Matt Bray 
What are Mad Hatter peppers? The Mad Hatter pepper is a hybrid of the unique miter-shaped Bishop’s Crown pepper and a 2017 winner of the All-America Selection Award (AAS). It has a similarly sweet, fruity taste as the Bishop’s Crown, but with much less heat …
What are Bolivian Rainbow peppers? Ornamental pepper plants make for beautiful landscaping, and none are as colorful – and arguably as beautiful – as the Bolivian Rainbow pepper. Each plant contains dozens of peppers of multiple hues – purple, yellow, orange, and red. And they’re more than …
Florida is a state of extremes, so it makes sense that one of the world’s hotter chilies grows there mostly unnoticed. The datil is a small, conical, extra-hot pepper that has been tied to a single American city — St. Augustine — for well over …
What are Red Savina habanero peppers? Red Savina habanero peppers are one of the hottest chili peppers in the world, with a Scoville heat rating ranging from 350,000 to 570,000 Scoville heat units. From 1994 to 2006, it officially held the title of the hottest …
Acid is what makes this tricky. It breaks some thickeners down and leaves others alone, so the one you reach for matters. Xanthan gum holds from pH 1 to 12, arrowroot survives the acid but not long heat, and cornstarch is the one most likely to let you down.
The ingredients list for a standard salsa recipe includes some of the most versatile ingredients in the world: tomatoes, onions, and cilantro. And, of course, for many salsas: chili peppers. If you have run out of ideas for using salsa and have leftovers, you still …
Sriracha sauce, as many Americans know it, is a mild hot sauce that comes in a distinctive bottle with a green cap (read our review.) The familiar version is an American hot sauce produced by Huy Fong Foods from Los Angeles, California. What some people …
An heirloom pepper is an open-pollinated variety old enough to have been handed down, usually 50 years or more. That means you can save the seeds and grow the same pepper again next year, which is the part that matters if you garden.
Storing dried chili peppers — whether ancho, chipotle, guajillo, or any other variety — becomes essential when you have more chilies than you’ll use in a short period. Drying dramatically extends a pepper’s life, but the job isn’t finished once the chilies are leathery and …
Smoked paprika is made with the same chili peppers as sweet paprika, but they are smoked first. To make smoked paprika, the chili peppers are smoked for between 10 and 15 days over an oak fire. The smokiness and moderate spiciness, combined with other flavor …
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