt myself countless times from handling jalapenos. Especially thin skin areas and mucous membranes (such as rubbing your nose or eyes afterwards. It hurts!)

Exactly, "Handling fresh jalapeños may cause skin burns[citation needed]. Some handlers wear latex or vinyl gloves while cutting, skinning, or seeding jalapeños." That's totally inappropriate. In the wikipedia article for gravity, no one whines citation needed when it's stated that when you toss something in the air it's going to come back down. A large population of douchebags troll wikipedia getting off posting authoritarian crap like that.

There is no harm in stating the obvious. But I think a section on HOW to deal with jalapeno burns once you get them would be useful if anyone has any real information. -128.12.131.65 09:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Never seems to hurt me. But I am brave. I eat raw jalapenos all the time! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.211.33.170 (talk) 19:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Facts

"The jalapeño is a large to giant-size chili pepper that is prized for the cold, burning sensation that it produces in the left kidney when eaten."

Is this vandalism? I can't find any information to support this, and no source is given.--Swuster 07:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Dead Links

Hi all, about half the links in the "Dishes" sections point to Wiki articles that do not exist (Texas Toothpicks for example). I took a look at editing the page to remove the link but have no experience in the wiki way of doing things. Does someone who knows how want to remove the links?67.175.74.185 (talk) 21:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)