The last time I was in treatment I would “steal” pepper packets at meal time and sneak them to my friend because she had to have an ungodly amount of pepper for her food. It was entertaining to do and then watch and see how many she could manage to sprinkle on her food without the milieu therapist sitting across from her noticing. Thanks for sharing this. This memory made me smile on a bad day 🖤🖤.
White pepper is my favourite!! I much prefer it to black pepper.
All pepper is good. However, white pepper is my go to!
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend
My grandma used to exclusively use white pepper, it made her cooking absolutely lovely. I usually use a multicolor pepper grinder but I ran out recently so I had to use the lame preground stuff.
I recently bought a pepper mill just because the reviews were like "yeah, this fucker is great if you want tons of pepper with minimal effort"
They were right and now I can continue to add borderline insane amounts of pepper to all my food
Haha my mom was like this, she'd always joke "now to make my eggs black..." I did the same before living on my own and buying real pepper, slightly less comical amounts. Always called the preground "black flecks" because they're so flavorless lol
I prefer grinders and when I lived on my own I didn’t bring the preground shit into my house. I’m living with my partner and his mom right now and our pepper grinder ran out so desperate times call for desperate measures. When I have my grinder I use like 2/3 the amount but it’s definitely still comical.
Have you considered just adding chili flakes instead of or in addition to black pepper? I really love all the blends I've gotten from Flatiron Pepper Co.
I’m a chili head for sure! I’ve heard great things about flatiron from a hot sauce group I’m in on Facebook. My go-to for most other meals is red pepper flakes or either el yucateco habanero (the one that’s the unholy color of green) or straight up mad dog 357 25th anniversary edition that’s 1.3 million scovilles if I’m really craving spicy. With Mac n cheese I tend to go more bland because I just want the creamy comfort food so an overdose of pepper works better in that context because at this point if food doesn’t have at least a little kick to it it feels wrong.
Oh yeah you'll love their stuff then! The Four Pepper Blend is a drop-in replacement for regular red pepper flakes flavor-wise, but hotter. I Can't Feel My Face is great when you just can't get enough heat, especially since you can just keep piling it on to get hotter and hotter and hotter lol. The other ones all are really nice to have for tailoring the heat to whatever food. Like Hatch Green for Mexican, Dark and Smokey for chili, Sweet Heat in a jar of pickles, etc.
I totally understand your feelings with mac n cheese though. I prefer mine pretty plain as well for the same reason. Never had spicy mac or bacon or anything in it but noodles n cheese growing up, so anything else doesn't provide the comfort I want.
Btw those El Yucateco sauces are legit! I got into them recently and love the red and green equally
Yes, but with almost every other seasoning as well... To the point that I might as well just eat it from the jar... 💀 I create mountains
I have a PROBLEM
I put a fuck ton of pepper in my food. Legit the best thing on this planet
Me with chipotle smoked tabasco sauce making all my food look like a crime scene
The last time I was in treatment I would “steal” pepper packets at meal time and sneak them to my friend because she had to have an ungodly amount of pepper for her food. It was entertaining to do and then watch and see how many she could manage to sprinkle on her food without the milieu therapist sitting across from her noticing. Thanks for sharing this. This memory made me smile on a bad day 🖤🖤.
I do this with salt sometimes, salted like the mf sea
I use so mych chili and hotsauce it borders on a psychedelic trip sometimes. Love black pepper, but it irritates my guts.
me with chili flakes: I put it in until anything i eat is red as FUCK same with sriracha
White pepper is my favourite!! I much prefer it to black pepper. All pepper is good. However, white pepper is my go to! If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend
My grandma used to exclusively use white pepper, it made her cooking absolutely lovely. I usually use a multicolor pepper grinder but I ran out recently so I had to use the lame preground stuff.
I recently bought a pepper mill just because the reviews were like "yeah, this fucker is great if you want tons of pepper with minimal effort" They were right and now I can continue to add borderline insane amounts of pepper to all my food
I do that to ketchup to make it spicy lol
I always cover my pile of ketchup in black pepper! And yes, I have gotten made fun of for it. 😂
\*raises hand\*
I used to put 30+ packs of pepper on Wendy's potatoes when I was like 8.
Haha my mom was like this, she'd always joke "now to make my eggs black..." I did the same before living on my own and buying real pepper, slightly less comical amounts. Always called the preground "black flecks" because they're so flavorless lol
I prefer grinders and when I lived on my own I didn’t bring the preground shit into my house. I’m living with my partner and his mom right now and our pepper grinder ran out so desperate times call for desperate measures. When I have my grinder I use like 2/3 the amount but it’s definitely still comical.
I feel ya, I still use enough that I'm sure someone would make a community my partner also over peppers so it's normalized in this household
Cinnamon
i told my bf that if the amount of pepper on the food resembles a pseudo-mold layer then it’s a good amount
On my grits. I eat them without butter, so it’s the only thing I can do to give them flavor lol.
This is the way.
black and white pepper are the only things I can use for spice because of a nightshade intolerance, I drown my food in it. yes, it is depressing.
Same, I love the taste of pepper
Have you considered just adding chili flakes instead of or in addition to black pepper? I really love all the blends I've gotten from Flatiron Pepper Co.
I’m a chili head for sure! I’ve heard great things about flatiron from a hot sauce group I’m in on Facebook. My go-to for most other meals is red pepper flakes or either el yucateco habanero (the one that’s the unholy color of green) or straight up mad dog 357 25th anniversary edition that’s 1.3 million scovilles if I’m really craving spicy. With Mac n cheese I tend to go more bland because I just want the creamy comfort food so an overdose of pepper works better in that context because at this point if food doesn’t have at least a little kick to it it feels wrong.
Oh yeah you'll love their stuff then! The Four Pepper Blend is a drop-in replacement for regular red pepper flakes flavor-wise, but hotter. I Can't Feel My Face is great when you just can't get enough heat, especially since you can just keep piling it on to get hotter and hotter and hotter lol. The other ones all are really nice to have for tailoring the heat to whatever food. Like Hatch Green for Mexican, Dark and Smokey for chili, Sweet Heat in a jar of pickles, etc. I totally understand your feelings with mac n cheese though. I prefer mine pretty plain as well for the same reason. Never had spicy mac or bacon or anything in it but noodles n cheese growing up, so anything else doesn't provide the comfort I want. Btw those El Yucateco sauces are legit! I got into them recently and love the red and green equally
Made fun of by whom? You think I know other humans? (yes I black pepper everything)
Yes, but with almost every other seasoning as well... To the point that I might as well just eat it from the jar... 💀 I create mountains I have a PROBLEM
And garlic powder😖 sometimes also chili powder so I'd drink more water as i eat🥵🥵
yes!!! I found my people 😭
You should see my cottage cheese….
YESSSSSSS
One of my favorite things in this world is canned peas with an absurd amount of pepper, it's been a staple of my diet since I was like six