I sent several manufacturers a request with photos of my chili peppers... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2017, 06:37:53 pm
content: (facepalm)I needed a product made - some machining of plastic with a few special features, which were best explained by photo. We already had it done once, but the original manufacturer went belly up, so we were looking for a new one.So I took a few pictures from several angles with my phone, copied them to the disk, included them in the message I composed as well as a partial blueprint. I sent that message (just editing the header) to several Slovakian and Czech companies that could probably do it, asking them some preliminary questions and guesstimates...I found out later that I miss clicked and accidentally added a one other picture from my phone - a photo of my chili peppers I grew at home.So, that was the day that a lot of companies dealing with specific types of plastics in Slovakia and the Czech Republic got to see my chili peppers.By the way, they were delicious

author: jaromir
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 18, 2017, 06:42:26 pm
content: It could go much worse than just pictures of chili peppers.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2017, 06:42:54 pm
content: It's not over until you get back plastic chili peppers.

author: Len
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2017, 09:37:31 pm
content: So WHERE'S THE PHOTO? You can't write that story without including the pepper pic!I've received pepper photos from a friend who grows them, they can be quite colourful and pretty.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 08:54:10 pm
content: Here's the thing about peppers. The rest of the world have pepper sauces, and the US has Tobasco, which is easily the best family of condiments ever conjured up. There is no finer pepper sauce.and if any of you DARE say sriracha I will get the longest 2x4 I can find and bust your kneecaps in /joke

author: Old Don
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 09:12:50 pm
content: I grew up in Buffalo and ate chicken wings before the rest of the world ever heard of them. (Used to be free at happy hour back then!) As far and general purpose hot sauce, I think Cholula is better since I'm not into and vinegar. I do respect Gen. McIlhenny and his WWII service and his cookbook.Be gentle with the 2x4 - I already have two new knees and don't want to have to go through getting two more screwed it.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 09:16:16 pm
content: Quote from: Old Don on October 19, 2017, 09:12:50 pmI am honestly not a large fan of most vinegars, but Tobasco is the exception. The pure amazing that goes into the recipes, I just wish I could try every sauce.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 09:23:11 pm
content: Speaking of Tobasco... I should cook chilli con carne some time soon. One of the ingredients is two drops of Tobasco.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 09:48:15 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on October 19, 2017, 09:23:11 pmTWO DROPS!? I slosh about a teaspoon or two of Tabasco on my eggs alone.I don't find Tabasco sauce all that hot, it just has a nice peppery spank and adds a really lovely flavour.

author: Len
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 10:00:51 pm
content: Quote from: Old Don on October 19, 2017, 09:12:50 pmThe proof is, you call them "chicken wings". I grew up near there, didn't know they were called "Buffalo wings" until I moved to the West Coast.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 10:11:46 pm
content: https://youtu.be/A0o6z_qoVXc

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 11:00:39 pm
content: Pfff. Tabasco ... chilies... I only use juniper berries for food and tinywater when needed. Much better than chili in tinywater or Tabasco which is totally useless, only vinegar it tastes.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2017, 11:30:58 pm
content: The masters who grow their own chiles and hang them on the eaves of their houses in Mew Mexico to dry.. if you like chile..that's the place to go to have the best chile sauce anywhere.See below.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 01:17:33 pm
content: I think a lot of people forget that there isn't just one Tobasco sauce.There are many different varieties with all sorts of flavours. Possibly my favourite for taste would be Tobasco Chipotle flavor. That goes REALLY well on almost anything baked, fried, etc. I put Tobasco Habenero in my tuna fish sandwiches. The original is also very good, but it's not all there is out there. Heck, Tobasco even recently released their own brand of Sriracha sauce. I hate Sriracha as it brings 0 flavour and it's not much spicy, but if anybody can make a decent Sriracha it's the McIlhenny company.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 01:53:00 pm
content: Quote from: daqq on October 18, 2017, 06:37:53 pmSo...did you receive 3D-printed samples?Now seriously. What is a good story without a picture. Post the images of your pepper, I'm really curious.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 02:01:48 pm
content: Quote from: jaromir on October 18, 2017, 06:42:26 pmUnless that's a Slovakian euphemism we're unaware of.

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 02:53:32 pm
content: We are lucky to have an annual Chili Pepper Festival here. Vendors from all over bring their various sauces and you can sample and buy - I tend to have a decent collection on hand, because as only a hot sauce aficionado can understand, different sauce types go with different types of food. I don't like Tabasco on Mexican food, but I also don't like a Mexican sauce like Cholula on something like jambalaya. My usual go-to is Frank's. One thing I DON'T buy are the crazy insane hot ones - I like hot and spicy, but there has to be FLAVOR. If I wanted to burn my face off, I'd just get some pepper spray.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 03:15:31 pm
content: Mmmm.. that sounds delicious! Do you live in... Brooklyn?Quote from: rrinker on October 20, 2017, 02:53:32 pm

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 03:28:50 pm
content: No, the pepper festival takes place in a field in a small town called Bowers, in Pennsylvania.

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 05:16:46 pm
content: QuoteIf it is no one told me.QuoteApologies, see attachment :-D

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 06:42:01 pm
content: I have to admit, those are nice peppers. Bonus points for the chickens and cats wash cloth.

author: Ice-Tea
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 06:46:55 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on October 19, 2017, 09:48:15 pmHe's Dutch. He thinks Heineken's beer.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 07:07:11 pm
content: Not to throw some discord into the Benelux countries but:Whichbeeris better? Belgian or Dutch?In the company I work for, we have business centers both in the Netherlands and Belgium.Once in a meeting at our corporate headquarters in Boston, I was in lunch break with an engineer from each site.So I asked the exact same question, expecting to hear some banter between the two...To my surprise, the Dutch engineer without hesitation answered: "No contest, the Belgian beer is better".But he immediately added: "But our soccer team is better".

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 07:19:04 pm
content: Quote from: Ice-Tea on October 20, 2017, 06:46:55 pmAren't you Dutch too?

author: Old Don
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 08:39:25 pm
content: Quote from: rrinker on October 20, 2017, 02:53:32 pmFrank's is the sauce invented at the Anchor Bar, original home of the Buffalo style chicken wing.https://www.anchorbar.com/index.phpBut Duff's is the place most locals go for hot wings.http://www.duffswings.com/

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 09:05:05 pm
content: Here we have curry competitions, some of which might also be classed as weapons of destruction for what they do to your stomach. the chilli sauces are nice, and a lot better than that US one in my opinion in many cases. Then again with a curry you generally get a serving of carrots and chopped green chillis as a side sambals salad, just in case you feel it is not hot enough you can ask for the red ones as well to be added.I have chilli bushes outside, but sadly almost never get to enjoy them, they get stolen as soon as they start ripening. Must definitely get some ghost chilli seeds and see if they will grow here, the regular little devil chillis are pretty potent.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 20, 2017, 10:27:07 pm
content: Stolen by deer or people? You've probably already considered putting up a fence.

author: Ice-Tea
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2017, 09:41:19 am
content: Quote from: Mr. Scram on October 20, 2017, 07:19:04 pmBelgian. Or Flemish. Not Dutch. Even though we speak the same language: not the same thing.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 21, 2017, 01:17:52 pm
content: Quote from: TwoOfFive on October 19, 2017, 08:54:10 pmI dunno, I’ve never been a fan of Tabasco. It’s not salty enough for my taste. Tabasco is heavy on vinegar and light on salt; I prefer sauces that are high on salt and use less or no vinegar. (What I don’t want in them is sugar. I also am unmoved by sriracha.) I do enjoy the green (jalapeño) Tabasco, though!But you’re wrong, in a sense, to say that the US has Tabasco: it’s truly the only global chili sauce. I don’t think any other brand comes close to having as broad a distribution. When I first moved to Switzerland from USA as a kid in 1992, the only hot sauce you could get here was Tabasco. (To this day, I bring back Frank’s and Crystal hot sauces from USA; the Mexican ones like Cholula I can get at the Mexican grocery.)P.S. As a Tabasco fanboy, you should learn that there is onlyone“o” in its name!

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2017, 02:57:13 am
content: Single "O".......That is correct, the Mexican state of Tabasco, whose capital is Villahermosa:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco