The Wild Chiltepin Pepper -Primitive Foraging and Survival Food-
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- A chili pepper that grows wild in the south, the chiltepin is a strong and useful spice to find along the trail. For those of you Schadenfreude, I do end up eating one at the end...
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When our chiltepin peppers are ripe we made a homemade sort of V8 juice in a blender (with cucumber, celery, a little onion, any lettuces, carrots and beets -- all raw) and for a blenderful (about a quart or up to 5 cups) we put in only THREE (3) of those little red round peppers -- or four if you want it hotter. My housemate feels less pain when she drinks these juices, and I just love it. You CAN feel the heat just using three. They are amazing and we love them. Thanks so much for the tip about using them for pest control...!
They also taste better than most peppers.
I grew up in San Antonio Texas, & had a few bushes growing wild in the back yard. We used to play ‘pinto bean surprise’. You cook up a pot of pinto beans, drop a few chili tepins into the pot, & before long……….SURPRISE !
I toss them on sunny side up eggs just right before the white part fully cooks , they stay put and retain the crisp bite.
Tepins are my favorite pepper. I keep a pint of then in the freezer, ans
d a bottle of pickled tepins on the table. Years ago, you could buy them dried at the store, and I would keep a jar of them on my kitchen table. My then Brother in law thought they were Spanish Peanuts, and scooped a handfull up and popped them into his mouth.
After that he would ask about everything before he touched it.
Take 7-9 of them, add to a can of diced tomatoes with some garlic and onion, and blend well. Makes a killer sause.
Thank you for an enjoyable video.
I loved your video. I grew up in Guatemala and my grandfather would grow these in his back yard . I would see him eat them for breakfast , lunch and dinner . I remember he would eat about 15-20 at lunch while washing it down with straight whiskey . I now have been eating them for about 10 years , I eat about 4-5 with every meal.
Wow your grandfather was straight gansta 😂🙏💙💙💙
Taste of these peppers are delicious..
Pastel motar.
Chile tepin
Salt
Roasted dark soft garlic.
Lime..
Best salsa delicious. Spicy but awesome
Common chili in Sonoron salsas and here in southern Arizona(south of Phoenix area).
We see similar ones in Phoenix, but more pointed...
Im from Sweden and I eat these on a daily basis, they are so good to have with some crunchy cheesedoodles :)
Interesting 🧐
This video is old but chiletepin and chile Piquin are two different chile. Two different plants. Tepin are small rounded and Paquin are more oval and longer.
we have these growing all over our property, my wife has picked buckets of them, shes just eating them strait.
its amazing how much food we have growing here.
Dude I eat three or four of them with everything I eat, there so good packed full of flavor
I apologize, yes I did have a smirk on my face and was shaking my head. We had one of these plants when I was a kid. They are ungodly hot! Look forward to all your videos! Thanks for sharing!
Whisky ,Tango ,Fox trot ! Love your vids brother . Being from Tejas myself ,as a kid I remember my grandfather having a jar filled with those chilly patines and vinegar for eggs and breakfast on the table at all times . I once told my little sister that the little plant outside grandpas house had redhots on them ,a cinnamon candy we used to eat as kids. Man did I get a lot of whoopins when I was a kid lol . ,Love your vids brother ,thank you for the laugh !
we have thousands on sonora, i grew up eating this chilis with my fried eggs and beans. omg 5 on breakfast and 5 for dinner, you have no idea but im sure this is the most delicious pepper in the world
I made some sauce from my Chiltepin peppers this year. It is delicious. I often grab one off the bush and pop it in my mouth for a little snack.
I've always had them around my house when young in Texas had to bring a plant when moved to Louisiana now I have six. Makes a great salsa also. Sometimes the green ones are hotter than the red.
i love Chiltepin! i use them with my dried Jalokia's makes the base for my pain sauce.
My absolute favorite pepper. The taste is great and the heat is just right. It doesn’t burn your mouth for more than 10-15 minutes, making you want to eat a couple of more with your meal.
excellent video, bob. i love to gather these little peppers and let em dry a few weeks, then mix a few onto my steak and eggs for breakfast. i agree about the importance of spices. i have a video planned soon on that subject in a few weeks when ill be in colorado. not only from a flavor standpoint, which is very crucial when youre eating some unappetizing wild foods, but also would be great items t otrade and barter with in a SHTF situation, just looks at the history books, people sailed the oceans to far off lands, in search for the new herbs and spices to trade.
You are absolutely right. We put it in vinegar and use the vinegar to kick things up a notch. Have a few more flavors to mess with this year. More plans for sure.
An awesome pepper. I have gotten a hold of some seeds a while ago. Grew them in a plastic bucket. the plants lasted 3 years, almost. I live in PA and they didn't do well outdoors much past early fall. I harvested some and dried and keep them in a used spice jar. They do not taste very good, but give some great heat to my chili and roast deer.
Put them in a jar with a spoonful of salt, garlic clove and 1/3 vinegar, and they pickle and are so hot and good.
😋😋😋 That's what I was thinking to do with it .where I came from Thi's how we enjoy them pickles the green one then trow the salty water out and add oil and make chilli sauce with the Red one .🇺🇲🇲🇺
Good video Bob and loving the new camera quality. 1080p Texas is a beautiful thing to see.
Image really pops. There is a beauty to each season. Might have to post a few scenic vids at some point.
I grow them at my Nursery here in Tucson, Arizona and I love eating them raw all day. THEYRE SOO GOOD! My favorite pepper by far.
4:19 OMG that change of the tone of ur voice ! It's so epic haha =D
Dried out they are great on pizza
I can't grow enough of these, my friends are always asking for tepin flakes.
@@ryanmccabe1036 are they less spicer dried out?
@@flippatheshippa Not in my experience. Although putting flakes on food is quite different than eating the whole pepper.
Great video Bob, you are a true Texican. I grew up with these little babies and learned the hard way when I was about 7 yo. I have a full quart jar of the green ones in vinegar now for a full year. Time to start using them in my famous hot sauce now. Thanks you.
WE have a few bottles as well. Give them away as Christmas gifts on wet years. Something distinctly Texan for sure.
One of my Spanish friends told me that they grow all over Puerto Rico also. He loves it when I give him some.
I agree that it is great to know how to make food taste good in the outdoors. Not only in survival but in all kind of camping.
Thanks for sharing - Martin
Thanks for watching martin. Variety is the spice of life... or is spice the variety of life? ; )
You are a wealth of knowledge man, thanks!
There's so much out there. Enjoying sharing this stuff, and getting to make some good connections and friends along the way that teach me a thing or two as well. Thanks for watching senior.
@@BobHansler oii
Soaked in vinegar they make a wonderful sauce for turnip and mustard greens. They kick greens up to a high level.
Whoa. That was crazy. I eat habanero peppers raw. But for some reason, I would've never done that? Wow! Like I said..He's a Man's, Man. Lol
These grow wild for me in the backyard, a little goes a long way. Hilarious story, sounds a lot like growing up around my house!
I used to pick wild piquin and chiltepin growing up in Texas. Cant wait to get back home.
I remember someone got me to eat one long ago. Will never forget it.
We cooked and ate some wild sunflower buds the other day. Something new.
In Central Texas we see them on creek and riverbanks. My grandfather had a plant that was watered by a dripping window air conditioner. That plant was there fir well over twenty years.
I grow in my house those are native to central American we call them chilpepe
I'll eat 3 or 4 with a meal when they are around. My grandfather would pick them and dry them. We had a family member during tamale season always ask my grandmother to make him several dozens with lots of chilli del monte.
Great video Bob. I've known people to add them to vinegar for use as a condiment, as already mentioned here. I grow them in the Houston burbs. You can also use them to protect your garden. Pick a bunch, mash them up, throw them in some water and boil then for a short time. Strain the liquid and then spray it onto your garden plants that critters are eating. It won't stop birds, they love the peppers as it is. But it does help with caterpillars, aphids and a little bit with leaf footed stink bugs, which are a huge garden pest. It can also help some w stopping rodents and opossums from eating your tomatoes and tree fruit.
Good stuff, I'll have to ru some test trials. Squash leaves are looking horrible at the moment.
+Bob Hansler If is summer squash, that may be because you have Squash Vine Borer inside your vines. They will eventually kill your squash. There aren't good organic options, other than just planting early, so that you get some harvest. The Borer is a grub that eats the inside of your vines. Since it is inside the plant, not much effects it, like a citrus leaf miner. Eventually, the plant just seems to melt. The adult borer looks a little like a bee. I've tried spraying w BT w/o much luck. Some people say keeping the vines, except for the flowers, covered w mulch makes it hard for the Borer to lay eggs on the plant. Some squash types (not summer squash so much) also root along the vine, which helps them fight the damage the Borer does. Personally, I plant early, throw mulch over the vines when I think about it, and hope for the best. If you want organic-ish late season squash, try one of the types from India, their vines are too tough for the Borer. I heard one farmer say that small planting get hit harder than larger ones. That does not make sense to me, I think he just sprayed better bug poison.
Birds do not have capsaicin receptors, apperantly God/nature was pretty smart when it comes to those little seed spreaders. I discovered this while researching the pepper fly worm that I find sometimes in my garden grown reapers.
Get These chillis with some rosted tomatillos and garlic then grind it up it makes a great salsa for grilled anything
So glad you ate one. Thanks for that. Just seems a shame to have a video about a naturally growing peoper if you don't eat one.
pepper
I learned the hard way when I was very little. I still feel it.
Great for homemade pepper spray.🌱
Great video. I ate one of those once. I'll never do that again. With those things a little goes a very, very long way.
Got the 12 ga out and got a dove after watching your dove video. Yup...taste like chicken. nice videos always a pleasure to watch
Awesome. Quite a few more creatures that I'll be showing the cleaning and cooking of over the coming years. Thanks for watching.
a good food/spice variety = good metal health it can keep you positive!
They also grow wild in the Houston area,but up here in Fort Worth they do not but I have one growing in a pot
Probably makes a great salsa. I lovely peppers! Carolina dealers are my go to peppers especially when fill pickled
The last part was too funny. Hope y’all are doing well
I'm going straight to Hell for laughing so hard 🤣. Hope your eyesight is improving Bob. Take care.
Hi Bob,Just had to comment! lol... Love your videos, and this one was great!! I live outside Austin, TX. I've collected, pickled, and used these peppers and I love them, but your right, a little dab will do you!!!! Keep up the good work!
LOVE SPICY CHILES,CAROLINA REAPER,CHILTEPIN,GHOST PEPPER 😋😋😋😋😋 BUT CHILTEPIN HAD THE BEST FLAVOR
Yogurt seems to work better than milk. That's Bob for the information
Orale!! I've survived eating the green ones...my dad makes a great roasted salsa with the chilipitins.....great tip on detering rodents. Gracias!
We make an enhanced vinegar out of it and I've dried and crushed it to add to rubs. It definitely shakes things up. Appreciate the viewership and thank you for the kind words.
Just tried one green one first time in my life, all of the sudden all the rest of the dish was in me :D that should be given to the people with appetite disorder to help them feed better.
Great job on your videos. Better job as the head of the family... I would love to see a video on bellotas, piñones and manzanitas. (Acorns, pine nuts and manzanitas)
Working on some of that.
Very good video,love see information about plants.
Fantastic work. Always a pleasure learning from these videos.
I'm glad for all of the support. It's pretty unexpected on a silly wild pepper video. Appreciate it, we'll keep it up.
My favorite recipe.LIME JUICE SALT AND PEPPERS
I make it in a hot sauce with vinegar, onions, green beans, carrots, lemon and lime juice, and peas.
I have one of these plants in my garden, I'll be playing that game next week.
Right on! My kind of folks.
Power to ya man. I'd have done the same, just wouldn't feel right not to pop one to wrap things up. Hope your tongue feels a bit better. We do appreciate these video! Love some of the gear you use too, always giving me ideas for the camp & survival kits. Thanks for another great vid!
I am Montagnard degar I like bird pepper they grew wild in my village I used to pick they tast good
Love hot peppers. There not that hot. They do have a nice pop to them. Yes sir.
i eat pequin like peanuts,i love them,and at 60k scoville it hardly moves my heat needle,but then again i got a little tolerance,i grow jalokia,bhutla,and reapers,and eat them all the time..its kind of addicting...with red beans and cornbread ,ill eat a couple dozen pequins,or a few of my long green cayenne
Chiltepin is not pequin or piquin is different. I grew a good amazingly spicy ones, now im growing jolokia and Trinidad
Love those chillies! See those grow out of no where same native land of yours in beautiful South Texas. Keep on with the vids!
They pop up in some pretty interesting places at times. It's good to see them make a comeback after so many years of drought.
+Bob Hansler yes sir! All the rain here is keeping everything nice and green!
great video man! Always happy to see your new videos.
Happy to have them out. Taking a bit to get used to the summer heat and humidity from all of this flooding. We'll keep on doing what we're doing. Thanks for watching!
Bob Hansler Awesome, I hope to get some of my own outdoors videos going this year. Hopefully you can check them out when the time comes.
Great video Bob, hard to imagine (from UK) that a chilli pepper like that growing wild.
They are numerous in good rainy years. Used to hunt turkey more as a kid. Opening the craw i''d find grasshoppers and handfuls of these chilis. They grow along my cliff faces, most often in places that are hard to get to, shelfs and heavily brushed areas.
They're not too bad! And I don't feel ashamed for laughing!
LOL -- sure cleared out your sinuses, didn't it....
This was a good fun video.
Thank you.
More to come. No telling what we'll get into after a while.
if it burns going in, its going to burn a lot more coming out. use for salsa, tacos, burritos, enchiladas. eat these often. grow them.
Been eating Chili Pequin since I was a kid and I love it dried & crushed. The M&M episode sounds like it could have been Funny/Not Funny. The Game sounds like a good time too! HaHa
Ehh, she had picked a few off of the plant when noone was looking. She thought they were pretty... The game though, played by adults is beyond hilarious. Good times for most ; )
ive had several...i usually go for the green or the red FRESH off the vine. This is a wide range pepper as far as scoville rating. Ive had several duds in any color...ive had some that destroyed me in green or red.Very unpredictable. They have the widest range as far as Scoville, 30,000 to 1,700,000.. which is an average red Chili level to way beyond a Ghost pepper in heat...close to a Carolina Reaper and its in that tiny pepper. A great little pepper
i call bullshit on the 1.5 mill..about 60 k,is all you gonna get out of a pequin
I'm from Deep South Texas San Benito Texas as a matter of fact Cameron County 956 spice is life. I have one in my front yard and one in my backyard In a taco damn good.Buddy keep up the good work love you videos
I haven't made it that far south in quite some time, might have to make a trip to see some cleaner waters. Thanks for watching. We'll keep on making it happen.
HAHAHA you are awesome man, love your videos!
I agree about the flavour thing 😎
lol, the chiltepin game sounds fun
That was hilarious lol. Great video!
This is the best pelee for seafood!!!
I used to eat a cookie called a "killer bee". It used the small flakes from a dried pequin in a sugar cookie base. The contrast was delicious. Of course, I am from Texas too. We seem to appreciate hot spices. Could be due to Louisiana as much as Mexico ;-)
Cookie sounds interesting, I'll have to look into that. Cholula is an almost weekly grocery expense in this family. Have to get use to these chilis again, they are just now making a comeback after all of these years of drought.
Btw, they only used a trace of flakes but you knew they were there ;-)
I however just found out about Jalapeno Margaritas earlier this year. I have loved both of those ingredients forever, I was surprised I hadnt had the combo. Another sweet/hot winner.
Used to find chili beer. Had a big jalepeno floating around in the bottle off the shelf. Good stuff.
Yeah those things are hot!! A scorpion sting goes away about 100 times faster
Hey Bob, I asked you about sending me some peppers off my other channel, I'm from Chicago but currently I'm out here in Texas, sequin Texas that is, thought if you were close by maybe you could show me were to find some.
Surgery coming up, bad timing. I'll get my daughter to look for them and see if they came up this yar
Bob Hansler , sending you prayers brother, hoping for a great outcome on your surgery. No worries your health comes first.
Yup! I feel ashamed! When I first seen a bush, my husband did not give me a pepper, but, gave me a small stem and told me it was a Mexican toothpick. I don't recommend those either.
What a shame...yu Shud have ate one...they are awsome
my mom grows these down in Georgia. they love eating them right off the bush
Are you sure that it isn't one of the sweeter varieties? If not, your mom is more of a man than I am.
+Bob Hansler well she does have a bigger mustache than you sooo.
+Bob Hansler but no really, just like yours , green and red. I can't do it either.
Great video 🤙🏾
I have eaten them raw Malabar spinach raw will take away the heat also known as climbing spinach,however if you eat to much of this combination does have side effects,I am sure you can imagine.
very nice video! I bet you can pickle these peppers, may taste very good !
We pickle them, but most times we will only use the hot vinegar, leaving the peppers in the bottle.
That was awesome 😎
Bob, you're a stud.
I feel confident enough in my masculinity to take that as a compliment. Almost had to turn in my man card there for a moment at the end though.
Bob Hansler very cool video interesting too greetings from UK England Essex near London I knows the peppers are great to keep rats away makes em sing too lol I had some real hot peppers hanging up to dry first ones wernt hot enough rats ate my stash so I switched to Carolina reaper peppers omg lol rats were screaming making weird noises but they didn't touch my stash again 💪🐺🐾💕👌🐀😈
I have played that game lol
another great video
Appreciate it. Not as interesting as the last, but worth documenting.
lmao....... appreciate all ur vids.....
Something for everyone ; ) Thinking it's crawfish time tomorrow.
+Bob Hansler Hell yeah! ! Love crawfish..&Ur video about catching, eating, &cooking- just everything on them.
hi big buddy, how are you? i know this is a old video , i love to grow hot peppers. i was wondering if you ever have any seeds to spare? also in spanish doesn't nas mas gardener mean no more gardener? lol.
your vids are the best!
Appreciate it. They are getting better I think. Well keep making them and moving forward. Thanks for watching.
That was great. Way to keep it together. Haha.
my favorite pepper
You make a good point in this video. Spices can be life saving. Good direction with this video. Do you have any more ideas along this route.
You'd have to be more specific. Many of these things I learned and implemented over the years, but didn't give much thought to... having to pick through my day to day and pull out those things that are less than mainstream. I'd be interested in exploring your question further.
You are right. I should provide more details. One of the limits in hiking/camping/survival is how much you can haul. In the case of survival, you haven't had a chance to prepare food. So, you can extend the time you can hike and camp by living off the land. In survival it is imperative to know what you can gather to eat. Most people talk exclusively about protein gathering. Almost no one talks about what plants can be identified as edible. My idea is you have presented the peppers for flavor. Most other plants are will taste like cardboard. So adding an ad-hoc spice will make them more enjoyable. While taking some of the sting out of the hardship of survival. Maybe you could identify 3 or 4 plants that grow around most of the United States. So how to identify them. And show a couple of ways of preparing them so they taste edible. I think that your Yucca video was a step in the right direction. But didn't go far enough.
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Gotcha. I'll have to do some research as most of my knowledge is directly related to the south. I am working on a salt acquisition video, but it's going to be dynamic and will require some travel. Appreciate the advice, definitely on the list.
Thumbs up for info.
ENJOY....THE SIMPLE LIFE
There's always more out there. We'll keep them coming.
I'm from Texas, and lived south of Houston for a while. I know about the Chiltepin! Those little suckers will light you up!!! DO NOT EAT THEM! Use them as a spice only. They're perfect for adding heat to a pot of beans.
lmao. That is awesome. Good info too. I wonder if I could find any of those here in North Texas.
A freeze takes them down to the roots. Ive seen them uo there in flower beds, but they have to regrow each year.
I don't think we ever had an actual freeze this past winter, so I was
hopeful. I didn't miss that info from the vid. Also great info about
the palet and needing to switch it up after a while. I was hoping I could homemake pepper spray with these things.
Side note: Yes, they burn like hell. But because of their size and low seed count the burn doesn’t linger like bigger peppers. I’ve had young jalapeños less tolerable than these. Sometimes the heat is completely gone in as little time as 1 minute. I grow these in my backyard. It makes for a fun bbq prank once all the guests have had a few drinks.
try that prank late in the season,when they turn black...no flavor ,just fire,and a lot of it