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Round chili peppers on a weathered wooden board: glossy red cherry peppers, two yellow-orange manzano peppers, a small pile of tiny dried chiltepins and three dried cascabels

Round Peppers Guide: From Marble-Sized to Apple-Wide

Round chili peppers from sweet pimentos to the Dragon’s Breath, with heat ranges, a quick-reference table, what each one looks and tastes like, and how to use them.

Small Peppers Guide: Tiny Delivers Big

by Matt Bray

They may be small, but these peppers still pack plenty of heat. Our small peppers guide focuses on chilies one inch in length or less. These are tiny fruits, but as anyone familiar with the pepper scale know, the tiniest chilies tend to pack more than your normal punch. In fact, there aren’t any mild chilies on our list.

Many chilies featured in our guide are ornamental peppers with a lot of visual flair, but there are more than a few unique culinary chilies – like the lilliputian pequin and chiltepin peppers. Those pack more nuance in flavor, adding smokiness and fruitiness to the heat (among other flavors), making them perfect for all sorts of culinary exploration.

White Peppers Guide: From Cream To Cornsilk

by Matt Bray

Peppers are known for the beautiful colors – shades of reds, greens, purples, and oranges fuel the pepper scale. But, let’s give some love the the white pepper. It’s a unique beauty among its peers – subtle yet sleek and still plenty of heat to be had.

Beyond that subtle beauty, why else do white peppers matter? There’s a very functional place for them in the kitchen. Their creamy hues blend in perfectly with cream-based sauces. There are no greens and reds marring the perfect white creaminess of a spicy béchamel sauce, no coloration changes when processing that pasta cream sauce. They hide where the heat comes from very well.

In our white peppers guide, we break down your best options for these cream colored beauties. We include plants that not only provide white as its primary color, but also multi-colored pepper plants where white is part of the overall scheme.

Ornamental Peppers Guide: The Bold And The Colorful

by Matt Bray

Chili peppers are more than good eats. There’s a whole world of ornamental peppers out there that are hallmarks of edible landscaping. From multi-colored beauties to fruits that are black as night, these hot peppers are bred to accentuate their looks, adding a real sense of drama to a space. Our ornamental peppers guide showcases some of the best for both outdoor use and container gardening. Click on any of the profile links to get an even fuller sense of what each of these chilies is all about.

Minorcan Mike’s Datil Pepper Sauce Review

by Matt Bray

Sweetness is the datil pepper default. The pepper is fruity on its own, and nearly every datil pepper sauce made leans into it, so “sweet heat” (or “swicy“) tells you next to nothing about which bottle is worth buying. With datil sauces the real question …

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.

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 …

El Yucateco Ingredients: What Makes This Hot Sauce Tick?

by Matt Bray

The El Yucateco company was founded in 1968 in Yucatan, Mexico by Priamo J. Gamboa. The term “Yucateco” refers to people from the Yucatan. Gamboa’s company started as a small family-owned business that specialized in habanero-based hot sauces. El Yucateco sauces have gone on to become favorites among chili pepper fans as versatile condiments that can be used on a wide variety of foods. So what’s behind this delicious hot sauce? There are many options, but let’s take a closer look at the ingredients of one of its most popular varieties – El Yucateco Chili Habanero Hot Sauce (red).

Ghost Pepper Nutrition: How Healthy Are They?

by Matt Bray

What’s in a ghost pepper, how much of it you’ll get, and what the research on capsaicin does and doesn’t show about cancer, blood sugar, cholesterol and safety.

Anaheim Pepper Nutrition: How Healthy Are They?

by Matt Bray

Anaheim chilies have a mild and sweet flavor that works well in many foods. Being a larger pepper, they can be used in the same dishes for which poblanos are traditionally used, like the popular chile rellenos. And like other chilies, they are very good for you. Let’s break down Anaheim pepper nutrition to see just what makes them so healthy.