The technique you use for watering your peppers is crucial to the success of your crop whether you are growing bell peppers or Carolina Reapers. Peppers need water like every other plant, but the amount of water and your watering routine has a significant impact …
Hot sauces, like the popular duo of Sriracha and Tabasco, can be a useful tool for brightening the flavors of a dish quickly. Not only does it add spice, a vinegar-based sauce can provide acidity as well. Those two benefits can easily become liabilities when …
Ornamental peppers are truly beautiful—from the onyx-like Black Pearl to the colorful Bolivian Rainbow. But are the fruits of these plants more than just window dressing? Can you eat ornamental peppers, or are they just for show? The good news: Ornamental peppers are safe to eat. …
Hot peppers make for some incredible cooking, but they can be tricky (and painful) to work with in the kitchen. Take, for instance, the intense pain of chili burn. It’s bad enough experiencing it on your fingers or in your mouth, but how about a …
Pasilla peppers are one of the “Holy Trinity” of Mexican mole chilies, so—with the rise in popularity of authentic Mexican cuisine—the pasilla’s popularity is also rising around the world. But, depending on where you live, they can be tough to find. So what are your options if this …
Do you have stretch marks on your jalapeño peppers and wondering what that means? Are those pepper stretch marks good? Bad? Something in between? Those jalapeño lines you’re seeing are also called “pepper corking,” and they are a natural part of the aging process of …
If you have ever been to a Japanese steakhouse, you may be familiar with the sauce that they serve with multiple dishes. It is often called Yum Yum sauce but goes by a number of names, including Japanese white sauce and sakura sauce. It is …
There are many chili pepper varieties, all of which you can consume fresh and most of which you can preserve by drying. So is there a discernable difference in the amount of heat between the fresh and dried versions of the same chili? Sometimes the …
Sure you could just microwave up some popcorn and sprinkle it with Old Bay—no judgement here. We’ve done that, too. But Old Bay popcorn is so much better when you’ve oil popped the corn kernels and butter-coated it just right with the crab spice, salt, …
The title of “hottest pepper in the world” is something that’s challenged more often than you may expect. Every year hot pepper cultivators find new ways to hybridize chilies and utilize their environment (soil, water, sunlight) to create peppers that will compete for the top …