Rumor started as part of a marketing campaign for his business. Charapita is cheap. Always has been, always will be, and if you don't believe me, I'll sell kilos at half price! hahahahaha
@@Brian-bw3uuchefs. It’s not easy to find. In Peru it’s cheap because they grow a lot of them over there and it’s high on demand compared to the USA or any other country where it’s not being grown in mass production.
@@joskojansa1235 We have the purple flower/dark seed variety of Capsicum flexsuosum in south Peru, Its not really consumed here due to its inferior taste (less fragrant/weird berry-like taste and low spice compared to charapita) and the fact that its really hard to germinate it. Rare is not allways more desirable. Ive seen it mainly be used by people in the Andes to make Amazonian peppers more cold resistant through breeding, that may be its main use here. Before it was exported charapita had a cost of 4 dollars per 500g in Peru, and that price hasn't changed here. So you are right, charapita is not expensive. It got to 20k due to being really tasty and scarce in Europe, before Peru started exporting and seeds became more available.
@@sourdough7818 Markets determine value of product. If charapita goes for 8$ per kilo, somebody got floxed along the way, most likely worker on the farm. That much I pay for regular nuclear chillies, en mass. Highest I ever sold a kilo of fresh chillies, was 40€. But I could ask for 100, and would gotten it easy. It was that rare of a chillie in europe. Back to flexuosum, I remember about 10 years ago, we were offering 2k€ for a living plant of flexuosum, but the deal never went through. Now I'm looking at one, that I got as a gift. Back to "20k$" chillies... if you research just on google, you will find sauces of 2dcl sold for 15k$. I dont know if there's a great many buyers for it, but I bet there are some that has too much profit laying on accounts, and rather spends it on such nonsense, then paying up in form of taxes. Taxes are why such products even exists. Like "cannabis cigar" that sells for 50k$.
The ACTUAL price per kill is more like 200 euros, not 20,000. A simple google for the powder would tell you that.
Rumor started as part of a marketing campaign for his business. Charapita is cheap. Always has been, always will be, and if you don't believe me, I'll sell kilos at half price! hahahahaha
I understand that it's labor intensive, but who pays that amount for chilies?
No one
@@Brian-bw3uuchefs. It’s not easy to find. In Peru it’s cheap because they grow a lot of them over there and it’s high on demand compared to the USA or any other country where it’s not being grown in mass production.
I SELL A DRIED CHARAPITA KILO FOR 400 DOLLARS. THEY ARE NOT 20 000 DOLLARS
20.000 € for 1kg? 🤣 Come on! Don't be silly.
Aji Charapita is quite common and relatively cheap.
ITS NOT THAT CHEAP. I SELL DRIED CHARAPITAS FOR 400 DOLLARS A KILO
@@josebastidas4927 Good for you. But common price is around $120 per kg.😉
I grow charapita…. In the us…
Lol right!! I can sell u 500 a kilo and that is way expensive already 🤣
this was actuall really intresting
wonderful chili. So labor intensive. I grew, dehydrated and made sauce from it.
This grows in my backyard.. 😂😂
Show me a receipt of a sale of 20.000 lol
There are much more expensive chillies than this one....
sounds interesting, name some, please
@@sourdough7818 Capsicum flexsuosum for one... and whole number of other wild strains. Or, one of my own strains.
@@joskojansa1235 We have the purple flower/dark seed variety of Capsicum flexsuosum in south Peru, Its not really consumed here due to its inferior taste (less fragrant/weird berry-like taste and low spice compared to charapita) and the fact that its really hard to germinate it. Rare is not allways more desirable. Ive seen it mainly be used by people in the Andes to make Amazonian peppers more cold resistant through breeding, that may be its main use here. Before it was exported charapita had a cost of 4 dollars per 500g in Peru, and that price hasn't changed here. So you are right, charapita is not expensive. It got to 20k due to being really tasty and scarce in Europe, before Peru started exporting and seeds became more available.
@@sourdough7818 Markets determine value of product. If charapita goes for 8$ per kilo, somebody got floxed along the way, most likely worker on the farm. That much I pay for regular nuclear chillies, en mass. Highest I ever sold a kilo of fresh chillies, was 40€. But I could ask for 100, and would gotten it easy. It was that rare of a chillie in europe. Back to flexuosum, I remember about 10 years ago, we were offering 2k€ for a living plant of flexuosum, but the deal never went through. Now I'm looking at one, that I got as a gift. Back to "20k$" chillies... if you research just on google, you will find sauces of 2dcl sold for 15k$. I dont know if there's a great many buyers for it, but I bet there are some that has too much profit laying on accounts, and rather spends it on such nonsense, then paying up in form of taxes. Taxes are why such products even exists. Like "cannabis cigar" that sells for 50k$.
It’s not a 9/10. Please do better. It’s nothing to a Carolina reaper or ghost pepper..
Jajajaja, es divertido ver la manera en como lo consumen
I grow Chili pequins and petins.
It just little bit hot!... What matted guy liked that ?!...