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Aurora Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are aurora peppers? With its rounded bulb-like shape and its many colors, the aurora pepper is a real crowd-pleaser in the garden. It brightens a space – like its name suggests – with shades of green, purple, yellow, orange, and red all on the …

Peruvian Peppers Guide: Ajis And More

by Matt Bray

Peru is the origin of some of the most delicious chili peppers on the pepper scale, though none are popular staples outside of their native land. In Peru, though, some of these chilies share condiment space right beside those salt and pepper staples. It’s a culture that loves its heat – and peppers with a lot of nuance behind the spice. Let’s review the most popular Peruvian peppers. You can learn even more by clicking through to the profile of any of the peppers below.

Carmen Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are Carmen peppers? The Carmen pepper is the epitome of why you shouldn’t judge a pepper by its shape. It looks like a jumbo hot pepper – with its curved horn-like shape and tapering body. But underneath these hot looks, there’s no heat to …

California Wonder Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are California Wonder peppers? You’ve likely eaten more than a few California Wonder peppers in your time – they are a garden standard for bell peppers and the seeds are common in gardening centers and gardening websites. As sweet peppers, these thick-walled beauties carry …

7 Pot Barrackpore Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are 7 Pot Barrackpore peppers? Coming in bigger and a little hotter than a traditional Trinidad 7 Pot pepper, the 7 Pot Barrackpore sits prevalently among the hottest peppers of the world. Though in terms of flavor, the Barrackpore variety tends towards a little …

Cheese Stuffed Cherry Peppers

by Matt Bray

Creamy, sweet, and tangy – with a touch of heat…

It’s often these simple recipes that bring the most pleasure. This cheese stuffed cherry peppers recipe takes a handful of ingredients, but delivers a delicious creamy tang that friends and family will love.

Cherry peppers (a.k.a. pimento peppers) have only a mild heat, 100 to 500 Scoville heat units. That’s at minimum five times milder than a jalapeño pepper, so this is a very family friendly chili pepper appetizer. They are deliciously sweet which pairs very well with the tang from the pickling and the herbed goat cheese.

Mexibell Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are Mexibell peppers? A cross between a red bell pepper and a hot pepper, the Mexibell brings a little from each to the table. It’s essentially a sweet pepper with a little simmer, 100 to 1,000 Scoville heat units. Think more poblano pepper heat …

7 Pot Jonah Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are 7 Pot Jonah peppers? Trinidad 7 Pot peppers are known for their spiciness, and the 7 Pot Jonah strain of the popular super-hot is no different. In fact, it’s typically bigger and even a little bolder than a common 7 Pot, fruitier and …

Cholula Hot Sauce Nutrition: How Healthy Is It?

by Matt Bray

Cholula Hot Sauce is one of the few Mexican hot sauces that are popular in the US. It is made in Chapala, Mexico from a recipe handed down for three generations of the Harrison family. The Harrisons were the first to make the sauce, which …

Cajun Belle Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are Cajun Belle peppers? Normally sweet peppers are known for their delicious flavor, but not much to boast on the heat side of things, if anything at all. The Cajun Belle throws the normal playbook out the window. It has all the deliciousness of …