anyone know where red jalapeno can be ordered?

[Fanatical Meat]

I can find green jalapenos in local stores but I can find red jalapenos.
I've read you can ripen jalapenos in a bag with a ripe tomato but its not working house is too cool.
I don't need enormous bulk either but radiator sized bag would be OK. Fresno peppers are a bit too hot

 

[dullard]

Red Fresno peppers are 2,500 to 10,000 Scoville units.

Most Jalapenos are 2,500 to 10,000 Scoville units. Although some varieties can be down to 1,000 or as high as about 20,000.

So, they are fairly interchangeable even though they are different peppers. For years I used to use red Fresno's exclusively for heat in my cooking. They are quite pleasant in flavor without being too hot. You probably should just use fewer of them or eat them a bit more often to get used to the heat.

Otherwise, you need to find red and mild Jalapenos. That might be tough to find as they tend to be a little hotter when they turn red.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

We found the Fresco peppers close but a bit too hot, maybe it was just the brand we tried. I need them for an appetizer reducing the amount won't work.
Thanks for the info.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Red Fresno peppers are 2,500 to 10,000 Scoville units.

Most Jalapenos are 2,500 to 10,000 Scoville units. Although some varieties can be down to 1,000 or as high as about 20,000.

So, they are fairly interchangeable even though they are different peppers. For years I used red Fresno's exclusively for heat in my cooking. They are quite pleasant in flavor without being too hot. You probably should just use fewer of them or eat them a bit more often to get used to the heat.

Otherwise, you need to find red and mild Jalapenos. That might be tough to find as they tend to be a little hotter when they turn red.

You seem to have knowledge on this subject. The jalapenos we grew the green seemed hotter, maybe the extra sweetness of the red hid some heat I'm not sure.

 

[dullard]

I'm no expert, but I do grow a few pepper plants each year. The heat is extremely random. The very same pepper plant may produce peppers that are very mild on a certain week and hot the next week. I think it has to do with the amount of sun, temperature, and water the week or so before picking. But on average they get a bit hotter when they turn red. That doesn't mean you can't find a mild red and a hot green though.

A crude but fairly effective test is to smell the bins of peppers in the store. Your nose will let you know which bin of peppers are hotter if there are roughly equal numbers of peppers in the bin. That doesn't mean that every pepper in the bin is the same heat, but you can usually tell which bin is hotter on average. (Test works best with anaheim, green chilis, and similar low heat peppers, but can work crudely on many peppers).

 

[Danwar]

as a mexican who loves his jalapeños and eats them practically every single day ,full size cooked to bite a bit at a time , to cheese stuffed & wrapped in bacon , to cooked to be made into a salsa. i can tell you that there is no such thing as a guarantee of what you're getting with each one.

its all random. sometimes theyre not hot at all , sometimes it feels like the world is gonna end. it is totally random.

My mother in law uses an old family trick to pre-boil them with a little sugar in the water , and according to her it makes them a little less hot, though i always felt that is total BS.

 

[Ichinisan]

Substitute sriracha?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Substitute sriracha?

Can't I need rounds of them, green works its just better with at least some reds in them but you have a decent thought for anything else.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I can find green jalapenos in local stores but I can find red jalapenos.
I've read you can ripen jalapenos in a bag with a ripe tomato but its not working house is too cool.
I don't need enormous bulk either but radiator sized bag would be OK. Fresno peppers are a bit too hot

There is a tracker for red jalepenos on this website:

http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Red_Jalapeno_Chile_Peppers_810.php

 

[BoomerD]

FWIW, for the most part, red jalapenos are just ripe jalapenos. MOST will turn red (or reddish) if left on the plant long enough before picking. I just took out the last of my pepper plants the other day. I had green ones, red ones, and some orangey ones. My Serrano peppers are also a mix of green, red, and orange.

Fresno peppers tend to be a bit hotter than jalapenos, but the walls of the pepper are thinner, so you get less "meat" with them.