12 minutes ago, David Ross said:That reminds me of a question. Every year our local Mexican grocery store and cafe has a Hatch chile roast in the parking lot. It's an annual event and people can't wait to get their chiles. Some friends think I'm crazy because I leave all that char on the chile before putting it my salsa. They seem to think it's best scraped off, but I say that's scraping off flavor. What do you think?
Personal taste I think. If a person is "bitter sensitive" (which I am not) a scrape is good. Also in my experience the roaster guys in parking lot can be distracted by customer chit chat - so...scrape might be needed