You’ve got a recipe that calls for chipotle, but the rack only has ancho, or it wants a fresh serrano and you’re holding a habanero. The instinct is to swap one for the other and hope, but peppers don’t trade evenly: match the heat and you can flood the dish with the wrong flavor; match the flavor and the heat falls short.
This tool works out both routes for you. Tell it the pepper the recipe calls for, how much, and what you actually have, and it shows how much of your chili pepper matches the heat exactly, alongside a flavor-first option that keeps your pepper at a sensible amount and closes the heat gap with a pinch of a neutral booster like cayenne or crushed red pepper. It even flags what a swap quietly costs you, like the smoke that makes chipotle chipotle, and how to potentially bring it back. It’s the difference between hoping a substitute works and knowing exactly how much to use.
The Capsaicin Code
$9.99 (ebook)
Most cookbooks tell you what to do with a chili pepper; The Capsaicin Code tells you why it works. Thirty peppers, three pairing principles, and twelve tested recipes — written for home cooks who want to stop following pepper recipes and start inventing their own. PDF AND EPUB provided. Send to Kindle ready.