Red pepper

[enismirdal]

Does anyone else find that when red pepper has been open a while, it develops this awful flavour similar to an E. coli culture? It happens to be one of the flavours I hate most in the whole world, and it's putting me off red pepper even though I LOVE fresh red pepper.

Comments

[deliciouspear.livejournal.com]

Having never eaten e.coli I couldn't tell you.

Are we talking red bell pepper or crushed red pepper flakes here?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Red bell pepper. I never get it with yellow, orange or green, for some reason (probably the sugar content).

Kind of like the taste you get in your mouth when you have a really bad cold.

No one else seems to get this and I'm wondering what's wrong with my sense organs!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I'll concede that I've never eaten E. coli. Though I've smelt it many many times on microbiology courses. (I don't even need to test the plate to say what's on it - I can tell you right away if there's E. coli there!)

It more or less smells like how you might imagine bacteria would. Like a very bad cold or something. Ugh.

[naurring.livejournal.com]

Do I want to know how you know how e.coli cultures taste? :P

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually tasted one, but I've smelt ones so smelly it's left a flavour on my tongue for a few hours after. *shudders*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Why would you leave red pepper open a while rather than just eating it?

It does develop a nasty flavour, although I wouldn't have been able to identify it as E. coli.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I guess I just rarely eat a whole pepper in one go - normally I'm doing something like a risotto for one or spaghetti bolognese to freeze half, so I'll just throw in a little bit of pepper for fun rather than attacking a whole one!

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN!

It's disgusting!

You actually have someone on your flist who cultured Escherichia Coli on a blood agar petri dish. That would be meeee! I was only 12, but I got a blue ribbon for my science fair project! Who would have thought that you can win with poop and tonsillitis?

Heh heh...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I love you! You make me feel not-alone in the world! Hooray for someone with my oversensitive taste buds!

Nice one with the culturing E. coli! Especially at the tender age of 12! I've inocolated plates with it before in pathology classes, but it's not as fun as a school science project, especially when you then just give the plate to the lab technician and forget about it till the next week.

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

It was fun--- my dad brought home all the stuff I needed. I was "lucky" enough to have tonsillitis at the beginning of the project so I swabbed my own throat *gag*--- Dad had "borrowed" some varied types of antibiotic disks so my project was on the effects of antibiotics on bacteria. I even did gram stains. I won a blue ribbon and went to the Northwest Fair and everything. Go me! ;)