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Beaver Dam Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

What are Beaver Dam peppers? When you think chili peppers, Wisconsin may not be the first place that pops into your mind. But there’s a hidden treasure up near the Canadian border with a very fitting name. The Beaver Dam pepper – brought to the …

NuMex Twilight Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are NuMex Twilight peppers? The Numex Twilight may be tiny in size, but it packs a surprising amount of heat (30,000 to 50,000 Scoville heat units.) But that’s not what makes these chilies so very special. It’s how they mature – like a rainbow of …

Purple Jalapeño Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, uses

by Matt Bray

What are purple jalapeño peppers? When you think of jalapeños, your mind likely first jumps to green chilies. For those that have grown them or bought them late in the season, you may also envision some red. But a purple jalapeño pepper? That’s not a …

Kung Pao Pepper: Putting POW In Pao

by Matt Bray

Versatile, with very eatable heat…

Scoville heat units (SHU): 7,000 – 12,000
Jalapeño reference point: Equal to 5 time hotter
Origin: Asia
Products and seeds: Kung Pao pepper on Amazon

If you’ve ever dined at (or ordered from) a Chinese restaurant, you’ve likely seen on the menu a few dishes labeled “Kung Pao”. Let’s set things straight out the gate – these dishes aren’t named for this chili. Kung Pao pepper is a recent hybrid chili, and Kung Pao dishes have been around for generations. But Kung Pao pepper does taste great in this dish – and it’s perfect for using in Asian, Thai, and Sichuan cuisine – as it’s an excellent less spicy alternative to Thai peppers and cayenne.

Aji Panca Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are aji panca peppers? In Peruvian cuisine, the aji panca (a.k.a. aji brown) is only second in popularity to its golden bright cousin, the aji amarillo. But that’s in no way a comment on its flavor. In fact, the aji panca is just as flavorful …

Peppadew® Piquantè Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are Peppadew® Piquantè Peppers? A little bit sweet, a little bit spicy, and quite a bit of pickled tang are the hallmarks of your typical PEPPADEW® Piquantè Pepper. It’s a unique flavor – so unique, in fact, that the growers have trademarked the name. Peppadew® …

Manzano Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are manzano peppers? There are few medium-hot chilies with true fruitiness. Most have a bright crisp flavor or an earthiness with a hint of fruit. The manzano pepper is one of the exceptions. Its apple-like shape hints at fruity, and it doesn’t disappoint with …

Cowhorn Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are cowhorn peppers? Chilies come in some unique shapes and sizes. You have those that take the shape of a carrot, others that taper to a scorpion-like stinger, and still others that are wrinkled and pocked like they were fire-kissed by the devil himself. …

Dorset Naga: Hand-Picked For Greatness

by Matt Bray

The super Naga Morich…

Scoville heat units (SHU): 1,000,000 – 1,598,227
Jalapeño reference point: 125 to 639 times hotter
Origin: United Kingdom
Products and seeds: Dorset Naga on Amazon.com

What happens when you hand-pick and grow only the best seeds of one of the hottest peppers in the world? A super subspecies is born. That’s the case with the Dorset Naga. It’s technically a subspecies of the Naga Morich, but its heat and intense popularity, especially in Great Britain, have given the Dorset Naga a place at the pepper scale round table. It’s a subspecies that’s talked about like its own pepper variety, and it has the fangs to back it up. As both the Naga Morich and Dorset Naga are cousins of the ghost pepper, they both rank right up there as some of the hottest peppers in the world.

Aleppo Pepper Guide: Heat, Flavor, Uses

by Matt Bray

What are Aleppo peppers? Don’t be surprised that once you try crushed Aleppo pepper (also known as the Halaby pepper), it’ll be hard to settle on generic chili powder or red pepper flakes again. It’s that tasty – a moderate medium heat (10,000 Scoville heat …