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Our Top 10 Chilli Recipes

February 19, 2011

I’ve been receiving a lot of mail from readers recently about our recipes. We’ve been posting chilli related recipes on the site for quite a while now so I thought I’d pull together a list of our top 10 most popular recipes we’ve posted here on the ChilliKing over the last few years in case [...]

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Buy Chilli Futures!

February 17, 2011

I was interested to read in the press that chillies are trading at an all time high. This article describes how the this years poor crop due to flooding and bad weather across India, Bangladesh as well as flooding in Pakistan and China has cause a poor quality crop and lower yields. As a result [...]

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Chilli Porn

December 4, 2010

Sometime you don’t need words….

image by eye.contact!
image by Fabrice Rose
image by wstryder
image by Ivan Cabrera
image by Stuart Hamilton

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Chilli Bread Recipe

November 10, 2010

A while a go I discovered this great no knead bread recipe that showed me it was possible to make truly great bread with minimal work or mess. Seriously if you like good quality bread you MUST try this bread recipe.

When I first wrote up the bread recipe I promised to experiment with the recipe [...]

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2009 Chilli Growing Season Progress

June 14, 2009

As mentioned in my last update I put my plants under a cfl grow light to give them a boost having started off this season so late. As you can see from the pictures the plants have made great progress under the lights
At the weekend I re potted the plants from the 3″ plastic drinking [...]

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Grow Lights for Chillies

May 10, 2009

Up until a couple of weeks ago the chilli seedlings had been under regular flourescent tube lights down in the cellar. With the arrival of some good weather a few weeks ago I moved them outside into the mini greenhouse. Unfortunately the weather seems to have taken a turn for the worse again – sunny [...]

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2009 Chilli Season Underway

March 18, 2009

Well usually at the ChilliKing our growing season starts some time in November. Unfortunately due to other projects we have not had a chance to get some seeds in the ground…..until now!
Here are the varieties we got under way yesterday:

Orange Habanero
Chocolate Habanero
Aurora
Tabasco
Bulgarian Carrots
Scotch bonnet
Jalapeno

None of the seeds were pre-soaked. The seeds were simply planted in [...]

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Eat Chillies to Lose Weight

November 11, 2008

Most people know that having a higher metabolism means you burn more calories.

But what exactly is metabolism? Metabolism is the amount of energy (measured in calories) that your body burns in order to maintain itself. Every individual’s metabolism is dependant on a huge number of variables such as their fat to muscle ratio, body weight, [...]

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How to Make a Chilli Ristra

October 21, 2008

Ristras are strings or arrangements of chilli pepper pods that are hung to air dry. They are thought to have originated in South America as a simple/practical way to dry out surplus chillies for consumption at a later date. More recently ristras have increasingly been used for decoration in kitchens around the world and in [...]

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Chilli Plant Flower Drop

September 5, 2008

One of the questions we get asked a lot is why do the flowers keep dropping off my chilli plants without any fruit (chillies) forming?
Flower drop (known to some as “blossom drop”) is a relatively common problem faced not only by chilli growers but by gardeners growing all kinds of fruit and vegetables. It happens [...]

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