Peppercorns

Barriehie said:
Boatloads of all types...

Amazon.co.uk : fresh green peppercorns
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It’s really a recommendation I’m after.
Amazon is ok but you often don’t know what quality you’re getting and they charge absurd amounts.
£9 for 100g of fresh peppercorns!
Or on the known brand side £4.50 for 115grams of opies brined which should be £1.50!

It’s probably asking too much but I’d really like to find a reliable seller of reasonably priced fresh green peppercorns.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It’s really a recommendation I’m after.
Amazon is ok but you often don’t know what quality you’re getting and they charge absurd amounts.
£9 for 100g of fresh peppercorns!
Or on the known brand side £4.50 for 115grams of opies brined which should be £1.50!

It’s probably asking too much but I’d really like to find a reliable seller of reasonably priced fresh green peppercorns.
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Oh. Do you have room to grow them? Around here if you plant peppers/chili's you don't really have to do anything except harvest and maybe occasionally water.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Talking of produce I’d like to obtain fresh green peppercorns but they never seem to be available.
Anyone know of a reliable source or maybe there’s a brined brand?
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I brought some back from Waitrose last July. The ones in brine - I seem to remember buying a Spanish variety some while ago.
Might have been this brand:
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karadekoolaid said:
I brought some back from Waitrose last July. The ones in brine - I seem to remember buying a Spanish variety some while ago.
Might have been this brand:
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Waitrose was the first place I checked, followed by Ocado. Nada 😞
They may sell them at another Waitrose but not the one near me.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Found This one and Another one and Yet another one and Even one more
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Yes I can find them but I was after a recommendation from someone ie not an internet search lucky dip 😂
But thanks for looking.

Anyway I guess no-ones going to be able to tell me where to buy fresh peppercorns (although I had thought someone maybe able to recommend a brined brand they like and I might be able to pick them up somewhere without paying £5.95 p&p for a 1.50 product 😬

Then I thought ok I’ll pay up and go with Opies as they’re a known, they might be ok.
Then I thought sod it and ordered four lots of fresh peppercorns online. Apparently they freeze well.

Fingers crossed the website is reliable 🤞
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Yes I can find them but I was after a recommendation from someone ie not an internet search lucky dip 😂
But thanks for looking.

Anyway I guess no-ones going to be able to tell me where to buy fresh peppercorns (although I had thought someone maybe able to recommend a brined brand they like and I might be able to pick them up somewhere without paying £5.95 p&p for a 1.50 product 😬

Then I thought ok I’ll pay up and go with Opies as they’re a known, they might be ok.
Then I thought sod it and ordered four lots of fresh peppercorns online. Apparently they freeze well.

Fingers crossed the website is reliable 🤞
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Freeze well yes. I've got oodles of frozen Tobasco chili's and chiltepin peppers and except for being really wet when they thaw out you'd never know. 👍
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
But thanks for looking.
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That's ok - but I'm pretty sure I used Delicias when I was cooking for loads of people. Pretty sure, but not absolutely.
Anyway... to be brutally honest, one pickled pepper from another.
I can feel a tongue-twister coming..
Proper pickled peppercorns, primarily green pickled peppercorns, picking prime peppercorns from picky peppercorn pickers...
(OK, I give up! :laugh: :laugh:)
 
karadekoolaid said:
That's ok - but I'm pretty sure I used Delicias when I was cooking for loads of people. Pretty sure, but not absolutely.
Anyway... to be brutally honest, one pickled pepper from another.
I can feel a tongue-twister coming..
Proper pickled peppercorns, primarily green pickled peppercorns, picking prime peppercorns from picky peppercorn pickers...
(OK, I give up! :laugh: :laugh:)
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I did start off thinking they’ll all be of a likeness. Then thought of my experiences of other brined or pickled products and they vary wildly.
A capers not just a caper, a pickled onions not just a pickled onion etc etc.

There’s no reason peppers won’t vary as wildly as any other organic product based on the growing climate, the type of pepper grown, when it was harvested, how quickly they were brined and the method n ingredients they used to do it.

I’m sure what with it being a spice it’s no different from a chilli or any other spice or seed in that the variety and the weather have a huge impact on the consistency and pungency of final product.
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Anyway I guess no-ones going to be able to tell me where to buy fresh peppercorns (although I had thought someone maybe able to recommend a brined brand they like and I might be able to pick them up somewhere without paying £5.95 p&p for a 1.50 product 😬
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There was an online shop I used to use in the UK, an Asian grocer that I could get fresh curry leaves from and tamarind still in its shell. They might have some of I can find the link
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
There was an online shop I used to use in the UK, an Asian grocer that I could get fresh curry leaves from and tamarind still in its shell. They might have some of I can find the link
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Thanks SatNav but hang fire on your efforts until the ones I’ve ordered arrive. If they’re rubbish I’ll be back on you to you!
 
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