Black or white pepper?

[Dr Lobster*]

i'm one of these people that uses pepper on absolutely everything - even hot buttered toast (try it with white pepper)


i always used to be a black pepper man, but recently, i have been seduced by the sharper flavour of white, which works on many more foods.

i still use black pepper on pizza's, however.


Discuss and share any pepper related anecdotes and recipes in the space provided for you below x x x

[Nick Harvey]

If you haven't already, try black pepper on strawberries.

Brings out the taste a treat.

[cwathen]

Although I enjoy eating spicy foods and often use pepper in cooking, the idea of adding additional pepper as a condiment is something I find repulsive with 99% of foods.

On the rare things I put pepper on to (steaks I always add it to) it has to be black pepper. White pepper tastes absolutely fowl to me.

[DAS]

This is what Metropol needs more of - a proper, intellectual, multifaceted debate.

My grandparents always used white pepper but then decided to switch to black pepper. This distressed me as I always used to look forward to using white pepper when at home we were only allowed to use the black variety.

[Dr Lobster*]

This is what Metropol needs more of - a proper, intellectual, multifaceted debate.

My grandparents always used white pepper but then decided to switch to black pepper. This distressed me as I always used to look forward to using white pepper when at home we were only allowed to use the black variety.

at my parents, they always have black pepper, but at my girlfriends we have a selection of different peppers depending on the application.

Below are some links pointing to interesting facts about pepper:


http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/ebook ... facts.html

http://www.ochef.com/569.htm

and Nick, i've never tried strawberrys with black pepper, although my girlfriend, who is not a pepper fan, reports to me that the taste is really not what you would expect it to be like, and it is one of the very few foods she has pepper on. she's gone to work now, but i'll get some more feedback later.

[Nick Harvey]

i'll get some more feedback later.

And a strawberry?

The fun part is in posh restaurants where they tend to clear things like the condiments away after the main course.

I love the look on some waiters' faces when you say "Please leave the pepper mill, I'm having the strawberries".

[cwathen]

The fun part is in posh restaurants where they tend to clear things like the condiments away after the main course.

I love the look on some waiters' faces when you say "Please leave the pepper mill, I'm having the strawberries".

Now in the posh restaurants I've been in, you only get salt and white pepper mills on the table, and then having served your meal a waiter will come around and specifically ask 'would you like some black pepper?'. If you want it, he will go away and come back with a huge wooden pepper mill (the thing is nearly 2 feet long) and put it copious amounts of it on.

Would be interesting to click your fingers and request black pepper for your strawberries.

[johnnyboy]

I am and always have been addicted to black pepper.

Can't be dealing with white pepper - not edgey enough.

[Gavin Scott]

What a strange old world.

This afternoon I bought myself a "disposable black peppercorn mill" from Scotmid (the co-op) as I had wown my nice acrylic one out. Its not that great but it will serve the purpose til I get a better one.

They had a white and multicoloured pepper version available but I decided to play it safe with black.

True story.

If only I had read this first I might have given white a go.

[Nick Harvey]

There you are, you see, Gavin.

Out there in the world, doing the shopping, meeting people.

You should have been at your keyboard the whole time, breathing in the spring joys of white pepper.

That'll teach you for having a life!

[DAS]

MULTICOLOURED? I'm struggling to keep up with this discussion now. I have NEVER tried multicoloured pepper.